Wild Tiger 2

Wild Tiger 2: Hold and Win Overview

Wild Tiger 2: Hold and Win is a BGaming slot with a 97% RTP – one of the highest figures you will find on a modern release – an adjustable payline count and a hold-and-win bonus that announces its multipliers before it starts rather than revealing them at the end.

The demo captures the most satisfying kind of proof: the same bonus grid photographed twice, before and after a x2 multiplier lands, with every single coin value on it exactly doubled.

Theme and Graphics

The setting is a Chinese temple courtyard at dusk. Red-lacquered pillars frame the reels, braziers burn at the bottom corners, and a pagoda sits on the hillside behind. The reels themselves are deep red with gold detailing, and when the bonus starts a snarling golden dragon's head rears up over the grid.

The symbols split into two groups: three animals – a red ox, a blue frog and a green long-necked bird – above three bamboo scrolls in purple, red and green. The coins that fill the bonus grid are gold discs with their value stamped across the middle. Six paying symbols is a spare set by any standard, and it keeps the grid legible even when half of it has turned to coins.

Choosing Your Lines

A vertical selector runs down the right-hand side of the reels marked 100, 80, 60, 40 and 20, and the player picks which one is active – the demo runs on 60. This is unusual on a modern slot; most fix the line count and let you change only the stake.

It matters because it changes the character of the game rather than just its cost. Twenty lines on a five-reel grid produces occasional larger hits; a hundred produces frequent smaller ones from the same reels. The maximum setting of 100 lines is the figure quoted in catalogues, so if you see that number listed, it is the ceiling rather than the default.

Symbols and Paytable

The red ox leads at 160.00 for five, 16.00 for four and 4.00 for three – and unusually it also pays from two of a kind, returning 1.60. The frog and the bird share the next tier at 80.00 / 12.00 / 2.40.

Below them the scrolls: purple at 32.00 / 8.00 / 1.60, red at 24.00 / 4.00 / 0.80 and green at 16.00 / 4.00 / 0.80. The whole table spans a ten-fold range from the ox down to the green scroll, which is tight, and with only six paying symbols there is not much room for surprises.

Note the shape of the ox's own progression. Three of a kind pays 4.00, four pays 16.00 – four times more – and five pays 160.00, another ten times on top. The final step is far and away the steepest, and it is the only symbol in the game that starts paying at two.

The Hold & Win Bonus

Coins land on the reels carrying cash values and the bonus works the familiar way: coins lock in place, respins reset, the round ends when the grid stops filling. What makes it readable is that every coin value is an exact multiple of the total bet. On the demo's 9.60 stake the grid shows 9.60, 19.20, 28.80, 48.00, 67.20, 96.00, 115.20 and – on one position – 432.00, which are 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 12x and 45x the bet respectively.

That 45x coin sitting among a field of 1x and 2x coins is the shape of the whole feature. Most positions are worth a spin or two of the stake; one or two carry the round.

A vertical meter runs down the right of the bonus grid with 20 at the top and 15 marked partway down, filling like a thermometer as the round progresses, and a respin counter sits beneath the reels. Between them you can always see how much room is left before the feature ends – which matters on a round where one more coin can change the total by an order of magnitude.

Multipliers, Announced Up Front

Here is the part that separates this from its many competitors. When the bonus triggers, the game shows a scroll reading “You have won Hold & Win Bonus – with multipliers” and displays them: three tiles marked x3, x2 and x4.

You know before the first respin what multipliers are in play. Inside the round they appear as badges – an x2 in the corner of the screen, an x4 tile sitting on the fourth reel – and when one applies, it applies to everything.

The demo proves it beyond argument. One screenshot shows the grid holding 28.80, 115.20, 19.20, 432.00, 9.60, 48.00, 67.20 and 96.00. The next shows the identical grid reading 57.60, 230.40, 38.40, 864.00, 19.20, 96.00, 134.40 and 192.00 – every value doubled, position for position, with a running total of 2,016.00 FUN across the top. On the 9.60 stake that is 210x the bet.

Buying the Bonus

A permanent Bonus panel sits to the left of the reels showing the current buy price, and clicking it opens a confirmation scroll with a stake selector built in. At a 9.60 total bet the price is 576.00 – exactly 60x.

Sixty times the stake is towards the upper end of what buy features cost, and it is worth setting against what the demo's bonus actually returned. A round reaching 210x paid three and a half times the purchase price; a round that stalls early pays a fraction of it. What you are buying, given the multipliers are announced at the start, is a feature whose upside you can assess in the first second rather than the last.

The panel also shows the price updating live as the stake changes, so the 60x relationship is visible rather than something to work out. At the demo's other stake of 12.00 the same panel reads 720.00 – the identical multiple.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The RTP is 97%. That figure deserves emphasis – the informal modern standard is 96%, plenty of releases sit at 95% or below, and a full percentage point above the norm is a genuine difference over a long session. It is also worth noting what the game does not do to pay for it: there is no ante bet, no RTP range for operators to dial down, and no reduced-return version attached to the buy feature.

Volatility is rated Medium and the maximum win is 5,000x the bet. The combination is coherent: an adjustable line count, a paytable spanning only ten-fold, coins worth one to twelve times the stake and multipliers up to x4 describe a game that pays regularly and moderately, with the ceiling reserved for a grid that fills with high-value coins while a x4 is live.

The 210x the demo recorded is a strong result and still only a twenty-fourth of what the game can pay – but it came from a round with a x2 applied, not the x4 that was also on offer.

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