Buckshot Wilds

NetEnt sends Buckshot Wilds into a dusty Western town, framed from a high angle that takes in a sun-bleached, rocky landscape rendered in a painterly style. The action shifts at night once free spins begin, moving the scene into the settlement itself for a more orderly, lantern-lit backdrop.

The grid opens at a 5x4 layout across 20 paylines and can expand to 8 rows for 40 paylines when reels grow at random. Wins form from matching symbols landing left to right starting on the first reel, paid out through card royals, Western characters and pistol icons rendered in a period-appropriate font.

Wilds cover any standard paying symbol, and each one creeps a single row down the grid on every spin until it eventually drops out of play entirely. Landing one over a designated trigger symbol touches off a chain reaction: the symbols around it, above, below, to the sides and on the diagonals, flip into wilds of their own, though those converted wilds clear away again before the next spin begins. Expanding Reels can strike at random: any wild occupying the top four rows duplicates four rows lower on the same reel, and the grid drops back to standard height once the spin ends.

Landing three, four or five scatters pays 6, 10 or 15 free spins in turn, and the grid holds at its expanded 8-row height for the whole round. The opening spin carries 1 to 3 wilds already in place, with at least one guaranteed new wild landing on every subsequent spin, and hitting a scatter during the round adds an extra free spin. A Bonus Bet option doubles the stake in exchange for guaranteed wilds in the base game, better odds of triggering Expanding Reels or free spins, and scatters that can appear on reels where they otherwise wouldn't. Buying the feature costs 100x the bet for a standard free spins entry, rising to 125x with Bonus Bet active.

NetEnt has priced the default RTP at 96.04%, dropping to 94% under an alternate configuration some operators may run, with medium-to-high volatility and a maximum win of 859x the stake. Betting spans 0.10 to 100 per spin across the expandable 20-to-48-line structure.