Wicked Grin

Wicked Grin Review

Wicked Grin is a black-and-white Hacksaw Gaming slot released on October 8, 2026, which puts it among the newest slots in Canada. We played it for real money and checked every figure on this page against the in-game rules and Hacksaw Gaming’s game page on October 29, 2026.

It’s a 5×5 grid of old-school fruits, bells, 7s and card suits, where 6 or more matching symbols anywhere pay. The twist is the grinning skull: when a Wicked Grin lands on the bottom row, it turns its whole reel into coins worth up to 500x or multipliers up to x20. The max win is 10,000x, and two bonus games and a four-option buy menu sit on top.

OPINION: A grim little cartoon with a grin

I really like it. It’s a grim, grey slot with classic symbols of fruit and numbers, but the tones are playful. The intro looks like the opening of an old Looney Tunes cartoon, which I think was done on purpose, since the Wicked Grin itself is a skeleton.

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Wicked Grin’s symbols and payouts

Wicked Grin uses a 5×5 grid with what Hacksaw calls all-scatter wins. You need 6 or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid, and winning symbols drop away so new ones can tumble in.

Game symbols

The low-paying symbols are the four card suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. The premium set is a classic fruit machine line-up of grapes, watermelons, bells, cherries and a blue 7, which pays the most.

The special symbols are:

• Wicked Grin and Epic Wicked Grin: Expand on the bottom row and turn the reel into coins or a multiplier
• Coins: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond, each paid as a multiple of your bet
• Multipliers: x2 to x20, boosting the coins above them and on neighbouring reels
• FS and Super FS scatters: Spread up the reel from the bottom row and trigger the two bonus games

Number of paylines

There are no paylines. Any 6 or more matching symbols win wherever they sit on the grid, and only one type of Wicked Grin symbol can land on a reel at a time.

Payouts

Six card suits pay a tenth of your bet, and even 11 or 12 of them only return your stake. The big jump comes at 17 symbols, where every payout multiplies by five.

Min/max bet

Wicked Grin takes bets from $0.10 to $50 per spin. Feature buys can go beyond that, and the top buy costs $10,000 at the max bet.

Maximum win

The max win is 10,000x your bet, or $500,000 at the $50 max bet. The rules say it’s achievable in all game modes. If you hit it, the round ends straight away and any remaining free spins are discarded.

RTP and volatility

Hacksaw Gaming lists four RTP versions: 96.27%, 94.32%, 92.28% and 86.28%. The casino where we played runs the 94.32% version, as the info screen shows. The buy options pay between 94.24% and 94.41%.

Hacksaw rates the volatility 3 out of 5, so the base game sits in the middle. The buy menu is a different story: every option is labelled high, and BonusHunt FeatureSpins very high.

What happened when we played for real money

We played Wicked Grin for real money on Super Turbo, with stakes from the $0.10 minimum up to $1 per spin. Raising the stake scales the wins, but it doesn’t change the odds. The opening spins paid tiny amounts, 2 cents here and 7 cents there, and five or six spins in, none of them had covered the stake.

The first proper string came when four or five cluster wins tumbled in together for about 19 cents. Soon after, a multiplier pushed one win to 90 cents. The highlight was a spin with different multipliers spread across a reel, which paid enough to fund another 20 to 30 spins. After that, the game went back to strings of small wins, one of them five tumbles long for 18 cents. The bonus didn’t land in our session.

OPINION: Breaking even takes patience

Breaking even is not that common or frequent, so you have to be careful about that. But there are some strings of wins to be had, and the spin with the multipliers across the reel was a cool one. I played on Super Turbo, and the reels spin really quickly, but in my opinion, they could still be faster.

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Wicked Grin’s slot special features

We saw tumbles, multiplier hits and an expanded reel in play. The bonus games and buys below are based on the game rules, since we didn’t trigger or buy a bonus.

Expanding Wicked Grin coins

When a Wicked Grin or Epic Wicked Grin lands on the bottom row, it expands once the wins are paid and turns every symbol on its reel into a coin or a multiplier. Coins start at these values:

• Bronze: 1x, 2x, 3x or 4x your bet
• Silver: 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x or 9x
• Gold: 10x, 20x, 30x, 40x or 50x
• Diamond: 100x, 150x, 250x or 500x

A multiplier (x2, x3, x4, x5, x10 or x20) adds its value to every coin above it and to the coins on the neighbouring reels in the rows above. Several multipliers add up, one at a time, left to right and top to bottom. They can’t appear on the top row.

The Epic Wicked Grin goes further. When it expands, every other Wicked Grin symbol on the grid expands too, from wherever it landed.

Spreading FS symbols

An FS or Super FS scatter on the bottom row expands up its whole reel after the wins are paid. Each position it covers shows 1, 2 or 3 free spins, and the total is your number of free spins. FS and Super FS can’t share the grid, there are never more than two of them, and they can’t land alongside a Wicked Grin.

Bonus games

In both bonuses, each new expanding FS or Super FS adds 5 to 15 free spins, up to 30 extra in total. In Coin Craze, multipliers also boost the saved collector values on their reel and the neighbouring ones, and all collectors pay out together at the end.

Bonus buy

The buy menu has two FeatureSpins modes and two bonus buys. The prices match what we saw at the minimum bet.

At the $50 max bet, those prices become $150, $2,500, $4,000 and $10,000. Coin Craze costs 200x, not the 250x quoted in some early coverage, and the 10,000x max win is 50 times its price.

The FeatureSpins need care. They stay on until you press Disable, so Grinny FeatureSpins keeps taking 50x your bet every spin. Grinny also blocks the FS scatters, so it can’t trigger a bonus. More games with a buy option are on our bonus buy slots page.

Wicked Grin’s graphics and sound

Wicked Grin looks like a 1930s rubber-hose cartoon. Everything is black, white and grey apart from the fruits and the skeleton’s red eyes, and the background is a set of spinning rings that recall an old cartoon intro. A grinning skeleton in gloves and red shorts stands beside the grid, and the rules hint that Boney Bill, the villain, has a few tricks up his sleeve.

Wicked Grin’s mobile experience

Wicked Grin loads quickly on a phone, and in portrait mode the grid is the largest of the three slots we tested on mobile, Le Bandit and Sugar Rush 1000 included. The 5×5 layout fills the width of the screen, and the skeleton sits below it next to the controls.

The menus and info tabs open cleanly on a small screen, and the gameplay matches the desktop version. On the casino’s mobile site, the back button returns you to where you were before, and a search button at the bottom lets you switch games. Opening another game ends the current session, though, since the casino doesn’t allow several game windows at once.

OPINION: The best fit for a phone

Loading time is pretty quick, and the grid is even larger than in the other two, which is cool. All the tabs, when you open them, are far better than in the others, and the gameplay is the same as on desktop. When you go back, it takes you to where you were playing before.

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Wicked Grin’s pros and cons

Best online casinos to play Wicked Grin in Canada

Goldex Casino, Betninja and SpinEmpire are three good options for Canadian players. For a wider choice, see our best slot sites in Canada.

1. Goldex Casino: Major and niche studios side by side, Hacksaw Gaming among them, plus live tables and scratch cards.
2. Betninja: A library of 2,500+ games, neatly sorted into sections like Recommended and New Games.
3. SpinEmpire: Over 3,500 games from more than 130 providers, including Relax Gaming, Play’n GO and Push Gaming.

Solutions if you have issues with Wicked Grin

1. Start the game again after a drop-out. An interrupted round picks up where it left off when you relaunch. If you don’t, a round that needs no input from you is settled and credited after one day.
2. Open History to check a round. Completed rounds are listed in History in the game menu, while unfinished ones only appear once they’re completed.
3. Switch off FeatureSpins. If your balance is falling faster than expected, check the buy menu. BonusHunt and Grinny FeatureSpins keep charging 3x or 50x per spin until you press Disable.

Grins are free, the coins aren’t

Wicked Grin is one of Hacksaw’s more original looks, and the expanding skulls give the base game a reason to watch the bottom row. Coins up to 500x and stacking multipliers mean one reel can turn a quiet session around. However, the version we played runs the 94.32% version, small wins rarely cover the stake, and the FeatureSpins will keep charging until you switch them off.

Our final grade: 85/100.

Other slots to play if you like Wicked Grin

• Epic SixSixSix: Another cartoon Hacksaw release with a darker theme and a 20,666x max win
• Le Vampire: Hacksaw’s gothic cluster slot from $0.05 a spin
• Le Bandit: Hacksaw’s raccoon heist, with coins up to 500x and three bonus tiers

Author

Djordje Bogdanovic Market Operations Manager

Djordje Bogdanovic is an iGaming writer and editor with eight years of experience and a degree in English Language and Literature. His reviews combine firsthand casino testing, a player’s perspective, and a strong focus on responsible gambling. Outside work, he enjoys snowboarding and CrossFit.

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