Great Buffalo Hold 'n Win

Great Buffalo Hold 'n Win Overview

Great Buffalo Hold 'n Win is a Wild West slot from GameArt, released on 20 February 2024. It plays on 5 reels and 4 rows with 25 paylines, and combines a coin-collecting Hold 'n Win respin round with free spins and four fixed jackpots. SlotCatalog lists a 96.44% RTP, medium volatility and a maximum win of 5,000x the bet. Stakes run from 0.25 to 100.

A Desert Under the Moon

The reels sit in a wooden frame hung with rope and horns, in front of red desert rocks, cacti and a full moon. The animals of the prairie make up the premium symbols: a cougar, a lynx, a wolf, a bear and an eagle, with the buffalo head as the wild. The low symbols are the card ranks 10, J, Q, K and A in bright colours. It is a different game from the other buffalo titles on our site – the original Great Buffalo and its Christmas and Dice editions each have their own review.

Four Fixed Jackpots

Four jackpot plaques sit above the reels, and they scale with the stake. At a $12.50 bet they read:

• Grand: $6,250 – 500x the bet
• Major: $2,500 – 200x
• Minor: $1,250 – 100x
• Mini: $625 – 50x

Stake per Line

With 25 fixed lines, the $12.50 stake we played at means $0.50 per line. That makes the screenshots easy to translate into line multipliers: the three Ks paid 10 line bets, the full line of Aces with a wild paid 90 line bets, and the four cougars paid 135. The cougar is clearly among the stronger animals, well above the card ranks.

The Wild in Action

The buffalo wild appeared in most of our winning screenshots, and it shows how much work it does on a 25-line game. At the $12.50 stake:

• four cougars completed by a wild paid $67.50 – 5.4x the bet
• a full line of As with a wild in the middle paid $45.00 – 3.6x
• a Q and J combination with the wild paid $10.00
• three Ks on their own paid $5.00 – 0.4x

Coins on the Reels

Golden sun-coins land on the reels during the base game, each carrying a cash value. The values in our screenshots were $12.50, $25.00, $37.50, $50.00 and $75.00 – exactly 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x and 6x the stake. Enough of them at once start the Hold 'n Win round.

The Hold 'n Win Respins

In the bonus the coins lock in place and the other positions respin, with the counter on the left showing how many respins remain. Our round ran until the respin counter reached 0 with the whole 5x4 grid filled with coins – every one of the twenty positions glowing gold. Coin values in that round again sat between 1x and 3x the bet.

Buying a Bonus

The Buy Bonus menu offers two choices. At a $12.50 bet:

• Free Spins: $1,062.50 – 85x the bet
• Hold 'n Win Respin: $312.50 – 25x

The respin round is the cheaper route to the coins and the jackpots; the free spins cost more than three times as much.

Scatter and Free Spins

Scatter symbols appear on the reels as well – one is visible in the top right of our screenshots – and the free spins option in the buy menu shows three buffalo scatters. SlotCatalog lists wilds with multipliers and additional free spins among the features.

Jackpots Against the Ceiling

The Grand jackpot is worth 500x the stake, which is only a tenth of the 5,000x maximum win. The ceiling therefore comes from a combination – a strong coin board, the higher jackpots and the bonus features together – rather than from a single top prize. For most sessions the Mini and Minor, at 50x and 100x, are the realistic targets, and they are already worth several times the price of the 25x respin buy.

Our Session in Numbers

Everything we saw came from the $12.50 stake: base game wins of $5.00, $10.00, $45.00 and $67.50, coins between $12.50 and $75.00, the two buy prices of $312.50 and $1,062.50, and a Hold 'n Win round that ended with every position on the grid filled.

Who It Is For

Great Buffalo Hold 'n Win suits players who like a classic Hold and Win game with clear numbers. The jackpots are fixed multiples of the stake, the coin values are easy to read, and medium volatility with a 5,000x ceiling keeps it balanced. All six casinos we checked carry it.

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