Barcrest’s neon fruit cab with Wilds locked to reels 2-3 and a Multiplier Wheel that stacks when twins drop. Big Bet 27-ways or skip?
Wild Times is one of those Barcrest classics that looks like it walked straight off a 1990s Vegas casino floor and then got dunked in neon paint. The 3×3 cabinet sits inside a glowing red-orange tube frame, the perspective grid floor stretches off into a deep crimson horizon, and the chrome Wild Times logo arches over the top like a diner sign. Cherries, lemons, plums, that green watermelon, a gold BAR and two five-pointed stars (blue on blue, red on red) handle the spinning. No story, no characters, no mythology. Just fruit, lights, and a wheel that fires when things go right.
The base game runs on 5 paylines with a strict left-to-right rule, leftmost reel only. Stakes start at $0.10 and stretch up to $500 a spin, which is a fairly aggressive ceiling for what looks like a casual fruit cab. The catch (and it is the catch that makes Wild Times tick) is that Wilds only land on reels 2 and 3. Reel one will never give you one. That single design choice rewires how you read the screen. Every time a Wild helps form a win, it spins its own small Multiplier Wheel and lands on x3, x4, x5 or x6, lifting that line by the chosen figure.
The real trigger to chase, though, is two Wilds dropping on the same payline across reels 2 and 3. That’s the Super Wild Win. Both wheels spin, both pick a multiplier, and the two results get multiplied together into one combined figure before being applied to the line. Because Wilds are restricted to those middle and right reels, a twin-Wild combo is literally the ceiling on the base game. You won’t ever see a three-Wild stack here. That makes the game oddly tactical for a fruit cab, every two-Wild moment is the top of the mountain.
Now the honest part. The default RTP sits at 94.00%, which is genuinely low for a 2026 player to swallow. There are no free spins, no scatter symbol, no bonus round to break things up. The multiplier wheel is the entire feature set. If you want the 96% number, you’ll need to be served the higher-stake configuration, and the only player-facing route to the upper tier of the maths is Big Bet. Big Bet is a paid premium mode where you buy a block of 5 spins at 10, 15, 20 or 25 a pop. The 5 paylines vanish and the cabinet pays 27 ways instead, and the wheel multipliers climb with each tier (base x2-x5, then x3-x6, then x4-x8, topping out at x5-x10). All 5 spin wins are held back and paid together at the very end.
That delayed-payout rhythm is divisive. A quiet first four spins can still settle into a fat number on spin five if the wheels behave. The cash cap sits at $250,000, well out of reach without that Big Bet path doing the heavy lifting. Is the package enough in a world full of bonus-buy chaos? For purists who actually like a stripped-back cab with one mechanic done well, yes. For everyone else, the lack of free spins will probably be the deal-breaker before the RTP even comes up.
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