The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT: Slot Review and Free Play Demo

The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT Review

You know you’re rich when you can afford to sprinkle your crisps with diamond rings, and The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT takes you to an idyllic beach setting with plenty of Champagne, Cognac, and fine cigars to go around. It’s nice to get a taste of the luxury of the ‘finer things in life’ once in a while, even for us mere mortals, and you get plenty of that in Games Global’s revived WowPot version of their original classic from 2013.

The soundtrack puts you in a pleasantly leanbacked mood, and the gameplay is borrowed directly from Immortal Romance. This means that you can crack the 8,100x potential in the base game via the Wild Celebration feature, and you get to unlock 4 unique bonus rounds by triggering the feature enough times. The WowPot Jackpot Wheel can trigger at random times when coins are collected, adding extra tension with potentially life-changing payouts.

The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT Slot - Reels Screen

The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 33.33 and 66.66 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol pays 133.33x your stake for the same. Of course, the Wild also steps in for any pay symbol to help complete and/or improve line wins. There is also a scatter symbol that pays up to 800x your stake, while also being instrumental in triggering the “finer features” of this game.

The Wild Celebration feature triggers at random times during base game play, and you will then see the top of a Champagne bottle appear below each reel. Up to all 5 of them can pop, and each popped bottle turns its reel fully wild. Turning all 5 reels wild means that you win 8,100x your stake.

The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT Slot - Free Spins

You need 3+ Star Scatter symbols in view to trigger the Finer Features Bonus Round Choice Screen. Landing 2 scatters pay 4x your stake, but it does not trigger the bonus. Only the Coffee & Chocolate feature is available on the first trigger, but there are 3 other “finer features” that will be unlocked one by one as you trigger the bonus round enough times. Here is an overview in chronological order:

The Coffee & Chocolate Bonus is available from the get-go, as already mentioned, and it gives you 10 free spins. It also comes with an x5 win multiplier that is active on all spins, and it will boost all your winnings accordingly. This bonus round can be retriggered once, so you can get up to 20 free spins in total.

The Wine & Cheese Bonus requires 5 bonus round triggers to be unlocked, and it comes with 15 free spins. It comes with a Wild Wine symbol that can appear on reel 3, and this turns random symbols into wilds. You get 1, 2, 3, or 4 extra spins when you land 2, 3, 4, or 5 scatters during this bonus round, respectively.

The Whiskey & Cigars Bonus is available on the 10th bonus round trigger, and it comes with 20 free spins. You can land Burning Wild symbols, and they come with multipliers between x2 and x3. The multipliers boost any present win, and landing both at the same time gives each win an x6 boost.

The Champagne & Diamonds Bonus is available on the 15th trigger, and it gives you 25 free spins. A Rolling Reels mechanic comes into play during this bonus round, and consecutive wins increase the win multiplier up to x5 per sequence. The multiplier resets between free spins, and you cannot win extra spins during this feature.

The WowPot Jackpot feature can trigger at random times, but only when a trigger coin is collected. This happens during base game play, and the feature plays out on a Jackpot Wheel that will land you 1 of the 4 progressive jackpots:

• WowPot seeds at €2,000,000.
• Major Jackpot seeds at €10,000.
• Minor Jackpot seeds at €100.
• Mini Jackpot seeds at €10.

Your WowPot Jackpot feature chances increase with a higher bet level, and the largest payout to date is €10,947,354. That record is about to be beaten though, as the WowPot has climbed above €26 million at the time of writing.

The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT Slot - Jackpot wheel

Review Summary

What we like about The Finer Reels of Life WOWPOT, which is also true for the original from 2013, is that the luxury theme is refined and not so in-your-face filthy rich as many similar games. This is a game you can lean back in your favorite chair to play, with a smoldering cigar and a glass of cognac within reach. Of course, the game itself is basically an Immortal Romance copycat with the WowPot feature bolted on for good measure.

The math model is different though, as is usually the case with progressive jackpot slots. You get a lower RTP of 92.01 %, and 5.3 percentage points goes to feed the 4 progressive jackpots. This leaves you with an RTP of 86.71 % for the rest of the game. The good news is that the WowPot can land you life-changing jackpots, and it’s one of the better progressive jackpots you can chase online. It can be an expensive chase, of course, but if you’re attracted to a theme like this that may not be your biggest concern.