Sidewinder Slot Review

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Wilds are the key to success here

This Sidewinder slot machine from Just for the Win gives you 243 ways to win, 3 types of wilds and free spins with up to 1125 ways to win as well as its special feature.

At it’s heart this is a simple retro looking slot machine.

It’s like the design team over at JFTW ran out of time to come up with a theme to showcase their Sidewinder feature and just went ‘let’s go classic diamonds, spades and add a few 7s and bells in there for good measure’.

It’s definitely not as well themed as their Irish Rainbrew slot game, which is pretty much the same game but with a different theme.

So no points here for design, but what you do get if you’re a fan of the Rainbrew slot is some frequent slots action with wilds and the chance for some decent free spins rounds too.

3 types of wilds unleash extra reels

The titular feature of this online and mobile Sidewinder slot game is one that we’ve not seen in other slots from providers before.

The main 5×3 reels contain 2 different types of wilds each with their ability to trigger one of either the top or the bottom extra reels.

If a wild with a down arrow lands it will make the bottom extra reel spin. This is filled with regular wilds and wilds with up arrows.

Land a regular wild it will hopefully trigger a win, land a wild with an up arrow though and it will make the top extra reel spin which contains regular and bottom wild symbols.

This happens in vice versa if you trigger the top reel first with a top wild.

It’s a feature that not only gives you more ways to win when triggered but often helps payout some decent 10 – 20x your bet wins in the base game alone.

But it’s not until you hit the free spins that this feature truly comes in to its own.

Sidewinder slot free spins with 1125 ways to win

The Sidewinder logo is the free spins symbol and when it appears on reel 2 and 4 both of the extra horizontal reels will begin to spin.

If 1 more symbol lands you’ll get 6 free spins, if 2 or more land you’ll get 10 free spins. If none land you continue your base game spins as usual.

When you do get the free spins though something special happens. The reels go from the standard 243 ways to win to 1125 ways to win.

How? Well, the two horizontal reels are now active on every single free spin you take, rewarding you with either extra wilds or extra free spins symbols which will reward with 1 extra free spin for every one that shows.

If that’s not good enough if a regular wild symbols lands in the same position on the top and the bottom extra reel it will expand to cover the middle three symbols providing a full wild reel.

It’s what gives you the chance to win some very decent payouts upwards of 80x your bet and where you’ll experience those heart pounding gambling thrills.

Is this Sidewinder online and mobile slot worth a spin?

The special Sidewinder feature is one that does create some exciting base game spins thanks to those extra reels and lots of wilds.

If you’re patient enough to gamble 150+ base game spins to trigger the free spins then this video slot has the potential to give you some good rewards thanks in part to 96.05% return to player rate.

There’s no denying we had fun playing this Just for the Win game, the only problem is that we had even more fun with the Rainbrew game thanks to the better graphics and slot theme.

This in turn is a little dull and lacks the attention to detail and graphic quality we’ve come to expect from great slots providers.

Even still if you’ve got a spare 0.10 up to 100 spare to spin then this game will accommodate all types of players budgets.

Go take it for a spin yourself and see if you can unlock those 1125 ways to win free spins and those bigger rewards.

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