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The Jack and the Beanstalk demo is one of the games that taught the industry what a walking wild was. Land a wild, the reels respin, and the wild steps one reel to the left each time until it falls off the board — with every win it takes part in paying triple. It is from the era when NetEnt was defining the format rather than following it, and the mechanic has aged better than most things from 2013. What has not aged well is the paperwork: NetEnt no longer publishes a specification page for it at all, so every number on this page belongs to somebody else.
- Free Demo
- At a Glance
- How It Plays
- Paytable
- Features
- Compare
- RTP & Max Win
- Bets & Bankroll
- Tips
- Where to Play
- FAQ
- Verdict
Play the Jack and the Beanstalk demo free
The demo above runs the full game on play credits — walking wilds, respins, free spins and the three wild types. No account, no deposit, nothing real can be won or lost. For a game whose appeal is a mechanic rather than a jackpot, free play shows you essentially everything. This demo is part of our free NetEnt slots.
Jack and the Beanstalk slot at a glance
More on the figures above. NetEnt was absorbed into Evolution and keeps no public specification page for this game, so nothing here is studio-sourced. The 96.28% RTP, the high volatility rating, the 3,000× ceiling, the 20 paylines and the feature descriptions are taken from OLBG’s listing. The release date is disputed: OLBG and SlotCatalog give 12 November 2013 while Racing Post gives November 2011, and a remastered edition of this game exists, which is the most likely explanation for two dates circulating. Because neither can be confirmed as the original release, this review prints no release year.
How the game plays
Five reels and twenty paylines, with wins paid left to right in the ordinary way. The row count is not stated by the source used here, so this review does not give one.
The engine is the walking wild. When a wild lands it triggers a respin, and on each respin it moves one reel to the left. More respins follow until the wild walks off reel one and disappears. Any win that includes the wild is paid at 3×, which means a single wild can pay three or four times over as it travels, each time at triple value. That is the whole idea, and it is why the game still gets played more than a decade on.
Free spins open with ten spins and layer a collection mechanic on top. Collecting keys introduces three different wild types in turn: Money Bag wilds two positions high, Golden Hen wilds three positions high, and Expanding Golden Harp wilds. The walking wild remains active throughout, still carrying its 3× multiplier, so the free-spins round is the base mechanic plus progressively larger wilds to walk.
The story behind the game
NetEnt spent the early 2010s building the template that most of the market still uses, and the walking wild was one of its signature contributions. Jack and the Beanstalk packaged it inside a fairy tale and gave it a progression — the keys, the three escalating wild types — at a time when most free-spins rounds were simply a fixed number of spins with a flat multiplier. The game has since been remastered, which is almost certainly why two different release dates circulate for it, and why this review declines to state one. NetEnt itself was bought by Evolution and the studio’s public game pages went with it, so the original specification sheet is no longer available anywhere official.
Symbols and paytable
The specification as the best available independent source states it. Nothing in this table is studio-published, because NetEnt no longer publishes anything for this game.
| Reels | 5 |
|---|---|
| Rows | Not stated by the source |
| Paylines | 20 |
| RTP | 96.28% — third party |
| Volatility | High — third party |
| Maximum win | 3,000× — third party, and the consistent figure |
| Walking wild | Lands, triggers a respin, moves one reel left each respin |
| Walking wild multiplier | 3× on any win it takes part in |
| Respins end | When the wild walks off reel one |
| Free spins | Begin with 10 |
| Free spins wilds | Keys introduce Money Bag (2-high), Golden Hen (3-high) and Expanding Golden Harp wilds |
| Free spins walking wild | Still active, still 3× |
| Jackpot | None |
| Release date | Disputed — 2011 and 2013 both circulate; a remaster exists |
| Studio | NetEnt, now part of Evolution |
The 3× multiplier row is the one that explains the game’s longevity. A flat triple on every win a wild participates in sounds modest beside modern games advertising 100× multiplier orbs, but the wild participates repeatedly — once per respin, across up to five reels — and on twenty lines each of those visits can touch several wins at once.
Bonus features and free spins
The wild walks
A wild landing triggers a respin and then steps one reel left on each subsequent respin, continuing until it leaves reel one. A wild that lands on reel five therefore gets five separate goes at paying, which is the single reason this game is still in rotation.
Triple on everything it touches
Any winning combination that includes the walking wild pays 3×. Flat, no ladder, no conditions. On twenty lines a single travelling wild can collect that multiplier several times in one respin sequence.
Keys build the free spins
The free-spins round starts at ten spins and collecting keys introduces progressively larger wild types — Money Bag wilds two high, Golden Hen wilds three high, and Expanding Golden Harp wilds. The round improves the longer you stay in it.
Three wild types, all still walking
The walking mechanic stays active during free spins and applies to the new wild types too, so a three-high Golden Hen wild walks across the reels with the 3× attached. That combination is where the 3,000× ceiling comes from.
- The walking wild is still one of the best mechanics in slots, and this is one of the games that defined it. A wild landing on reel five means five chances to pay, not one.
- A flat 3× on every win the wild joins is simple, generous and easy to follow — no ladder to climb and no conditions to meet.
- Free spins that escalate. Keys introduce bigger wild types as the round runs, so a long feature genuinely improves rather than just lasting.
- 96.28% clears the 96% reference, which is more than can be said for several much newer games reviewed on this site.
- Twenty lines on five reels is readable and the game explains itself within a few spins.
- The demo is the whole game, free spins included, and nothing is held back behind a real-money build.
- NetEnt publishes nothing about this game any more. There is no official specification page, so the RTP, volatility and ceiling on this page are all third-party.
- The release date cannot be established. 2011 and 2013 both circulate and a remaster exists; this review states no year rather than pick one.
- 3,000× is modest by modern standards. Plenty of current games reach ten or twenty times that, and one outlying source claiming 9,000× here conflicts with everything else.
- No studio volatility rating. “High” is an independent reading, and on a game this old there is no certification sheet in public to check it against.
- The row count is not even stated by the source used, which is how thin the public record on this game has become.
- It is a 2010s game and looks like one. The presentation is dated beside anything released in the last few years, and no amount of mechanical quality changes that.
How Jack and the Beanstalk compares
Against the other NetEnt games reviewed on this site. Every figure is the one recorded in that game’s own review here.
| Game | RTP | Ceiling | Studio | The mechanic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack and the Beanstalk | 96.28% | 3,000× | NetEnt | Walking wilds, 3× |
| Twin Spin | 96.55% | 1,080× | NetEnt | Linked twin reels |
| Spinata Grande | 96.84% | Disputed | NetEnt | Pinata bonus |
| Drive: Multiplier Mayhem | 96.7% | Badly disputed | NetEnt | Multiplier free spins |
| Wild Turkey Megaways | 96.05% | 7,239× | NetEnt | Megaways |
Jack is the lowest-returning of the classic NetEnt titles in that table, though only by a few tenths and all of them clear 96%. What the table really shows is how poorly documented this studio’s back catalogue has become since the Evolution acquisition: two of the five have ceilings this site has had to record as disputed, because the figures in circulation contradict each other and there is no longer an official page to settle them. Jack at least has a consistent 3,000× across sources.
Jack and the Beanstalk RTP, volatility and max win
96.28% is the figure independent listings give, and it clears the 96% reference by a little under three tenths of a point. It is not a NetEnt figure, because NetEnt no longer publishes one — the studio’s public game pages did not survive the Evolution acquisition. Some sources round it to 96.3%, which is the same number. As always, the information screen inside the game states what your casino has actually licensed, and on an older title that has been remastered it is worth looking rather than assuming the version you are playing matches the listing you read.
Bets, bankroll and session planning
No stake range is published for this game by anyone authoritative, so none is given here. The limits in the demo above are whatever your operator has configured. The 3× walking-wild multiplier and the 3,000× ceiling are both expressed relative to the bet, so the shape of the game is identical at any stake.
Playing on mobile
The thumbnail the catalogue carries for this game is the touch build, which is a clue to how long it has been running on phones. Twenty lines on five reels fits a small screen without trouble, and the walking wild is an unusually mobile-friendly animation — a single symbol sliding one reel at a time is easy to follow even on a narrow display. The demo above runs in a mobile browser with no app or download.
Five things to know before you spin
- Wilds on the right-hand reels are worth more. A wild landing on reel five walks across all five reels before it leaves; one landing on reel two gets two visits. The position matters more than the symbol.
- Remember the 3× applies every time. It is not a one-off bonus on the triggering spin — every win the wild joins during its walk is tripled.
- Check the RTP in the information screen. NetEnt publishes nothing public for this game and a remaster exists, so the in-game panel is the only statement that applies to your casino.
- Treat the 9,000× figure you may see elsewhere with suspicion. It appears in one hedged source and conflicts with every other listing, which consistently say 3,000×.
- Stay in the free spins for the keys. The round starts at ten spins and the wild types only improve as keys are collected, so the back half of a long feature is worth more than the front.
- Use the demo to see a full walk from reel five across to reel one. 18+, and set a limit before you leave free play.
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Who this slot is for
For players who want a mechanic rather than a spectacle. The walking wild is clean, generous and still satisfying, and the escalating wild types give the free spins a shape that a lot of modern rounds lack. It is not for anyone chasing a big ceiling — 3,000× is modest now — and not for anyone who wants studio-published specifications, because NetEnt no longer provides any for this game at all.
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Our verdict on Jack and the Beanstalk
A great mechanic with no paperwork left
Strip away the fairy tale and this is a game about one idea executed properly. A wild lands, the reels respin, and it walks left across the board tripling everything it touches until it falls off the edge. More than a decade later that still holds up, and the free spins round — ten spins that get better as keys bring in larger wild types — is better structured than plenty of 2026 releases.
What has decayed is everything around the game. NetEnt was absorbed into Evolution and its public specification pages went with it, so there is now no official source for this title’s RTP, its volatility or its ceiling. Independent listings fill the gap and mostly agree — 96.28%, high, 3,000× — but mostly is not the same as authoritatively, and the release date cannot be pinned down at all because a remaster muddied it. For a game this influential that is a slightly sad state of affairs. Play the demo for the walking wild, which is the whole point and costs nothing, and open the information screen before you ever play it for money.
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