Wicked Grin Slot Review — Hacksaw Gaming

This review is based on pre-release promotional material provided by Hacksaw Gaming. Details may change before or at launch on 8th October 2026. A full review will follow once the game is live.

Step into the world of black and white — beneath the wicked grin lie coins aplenty.

Hacksaw Gaming goes stark monochrome with Wicked Grin, a 5x5 All-Scatter drop slot built around Expanding Coin symbols that travel down the reels and detonate when they hit the bottom row. The visual identity is immediate and distinctive — black and white checkerboard, a grinning skull mascot, coin symbols carrying multiplier values visible on their face in the pre-release grid. The mechanic has a satisfying internal logic: coins drop, build momentum as they descend, and explode into a reel of special symbols on arrival. An Epic Expanding Coin variant chains the effect further, triggering every other Expanding Coin on the grid to expand simultaneously. At a 10,000x max win and medium volatility of 3 out of 5, Wicked Grin is a slot that earns its personality.

Core Gameplay

Wicked Grin runs on a 5x5 drop and All-Scatter grid, meaning symbols pay regardless of reel position rather than requiring alignment across fixed lines. Expanding Coin symbols land on the reels and drop downward with each spin, moving toward the bottom row. When an Expanding Coin reaches the bottom row it triggers its expansion, filling its entire reel with special symbols — the exact nature of which is not yet fully detailed, but multiplier-boosting and coin-type symbols are visible in pre-release material. Multiplier symbols that appear as part of the expansion boost the values of nearby Coin symbols rather than applying a global multiplier, creating a spatial dynamic where the position of a Multiplier relative to surrounding Coins determines how much it contributes to the total payout.

The Epic Expanding Coin is the mechanic's escalation trigger: when one reaches the bottom row and expands, it simultaneously causes every other Expanding Coin currently on the grid to expand as well — a chain reaction that can fire multiple reel fills at once if several Expanding Coins are in play simultaneously. The cascading visual of multiple reels expanding together represents the slot's standout moment and its primary path to larger base game wins.

Bonus Features

Two wicked bonus games are confirmed for Wicked Grin. Whether the Expanding Coin mechanic operates with enhanced travel speed, guaranteed Epic Expanding Coin triggers, or elevated special symbol quality inside the bonus rounds will be confirmed at launch. Notably there is no Hidden Epic Bonus™ listed here — just two standard bonus games, which is a slightly different structure from recent Hacksaw cluster releases.

Feature Access & Buy Options

Bonus buy availability has not been confirmed at this stage. Further detail will follow at launch.

Next Steps for This Review

At launch the review will be updated to cover confirmed RTP, the full bonus buy menu, what special symbols the Expanding Coin fills the reel with in practice, how multiplier proximity to Coin symbols is calculated, how frequently Epic Expanding Coins appear relative to standard ones, and the structural differences between the two wicked bonus games. A final score and full gameplay analysis will follow once hands-on time with the game is available.

Full gameplay analysis and a final score will follow the launch.