Buffalo Blitz Megaways Slot – Free Demo

The extra reel that makes 117,649

Buffalo Blitz Megaways is a wildlife-styled 6-reel, 117,649-ways slot. The way count moves with the reel heights, and the captured base-game frame is running 2,304 ways with a 44.30 win counting up at a total bet of 5.00. Its Megaways reels are up to 7 symbols tall, an additional reel holds 4, and Playtech's Origins studio drives it. The 117,649 figure is the ceiling, and reaching it needs all six reels at their full 7 symbols with 4 on the extra reel at the same time. It is a highly volatile, quick-paced slot with heavy emphasis on assorted Free Games features, playable on mobile handsets, desktop machines and tablets. Four Jackpot Blitz meters — Blitz, Major, Minor and Mini — ride above the reels, and in fun play they read not available.

Symbols on the reels comprise the buffalo, along with the diamond wild and the Free Games scatter. Puma and raccoon sit below the buffalo, then bear and moose, then the card ranks A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9. The buffalo is the top symbol and lands stacked on all reels. Payouts are multiplied by the coin value, which the game sets at the total bet divided by 20. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels; only the largest win registers per combination, and core to the game is the wild, which lands on reels 2 to 6 and on the extra reel only. Reel 1 is the exception, so a winning combination always has to begin with a real symbol.

This wild is depicted by a diamond. Twenty diamonds also cover the Jackpot Blitz grid, four rows by five, with the jackpot symbols hidden beneath them. It substitutes for everything except the scatter, and it multiplies the win when it lands during the Free Games. In the jackpot round, matching three identical jackpot symbols wins that jackpot, and a reaction timer plays the round out automatically if it is not reached in time. The multiplier stretches from 2x up to a maximum of 10x, depending on the sort of round. The top 10x sits in one round only, Buffalo Free Games.

Which Free Games round you get is not your call

There are 4 Free Games features to activate in Buffalo Blitz Megaways. The game assigns you the sort, and all of them are triggered by 4, 5 or 6 scatters anywhere:

Blitz Free Games - this feature grants 10, 15 or 20 spins for 4, 5 or 6 scatters, and here the wild multiplies wins by x2, x3 or x5. Scatters landing during the round add 5, 10, 15 or 20 more spins.

Thunder Free Games - this one grants 8, 12 or 16 spins. Retriggers inside it add 4, 8, 12 or 16 more. The wild multiplies wins by x3, x4 or x6.

Buffalo Free Games - the game itself labels this feature as extremely volatile. It grants 6, 9 or 12 spins, and the wild multiplies wins by x4, x5 or x10. Retriggers there add 3, 6, 9 or 12.

Mystery Free Games - a blend of the other three, merging their spin counts and their multipliers: 6, 8 or 10 spins for 4 scatters, 9, 12 or 15 for 5, and 12, 16 or 20 for 6; moreover, every round retriggers from the inside. 3 scatters contribute a small top-up, and 4 to 6 grant the same counts as the trigger table. Across the four types, then, a trigger can deal 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16 or 20 free games.

One trigger in 360 spins

The gameplay was brutal. Over 360 spins at a stake of 5.00 I wagered 1,800.00 and won back 542.50, a return of 30.1%; the balance never once rose above the 10,000.00 I began with. The single bonus round of the run, on spin 44, dealt 10 free games with no retrigger and paid 150.00 by itself, 28% of everything won. High volatility, with only 62 paying spins and 38 of those beneath the stake. The longest run without a win was 18 spins, ending on spin 97, and the low of the run was 8,742.50, where it also finished. The best win I saw was 150.50 on spin 44, worth 30.1 times the stake.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Four bonus rounds with wild multipliers reaching 10x and four progressives above the grid make a wide game on paper, and 30.1% back over 360 spins is what the one trigger bought me in practice; the 2016 Buffalo Blitz runs the same herd across a fixed 4,096 ways, and Sahara Riches Megaways Cash Collect is where Playtech put its other set of variable reel heights.