Penny Pelican Slot Review

Penny Pelican’s feature design turns a limited set of reel positions into the main source of bonus progression. Three Bonus symbols on reels one, three, and five trigger Fortune’s Wheel, which selects nine to eighteen Free Spins. During the round, multiplier Wilds on reels two through four become sticky, remaining in place to the end. Their values can add when more than one contributes to a winning combination, making position persistence and multiplier arithmetic the key details to follow.

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Penny Pelican at a glance

Provider	BGaming
Genre / theme	Animals
Game type	Video slot
Reels / grid	5 reels × 3 rows
Reference RTP	95.98%
Volatility	Very high
Payout mechanic	20 paylines
Maximum win	€246,750; ×3,525 maximum multiplier the bet
Release date	18 May 2022
Main features	3 Bonus on reels 1/3/5 trigger 9–18 Wheel-selected Free Spins with no retrigger. Wilds on reels 2–4 carry random ×2/×3, sum when multiple join a win, and stay sticky during Free Spins.

RTP and stake limits can vary by version and market. Check the information screen in the game you open. Maximum win is a ceiling, not an expected result.

A compact five-reel, twenty-line base game

The official overview describes Penny Pelican as a 5×3 slot with 20 paylines and 13 symbols. Wilds appear only on reels two, three, and four and substitute for all symbols except Bonus symbols. Each Wild receives a random ×2 or ×3 multiplier, applied to each win line in which it participates. If a winning combination contains more than one Wild, their multipliers are summed. For example, a line involving a ×2 Wild and a ×3 Wild uses their stated sum, ×5; the source does not say to multiply those Wild values together.

Three Bonus symbols on reels one, three, and five trigger Free Spins. Fortune’s Wheel then randomly chooses nine to eighteen spins. The rules explicitly say the feature cannot retrigger, so the round has a defined initial award and no documented way to add more spins after it starts. This makes the bonus progression about the Wilds already on the grid, rather than accumulating another spin counter. Buy Bonus offers a paid route into Free Spins at a displayed price adjusted when the bet increases, and is unavailable during the bonus round.

Sticky positions change the value of later wins

During Free Spins, all multiplier Wilds on reels two through four become sticky and remain in their positions until the feature ends. A later spin can therefore encounter a Wild that was placed on an earlier one, preserving its location and ×2 or ×3 value. If multiple Wilds participate in a line, the listed rule sums their multipliers. This combination of persistence and addition is the game’s clearest interaction: an unchanged position can contribute again, but only when it is part of a winning line. The source does not clarify whether sticky Wilds are re-evaluated or replaced when another Wild lands on an occupied position, so no replacement behavior is assumed.

The game is classified Very high volatility. That label does not indicate the probability of receiving the fixed Scatter pattern, which Fortune’s Wheel result occurs, or how often sticky Wild positions contribute to wins. The feature does provide useful boundaries: nine to eighteen initial spins, no retriggers, Wilds restricted to three reels, and persistence only through the current Free Spins round. These constraints make the described sequence relatively easy to track even though its probabilities remain unknown.

Published settings

BGaming lists 95.98% RTP, Very high volatility, maximum win €246,750, and maximum multiplier ×3,525 for Penny Pelican. The release date is May 18, 2022. The listed grid is 5×3 with 20 paylines. Multiplier Wilds can sum when they share a winning combination, but the listing does not give the odds of Wild values or Wheel outcomes. The maximum win and multiplier are distinct published fields, and the rules provide no conversion formula between them.

Strengths and weak points

Strengths

The Wild rule explains both where multipliers appear and how multiple values add, while the bonus fixes its trigger, spin range, reel positions, and no-retrigger limit.

Weaknesses

The feature cannot retrigger, and the rules do not describe what happens when another Wild lands on an occupied sticky position or give Wheel probabilities.

Our Editor’s View

Penny Pelican has a focused bonus structure: a specific three-reel Scatter arrangement starts a Wheel-selected block of Free Spins, and Wilds on the middle reels remain fixed for that block. The additive ×2 and ×3 rule gives a clear way to read a line containing multiple Wilds, while the fixed reel positions and no-retrigger condition set firm limits on how the feature develops. The missing probabilities still matter, as does the unaddressed case of a new Wild landing where a sticky Wild already sits. Players who like tracking persistent positions and straightforward multiplier addition can understand the central loop; those who want a fully described feature state or frequency model will find the public rules incomplete.