Original Release: IGT, mid-2010s
An early “tile matcher” from IGT that leveraged their popular Cleopatra property, Wild Tiles keeps the general reputation of allowing for small bets and not being all that volatile
Cleopatra Wild Tiles (IGT, mid-2010s)
Review by: C. M0use
Cleopatra Wild Tiles is a branch-off of IGT’s popular Cleopatra series that got in on the “match 3” trend that emerged from online slots somewhere around the early-mid 2010s. This one seems to be a casino floor exclusive, however, though a bit more uncommon to find than the mainline Cleopatra games.
It’s tough to find any information on it at all – release date, RTP, and so on. I’m almost certain its a mid-2010s-ish release based on the general emergence of “tile match” or “cluster” games (starting online around 2011 but getting onto casino floors in a big way with Planet Moolah in 2013), and it’s in one of IGT’s older I-Game cabinets from the period. IGT also has a comparable and more commonly found game called Gems Wild Tiles that was released in 2016, though whether that was before or after this one I don’t know. It may have just gotten a limited trial run based on how infrequently I’ve come across it; the only places I’ve ever seen it are one machine floating around the ROW casinos in Reno and a couple of far-off-Strip Station and Boyd joints in Vegas. You can still occasionally find it in the wild, though, as I last played it in March 2026.
Your best guess as to what the RTP is, but doing it by “feel” it seems reasonably stable and doesn’t eat through money fast (probably why you don’t see it around much). Since it doesn’t do paylines, you just choose a fixed amount to wager per spin. At the lowest end you can low-roll at 30 cents per spin. A 5×5 field of tiles falls into place, any lines of three or more that are vertical or horizontal wins you some money. The main gimmick is that a lot of these return less than your wager, however, so you have to string a few together to make money. Any tiles that match are cleared, which can then possibly form more matches as other tiles drop. Each clear also produces one “wild” tile, unless a wild was used as part of the clear.
So you get a fair amount of line wins, though some might end up fractional and only a partial return of your win. The big catch-up comes if you manage to hit the bonus feature, by fully uncovering a vertical “bonus” column in the background by clearing a buncha tiles. Since it requires clearing a lot of tiles you’ve probably already got a pretty big “standard” win in the process of uncovering this, then you also get the fruits of a quantity of free spins that now include scatter symbols that also pay you out (and usually land with each spin). This isn’t too too rare either, I hit it twice within 10 or 15 minutes or so each time while just low-rolling around checking the game out.
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