Iceland (3Win8): the reel-3 polar bear, the tripled WITH column and a 0.15 win worked out
The 3Win8 build of Iceland prints its wild rule plainly: reel 3 only, expanding, tripled. This page reads that paytable and checks it against a real 0.15 win.
Cartridge label
- Reels
- 5 x 3
- Lines
- 50
- Wild
- Polar bear, reel 3 only, expands, triples wins
- Scatter
- Igloo; 3 or more start the feature
- Jackpot bars
- Random Jackpot, Minor, Major
Controls
- BET arrows
- Stake per line with all 50 lines fixed
- AUTO / GAMBLE
- AUTO before a spin, GAMBLE after a win
- SPIN
- One spin
- ? / PREVIOUS / FORWARD
- Help pages
Iceland is the snowy 50-line slot that also appears on 918Kiss and ACE333. The 3Win8 build is worth a page of its own because its help screen, the hero above, states the wild rule in full. This page reads it and then checks it against a spin.
The polar bear rule
The SUBSTITUTE box says the bear:
- only appears on reel 3 during normal games
- substitutes for all other symbols, including the scatter
- expands to cover all positions on the reel before pays are awarded
- triples the prize when one or more wilds substitute in a win
- counts once on its reel for scatters
One bear therefore turns the whole middle reel wild. With 50 lines active, a large share of them pass through reel 3, so a bear touches many lines at once.
The paytable and the WITH column
Every symbol box has a purple strip marked WITH and a bear. That strip is the tripled figure for a win that includes the bear. Pays are line-bet multiples.
| Symbol | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | With bear (5 / 4 / 3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walrus | 3333 | 333 | 33 | 6 | 9999 / 999 / 99 |
| Orca | 3333 | 333 | 33 | 3 | 9999 / 999 / 99 |
| Wolf | 333 | 150 | 12 | 3 | 999 / 450 / 36 |
| Penguins or owl (any mix) | 333 | 60 | 6 | 3 | 999 / 180 / 18 |
| A, K, Q (any mix) | 150 | 33 | 5 | - | 450 / 99 / 15 |
| 10, J, 9 (any mix) | 99 | 20 | 5 | - | 297 / 60 / 15 |
The igloo SCATTER pays on total bet: 2 for two, the FEATURE for three, 9 plus the feature for four, 33 plus the feature for five.
A win, worked out
Here the stake is LINE 50 at BET 0.01, so 0.50 a spin. The bear has landed on reel 3 and stretched over all three rows. The banner reads "LINES 17 WIN 0.15" and WIN shows 0.15.
A three-symbol win on a low card group pays 5. With the bear in it, that becomes 15, and 15 x 0.01 = 0.15. So line 17 was a three-card line through the bear, paid at the tripled rate. The GAMBLE button has replaced AUTO.
The screen
A balance box and lobby ticker at the top with BACK, ? and settings. Under them RANDOM JACKPOT (about 11,720), the ICELAND logo, MINOR and MAJOR. Line tabs up to 50 run down each side, and the bottom bar has LINE 50, BET with arrows, a BET / WIN box, AUTO or GAMBLE, and SPIN.
Pacing
At 0.50 a spin even at the 0.01 line bet shown here, a small balance runs down faster than on a 9-line game. The bear is the reason to play: it only needs one reel, and it triples. Keep the line bet at 0.01 and give the session enough spins for reel 3 to deliver.
See the 3Win8 overview for more titles, or Great China, which uses the same rules with a panda. To play, get a 3Win8 game ID.
Troubleshooting and questions
Is this the same Iceland as on 918Kiss and ACE333?
Same theme and symbols. What the 3Win8 help page adds is the exact wild rule: the bear only appears on reel 3, expands over the whole reel, and triples any win it is part of.
What does the igloo pay?
Scatter wins are multiplied by total bet: 2 pays 2, 3 starts the feature, 4 pays 9 plus the feature and 5 pays 33 plus the feature. With a bear in the count those become 27 and 99.
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