World Football Fortunes features: one rule, used three times
Everything this Red Tiger slot does in its bonus comes from a single rule applied three times over, with a different badge and a different promise each time. Learn the rule once and the whole ladder follows from it.
Short answers, before the long ones
A ladder with three rule sets
Three rounds, seven spins each, and no way to skip a rung.
The ladder is strictly sequential. The free spins come first, the guaranteed-win round can only be reached from the last free spin, and the locked-wild round only from the last guaranteed spin. Nothing in the game offers a direct route to the second or third rung, which is also why the paid entry, where it is offered at all, buys the bottom of the ladder and not a place further up it.
That design keeps the arithmetic simple. Each rung adds one rule to the one below rather than replacing it, so a reader who understands the opening round already understands two-thirds of the second and most of the third.
Five reels, three rows, and the positions that matter
The grid is fixed. Only three of its five columns ever carry a trigger.
Five reels and three rows stay in place for the whole session. Catalogues count ten fixed paylines across that grid; the studio states the grid and leaves the line count to them. Either way the shape never moves, which is what makes the trigger pattern readable: a badge on reel one, a badge on reel three and a badge on reel five, with reels two and four in between holding ordinary symbols.
Because the three positions are always the same three, a player watching the reels is watching the same three columns in every stage. Only the colour of the thing they are waiting for changes.
The opening round and its one extra chance
Seven spins, plus the possibility of wild symbols that the base game does not promise.
Three green badges on the trigger line award seven free spins. The round carries a chance of wild symbols, which is the one thing it adds over a plain repeat of the base reels: there is no multiplier ladder here, no collection meter and no symbol upgrade.
That restraint is deliberate on the studio's part. The opening round is a qualifying round as much as a prize, and the thing it is qualifying for is the seventh spin.
Every seventh spin is the decision point
The last spin of a round is the only spin that can promote it.
On the seventh free spin, three orange badges across reels one, three and five end the round by replacing it with seven Win Spins. On the seventh Win Spin, three gold badges do the same thing again and open seven Wild Spins. A round that reaches its seventh spin without them simply finishes.
The studio describes this as a retrigger with an upgrade attached rather than as three separate bonuses, and that is the more useful way to hold it: the counter resets to seven, and the rule book gains a line.
Guaranteed wins, and the limit of a guarantee
Every spin of the second and third rounds pays something. Nothing says how much.
Win Spins and Wild Spins both carry the same promise: each of the seven outcomes produces a win. A guaranteed win is a statement about frequency, not about size, and the smallest paying combination on the grid satisfies it exactly as well as the largest.
The published ceiling makes the same point from the other end. A result is capped at 2,830 times the base stake no matter which rung produced it, so a run of seven guaranteed wins is a run of seven results underneath that same cap.
Wilds that stay where they land
The third round adds persistence, and that is its whole addition.
In Wild Spins a wild that appears is locked in position for the remainder of the round, so positions accumulate across the seven outcomes rather than resetting each spin. Added to the guarantee the round inherits from the rung below, it is the strongest state the game has.
It is also the shortest-lived. Seven spins is seven spins at the top of the ladder as well as at the bottom, and there is no fourth rung for the seventh of them to unlock.
What the hundred-times entry does not buy
It guarantees the three green badges. It guarantees nothing orange and nothing gold.
Where the entry option is offered, the studio prices it at a hundred times the stake and describes it as buying the free spins. It places the three opening badges and starts the bottom rung; both promotions above it still have to happen on their own seventh spins.
Our own source for this site adds the figure that goes with it: the whole-game return stays listed at 95.73% with the option in the picture. Two review sites print a second return figure and disagree with each other about why, which is set out in full on the figures page rather than guessed at here.
Questions about the ladder
How many separate features does the game have?
Three, and they are the same feature promoted twice. Each is seven spins long and each is entered by three badges landing on reels one, three and five.
Can a later stage be reached without the earlier one?
No. Win Spins can only begin on the last Free Spin and Wild Spins only on the last Win Spin, so the order is fixed even when the opening round has been paid for.
What do the badge colours mean?
Green badges open the free spins, orange badges promote the round to guaranteed wins, and gold badges promote it again to guaranteed wins with locked wilds. The colour is the only way to tell at a glance which stage a trigger belongs to.
Do the reels change shape during a feature?
No. The grid stays at five reels and three rows from the first base spin to the last bonus spin. What changes between stages is the rule applied to the result, not the geometry.
What is the longest the bonus can run?
Twenty-one spins: seven free spins, seven Win Spins and seven Wild Spins, each set unlocked by the last spin of the one before it.
Each rung has a page of its own: the opening round, the two guaranteed tiers, and the paid entry that starts the first of them. The numbers behind all three are on the figures page.