Lab of Madness Its A Wild

Lab of Madness: It's A-Wild! Overview

Lab of Madness: It's A-Wild! is a Play'n GO slot set in a gothic laboratory, and it is drawn like a horror comic: the reels are white paper, the symbols are inked in black and white, and the only things in colour are the ones that matter. Every wild, every scatter and every feature trigger arrives as a splash of acid green, magenta or electric blue against the monochrome grid. It is an unusually disciplined piece of art direction for a slot, and it doubles as a legibility trick — you always know instantly which symbol is the special one.

Mechanically the game is built around a single idea: wilds that take over whole reels. There are three different wild types, one of them is drawn at random when the free spins begin, and the base game keeps hinting at them with three coloured bulbs above the reels.

Theme and Graphics

The frame around the reels is a vaulted laboratory hall with arched windows and a rack of surgical instruments down the left side. In the base game the room is lit cold and grey; when the free spins start the same room floods with orange and teal, so the shift in state is visible before you read a single number. Lightning bolts crackle between reels whenever a wild transformation fires.

The symbol set fits the story rather than the usual fruit-and-royal filler: an anatomical heart, a severed green hand, a surgical saw, a jar of something glowing — and two characters, a green-skinned monster and a wild-haired doctor, both rendered in lurid pop-art colour.

Reels, Paylines and Betting Range

The game runs on five reels with 20 fixed paylines, and combinations pay from the leftmost reel rightwards. The stake range is wide for a Play'n GO title — from 0.20 up to 100 per spin — and the demo screenshots below all run at the maximum 100.00, which makes the multipliers easy to read: a 200.00 win is simply 2x the bet.

A line of text under the reels tells you the best result available on each spin — “Max 50 on line 5”, “Max 100 on line 15” — which is a small but genuinely useful piece of information that most slots keep hidden.

Symbols and Paytable

The paytable is flat, and deliberately so. At the 100.00 stake the two character symbols both pay 1,000.00 for five, 400.00 for four and 200.00 for three — that is 10x, 4x and 2x the bet. The anatomical heart follows at 500.00 / 200.00 / 100.00, then the green hand and the surgical saw share the next rung at 400.00 / 100.00 / 50.00. The card royals bring up the rear: five aces or five kings return 200.00, exactly twice the stake.

So the single best line combination in the entire paytable is worth 10x the bet — while the game's published ceiling is 8,000x. That gap is the whole design. Nothing on the paytable can get you anywhere near the maximum; only stacked expanding wilds across multiple reels can.

The Three Wild Types

Three coloured bulbs sit above the reels at all times — a red one, a green one and a purple one — and they are not decoration. They are the three wild behaviours the game can deal you, and the free spins trigger screen lights exactly one of them up. On the sample round the green bulb lit and the caption read Expanding Wild.

In the base game the wilds already do useful work. On one spin two monster wilds landed on reels one and three and turned a routine 50.00 line into a 660.00 total — 6.6x the bet — and on another a wild on the middle reel carried a 100.00 line win up to 240.00. The lightning animation that connects them makes it obvious which reels have been converted.

Free Spins

The bonus awards 10 free spins, and the wild type drawn on the trigger screen applies to all of them. With the expanding wild selected, the monster no longer lands as a single symbol — he stands up to fill an entire reel, and two of them on screen at once is common.

The screenshots track one complete round. On free spin 1 of 10 two full-reel monster wilds on reels two and three produced a running total of 800.00 — 8x the bet from a single spin. By free spin 7 of 10 the running total had reached 3,710.00, or 37.1x the stake, off a round that was still only two-thirds finished. That is the difference between the paytable and the feature stated as plainly as a slot can state it: a single bonus spin outearned the best possible five-of-a-kind three times over.

The Fixed Jackpot Ladder

A four-rung jackpot ladder runs down the left edge of the reels — Mini, Minor, Major and Mega — collected through the energy meter above it. At the 100.00 stake the two lower rungs read 2,000.00 and 5,000.00, which works out at exactly 20x and 50x the bet, with the Major and Mega tiers stacked above them.

Worth noting that the ladder is fixed-multiplier rather than a shared progressive pool: the numbers scale with your stake, so there is no advantage in waiting for someone else's jackpot to build up, and no part of your bet is siphoned off to feed one. It also means the Mini and Minor rungs are reachable prizes rather than lottery tickets — 20x and 50x are the sort of numbers a good free spins round produces anyway.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

This is where the game asks for some caution. The published RTP is 94.2%, which is low for Play'n GO and low in absolute terms — and the title ships with RTP ranges, meaning the operator chooses which version to run. The figure on any given casino may differ from the one quoted here, so it is worth checking the game's own info screen rather than assuming.

Volatility is High and the maximum win is 8,000x the bet. Combined with a paytable that tops out at 10x, that tells you exactly what kind of session to expect: long stretches of small line wins at or below the stake, punctuated by free spins rounds that do all the real work. The 37x that the sample bonus had accumulated by its seventh spin is the game showing its hand — and it still had three spins left.

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