89PHP Wild symbol Explained — What a Wild Does and Does Not
Wild symbol: A symbol able to take the place of others and so form a winning combination.
Key facts and contents
- Term
- Wild symbol
- Short for
- Not published
- Set by
- The game studio, in the paytable
- Where you meet it
- A game's paytable and feature list
- Not the same as
- Wild symbols should not be confused with bonus symbols or scatters. Having a wild is no assurance of winning: with no matching symbols beside it on its reel, it finishes no combination, and this is the usual cause of a spin that looked good and paid nothing.
Should you pick a single term on a casino page to master, Wild symbol makes a fair choice.
Wild symbol — A symbol able to take the place of others and so form a winning combination.
What Wild symbol actually means
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Term | Wild symbol |
| In one line | A symbol able to take the place of others and so form a winning combination. |
| Fixed by | The game studio, in the paytable |
| Where you meet it | A game’s paytable and feature list |
The behaviour of a wild, which substitutes for regular symbols, changes a lot between games; it may carry a multiplier, expand over a reel, stay sticky from spin to spin, or appear solely in a feature round. You find the applicable behaviour in the paytable, since the same word can mean very different things in different games.
The common misreading
People often think a wild substitutes for all symbols. Usually they will not replace scatter or bonus symbols, which explains why coming close to a feature trigger still counts as a miss. The count is two scatters, not three, when a wild appears next to two scatters on the grid.
Wild symbols should not be confused with bonus symbols or scatters. Having a wild is no assurance of winning: with no matching symbols beside it on its reel, it finishes no combination, and this is the usual cause of a spin that looked good and paid nothing.
Using it in practice
Do not assume what a wild does; look it up in the specific game, as ‘Wild’ covers a range of mechanics and is, on several popular titles, the single feature setting them apart from close lookalikes.
Wild symbol is one of the terms running through this site’s game pages, and if the studio publishes no figure behind such a term, those pages state it and quote no number from a comparison site. A handful of the spec tables across these pages are left empty in places, and this is the reason.
A worked example
Where the wild carries a 2x multiplier, wins that include it are paid twice over, while wins that do not include it pay the standard amount. The point to keep in mind with a paytable is that the multiplier is tied to the combination the wild joined, not the spin, which means two distinct wins on one spin do not both get multiplied unless the wild is part of both.
Checking Wild symbol at 89PHP
- Open a game at 89PHP and find its info or help screen.
- Once you have found Wild symbol there, take its meaning from the definition above.
- Compare it with the same entry on another title before you pick one to play at 89PHP.
- Write your stake and your stop point down before the first round at 89PHP.
FAQ
Wild symbol: is it open to a casino to change it?
Not on this site's evidence. A value behind wild symbol fixed by the game's own mathematics is the studio's to hold, not the operator's, and no outside source is able to confirm it where the studio does not publish it.
What role should Wild symbol play in my choice of a game?
Do not assume what a wild does; look it up in the specific game, as 'Wild' covers a range of mechanics and is, on several popular titles, the single feature setting them apart from close lookalikes.
What does Wild symbol mean?
A symbol able to take the place of others and so form a winning combination.