Fire in the Hole 2 Demo & review

The second Fire in the Hole keeps the collapsing mine and the coin-collect Lucky Wagon Spins of the xBomb original, and builds its buy menu around the Dwarf, the wagon that sweeps the board. Nolimit City released it in February 2024 with a higher cap, a 2.5x xBet and a buy that starts the bonus with a Dwarf already working. It is for buyers with deep pockets and a taste for Extreme volatility.

The base game before our first spin, with three rows open and three still buried. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

How Fire in the Hole 2 works

Each spin opens three of the mine's six rows, and every collapse digs out one more. A collapse comes from a win, an exploding xBomb Wild or Wild Mining, so a spin that keeps going can run from 64 ways up to 46,656. Wins pay from the left on adjacent reels, three to six of a kind:

The five card ranks, K down to 9, top out between $1.50 and $1.00 for six.

The modifiers all serve the mine. An xBomb Wild explodes its neighbours and raises the win multiplier for the next collapse. Wild Mining turns three to six lined-up symbols with no win into one to four Wilds. Buried Features hide a Wild, an xSplit or a Bonus symbol in the dirt, and an xSplit doubles the symbols on its row. In practice the base game is a chain: the longer the collapses run, the more rows, ways and multiplier the next win gets.

How Lucky Wagon Spins work

Three, four or five Bonus symbols start the round with two, three or four rows of the coin board open. It begins with three spins, and every coin that lands resets the count to three.

Enhancer wagons and the Upgrade reel

A row of wagons above the board reveals an enhancer on each spin, and a coin landing below a wagon activates it. The enhancers are coin values, multipliers, Dynamite, Beer and the Dwarf. The Dwarf is the one that matters most: it collects every value on the board into its coin. A seventh reel beside the board can land an Upgrade that keeps a coin active or makes a feature persistent, and a persistent Dwarf collects again on every spin that follows.

Our cheapest buy, with two rows open and the wagons showing their loads. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Collect Chests

Dynamite can open the Collect Chests in the bottom row. An open chest collects its column on every spin, so like the persistent Dwarf it keeps working on everything that lands after it. Those two are what separate a large round from a small one, and they are what the dearest buy is built on.

Mid-way through our Guaranteed Dwarf buy, with the Dwarf and an open chest both collecting. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

What changed from Fire in the Hole xBomb

The mine, the xBomb Wild and Lucky Wagon Spins carry over. What moved is the menu around them:

For a fan of the original, the change that counts is the Guaranteed Dwarf buy. In the first game the Dwarf had to turn up on its own.

Bonus buys and xBet: prices and what you get

The Nolimit Bonus panel has five buys and one Nolimit Booster, the xBet:

The intro gives one volatility label, Extreme, so every cell repeats it.

The full buy panel after our base spins. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The base game returns 96.07%, and every buy sits above it. Guaranteed Dwarf carries the highest, though the 4 Bonus buy comes close for a fraction of the cost. Nolimit publishes a hit rate of 25.09%. The top prize, which the game calls Elbeerado, is 65,000x the bet, and the round ends when it lands. The rules give its simulated odds as 1 in 17 million rounds.

Our Fire in the Hole 2 demo test

The Dwarf decided every bonus we bought. The three standard buys drew none, and each paid back under half its price. In the Guaranteed Dwarf round it collected the board on every spin, its coin reaching 522x by the end. A chest that Dynamite opened grew to 2,033x beside it, and that round was the only buy to beat its cost.

Our Guaranteed Dwarf buy ended at 4,150.00 after 15 spins. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

The base game collapsed often, but mostly into small wins, and no Lucky Wagon Spins came in the hundred spins. The xBet did not help either: its ten spins paid nothing and never triggered the round. Lucky Draw handed us the top 5 Bonus level, and a Dwarf landed in it too.

Elbeerado, xSplit and Wild Mining did not show up in what we logged, so they come from the rules. Five bought rounds of a game rated Extreme describe how the Dwarf changes a round. They cannot rank the buys by return.

Our 5 Bonus buy ended at 170.00 after 25 spins, with no Dwarf. FluxPlays demo test, 1 November 2026.

Is Fire in the Hole 2 worth playing?

Fire in the Hole 2 earns its place for one reason: the Dwarf, and the chance to pay for a round that starts with one. Without it, Lucky Wagon Spins are a slow coin board. With it, every spin sweeps the board again. That is a strong round, but the cheap route to it is luck, and the sure route costs 3,600 times the bet.

Pick Fire in the Hole xBomb if you want the same mine with cheaper buys and a published natural trigger of 1 in 200 spins. Choose Fire in the Hole 2 if the Dwarf is the part you play for and you want the option of buying it outright.

In the demo, try Lucky Draw before anything else. It costs less than the 4 Bonus buy, and its draw can still hand you the four-row round.