Game feature definitions
We provide feature summaries to make it easier to find games with mechanics you love! While we try to categorise and define all game behaviours, we recommend that you check a game's rules for detailed info on how its features work. Depending on your location, some features may not be available even though the game states they are.
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Bonus Round Features
- Advance Bonus: Features a bonus where you move through a set board, trail, or other and the reward level is based on your progress
- Bonus Chain: One or more special bonus features may be chained together
- Bonus Choice: Allows you to choose which bonus feature (or feature settings) you want
- Bonus Setup: A random or interactive mechanism determines how your bonus will play
- Bonus Wheel: Features a bonus round that uses one or more wheels
- Extra Picks: Get additional picks during a pick me feature
- Free Spins: Free spins can be triggered
- Interactive Bonus: A bonus feature (excluding pick me bonus) where you have to actively participate
- Pick Me Bonus: Pick one or more items from a selection to trigger wins
- Retriggerable Free Spins: Additional free spins can be awarded during a free spins feature
- Second Chance: If your win or result is below a certain threshold, you get one or more extra chances for more wins
- Unique Bonus: Features a bonus game that doesn't fit other typical bonus round descriptions
Jackpot Features
- Fixed Jackpots: Features fixed jackpots that a set amount or based on your bet
- Personal Jackpots: Features jackpots that increase every time you alone bet
- Progressive Jackpots: Features jackpots that increase every time you and other players bet
Live Features
- Multiplayer: Many players are participating in the game simultaneously
- Qualifier: You may need to qualify to participate in the main game
- Single Player: Only one player is participating in a live or table game round
Match Features
- Match Anywhere: Match a number of symbols irrespective of their position on the board
- Match Cluster: Match a number of symbols that are adjacent/touching
- Match Complete: Match in such a way that it completes one or more symbols
- Match Symbol: Match one or more randomly chosen symbols to have features applied
- Match Transform: A matching cluster may transform to another symbol or set of symbols
Multiplier Features
- Chain Multipliers: Multipliers increase and stack under certain circumstances
- Multipliers: Multipliers are awarded through one or more game mechanics
Other Features
- Crash Game: The game is based on a multiplier that keeps increasing until it suddenly stops ("crashes")
- Game Show: The game follows a game show format
- Multiple Modes: Lets the player choose between different game modes or rulesets
- Numbers Game: The game follows a bingo/keno/lotto format
- Wheel Game: The game follows a wheel format (excluding roulette)
Paid Features
- Buy a Feature: Pay a flat fee to trigger a game's special feature
- Paid Holds: Pay to lock one or more reels and respin the other reels
- Paid Respins: Pay to spin one or more reels independently
- Win Boost: Pay extra on your bet to gain an advantage over normal play
Payout Features
- Any Adjacent Pays: Winning combinations are calculated from the left edge, right edge, and centre of the slot
- Connected Ways: Like ways-to-win but symbols in adjacent reels must be directly touching
- Megaways: Invented by Big Time Gaming, Megaways features variable symbol sizes and ways to win
- Multipays: Multiple symbol groupings can pay on the same line
- Pay as Scatters: Symbols pay as scatters as long as they are on the same payline
- Paylines: Winning combinations must line up on specific slot lines
- Slingo: Invented by Gaming Realms, Slingo is a mix of slots and bingo
- Switch Pays: The game changes how it pays
- Symbol Pays: Pays on specific individual symbols under some conditions
- Upgrade Paylines: Additional paylines are added or paylines are upgraded in some other way
- Upgrade Ways: Additional ways are added or ways are upgraded in some other way
- Variable Ways: The number of ways changes with every spin with variable symbol sizes
- Ways-to-Win: Winning combinations are counted based on matching symbols being in adjacent reels
- Win Both Ways: Winning combinations are calculated from left to right and right to left
Reel Features
- Cascading Reels: Winning symbols are replaced by existing falling symbols or new ones (also known as Tumbling Reels)
- Expanding Reels: Reels grow to reveal more symbols horizontally and/or vertically
- Hold Reels: Trigger one or more reels to be held at no additional charge
- Locked Reels: Two or more reels that become perfectly synchronised and land with the same symbols
- Locked Tiles: Tile positions that become perfectly synchronised by symbol or underlying reel
- Mystery Reels: Reels that randomly reveal other symbols
- Multiple Reel Sets: When there is more than 1 set of reels, each behaving as an independent slot
- Nudge: A reel may shift if a symbol is just out of reach
- Reel Backgrounds: Special awards or features may trigger when one or more reel backgrounds fills its respective reel
- Reel Prizes: Prizes awarded when conditions specific to one or more reels are met
- Shifting Reels: Reels with winning symbols are shifted over to reveal new reels
- Wandering Reels: Reels that shift positions during a spin
Scratch Features
- Multigame: Has multiple games per card
- Multiprize: Can win multiple times per card
- Scratch: Is a scratchcard-based game
Special Features
- Choose Your Adventure: Can choose how the game progresses
- Collectibles & Meters: Collect a certain number of points or items to trigger one or more game features
- Gamble: Risk your winnings to double, quadruple, or otherwise increase them
- Guaranteed Feature Win: Has a feature that guarantees a win
- Prize Upgrades: Events cause prizes to be upgraded
- Random Prize: Random events triggers cash wins or other prizes
- Random Trigger: Randomly trigger one or more game features
- Repeat Spin: Repeat one or more winning spins
- Respins: Trigger one or more independent reel spins at no additional charge
- Special Positions: Symbols landing in designated positions are enhanced, awarded prizes, and/or awarded features
- Unlockables: Game has features that can be permanently unlocked through specific actions or events
Symbol Features
- Cash Symbols: Symbols that award cash prizes displayed on them
- Double Symbols: Symbols that count as two or more symbols
- Expanding Symbols: Symbols that expand to fill the reel, row, or both
- Extra Special Symbols: Extra symbols may get added to reels for more chances to hit them
- Fixed Symbols: Symbols that are placed and remain in position under certain conditions
- Interactive Symbols: Special symbols that interact with each other under special circumstances
- Jumbo Symbols: Symbols that span multiple rows and reels to create a big symbol block
- Mystery Symbols: Symbols that randomly reveal other symbols when they land
- Place Symbols: Allows you to interactively place symbols in different locations
- Prize Symbols: Symbols that have special, non-cash prizes on them that are awarded under certain conditions
- Random Scatters: Scatters that appear randomly on the reels
- Random Symbols: Symbols that appear randomly on the reels
- Remove Symbols: Symbols are removed (usually low paying ones) to boost wins
- Replicating Symbols: Symbols that appear in one spot will be copied to other positions
- Scatter Symbols: Scatters trigger features and/or award prizes in any position on the reels
- Special Symbols: Symbols that modify the game to boost winnings under certain conditions
- Split Symbols: Combination symbols that can represent multiple symbols in the same position
- Stacked Scatters: Scatter symbols that are stacked on top of one another
- Stacked Symbols: Symbols that are stacked on top of one another and may be combined to be one long symbol
- Sticky Symbols: Symbols that land and stay in place for other spins
- Symbol Locks: Symbols that are held in place for subsequent spins, typically as part of a respin
- Symbol Reels: Entire reels that are set to be a symbol
- Symbol Swap: Symbols that are swapped to other symbols under certain conditions
- Symbol Upgrades: Symbol upgrades or replacements with better ones
- Walking Symbols: Symbols that stay in position for one spin but then move elsewhere for subsequent spins
Table Features
- Baccarat: It's a baccarat-based game
- Bet Behind: In multiplayer games, bet behind allows other players to bet on your hands and actions
- Blackjack: It's a blackjack-based game
- Card Game: It's a card-based game
- Charlie: You win automatically after a certain number of cards have been dealt to you without busting in blackjack
- Dice Game: It's a dice-based game
- Double: You can double-down on your bet in blackjack
- Favourite Bets: You can save your favourite bets to place them again
- Insurance: Can insure against the dealer having a blackjack
- Multi-seat: Can play multiple hands simultaneously
- Racetrack Bets: Shows the racetrack layout for roulette
- Roulette: It's a roulette-based game
- Side Bets: More than one bet is supported
- Single-seat: Can only play one hand
- Special Bets: Popular betting presets are loaded for roulette
- Split: Allows you to split your bet in blackjack
- Super 6: Features Super 6 side bet and payouts in baccarat
- Tableau / Stats: Table features statistical tracking or visualisations of past play
- Traditional Baccarat: Features the traditional baccarat ruleset
- Video Poker: Follows a video poker format
Wild Features
- Expanding Wilds: Wilds expand to fill the reel, row, or both
- Extra Wilds: Extra wilds may get added to reels for more chances to hit them
- Falling Wilds: Wilds that land move down gradually off the reel with each subsequent spin
- Fixed Wilds: Wilds that are placed and remain in position under certain conditions
- Jumbo Wilds: Wilds that span multiple rows and reels to create a big wild block
- Linked Wilds: Changes symbols between wilds symbols to wilds
- Mystery Wilds: Wilds that randomly reveal the symbol they are replacing
- Place Wilds: Allows you to interactively place wilds in different locations
- Random Wilds: Wilds that appear randomly on the reels
- Replicating Wilds: Wilds that appear in one spot will be copied to other positions
- Stacked Wilds: Wilds that are stacked on top of one another and may be combined to be one long wild
- Sticky Wilds: Wilds that land and stay in place for other spins
- Transforming Wilds: Symbols that are replaced with wilds under certain conditions
- Walking Wilds: Wilds that stay in position for one spin but then move elsewhere for subsequent spins
- Wild Locks: Wilds that are held in place for subsequent spins, typically as part of a respin
- Wild Reels: Entire reels that are set to be wild
- Wilds: Wilds are symbols that replace other symbols