Big Bad Wolf is Quickspin’s 2013 take on the Three Little Pigs, one of the studio’s earliest and best-performing games, on five reels and 25 fixed lines. Swooping Reels clear winning symbols and drop new ones in, and Pigs Turn Wild turns a pig wild for every second win in a row. In the free spins, moons let the wolf blow houses down for extra spins and a 2x multiplier. Play the official Big Bad Wolf demo below free.
Big Bad Wolf has five reels, three rows and 25 fixed lines. Typical online stakes run from 25 cents to $125 a spin, though casinos can set their own range, and one database says the 90% model stops at $100. Quickspin supplies two RTP models, which it rounds to 97% and 90%; databases list them as 97.34% (97.35% on some sites, a rounding difference) and 90.01%, and the casino chooses which one it runs. Quickspin calls the volatility high, while other sources range from medium to high. No hit rate is published. Max win figures conflict and Quickspin’s public page gives none: one database puts it at 1,225x the stake on the 97.34% model and 2,103x on the 90.01% model, while review sites quote 1,000x or 1,300x.
Big Bad Wolf Pokies Characteristics
Wins are paid along the 25 fixed lines. Only one review site states a pay direction, both ways, so the help screen is the place to confirm how lines pay. The beehive is the wild and stands in for every symbol except the wolf scatter and, per two review sites, the moon. Three wolf scatters anywhere on the reels start the free spins. The moon appears only in the free spins, and only on the fifth reel.
The game is built on two linked features, Swooping Reels and Pigs Turn Wild, covered below. Quickspin’s rules describe no bonus buy or gamble feature, and there is no jackpot of any kind.
Figures are five-of-a-kind pays as multiples of the total stake, the only values we found, from two third-party sources that agree.
The wolf scatter and the moon pay nothing on their own. Five beehive wilds, the top line, pay 40 times the total stake, or 1,000 times the line bet. Three- and four-of-a-kind values were not found in the sources we checked, as Quickspin’s own paytable sits in a game sheet behind a client login, so check the in-game paytable for those. The three house pigs, the best-paying regular symbols, are also the ones that can turn wild.
Every win sets off Swooping Reels: the winning symbols are removed, new ones tumble down to fill the gaps, and this repeats for as long as new wins form, at no extra cost.
Pigs Turn Wild counts those wins. The second Swooping win in a row turns one of the three house pigs wild, the fourth a second pig and the sixth all three, with a meter at the top right tracking progress. The rules call the count consecutive, which implies it restarts when a chain ends, and no source says which pig converts first. Once all three pigs and the beehive are wild, a long chain tends to keep itself going.
Three wolf scatters anywhere on the reels start Blowing Down the House, a round of 10 free spins. Three more during the round add another 10, with no cap mentioned; one review site says a retrigger also pays 3x the bet, which no other source repeats. Swooping Reels keep running, and Quickspin says Pigs Turn Wild stays active.
Moons land only on the fifth reel and are collected over the round. Three moons let the wolf blow down the wooden house for two extra spins. Six bring down the brick house, add two more spins and switch on a 2x multiplier for the wins that follow, the only multiplier any source mentions. Without a retrigger, the moons stretch a round from 10 spins to 14, and the sooner the sixth arrives, the more spins get the 2x.
On the 97.34% model the game keeps about 2.7 cents of every dollar bet over the long run; on the 90.01% model it keeps about 10 cents, almost four times as much. Over $500 of total bets, say 500 spins at $1, that is a long-run cost of about $13 against about $50. It is not known which model the offshore casinos that take Australians run, so read the RTP line in the help screen before the first spin.
High volatility means dry stretches between the chains and free spins rounds that pay well. At 25 cents a spin, $50 buys 200 spins; at $1 it lasts 50. The ceiling is modest for a high-volatility game, with quoted top wins from 1,000x to 2,103x, so the case for Big Bad Wolf is the return on the 97% model and the way its features build, not the size of the biggest hit.
Big Bad Wolf Christmas Special (its release story is dated 1 December 2020) is a winter reskin with the original’s features. Big Bad Wolf Megaways (2021) has six reels and up to 117,649 ways, piggy wilds after two, four and six tumbles, 11 free spins with a multiplier that rises with every win and never resets, a 90x buy and RTP models of 90%, 94% and 96%.
Big Bad Wolf: Pigs of Steel (November 2023, per one review site) is a 5×3 tumbling game with three bonus tiers for three, four and five wolves, RTP models from 87% to 96% and a top win Quickspin puts at 18,000x. Big Bad Wolf Live, announced in July 2023, pairs an RNG slot with a communal live bonus on Playtech’s live platform, entered through a 40x buy. Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link, release date unconfirmed, is a 30-line coin-collect game at 95.60% with a 10,000x top win. A lobby listing plain Big Bad Wolf means the 2013 original. Huff N’ Puff from Light & Wonder, the former Scientific Games, tells the same fairy tale in a different game, and we review it separately.
The game is a cartoon retelling of the Three Little Pigs: a pig for each of the straw, wooden and brick houses, a toy pig, a beehive wild, the wolf as scatter, moons and royals from 10 to ace. The series is known for a storybook look with wooden frames. It plays in HTML5 on desktop and mobile, and autoplay covers 10 to 1,000 spins with win and loss limits. It won Game of the Year at the EGR Operator Awards, and Quickspin has since called the wolf one of its most loved properties, which explains the run of sequels.
There is no Big Bad Wolf slot machine in Australian pubs, clubs or casinos: Quickspin, bought by Playtech in 2016, makes video slots for online real-money and social play only. Its site lists a Maltese supply licence and UK Gambling Commission registration, and no Australian licence. One database’s country scan finds the game in 69 countries, and Australia is not among the markets it names. We could not confirm Big Bad Wolf at any offshore casino that accepts Australians, so availability varies and the lobby search is the way to check. For free play, Quickspin publishes an official Big Bad Wolf slot demo on its game page; its file path suggests it runs the 90% model.
Big Bad Wolf has aged well because its features work together: Swooping Reels turn one win into several, Pigs Turn Wild rewards long chains, and the moons give the free spins a goal. It suits players who like cascades and a bonus that builds, and its 97.34% model returns more than Megaways, Pigs of Steel or Cash Collect & Link. It does not suit anyone chasing five-figure multipliers; Pigs of Steel and Cash Collect & Link aim higher. The one thing to check is the RTP model, because the 90% version keeps almost four times as much of every dollar.
Quickspin supplies two models, rounded to 97% and 90%; databases list them as 97.34% and 90.01%. The casino picks the model, so check the help screen.
Three wolf scatters anywhere give 10 free spins, and three more in the round add 10. Collecting three moons adds two spins; six add two more and a 2x multiplier.
Sources disagree and Quickspin’s public page gives no figure: one database gives 1,225x the stake on the 97.34% model and 2,103x on the 90.01% model, while review sites quote 1,000x or 1,300x.
The second Swooping Reels win in a row turns one house pig wild, the fourth a second pig and the sixth all three, in the base game and the free spins.
Not in venues, as it is an online-only Quickspin game. We could not confirm it at offshore casinos that accept Australians, so search the lobby.
No. The 2021 Megaways version has six reels, up to 117,649 ways, a free spins multiplier that never resets and a 90x buy.
