Fire in the Hole 3 Pokie Review

Nolimit City got us used to pokie machines that are packed with action. The Collapsing Mine feature gives you a chance for multiple wins in a single spin. The Lucky Wagon Spins feature comes with tons of enhancers that can boost your wins.

The xBomb Wild Multiplier feature removes adjacent symbols and adds a win multiplier. The Wild Mining feature brings up to 4 Wilds in central positions. Ice blocks may contain Buried Features. The xHole and the xSplit features are also included.

Collapsing Mine

This is a classic Cascading Reels feature. You start with a 6×3 grid and every new collapse can unlock more frozen cells. Collapses are caused by winning combos, xBomb Wild explosion, the Wild Mining feature, or the xHole feature.

xBomb Wild Multiplier

When the xBomb Wild explodes, it removes all adjacent symbols, except Scatters. It also increases the win multiplier for the following collapse. This bomb will prove to be very helpful when you land winning combos in the base game. It helped me win 22x in the base game.

Wild Mining

This feature is triggered in the main game when 3, 4, 5, or 6 matching symbols are connected horizontally or vertically but there is no win. Depending on the number of matching symbols, you will get 1, 2, 3, or 4 Wild, respectively.

All symbols above the bar will explode, except for Scatters and symbols buried under ice. The explosion will trigger a new collapse.

Buried Features

Cells blocked by ice can be empty or contain extras, such as Wilds, xSplit, win multipliers, xHole, Scatters, or the Max symbol. When you remove the ice from the cell, you activate the buried treasures. The Max symbol appears as a 2×2 icon and once you free it from ice, you win 70,000x.

xHole

When the xHole lands on the grid, the xHole feature is triggered. Regular symbols are collected and then scattered across the grid to random cells. Symbols are also split into 1-3 sizes. The xHole icon leaves an empty cell which triggers a collapse.

xSplit

Pickaxes represent the xSplit symbol. When it appears, it splits other symbols, doubling their size. Once you activate all xSplit symbols, they turn into a randomly chosen regular symbol.

Lucky Wagon Spins

When you land 4, 5, or 6 Scatters on the reels, you trigger the Lucky Wagon Spins feature with 2, 3, or 4 opened rows on the grid. You get 3 respins. Each time you land a new symbol on the grid, the number of respins resets to 3.

If you trigger the feature with 6 Scatters, you get the Lucky Wagon Spins feature with a Persistent Dwarf guaranteed on the first spin and 4 opened rows. While you spin the reels, the top row will carry carts filled with extras.

Enhancers include coin values, multipliers, dynamite, persistent dynamite, xHole, evil dwarf, and persistent dwarf. Dynamite can remove ice blocks or double the value of a free block carrying a prize. Persistent Dynamite does that as well but during every respin.

The persistent dwarf will collect all values from the area, while the evil dwarf triggers a golden spin which reactivates all the values on the grid. The xHole feature triggers the Frozen Wagon Spins feature and turns into a coin. This means that you get 3 respins where carts carry only coins. After that, the Lucky Wagon Spins feature resumes.

Collect chests are placed in ice blocks. If you use dynamite to release the collect chest, it will collect all values from the corresponding reel. Also, dynamite can activate buried features in ice blocks.

Nolimit Booster

Here, you can increase your bet and for different prices, you may get guaranteed Scatters on reel 2, guaranteed Scatters in 3+ ice blocks, or you can activate all frozen cells. For 7,000x the bet, you may activate the Golden Nugget feature, where you get to chase the max win.

Gamble Feature

If your base game win is at least 5x the bet, you can enter the Gamble feature. You spin the bottle to increase your win or to trigger the Lucky Wagon Spins feature.

Buy Bonus

You have several options for the Lucky Wagon Spins that you can buy for different prices. In my opinion, these options are very expensive and will rarely deliver more than you have paid for.