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Nolimit City · 2021 · xBomb / expanding grid

Fire in the Hole xBomb on a phone

PORTRAIT ✓ 0.8 s TO PLAYABLE TIGHT BUTTONS FREE DEMO

Portrait is fine here, which puts it in the 202 out of 306 that manage it. Load sits at 0.8 s.

The phone check

Yes HOLDS PORTRAIT 202 of 306 do
0.8 s TO PLAYABLE Under the 2.1 s median
Tight buttons TOUCH TARGETS tight in portrait
4 TAPS FROM THE LOBBY Search box to a spinning board

Upright, the spin button shrinks and the bet stepper crowds it. A wide thumb hits the wrong one. The demo pulls about 5 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 0.8 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.

This title ships in more than one return build

Nolimit City licenses 2 configurations of Fire in the Hole xBomb. The spread from top to bottom is 3.02 points, which is about C$30 in expected cost per C$1,000 staked. Same reels, same features, different maths.

ConfigurationReturnHouse edge Cost per C$1,000 vs the top build
Highest build the studio licenses 96.06% 3.94% baseline
Lowest build 93.04% 6.96% C$30

How to see which one you are on, in three taps

  1. Open the demo and tap the burger or the ⓘ in the game's own toolbar, not the casino's.
  2. Scroll the info panel to the bottom. The return figure is printed in the rules footer.
  3. Compare it to the table above. If it is not the top row, that is the build you are being served.

123 of the 306 titles on this board carry more than one build, so this is worth doing once per game rather than once ever.

Where it sits on the board

That puts it 65 of 306 on our phone score, which weighs orientation first, then how long you wait, then whether the buttons are a sensible size. Against a board median of 2.1 s that is 1.3 s of your life back per session.

Across the 32 Nolimit City titles here the median is 1.8 s and 24 render upright.

What the game is

6x3-6, xBomb / expanding grid, Nolimit City, 2021. Mining slot where xBomb wilds explode to expand rows and increase ways, with a famous 60,000x maximum win.

Very high volatility. A short session tells you nothing, which is arithmetic rather than a criticism. C$0.20 a spin, so twenty dollars runs to roughly 100 of them. Ceiling is 60,000x and it is not going to happen to you.

The rest of it

StudioNolimit City
Released2021
Board6x3-6
MechanicxBomb / expanding grid
VolatilityVery high
Top licensed return96.06%
House edge on that build3.94%
Max win60,000x
Minimum stakeC$0.20
Spins on twenty dollarsabout 100
Free demoyes, no account needed
Tagsbonus-buy, popular

Done with the demo?

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