World Football Fortunes win spins and wild spins: the guaranteed tiers
The upper two rounds of World Football Fortunes share one promise and differ by one rule. Both give seven spins in which every spin produces a win; the higher of the two also keeps each wild where it lands for the rest of the round.
Short answers, before the long ones
What a guaranteed win is, and what it is not
It is a statement about how often, never about how much.
In both of these rounds every one of the seven spins produces a paying combination. That removes the dead spin, and removing the dead spin is a real change to how a round feels. It does not change the value of the combinations that land.
The published ceiling is the clearest way to see this. The maximum result stays at 2,830 times the base stake in these rounds exactly as in the base game, so seven guaranteed wins are seven results drawn from underneath the same cap as everything else.
The orange badges, and when they can land
Only on the final free spin, and only across reels one, three and five.
Three Win Spins badges on the trigger line during the seventh free spin end that round and award seven Win Spins in its place. On any of the first six free spins the same three badges do nothing: the promotion is tied to the last spin, not to the round in general.
That is also why this round cannot be reached from the base game at any price. A base spin has no seventh-spin position to put the badges on.
Seven outcomes, all of them paying
The counter resets to seven and the rule book gains one line.
A Win Spins round is seven spins long, the same as the round it replaced, and it keeps the chance of wild symbols that round had. What it adds is the guarantee, applied spin by spin rather than to the round as a whole.
The seventh of those spins has the same job the seventh free spin had: it is the only position from which the game can be promoted again.
Three gold badges, and the top of the ladder
Two promotions deep, and there is nothing above it.
Three Wild Spins badges on reels one, three and five during the final Win Spin open seven Wild Spins. Reaching that point means two separate seventh-spin events have gone the player's way in the same bonus, which is why the round is the rarest state the game has.
It is also the last. The seventh Wild Spin promotes nothing, and the published maximum of twenty-one bonus spins is exactly these three sets of seven.
Wilds that do not move once they land
Persistence is the whole of the difference between the two guaranteed rounds.
Any wild appearing during Wild Spins stays in its position for the remainder of the round. Over seven spins that can build into a set of fixed positions, each one working on every later spin rather than on the spin it arrived in.
Combined with the guarantee inherited from the round below, that is the strongest configuration published for this title, and it still sits under the same cap as a single base spin.
Neither tier is for sale
The listed entry option buys the bottom rung. These two are not offered at any price.
Where the paid entry exists it guarantees the three green badges and the opening round. Both promotions above it still have to happen on their own seventh spins, so a purchase shortens the wait for the ladder without shortening the ladder.
On a British account the question is narrower still, because the regulator told the operators it licenses not to offer products with feature buy-ins to British customers. That account of its position is set out on the paid entry page, along with how firm a source stands behind it.
Where the figures do and do not change
The return and the ceiling describe the whole game, these rounds included.
Red Tiger publishes one return for this title and one maximum win, and both cover base play, the entry option and all three bonus rounds together. No separate figure is published for the guaranteed rounds, and none is invented here.
There is one case where the numbers genuinely are different, and it is a different product: the same name is also sold as a jackpot build on its own address, with its own return, its own line count and a cash top prize instead of a multiple of the stake. Those figures are on the figures page, kept apart from these.
Questions about the guaranteed rounds
What does a guaranteed win actually guarantee?
That the spin produces a paying combination. It says nothing about the size of it, and the smallest paying combination on the grid satisfies the rule exactly as well as the largest.
How do Win Spins begin?
Three Win Spins badges on reels one, three and five during the final free spin. They cannot be triggered from the base game and they cannot be bought.
How do Wild Spins begin?
Three Wild Spins badges on reels one, three and five during the final Win Spin. That makes them two promotions away from the base game.
What do Wild Spins add to Win Spins?
Persistence. The guarantee carries over, and any wild that lands is locked in place for the rest of the round, so positions accumulate across the seven spins.
Does the maximum win rise in the later rounds?
No. The ceiling is 2,830 times the base stake for the whole game, and it is the same whether the bonus stopped after the first round or ran through all three.
The round these two are entered from is on the opening round page, the shape of the whole ladder is on the ladder, and every published number with its source is on the figures.