Spinomenal Brings Slavic Folklore to New Slot Baba Yaga's Rising

Spinomenal has added a new Slavic-themed game to its folklore series. The 5x3 reel Baba Yaga's Rising has 50 paylines and is presented with a dark forest theme. Baba Yaga acts as a wild symbol, substituting for all symbols except the bonus symbol. When five Baba Yaga symbols line up on a payline, it pays 1000 times the bet per line. Among the mid-tier symbols, Rusalka pays 500 times the bet for five of them.

The base game has one more feature. If any part of a stacked wild symbol lands on the middle reel, Stacked Wild Rising starts. Three-row-high wild symbols rise one row on each respin until they cover the entire grid. The position where the wild first landed determines how many respins the round lasts. The number of respins can range from one to five.

The bonus symbol appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and only in the base game. Three bonus symbols trigger the Free Spins feature, and the player enters a mode of either 5 or 10 spins. The feature consists of four stages on a map, and each trigger moves the player to the next stage. In the Winning Symbols Re-Spin round, which begins with Morozko, each new win stays in place, other symbols are cleared and refilled, and respins continue until no new win appears. Only the final respin pays out.

In Hut mode, Shifting Wild comes into play. The wild starts on the first reel and shifts one reel to the right after every losing spin. If a win occurs, the wild stays in place and a respin is triggered. When the Dragon lands with Expanding Wilds, it turns its own stacked symbol into a wild that covers the full reel, and no other wild symbols appear during that round. Rusalka completes the map with Extra Wilds. A sticky wild that settles on the second row of the middle reel stays in place for the rest of the mode, and on the spin, between two and six single wild symbols scatter across the reels. If five wild symbols line up on a payline in any of these rounds, it pays 1000 times the bet per line.

Spinomenal co-CEO Omer Henya said Baba Yaga has been one of the company's most beloved characters for years. Henya said the wild symbol takes on the heavy lifting in the game, and that the rising wild symbol gives players a goal among the bonuses.