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Fire In The Hole

Nolimit City Norse mythology

Fire In The Hole
ProviderNolimit City
RTP96.06%
RTP base / bonus63.51% / 32.55%
Volatility19.2 (provider index)
Max win60000x
Bet range0.2 - 50
Hit frequency26.0%
Reels3-6
ThemeNorse mythology
LicencesUKGC
Release2021-03-02

Features

  • bonus buy
  • free spins
  • wild

Fire In The Hole: RTP and specs

Fire In The Hole is a slot machine by Nolimit City with an RTP of 96.06%, released in 2021.

Overview

Grab your sharpest pickaxe and your most explosive dynamite as Nolimit City takes you deep down underground to where the sun doesn’t shine - but the gold does. With a 6x3 reel area that expands up to 6x6, exploding wilds and 64 ways to win that can expand up to 46,656 - you’ll blast your way through the mines in search of the lucrative gold.

Description provided by Nolimit City.

Our analysis

Fire In The Hole is a Nolimit City slot on a Norse mythology theme, presented on a 3-6 layout that expands the reels during play. The structure is built around the studio's collapsing-grid mechanic, which clears winning symbols and opens additional rows.

The feature set includes a Collapsing Mine, an xBomb Wild Multiplier and Wild Mining, with Lucky Wagon Spins serving as the free-spins round. The Nolimit Bonus feature buy functionality offers direct entry to the bonus.

On risk, the RTP is 96.06% and the volatility is rated 19.2 on the studio's scale, a high-variance figure. The maximum win is very large at 60000x the stake, and the bet range covers 0.2 to 50, narrower at the top end than many of the studio's other titles here.

The specifications suit a player who accepts high variance for a 60000x ceiling, one of the largest caps in this group, and is prepared for the swings a 19.2 rating implies. The feature buy appeals to those who prefer direct bonus entry, while the 0.2 to 50 range keeps the top stake more contained than the studio's 0.2 to 100 standard.

Editorial analysis by machinesasous.co, based on published data.

Bonus features

Fire In The Hole offers 5 special features, as published by Nolimit City:

Collapsing Mine
Each spin begins with 3 active rows and for each collapse, an additional row becomes active, up to 6 rows. A new collapse can be triggered by a winning combination, xBomb Wild explosion or a Wild Mining feature.\nWinning symbols are paid out and removed before triggering the next collapse, which will, in turn, make all symbols fall downwards, leaving the empty position for new symbols to drop down to.
Lucky Wagon Spins
3, 4 or 5 bonus symbols will trigger the Lucky Wagons Spins feature with 2, 3 or 4 rows of the reel area open initially. The feature starts with 3 spins and will reset to 3 spins every time a coin lands in the reel area. All coin values are valued times (x) the active bet.\nDuring the Lucky Wagon Spins feature, the top row will reveal enhancers for each spin - Coin values, Multipliers, Dynamites, Bag, Chest or the Dwarf. An enhancer is activated when a coin lands on the reel below the enhancer.
xBomb Wild Multiplier
An xBomb Wild symbol substitutes any symbol except for the Bonus symbols. An exploding xBomb Wild removes adjacent symbols except for Bonus symbols and will increase the win multiplier by one for the next collapse.\nAll xBomb Wilds will explode before the next collapse, except when the Wild Mining feature is triggered. An xBomb Wild will explode when there is a win, no matter\nif it’s a part of the winning combination or not. It will explode and trigger a new collapse if there isn’t a win, and wild Mining feature is not triggered.\n
Wild Mining
Wild Mining will be triggered in the main game when 3, 4 or 5 of the same type of symbol align horizontally and there is no winning combination. 3, 4 and 5 symbols, awards 1, 2 or 3 wilds respectively. All other positions above the bar will explode as long as it’s not a Bonus or a Wild symbol, and it will trigger a new collapse.
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How it works & rules

RTP
Fire In The Hole has an RTP of 96.06%, the theoretical payout rate returned to players over the very long run. It is a statistical average, never a per-session guarantee. RTP definition · RTP vs volatility
Volatility
Fire In The Hole volatility: 19.2. It describes how often and how big wins are. Understand volatility
bonus buy
A bonus buy option lets you trigger the bonus round directly.
free spins
A free spins round, usually triggered by scatter symbols.
wild
Wild symbols substitute for others to complete winning combinations.

How randomness (RNG) works

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