Mustang Gold Slot – Free Demo

Mustang Gold runs on 25 fixed lines

Mustang Gold is their trip out to the American West, and it introduces the sheriff star on reel five. The wild is the Mustang Gold logo and it turns up on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

The visuals are a shade underwhelming at first look when you load up Mustang Gold. Pragmatic Play has gone with a grid composed of 5 reels and 3 rows and has stuck with paylines as such, so wins land along one of the 25 fixed lines, running left to right from the leftmost reel, to string together winners. Only the highest win on a line is paid, and wins on separate lines are added together. The setup is rather straightforward. I played it at 11.25 a spin, which puts 0.45 on each of the 25 lines.

390 spins at 11.25

To be honest, the top money is going to arrive courtesy of the bonus features, and I will examine those shortly. Free spin and bonus wins are added to the payline win rather than replacing it. A quick scan of the paytable shows that the symbols on their own are not very valuable, and this might be enough to put some players off. The four jackpots are the exception, since the rules print them as fixed multiples of the total bet rather than as coin amounts. I took 390 spins at a stake of 11.25 and returned with 60.8% of what I wagered. That is 4,387.50 wagered against 2,669.69 back. 111 of those spins were paying something and 61 of those were paying less than the stake, so it is not a game that gives you a great deal while you wait. The balance went from 100,000.00 to 98,282.19, peaking at 100,009.00 on the first spin and bottoming out at 98,117.91.

The horseshoes only pay when the star lands

Staying with the Western theme are several extra features. The wild does not substitute for the scatter, the Money Symbol or the Collect, so none of those extras can be filled in for. First up is the horseshoe Money Symbol, and these land on reels 1 to 4 carrying a portion of your total bet, anything from 1x up to 35x, or else a Jackpot. The values come from a fixed set — 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 18x, 20x, 25x, 30x and 35x — and each symbol takes one of them at random on every spin. Players can still hit winning combinations along the way as well while they sit there, adding to the total win. The base-game spin I captured did exactly that: 87.75 on line 5 at the 11.25 stake, with wilds stacked on reels 2 and 3. Land the Collect sheriff star on reel 5 and every Money Symbol on screen is paid at once, and this is known as the Money Collect feature. Without that star on reel 5 the Money Symbols pay nothing and go with the spin.

One campfire trigger in the whole run

As always, Free Spins are at the top of every player's wish list. In the frame I captured a lone campfire was sitting on reel 4 with no partners. Three campfire scatters on reels 2, 3 and 4 trigger this bonus. I saw that happen once in 390 spins. For their troubles, players are awarded 8 free spins and a payout of 1x the total bet. The Money Collect feature keeps running through the round. Free spins run on special reels packed with extra Money and Collect symbols. Three more scatters during the round hand over another 8 spins, and there is no limit on how often that can occur. My one visit came on spin 266 and paid 202.50, or 18.0x the stake, with no retrigger. That single round was 8% of everything the session won.

The jackpot meters are the bet, multiplied

For good measure, Pragmatic Play has popped one final cherry on the top in the form of the Jackpot Money Symbol. Collect one of these symbols to launch the Jackpot Reveal Bonus Game. The four prizes are Grand at 1,000x the total bet, Major at 200x, Minor at 100x and Mini at 50x. There you pick horseshoes until three match, and win up to 1,000x the total bet. My capture at 11.25 shows the meters reading 11,250.00, 2,250.00, 1,125.00 and 562.50, which are those four multiples to the penny. As you can see, individual symbol combinations might be somewhat on the low side. The meters are therefore tied to the stake rather than to a shared pool, and they move only when the bet does.

The Minty Summary: 390 spins at 11.25 came back with 60.8% of the stakes, and the one free spins round in that run — 202.50, or 18.0x the bet — was 8% of everything won. The other 92% arrived a few credits at a time, across 111 paying spins of which 61 paid less than the spin that bought them.

Where the 18-spin gap fits

The rules screen sets the volatility at medium and my session bore that out, with one dry stretch of 18 spins and nothing worse. That gap ended on spin 299, the biggest win of the run arrived 19 spins later at 528.75, or 47.0x the stake, and the 390 spins still finished 1,717.81 below where they started. The sheriff star sits on the fifth reel and nowhere else.