Wicked Grin Slot Preview: Something to Smile About

by Kevin Lentz 15.09.2026

Wicked Grin by Hacksaw Gaming flashes its pearly whites on October 8, 2026. This wistfully strange 5×5 slot stars Boney Bill, a cartoon skeleton with an unsettling smile, expanding reels and two Free Spins features, with top wins reaching 10,000x.

Boney Bill brings an old-school cartoon nightmare to life

Wicked Grin in Brief:

• Release Date: 08 October 2026
• Type: Video Slot
• Theme: Cartoon/Horror/Retro
• Software Studio: Hacksaw Gaming
• RTP: 96.27%
• Volatility: Medium
• Special Features: Cascades, Expanding Reels, Multipliers
• Bonus Rounds: Stash N Stack, Coin Craze
• How to Trigger Bonus Round: Land a Scatter or Super Scatter on bottom row

The star of Wicked Grin is Boney Bill, and if Bill looks a little familiar, we suppose he may have spent the last 80 years decaying under a steamboat with his brother Willie. Bill has settled into this skeletal form in what one must assume is good-natured joviality, as he is indeed perpetually grinning.

On the brighter side, behind the delightfully creepy artwork is a pretty approachable and entertaining Hacksaw slot, and the medium volatility paired with a larger 10,000x top payout is also a welcome surprise.

Full Rules & Information About the Wicked Grin Online Slot

Wicked Grin uses Scatter Pays, so no reason to worry about paylines. Six or more matching symbols anywhere on the 5×5 grid create a win, and then the cascade feature comes into effect, with winning symbols disappearing and new ones falling into their places.

The real fun begins when we land a Wicked Grin or Epic Wicked Grin Symbol along the bottom row. They will expand and turn all symbols along that reel into either coins or a multiplier. There are bronze, silver, gold and diamond coins. Bronze coins have a value from 1x to 4x, while diamond coins can have values from 100x to 500x.

The multipliers can range anywhere from 2x to 20x, and can increase coin values above them and on adjacent reels, so you can see the potential of these smiling symbols.

Wicked Grin Symbols & Payouts

The regular symbols seem appropriately old-school for such a retro-feel slot, and you’ll find clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades right along with cherries, grapes, watermelon, bells and even lucky 7s. They’re much the same symbols you might have found on the slot machines back in 1929 when the Karnival Kid first hit theaters.

Retro fruit and card suits fill the reels.

• All symbols: 9
• Highest-Paying Symbol: Lucky 7
• Wilds: None
• Paylines Pay: Scatter Pays
• Maximum Win: 10,000x

Wicked Grin Bonuses & Features

Red FS and Gold Super FS scatter symbols also play an important role here, as they expand when they reach the bottom row. Then each of these positions reveals one, two or even three free spins, and their values are added together to determine your win.

The Red FS symbol triggers the Stash N Stack game where you will find a multiplier above each reel. Every Wicked Grin you land multiplies the coins on that reel and increases its Stash multiplier by one.

The Super FS symbols will get you into the Coin Craze bonus game instead. Here, collectors set above the reels save the coin values throughout the whole bonus game, and the multipliers can increase both current coins and previously collected values. You can be awarded anywhere from five to 30 free spins.

Grinny FeatureSpins are yours for just 50X your bet.

Hacksaw seldom lets a good opportunity for a bonus buy feature go to waste, so you can elect to pay 3x your bet for BonusHunt FeatureSpins. 80x will buy you right into the Stash N Stack game, while a mere 200x will put you directly into Coin Craze.

Similar Games & Best Alternatives

Hacksaw has an entire catalog full of creepy games that put the slightly off-putting smiling skeletal mouse here to shame. Dark Spiral comes immediately to mind, as does one of their other newer offerings, Rotten, which will definitely have you sleeping with the light on tonight.

Memento Mori

To be honest, Wicked Grin grew on us. We weren’t sure at first, but the artwork is fantastic, the central mechanic is easy to understand once you see it in action a couple times, and the Stash N Stack and Coin Craze provide two pretty different ways of building out bigger wins in the bonus games.

It may come across as a bit too retro and stripped down at first, but old Boney Bill still has some tricks up his sleeve, though not much else, so give it a go and see if you don’t find it at least slightly humorous.