Wild West Gold Blazing Bounty slot rebuilds the 2020 Wild West Gold game on a 5×5 grid. The 40 paylines are gone, replaced by clusters of 5 or more matching symbols, and wilds turn up in ordinary play stamped x2, x3 or x5. Two in the same cluster add their figures together. The bigger change is the round. Where the original awarded free spins from the inside as badge symbols landed, this one hands over 10 spins, whatever opens them, and lets the scatter count determine what the sticky wilds are worth.
A wild can drop anywhere on the grid, and it never lands plain. Each lands with a random multiplier of x2, x3 or x5 in normal play, and it stands in for all symbols but the scatter. Because clusters can overlap, a single wild can sit in two of them at once and multiply each. A second wild alongside it combines with the first, so a pair of x2s runs that cluster at x4, and the win line below the reels prints the sum as it pays.
Any trigger from 3 scatters up brings 10 free spins. The wild multipliers are the part that changes. Three scatters run them at x2, x3 or x5, four at x2, x5 or x10, and five at x10, x15 or x25. Any wild that lands then stays where it is until the last spin, so the board fills as the round goes on.
There is no retrigger to extend it, and if the total ever reaches 7,500x the bet, the round stops there, pays out, and forfeits whatever spins are left.
Two buy prompts sit alongside the grid. The cheaper one is 100x the bet and guarantees a trigger, though it decides for itself whether 3, 4 or 5 scatters land, so you’re buying without knowing what the wilds will be worth. The dearer one is 500x, which guarantees all 5 scatters and fixes the wilds at x10, x15 or x25. Pragmatic Play prints those options on the prompt.
The 5x higher chance toggle doubles the price of a spin, so our $1.00 becomes $2.00, and the reels carry extra scatters for 5 times the natural trigger rate. It’s a real offer in a high volatility game. Switching it on greys out Buy Free Spins.
Forget paylines. A win here is 5 matching symbols or more sharing edges, in a column, a row, or a shape that bends between the two, and only the best win from a cluster counts. Clusters pay in bands of 5 to 7 symbols, 8 to 12, then 13 to 25, and the jump from one to the next is steep.
Stakes start at $0.20 and reach $240.00 with the ante bet toggle off, or $480.00 with it on. The free play demo runs on identical figures, with the coin value shown next to the cash total in the bet menu. Wins arrive as cluster pays, so nothing has to start on the leftmost column.
The ladder is top-heavy. Sheriffs pay 10x at 5-7 symbols, and 75x at 13+, while Q and J are level at $0.40 at the bottom and only separate at 13 or above.
| Symbol | 5–7 | 8–12 | 13–25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheriff | $10.00 | $40.00 | $75.00 |
| Bearded outlaw | $3.75 | $13.00 | $37.50 |
| Cowgirl | $3.00 | $7.50 | $22.50 |
| Woman with a knife | $2.25 | $4.00 | $18.00 |
| Bags of gold | $1.50 | $2.25 | $15.00 |
| Holstered revolver | $1.35 | $1.80 | $12.00 |
| A | $0.75 | $1.50 | $7.00 |
| K | $0.55 | $1.35 | $6.00 |
| Q | $0.40 | $1.15 | $3.50 |
| J | $0.40 | $1.15 | $2.00 |
Cash returns at a $1.00 spin. Wild multipliers apply on top.
The scatters here do not buy a longer bonus round. Any way you get in, a round is 10 spins, and the extra scatters bring bigger wilds instead of more of them. Blazing Bounty puts its variety at the door rather than inside the round, and the gap it opens is real. Our 3-scatter trigger stuck three x2 wilds on the board over 10 spins and paid $270.10, while the 5-scatter version of the same round ran on x10s and x15s and returned $985.50. Away from the free spins bonus, the move to clusters is the better call. What holds the round back is that it never improves on the multipliers it started with. No retrigger, no upgrade, and a cap that moved the wrong way, from the 10,000x that stopped a Wild West Gold round to 7,500x here.
There are no lines to trace here, so you read the grid for clusters instead, 5 touching symbols or more. The coloured cards make that quick, teal for the sheriff, green for the bearded outlaw, orange for the cowgirl. Cross-hairs target whatever pays, and the winning symbols take a few bullets in the process.
The cast comes straight from Wild West Gold, the 2020 original, down to the poses, but the red 10 has gone and left 10 paying symbols where there were 11. Everything behind them has moved. That game put its reels in front of a saloon, a lantern swinging beside them. This one sits in open desert, mesas on the skyline and a wagon wheel leaning on the post. The animated wins carried over as well.
Tumbleweeds cross the sand beside the frame, guns leave their holsters to fire across the grid when a cluster pays, and a shot-up WANTED poster covers the switch into the round and back out. The feature runs under a sunset, with the bull skulls mounted at the top corners. The country soundtrack sits well behind it.
The original’s round opened at 8 spins, and overlay scatters landing mid-round added 4, 8, 12 or 20 more. Nothing does that here, which makes the trigger the biggest call you get. A 3-scatter round tops its wilds out at x5, where a 5-scatter one has none below x10. Where the wilds can land has widened too, from the three middle reels to all five.
Sticky wilds make the round a board you are building, not 10 separate spins. Two x10s and a x15 were down by our second spin of the 500x round, and $81.75 was the whole of it with 6 spins to go. Eight Qs pay $1.15 on their own, and $28.75 with a x10 and a x15 under them. The biggest spins of the round came off the premium characters, at $357.50 and $264.75.
Of our three ways in, the 100x buy gave the best return for its price. Ours came in on 3 scatters, the lowest of the three, and still returned $604.70 against the $100 it cost, $435.05 of that on the last spin. It buys the trigger, and the multipliers stay with the game. The 500x round paid more at $985.50, but it took five times the outlay to open.
The Ante is the other way in. It doubles the cost of a spin for 5x the natural trigger rate, so nothing goes out in one lump. At our $1.00 the extra dollar a spin catches the $100 buy inside 100 spins, and the buy guarantees a trigger where the Ante does not.
