JL59 Wild symbol Explained — What a Wild Does and Does Not
Wild symbol: A symbol that fills in for others to make a winning combination complete.
- Term
- Wild symbol
- Set by
- The game studio, in the paytable
- Where you meet it
- A game's paytable and feature list
- Not the same as
- A wild differs from both a bonus symbol and a scatter. A wild guarantees nothing, either; landing on a reel with no matching symbols beside it, it completes nothing at all, which is the most common cause of a promising spin paying nothing.
Short for: not published.
Of all the terms on a casino page, Wild symbol is a sensible one to understand properly.
Wild symbol — A symbol that fills in for others to make a winning combination complete.
What Wild symbol actually means
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Term | Wild symbol |
| In one line | A symbol that fills in for others to make a winning combination complete. |
| Fixed by | The game studio, in the paytable |
| Where you meet it | A game’s paytable and feature list |
In place of regular symbols a wild appears, and its specifics differ sharply among games: a few wilds carry a multiplier, a few expand to fill a reel, a few are sticky and remain across spins, and a few show only during a feature round. The paytable is where the applicable behaviour is stated, and games using an identical word can differ completely.
Using it in practice
Make no assumptions until you have read what the wild does in the specific game. ‘Wild’ is a category and not a fixed mechanic, and on several popular titles it is the one feature that sets them apart from near-identical siblings. Keep what free spins means in mind alongside it, because those same pages often bring up both together.
Game pages across this site use terms such as Wild symbol and, whenever the studio leaves the figure behind one unpublished, say as much rather than borrowing a number from a comparison site. Several spec tables on this site show blanks for that reason.
The common misreading
The usual assumption is that wilds substitute across the board. They tend not to substitute for scatters or bonus symbols, meaning a near-miss on a feature trigger is a miss all the same. A wild sitting next to two scatters on the grid leaves you with two scatters instead of three.
A wild differs from both a bonus symbol and a scatter. A wild guarantees nothing, either; landing on a reel with no matching symbols beside it, it completes nothing at all, which is the most common cause of a promising spin paying nothing.
A worked example
On a game with a 2x multiplier on its wild, only wins the wild completes pay double, and other wins pay normally. Keep this distinction in mind with a paytable: the wild’s multiplier attaches to the combination it joined, not to the spin, so with two separate wins on the same spin, both are multiplied only if the wild is in both.
Checking Wild symbol at JL59
- In a JL59 game, locate the screen that holds its info or help.
- Wild symbol is listed somewhere in that area, so locate it and take its meaning from the explanation above.
- Pick what to play at JL59 only after setting it beside the matching entry on a different title.
- Before round one at JL59, note down your stake and where you will stop.
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FAQ
How much should Wild symbol matter when I pick a game?
Make no assumptions until you have read what the wild does in the specific game. 'Wild' is a category and not a fixed mechanic, and on several popular titles it is the one feature that sets them apart from near-identical siblings.
What does Wild symbol mean?
A symbol that fills in for others to make a winning combination complete.
Could a casino ever change Wild symbol?
Not on this site's evidence. If the game's own mathematics sets a value behind wild symbol, that value is the studio's rather than the operator's, and an outside source has no way to confirm it where the studio leaves it unpublished.