A wild landing on reel two, three or four grows to fill its entire reel before any line is read, as if a spotlight has widened to light the whole column. It works the same in free spins.
Wilds that take the whole spotlight
Full Spotlight changes the reels before anything is paid. A wild on one of the three middle reels becomes three wilds stacked from top to bottom.
Two or three lit reels can join many lines at once, which is where these productions find their largest awards. The same rule applies during free spins, so a lit reel there can join lines in exactly the same way.
A worked example. A wild on reel three becomes a full column of wilds, so any line with matching symbols on reels one, two and four now pays for at least four of a kind.
