William Tell and The Wild Arrows Hold and Win

William Tell and The Wild Arrows Review

The reviewer knew William Tell for his apple-shooting feat. He was also instrumental in establishing the Swiss Confederacy. This release comes with cartoonish visuals and somewhat innovative features. The Split Zone in the Hold & Win bonus is original. You also benefit from 2 random base game modifiers, and the 535x potential is okay for a low to medium volatile game.

William Tell and The Wild Arrows Features

The premium symbols pay between 6 and 16 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and William Tell is the top-tier symbol. You can land wild symbols on all reels. There are base game modifiers, in addition to the Hold & Win round.

The William’s Wild Arrow can trigger at random times, and this turns up to 5 random symbols wild. The Gessler’s Greed feature can trigger at the start of any spin, and this removes all low-value royal symbols.

You need at least 5 Respin symbols to trigger the Hold & Win Bonus Round, and the triggering symbols become sticky. The triggering symbols come with random cash prizes worth 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 50x, or 100x your stake, and you start with 3 respins. Landing new sticky cash prize symbols resets the respins tally to 3.

Arrows can hit empty positions at random times, and this divides the position into 4 positions. The feature is called Split Zone, and it gives you more positions to land cash prize symbols. The arrows can also hit cash prize symbols, and this splits the symbol into 4 symbols of the same value.

Hitting a cash prize symbol with an arrow counts as a win, and this also resets the respins tally to 3. This does not happen when an empty position is split, and you can also land Special Prize symbols of higher value. These are the Minor, Major, and Grand prizes, and they are worth 20x, 50x, or 100x your stake, respectively.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the Hold & Win Bonus for 60x the stake. This gives you a higher RTP of 96.4 %, and the feature has a hit rate of 1 in 171 spins on average.

Review Summary

William Tell is famous for shooting an apple off the head of his own son. You get plenty of shooting arrows though, and the 2 base game modifiers does help to keep the game interesting. They have tried to do something a bit more original.

We enjoyed the Split Zone feature you get in this game. It adds randomness to a bonus round, but the 100x top prize isn’t all that impressive. The same can be said about the overall 535x potential, but this is a low to medium volatility game.