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If you’re just trying to land a mini or a mini-minor combo, which is the most common type of combo play to go for, it’s still a volatile game, but at least you usually finish before too much bloodshed (sometimes 300x your bet). When you start going for minor-major combos (500x) or, gasp, solo majors (1,500x at least), you can really get hurt.

Here’s what Wolf Run Eclipse looks like (Cats Wild Serengeti looks the same, just with cats):

For this game, you can completely ignore the green mega. I’ve seen it hit twice in my life, so suffice to say, you’ll go broke chasing it. This is often a game where you’d play combos, as referenced earlier, but if you’re solo-chasing a mini, minor, or major, you want the following numbers for each: mini (24 or higher), minor (27 or higher), major (45 or higher).

I also play a mini-minor combo if the two add up to around 40. So if it’s a 19 mini with a 21 minor, I play that and leave after hitting either. You can also play mini-major combos and minor-major combos if they start approaching 55 or higher. Just make sure you leave after hitting one part of the combo and more times than not, it won’t be the major you’re landing.

In the photo above, it’s hard to read all the numbers on the small board below the main screen, but you can clearly see the minor 27 on an $8 bet is worth playing. Playing $8 per spin is a big bet on this game and as I outlined above for a minor chase, I want about 500 times my bet, so $4,000 in this case. That’s not to say I rip through $4K often on a bet like that, but you always want to prepare for a bad run on a game you know could be volatile.

You can get some nice line hits before the bonus to help keep you afloat, but you’re really playing for the bonus.

To get one, you need two bonus symbols plus a wheel or two bonus symbols plus a color (mini, minor, major, mega). When you spin the wheel, you’re not guaranteed a color at any bet, as you can also land on “five free games.” That can be crushing when you’re buried on a huge bet.

Sometimes wolves start howling before a bonus, although sometimes the howling just indicates a nice line hit and no bonus. And of course, the wolves can howl, you get a wheel, and you still just land on five free games instead of a color. Either way, wolves howling = good sound. With Cats Wild Serengeti, the equivalent is cats roaring. Here’s what that game looks like:

When you land on the mini, you’re guaranteed at least one wild column each spin. The minor guarantees at least two wild columns each spin. The major and mega guarantee at least three wild columns each spin.

As you might expect, you’re still occasionally dead-spinning in the bonus when the wild columns are uselessly activated on the far right, but comforting about this bonus as opposed to volatile games we’ll get to soon — looking at you, Buffalo Diamond — is that the bonus usually pays something substantial, especially if you hit the minor or major.

Here are my videos for these games: