Laced Demo & review

In Laced, parts of the grid are hidden under Buds on every spin, and they block wins until a Lighter burns them away into matching mystery symbols. Shady Lady built this 5x6, 7,776-ways game around an openly stoner theme, with Elephant Wilds up to x100 and a Store of paid options. It suits bonus buyers who want a large menu to try, more than players who need the main game to pay its own way.

The grid before our first spin, with Buds covering the lower rows. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

How Laced works

Wins form across 7,776 ways on neighbouring reels from the left, cascades remove winning symbols, and only the longest matching combination of a symbol pays.

Pays at a one-dollar bet. The names are ours.

How the features connect:

1. Buds cover parts of the grid every spin and block normal wins.
2. A Lighter burns some of them, and the burnt ones reveal one mystery symbol.
3. Laced Buds summon Elephants when they burn: wilds that carry multipliers.
4. Scatters start the free spins, which are built to burn more and summon more.
5. The Store sells boosters, bonuses, batches of spins and Loot Boxes.

Burning Buds carry the game. The Store is a lot of menu around one idea.

The paytable and the Burning Buds rules. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

How Burning Buds and Laced Buds work

Landing a Lighter ignites a random number of Buds across random reels. Every burnt Bud reveals the same mystery symbol, so a single burn can open several positions at once. Some burnt Buds uncover another Lighter, which starts a second burn and more of the same mystery symbol.

Laced Buds are the valuable ones. Purple Buds summon 1x1 Purple Elephants with multipliers of x1, x2 or x3, and Gold Buds summon 2x2 Golden Elephants with x1, x5, x10 or x100. Both land at random positions and act as wilds carrying their multiplier.

Laced free spins: how they trigger

Three Scatters award the Bonus: 6 free spins with more Laced Buds and a much better chance of Lighters. Four Scatters award the Super Bonus: 8 free spins with even more of both. Chips symbols can land during the round for one extra spin and a small chance that Buds ignite on their own.

The second of our Bonus Buys settled at 54.30. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

The Store: prices and what you get

The Store has four tabs: Boosters charged per spin, Bonus rounds, Highlight Reels and a Loot Box. Whatever you pick is priced in multiples of the bet, and the Store says the cost of each bonus reflects its average win.

Highlight Reels play a batch of spins and pay the best three, with the rules giving RTP only as a narrow range across the three sizes. The Loot Box awards one of nine Enhanced Bonuses across Bronze, Silver and Gold, and the rules in our record do not say what those tiers change or the odds of each.

By the rules the Bonus Buy is our pick: it is the round the game is built around, at a better RTP than normal play.

The Store's Bonus and Highlight Reels sections at a 1.00 bet. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

The Boosters tab at a 1.00 bet. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

Normal play returns 96.1% by the rules, and every Store item lists its own figure close to that. The demo shows no volatility rating, so we use High, the label two review sites agree on. A round that passes 20,000x the bet ends there and pays the cap.

Our Laced demo test

Buds set the pace of the session. They covered much of the grid on most spins, so 21 of the 100 base spins paid, and spin 17 paid the most, $6.50. Dead spins are built into this design until a Lighter arrives.

The bought rounds showed the free spins working without saying much about their ceiling. Both Bonus Buys and the Super Bonus finished below their prices, the Super Bonus at $100.70 with x10, x2 and x3 Elephants on the final board. The rest of the Store went unplayed in this session, so its boosters, tiers, Highlight Reels and Loot Box are described by the rules, and natural bonuses did not appear either. One logged session like this is a look at the mechanic, not at the return.

The Super Bonus settled at 100.70, with x10, x2 and x3 on the final board. FluxPlays demo test, 9 November 2026.

Is Laced worth playing?

Not for the main game, but yes for the bonus rounds. The Buds and Lighter are a neat idea, and the Golden Elephant gives the round a real top end. The main game spends most of its time waiting for a Lighter, and if the theme puts you off, nothing else here will win you round.

Pick Devil's Finger, Shady Lady's first game, if you want multipliers you can see climb column by column and a Bonus Buy at a higher RTP. Pick Laced if the appeal is watching a burn open up a covered grid.

In the demo, play the main game until a Lighter burns a few Buds at once. That moment shows you the whole game before you spend anything in the Store.