A banner above the reels displays WIN UP TO 93,750 X BET throughout every spin of the Buffalo King demo. The rules list a 96.06% RTP and a $0.40 to $60.00 bet range but do not mention the maximum win, making the banner the only place where the game states its top figure. Released by Pragmatic Play on 9 January 2020, the slot features a 6-reel, 4-row board with 4,096 ways, set in a wheat field with a red barn to the left and low hills in the background.
Symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels from reel 1, across 4,096 ways, each way paying its best combination once. The wild is a red sandstone butte on reels 2 to 6, never reel 1, so it can extend a combination but never start one. It stands in for every symbol except the gold bonus coin.
The gold buffalo coin can land on all 6 reels. Landing 3 coins awards 8 free spins, while 4 award 15, 5 award 25, and 6 award 100.
During the feature, 2 coins add 5 spins, while 3 to 6 coins award the same free-spin amounts on special reels that differ from the main game.
During free spins, every wild carries a random 2x, 3x, or 5x. When a winning way holds a wild, the game multiplies that way’s win by the product of every wild multiplier in it, so two 5x wilds on one way make 25x rather than 10x. That product rule, spread across 4,096 ways, is what stands behind the 93,750x figure on the banner.
A wooden sign planted in the wheat beside the reel frame reads BUY FREE SPINS. With the bet set to $2.00, the $150 price makes the round cost 75x the stake.
The bought round begins with a random number of bonus symbols, meaning it can start with any of the four free-spin awards, from 8 to 100 spins. There is no ante bet, making the sign the only shortcut to the feature.
The animals, the wheat field, and the coin all return in Buffalo King Megaways, which moves the same set onto a Megaways reel set. This original keeps the fixed 4-row board, and it sits among the buffalo slots on the site as the Pragmatic Play entry in a theme other studios worked on first.
Every winning way in the Buffalo King demo starts on reel 1, and the wild never lands there, so the leftmost reel is the one to watch as the board settles. Three eagles stacked down reel 2 with nothing matching on reel 1 pay nothing. The rules draw the ways rule as two small grids, a tick beside a run from the left and a cross beside one with a gap.
The bet menu steps between $0.40 and $60.00. The rules give the theoretical RTP as 96.06%, with no buy-feature or ante figure beside it because the game runs one setting; they label the volatility Medium, this review rates it High, and they say nothing about a max win. Two controls matter in play, the bet menu and the $150 BUY FREE SPINS sign, the only feature button on the screen.
The bonus coin is the one special symbol that lands on reel 1, and its count sets the length of the round. Retriggering inside the round needs one coin fewer than starting it.
| Bonus coins | From normal play | During free spins |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | – | 5 spins |
| 3 | 8 spins | 8 spins |
| 4 | 15 spins | 15 spins |
| 5 | 25 spins | 25 spins |
| 6 | 100 spins | 100 spins |
The paytable lists the pays in dollars with the bet on $2.00, and the table below divides each by that bet, so the $15.00 for six buffalo reads as 7.5x. Every symbol needs 3 from the left, and only the buffalo beats 6.25x for a full row of 6.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | 2x | 5x | 6.25x | 7.5x |
| Eagle | 1.5x | 2.5x | 5x | 6.25x |
| Cougar | 1.5x | 2.5x | 5x | 6.25x |
| Wolf | 1x | 2x | 3x | 5x |
| Moose | 1x | 2x | 3x | 5x |
| A, K | 0.5x | 1x | 2x | 3x |
| Q, J | 0.25x | 0.75x | 1.5x | 2.5x |
| 10, 9 | 0.25x | 0.5x | 1x | 2x |
Those are per-way figures. A symbol stacked 4 high on several reels pays the same way many times over, and inside free spins the product of any wild multipliers on the way applies on top. The bonus coin has no cash value; it only counts spins.
Buffalo King offers 4,096 ways to win and a 96.06% RTP, with the banner above the reels advertising a 93,750x maximum win. The main draw is the free spins, where 2x, 3x, and 5x wild multipliers combine. Between rounds, wins rely on stacked symbols connecting from reel 1.
Three eagles stacked down reel 2, the wild butte at the foot of reel 5, and card symbols filling reel 1 is a common sight with nothing paid on it, and that is the base game in one screen. Animals stacked in pairs on every reel from 2 to 6 while reel 1 holds J, A, A, eagle tells the same story a second way, and two gold coins on reels 5 and 6 sit one short of the 8-spin trigger.
The reels hang in a wooden frame over the wheat field, the five animals are painted heads, and the card symbols are chunky coloured letters. Each spin ends with a short settle and a SPIN TO WIN prompt under the frame.
What the demo shows about the maths is a main game that pays through stacks. Symbols arrive in blocks of 2, 3, and 4 on a reel, and a stack on reel 1 is what turns 4,096 ways into a win counted many times over. Without it, a stack anywhere else is scenery, and five stacks of scenery in a row is a regular sight. The per-way pays are small, 7.5x for six buffalo, and long runs of near-stacks that pay nothing are the pattern to expect.
The free spins are where the 93,750x banner comes from. Wilds on reels 2 to 6 carry 2x, 3x, or 5x, and they multiply together on any way they share, on special reels the rules say differ from the main set. A 3-coin round is 8 spins, which is short for that hunt, and 2 coins add 5 more. The buy is 75x, under the 100x charged on most later Pragmatic Play demos, and it lands a random coin count, so $150 can open a round of 8 spins or a round of 100.
The review comes down to a 96.06% RTP, under the 96.5% area most of the studio’s demos carry, set against a 93,750x figure nothing else in the studio’s range approaches, with a main game that spends long stretches paying nothing in between. As a free play sit, it rewards patience, and the demo balance is there to be spent finding out what three coins and a 5x wild look like together. A short session does not get there. The wait is the game.
