Fire in the Hole 3 Slot Review

Fire in the Hole 3 Overview

I have spent a lot of time with Fire in the Hole 3, the third instalment of this mining saga, and it feels like the wildest yet. The action takes place in a frozen tunnel where the dwarf now battles ice as well as rock. The game plays on 6 reels with 3 to 6 active rows and a Collapsing Mine mechanic that can open up to 46,656 ways to win.

Each spin starts with three rows open and extra rows unlock whenever wins, xBomb Wild explosions, Wild Mining or xHole triggers cause a collapse. It is an extreme volatility slot, rated ten out of ten in the official specs, so sessions can be harsh. On the flip side, the max win is a huge 70,000 times stake, which gives Fire in the Hole 3 very serious punch.

Fire in the Hole 3 Slot Details

When I load Fire in the Hole 3 I can stake from 0.20 a spin up to 100, although some sites restrict the top end in the UK. The layout always has six reels, but active rows and ways change as the Collapsing Mine opens up. You can have as few as 64 ways on a frozen start or reach 46,656 ways when all six rows are active.

RTP on Fire in the Hole 3 tops out at 96.05 percent, split roughly sixty three percent for the base game and thirty three point zero five percent for bonuses. There are also lower configurations at 95.33, 94.08 and 92.08 percent, so I always check the paytable. Hit frequency sits at about 22.18 percent, which works out at a win roughly every four and a half spins over time.

The volatility rating of ten out of ten is no joke here. Free spins, or Lucky Wagon Spins, hit on average once every 231 spins, and wins of at least one hundred times bet show up about once every 796 spins. The Fire in the Bowl max win of 70,000 times bet is possible but rare, with published odds around one in 14.3 million spins.

Theme, Audio + Symbols in Fire in the Hole 3

Theme wise, Fire in the Hole 3 moves the familiar mining setup into a harsher, icy setting. The entrance to the shaft is frozen solid, with snowdrifts, icicles and a couple of dwarves arguing over the loot and the whiskey. The soundtrack pounds along with drums, metal clanks and the odd mad cackle. It keeps the whole thing feeling like a battered, noisy machine grinding away underground.

On the reels in Fire in the Hole 3 you get wooden 10 to A royals for the low pays, then a cooked bird, oil lamp, vicious boots, gold filled wheelbarrow and whiskey bottle as premiums. Six of a kind premiums pay from 1.75 to 7.5 times bet. Special symbols bring most of the magic, with xBomb Wilds, xSplit, Win Multipliers, xHole, Bonus coins and a 2x2 Max symbol buried under the ice.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x7.5
	5	x4
	4	x2
	3	x0.75
	6	x3.75
	5	x2
	4	x0.75
	3	x0.5
	6	x2.5
	5	x1.5
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.45
	6	x2
	5	x1.25
	4	x0.55
	3	x0.4
	6	x1.75
	5	x1
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.35
	6	x1.5
	5	x0.8
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.3
	6	x1.25
	5	x0.7
	4	x0.35
	3	x0.25
	6	x1.1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1.05
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.3
	3	x0.2

Bonus Features in Fire in the Hole 3

Fire in the Hole 3 lifts most of its base game power from the Collapsing Mine and a pile of modifiers. Any win, xBomb Wild explosion, Wild Mining trigger or xHole event can cause a new collapse, opening extra rows. xBomb Wilds substitute and then explode, clearing adjacent symbols and raising a win multiplier. Wild Mining turns 3 to 6 matching symbols into up to four Wilds while blowing away symbols above the bar.

Ice Buried symbols in Fire in the Hole 3 hide Wilds, xSplit, Win Multipliers, xHole, Bonus coins or the Max symbol. They come alive when an xBomb blasts the ice or an xSplit cuts through. Win Multipliers in ice range from x2 up to x100 and stack on the current multiplier. The barrel shaped xHole sucks in pay symbols and spits them back as single, double or triple sized splits before another collapse.

The crossed pickaxes xSplit symbol cuts everything on its reel in two, apart from Bonus, other xSplit and xHole icons, then turns into a regular symbol. Three to six Bonus symbols take you to Lucky Wagon Spins where coins reset the spin counter and a top enhancer row drops in Coins, Multipliers, Dynamite, Persistent Dynamite, Persistent Dwarf, Evil Dwarf, xHole or Collect Chests. There is also a Gamble, Nolimit Booster and full Bonus Buy menu.

Bonus Buy Feature

Lucky Wagon Spins 1 The feature starts with 3 spins and will reset to 3 spins every time a coin lands in the reel area. All coin values are valued as times the active bet.
Feature Cost:	x60 Bet
RTP:	96.04%
Volatility:	-
Lucky Wagon Spins 2 The feature starts with 3 spins and will reset to 3 spins every time a coin lands in the reel area. All coin values are valued as times the active bet.
Feature Cost:	x200 Bet
RTP:	95.93%
Volatility:	-
Lucky Wagon Spins 3 The feature starts with 3 spins and will reset to 3 spins every time a coin lands in the reel area. All coin values are valued as times the active bet.
Feature Cost:	x500 Bet
RTP:	95.94%
Volatility:	-
Lucky Draw Bonus can be activated for 240 times the base bet.
Feature Cost:	x240 Bet
RTP:	95.95%
Volatility:	-
Guaranteed Dwarf Awards Lucky Wagon Spins with 6 Bonus symbols and a guaranteed persistent Dwarf.
Feature Cost:	x4000 Bet
RTP:	95.93%
Volatility:	-
Evil Dwarf Triggers a Golden Spin which reactivates all the coins on reel area. Coins will trigger their respective enhancers, boosting their existing values.
Feature Cost:	x700 Bet
RTP:	95.94%
Volatility:	-
Lucky Draw (Dwarf) Bonus can be activated for 2350 times the base bet.
Feature Cost:	x2350 Bet
RTP:	95.97%
Volatility:	-
God Mode Max Chase the Max Win (Fire in the Bowl) by landing guaranteed Max symbol in the ice block.
Feature Cost:	x7000 Bet
RTP:	95.99%
Volatility:	-

Fire in the Hole 3 Expert Verdict

For me, Fire in the Hole 3 feels like Nolimit City emptying the toolbox on one slot. The feature list is long, the maths model is savage and the betting menus tempt you into all sorts of high risk options, especially the Golden Nugget feature. When it connects, the mix of multipliers, enhancers and dwarves can throw up outrageous screens that justify the grind, as long as your bankroll can stand the swings.

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