Buffalo Power: Hold and Win Slot

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Software	Playson
Slot theme	Animals
Reel	5
Paylines	20
Progressive	No

Buffalo Power: Hold and Win Slot Review

Winning C$50,000 in a non-progressive slot machine is mostly an insurmountable problem. However, Canadian players who will opt for playing Buffalo Power: Hold and Win may relax and keep on spinning the reels with a realistic chance of hitting the said cash prize during a jackpot bonus feature. In addition to the big money award, the slot, developed by Playson, offers some smaller winnings thanks to stacked wild symbols that have an extra x2 multiplier during free games. The slot explored on this page has 5 reels and 20 fixed paylines. Its reels are home for numerous species of animals that inhabit North America and bring you decent prizes when landing on slot paylines. Buffalo Power: Hold and Win is friendly to CA players and is also found in many bitcoin casinos available for real money. Transition from Canada to the U.S. prairie landscape is instant and hassle-free. Having waited for a few seconds until the slot is fully loaded, the player will suddenly face a vast deserted land covered with majestic cliffs and dry grass. Enveloped into a wooden frame, the reels are complete with skillfully drawn animals that are, in fact, high-paying symbols in the slot. Some insignificant animations around the reels do not distract one from playing, while fireball-shaped bonus symbols add charm and intrigue to the gameplay because a player will always be waiting for six of these fireballs to get a jackpot bonus triggered. The general impression made by the online casino game is very good, though its animations and dark-colored imagery do lack some vitality and liveliness. However, in mobile casinos, the game looks neat and more colorful than on desktop.

Slot machine betting and payouts

Wagering is focused on all types of players, from newcomers with low bankroll to experienced heavy punters since the min/max bets are C$0.20 and C$100, accordingly. Changes to a bet size are made by clicking the Coins button and picking the preferred option. Note that online casinos where bitcoin is accepted usually offer other bet variations. If not for jackpots (to be detailed below), payouts in the slot would have been fairly modest and allegedly insufficient for an ordinary online casino player. The game introduces playing cards as low symbols, thus adhering to a traditional approach in this regard. Getting 3+ J, Q, K or A on a payline awards C$250 at max. Saving the day are animals that are treated as high symbols: five wolves award up to C$500, bald eagles pay C$750, five pumas award C$1000 at max, while getting five bears along a line will earn you C$1250 if you play for real money.

Stacked wild symbols

A giant buffalo’s head cannot fit into one symbol space, that is why it is allotted two positions on any reel. This symbol is a substitute for all other icons, except for feature ones. When 3, 4 or 5 buffalos land on a line, the online casino player gets up to C$1250 so buffalos are truly useful icons in the game.

Scatter and free spins

A high cliff initiates a free games feature that is a little vanilla. To get inside that game mode, a player needs to have landed at least 3 cliffs in any place. This awards 8 basic free spins that have only one inherent bonus feature, stacked wilds. In comparison with base game in the slot machine, stacked buffalos double the win for each payline they are part of.

Buffalo Power: Bonus game jackpots

Bonus and Power are the two symbols that have no direct money awards in base game but still they can be well worth hitting. A Bonus symbol (Fireball) carries a multiplier of x1 to x10, while a Power is depicted as a golden coin without any digits on it. Getting any six of them in any mix triggers a life-changing bonus feature that can end up with one of the following jackpots:

Mini (x20 bet), 2 Power pics needed
Minor (x50 bet), 3 Power pics
Major (x150 bet), 4 Power pics or
Grand (x500 bet), 5 Power pics.

As one can judge from the jackpot values in brackets, their sums are tied to a bet size. When a bet is changed by the online casino player, the jackpot amounts shown on the four meters above the reels get modified too, correspondingly. Once in a jackpot bonus round, the slot machine player is awarded 3 respins at the beginning. If any respin brings one or more Bonus or Power symbols to the reels, they stick to their positions until the end of the jackpot round, and your respin counter is then reset back to the initial 3. The round completes when there are no respins left. At the end of the feature, all values on Bonus symbols are tallied and paid out to the player. If there is a qualifying number of Power symbols (2 to 5), the online casino game awards the respective jackpot. As a final touch to the bonus mode, the game doubles the payout if the entire 5×3 field will be covered with bonus symbols by the time the feature comes to end.

Summary

This is a 5×3 slot machine featuring four jackpots with the highest winning of C$50,000 up for grabs. A bet size varies widely from C$0.2 to C$100 per spin. Other features include a stacked wild with a x2 multiplication and a free games mode with 8 free spins. Recommended to players from Canada who prefer jackpot slots.