Fire Tale Demo: Merging Fireworks and Nudging Wilds

A Wild that earns +1x for every row it nudges

In standard play Wilds land on reels 2, 3 and 4 and replace everything but the Bonus symbol. A partial Wild may nudge to fill its reel, gaining +1x per position moved, and any reel-high Wild starts Fire Respins: it sticks for the round with 2 respins, and each new full Wild sticks and adds one more, however many land together.

Several Wilds can multiply one win, the rules say, and in our log their tags multiplied together. Our best spin, number 128, opened with a full x1 Wild on reel 2 for 0.75x. On the first respin, Wilds on reels 3 and 4 nudged in at x2 and x4, earning a third respin, and a medium symbol worth 2x for four of a kind paid 16x. The respins returned 34x, 30x and 32x, so the spin paid 96.75x in all.

That was the exception. Part of a Wild showed on 27 base spins and nudged on 6; of 16 Fire Respin rounds, 3 reached a third respin and 1 paid nothing.

Fusion Free Spins: rockets that merge in pairs

Bonus symbols open the round: three, four or five anywhere give 10, 12 or 15 spins on an emptied grid where only fireworks land, from a blue rocket at level 1 through a wheel rocket and a box of fireworks to a dragon-head box at level 4.

Two fireworks of the same level side by side, below level 4, merge into the next level, and each merge lights a spot on the Fusion Meter, the tray left of the grid.

All 6 of our rounds came from three Bonus symbols, so each began with 10 spins. Between them they made 27 merges: 3 rounds reached a fourth merge and ran 13 spins, 3 stopped at three, and none built a dragon-head box.

What each firework level can reveal, up to the 5,000x stop

The total sits at zero while the spins run. After the last one, each firework reveals a value by level: 0.25x to 0.75x, 1.5x to 2.5x, 4x to 7x or the Mini or Minor Dragonpot, and 50x to 100x, the Major or the Grand.

The Dragonpot panel shows Mini 10, Minor 25, Major 150 and Grand 5000 at €1.00, the Grand equal to the cap. That cap is Dragon's Fortune: a total win of 5,000x ends the round on the spot, which the game sheet expects about once in 193,070 spins at 96.18%.

Our six rounds revealed 45 fireworks, 7 of them at level 3. One paid the Mini, 10x, in the round from spin 162, and the others 4x to 7x. Round totals ran from 7.5x to 20.75x.

16 Fire Respins outearned 6 bonus rounds

Across 500 spins at €1.00 on 24 Oct 2026, the demo returned 74%, with a hit on 22.8% of them against the 23.55% hit rate on Quickspin's sheet. The spins that went into Fire Respins brought back 59% of the money, the spins that opened Fusion Free Spins 24%, and the other 478 spins 17%.

• 500paid demo spins at €1.00
• 22.8%of them paid something
• 96.75xbest single spin
• 6free spins bonuses triggered

The record, 96.75x on spin 128, fell just short of 100x, which the sheet expects once in 757 spins. The demo server plays the 96.18% model; casinos may run 94.19%, 92.07% or 84.21%, and since the sheet keeps the base game at 52.37% in all four, the cut comes from the free game, down to 31.84%.

Three prices behind the BONUS button

The rules list 15x the bet for a guaranteed Fire Respin, 40x for Fusion Free Spins with at least three Bonus symbols and 75x for five, so 15 spins; the game sheet calls that one Super Fusion Free Spins. Not all levels are sold in all markets.

We bought none: every spin we logged or filmed was paid, with Extra Bet off. For scale, our natural rounds paid 7.5x to 20.75x and our Fire Respin rounds averaged 13.7x.

Near Pigs of Steel on 100x odds, far below it at the top

The sheet gives Fire Tale a 100x win once in 757 spins, close to the 1 in 767 of Big Bad Wolf: Pigs of Steel, which shares the rating of 5 but climbs to 18,173x against 5,000x, the lowest ceiling among the volatility-5 slots on this site.

Three buys also sit in Sakura Fortune 2, at 55x, 70x and 320x. Fire Tale's 15x respin is the cheapest purchase in any game reviewed here.

In our log the Wilds did the work, with a Fire Respin about every 31 spins and most of the return, while the Fusion rounds paid small sums. Come for the respins; the free spins need a long run of merges to matter.

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Fire Tale questions we could answer from the log

From the help screens, the game sheet and our rig log.