Ants are often thought of as annoying creepy crawlies, but let me tell you, just be thankful they’re not the same size as us. They can lift up to 50 times their body weight and run at speeds that, if they were a similar size to us, would be comparable to a racehorse. Quite simply, we wouldn’t stand a chance against them. Why the mini-lesson on ants? Because Blueprint Gaming’s Wild Antics is a slot game themed on these tiny insects and the sort of antics they get up to. The slot features a 5×3 reel setup with 20 paylines, a medium variance, a 95.51% RTP, and a max win of 50,000x.
As the title of this slot suggests, wild symbols play a massive part in the gameplay. There are roaming, colossal, and standard wilds that can trigger as part of random features, and they also help create winning combinations during the four free spins bonus games you can trigger. Throughout these bonus games, you could spin on expanded reels of 5×4 with 40 paylines, activate win multipliers of up to 5x, and perhaps even reveal colossal roaming wild symbols measuring 4×4 in size.
Blueprint Gaming has created plenty of entertaining online slots over the years, so the chances are this will be another. Why not check it out via the free-to-play Wild Antics slot demo below?
| Provider | Blueprint |
| Reels | 5 |
| Rows | 3 |
| Paylines | 20 |
| Bonus Rounds | 4 |
| Bet Range | 0.20 - 50 |
| Volatility | Medium |
| Max Win | 50,000x |
| Bonus Buy | No |
| RTP | 95.51% |
| Our Rating | 6.8 |
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Wild Antics Slot Theme, Stakes, Pays & Symbols
Surprisingly, or perhaps not, depending on how you feel about insects, you won’t find many online slots themed on ants and bugs. The closest you’ll get are slot games with a bee theme instead. If you think about it, bees and ants are very similar as they both have colonies and queens, but Bees just seem more fashionable with slot developers, hence titles such as Wild Swarm 2 from Push Gaming, which admittedly is a fantastic slot. I’m also a big fan of Relax Gaming’s Dream Drop jackpot slot, Beelionaires, so make sure you try both of those free slots out when you’re done with our review today.
Returning to Wild Antics, I was quite surprised to find some impressive payouts. The Wild Symbol, which substitutes for all regular symbols, offers the best payout, worth 500x the stake for five across a payline. The Blue Ant and the Wild Antics logo are next with a shared top payout of 400x, while the Red Ant tops out at 300x. The Ace and King symbols are the best of the lower values with a return of 200x, and the Queen, Jack, and Ten symbols pay up to 100x.
The Wild Antics slot demo has a betting range of between €0.20 and €5.00 per spin, but if you go on to play the game for real money at an online casino, you’ll find much higher stakes to play if you wish to do so.
Wild Antics Slot Base Game
Blueprint Gaming has gone with a common 5×3 reel configuration on the Wild Antics slot that offers 20 fixed paylines. For the most part, you’ll receive a payout whenever three or more matching symbols land across one of those paylines, starting from the leftmost reel. The exception is the Wild Antics and Wild symbols, which require just two or more symbols to create a winning combination.
Jet Pack Antics
On any base game or bonus round spin, the Jet Pack Ant can appear from the Anthill to deliver one of four random features. Simply pick one of the ants to reveal one of the following features:
- Aardvark Antics: This can turn a random number of reels fully wild.
- Frantic Antics: Ants work together to move the symbols around to create winning combinations. This continues until the Aardvark appears.
- Colossal Antics: This adds a random number of colossal wild symbols to the reels.
- Wild Antics: This adds random wild symbols to the reels.
Wild Antics Slot Bonus Features
It’s not uncommon for Blueprint Gaming to release slots with multiple bonus games, and that’s the case once again on Wild Antics. You’ll trigger one of these bonus rounds when scatter symbols land on reels one and three and a Worker, Solider, Colonel, or Queen Ant bonus symbol lands on reel five. The type of Ant scatter on the final reel determines the bonus game you’ll receive.
Bonus Rounds
You’re given 5 free spins on one of the following free spins variations:
- Worker Ant Free Spins Bonus: A roaming wild moves to a new position on every spin.
- Soldier Ant Free Spins Bonus: This also offers roaming wilds, but this time, when they collide on the reels, a random win multiplier of between 2x and 5x is created.
- Colonel Ant Free Spins Bonus: This bonus has all the special features of the previous bonus games but takes place on 5×4-sized reels with 40 paylines.
- Queen Ant Free Spins Bonus: The final variation has all the above, but when the Queen symbol lands on a spin, it will increase the size of the roaming wild symbol up to a maximum of 4×4.
Bonus Replay
At the end of any free spins bonus games, there is a chance the Ant will come out of the Anthill to trigger another bonus game. Again, you choose an Ant to reveal which you will receive.
Pros
- Packed with bonus games.
- Well designed slot.
Cons
- It is hard to see how the max win of 50,000x can be achieved.
Wild Antics Slot Review Final Thoughts
You can never question the design and presentation of Blueprint Gaming slots, but in terms of gameplay, the developer has produced much better slots than Wild Antics. That’s not to say it’s bad; it's just not at the same high standards as other releases. Plenty of you will enjoy what’s on offer here, but for me, it’s slightly disappointing.
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