DEGEN Studios Releases Book of Dizzy, an Expanding-Reel Slot With a Pre-Bonus Gamble

DEGEN Studios announced Book of Dizzy on 10 November 2026, a slot whose reels can grow from a 5x3 grid to 5x5 and which adds a gamble before its free spins bonus.

The release follows the studio's Loot Box Legends launch on 4 November, making Book of Dizzy its second new slot in a little over a week. The studio describes itself on its homepage as a developer of high-volatility slots.

How the Book of Dizzy reels expand

The game opens on a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines. A payline is a line across the reels on which matching symbols must land to pay. On any spin the reels can expand at random, and the payline count rises with the grid.

A second feature, the Expanding Symbol, is chosen at random. It stretches to cover whole reels, and a win still pays when reels without the symbol sit in the middle of the sequence. That removes the usual requirement that a winning run be unbroken from the left. According to DEGEN's game page, Expanding Reels and the Expanding Symbol can both trigger on the same spin, so a spin can combine a taller grid with full-reel symbols.

G3 Newswire reports a maximum win of 10,000x the stake.

Free spins: three modes tied to Wild Scatter count

The bonus round is triggered by Wild Scatters, symbols that act as both a scatter (a symbol that pays or triggers features regardless of position on a payline) and a wild. The number landed decides which version of free spins the player gets.

The three modes give the bonus a tiered structure, with five scatters reaching the top mode directly rather than only adding spins to the base one.

The Pre-Bonus Gamble

The most distinctive mechanic sits between the trigger and the free spins. In the Pre-Bonus Gamble, a player can try to improve the coming round in one of three ways:

• raise the height of the reels;
• remove low-paying symbols;
• upgrade the Expanding Symbol.

Each enhancement is gambled separately, and a failed attempt forfeits the bonus, according to the company's release as carried by EEGaming and G3 Newswire. The feature turns the bonus entry into a risk decision, which suits a studio that positions itself in the high-volatility segment. Operators and players weighing the game should note that the downside is the loss of the bonus itself, not a smaller upgrade.

Where Book of Dizzy fits in supplier content

Expanding reels and symbol-upgrade mechanics sit in a crowded part of the slot catalog, and new releases from smaller studios usually reach players through operator partnerships. Earlier Gamingo coverage shows how that distribution works, from NetBet Italy's partnership with ELK Studios to White Hat Studios' Pennsylvania launch with Caesars and PopOK Gaming's tie-up with BC.Game.

DEGEN's approach is to compete on mechanics rather than theme alone. Book of Dizzy pairs a familiar book-style bonus with a variable grid and a player-controlled risk step, and it follows Loot Box Legends, which the studio built around switchable RPG and FPS modes.

Status reviewed on 10 November 2026. Grid sizes, payline counts and feature descriptions come from the DEGEN Studios game page and the company's release as republished by EEGaming and G3 Newswire. More slots news and EMEA coverage.