Bison Moon Power Combo Slot – Free Demo

The three meters above the bison reels

Three Power Combo meters — Expand, Collect and Multiply — sit in a row above the reels, and each one lights up when it is the live feature. With Bison Moon Power Combo, Northern Lights Gaming heads out onto the grassland, and as the art makes plain, it's a North American wildlife themed slot. Northern Lights Gaming also has Monkey Bonanza on its list, and the hold and win round here is the same Link&Win engine Fortune Factory Studios runs in Blazing Bison Gold Blitz, bison and all. It's not at all basic or uncomplicated in the sense that it includes several features. These are the Link&Win, the Golden Eagle pick and the three Power Combos. Each Power Combo can start Link&Win with its own feature, or in combination with the others.

Forty paylines, left to right

There's nothing remarkable about the configuration. It arrives with 5 reels, 3 rows and 40 paylines, and it pays left to right from the leftmost reel on neighbouring reels, with only the highest win counted per line. I played 290 spins at a 15.00 stake, from a balance of 100,000.00 to 101,435.50.

Cash values printed on the moons

On the reels you will spot animal symbols such as the bear, the wolf, the lynx, the moose and the raccoon, alongside the card royals A, K, Q, J and 10, and the pays are listed in cash at a 15.00 total bet. The line that should name the currency prints with the currency missing. So they cannot be converted into multiples of the stake. The Moon and Bonus symbols sit outside that table entirely, since each of them carries its own cash value. The bear is the top paying regular symbol at 30.00 for five of a kind. There's a bison head wild contained in the game as well. It substitutes for everything except the Scatter, Collect, Moon and Bonus symbols, and pays 37.50 for five. The Bonus symbols are the Major and Minor moons, and the Collect symbol is a saddle bag. The Multiplier symbol is a set of chevrons, and it does nothing at all until the Multiply feature is running.

One saddle bag sweeps the reels

It should be noted that those cash pays remain small next to what the Moon symbols hold. Moon and Bonus symbols land on all five reels in the base game. That means the bigger base game money stems mostly from the Instant Collect. The trigger condition is a single Collect symbol, with no combination required. There a Collect symbol on reel 1 or 5 collects every Moon and Bonus symbol on the reels, and it also means that most of the potential is assigned to the bonus game. A Scatter landing on a reel can also turn into a Golden Eagle symbol, which is banked in a meter below the reels. Collect a Golden Eagle on every reel and the Golden Eagle Feature Pick opens, showing 6 eagles to choose 3 from, which reveal Power Combos, starting Link&Win moons or bonus prizes.

Three moons and a counter that keeps resetting

Everything turns on the Moon symbols in the base game. 3 of them on the reels will trigger Link&Win and open with 3 spins, and every extra Moon lands held on the reels and resets the respin count to 3. A "Spins remaining" counter at the left of the reel area carries the count between spins and goes back to 3 each time one of those resets fires. Filling all positions wins the Grand, worth 5000 times the total bet, while the Major and Minor moons are worth 100 and 25 times the total bet. Anything won inside the feature is added to the base game wins for that spin.

What the Collect symbol does inside the round

In the feature there are two things at work. Which of the three are live depends on the Power Combo Scatters collected on the way in. Not only can a Collect symbol land on any reel and collect every Moon on the reels while resetting the respins to 3, but the Power Combos also come into play, and Expanding Reels blows the grid out to a 5x5 arrangement. That is the same reset the extra Moons give, so a Collect landing in the feature buys spins as well as cash.

Four coloured zones with a badge on each edge

Multiply divides the reels into 4 coloured zones, or 6 when Expanding Reels is also live. With Multiply running the reel area is painted into coloured blocks with a multiplier badge on each edge, and the size of the zones is randomised every time the feature triggers. Each starts on a multiplier drawn from 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x, and a Multiplier symbol landing in a zone boosts it by 1x, up to a maximum boost of 10x. A badge reading 5x reads 6x once a chevron Multiplier has landed inside that zone. A zone filled at the close of the feature multiplies every prize inside it into the total win. The Multiplier symbol itself then turns into a Moon symbol, and the spin count resets to 3. The feature can also be purchased at the price shown, in the Expanding Reels, Multiply or Instant Collect version. Each version is played at the current bet.

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Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Five Link&Win rounds turned up across my 290 spins and between them carried 33% of everything the session won, and each of the five opened on its 3 spins and closed on them, without the extra Moon that would have set the counter back to 3.

What 290 spins paid back

Bison Moon Power Combo is a slot that didn't produce explosive wins in my 290 spins. 75 of them paid, 44 of those returned less than the 15.00 stake, and the longest gap without a win ran 13 spins. The best single spin returned 161 times the stake, and the five Link&Win rounds I landed were worth 33% of everything won.