Sticky Bandits Wild Return Slot – Free Demo

Bandits that land two and three positions wide

In Quickspin's slot, you get to roam with bandits. I played 360 spins of it at 8.00 a spin. That is a fitting analogy for its brutal character. I started that run with 5,000.00 and finished it with 9,472.00. The game itself is genuinely rather recognizable. It arrived on July 30, 2019, but the bandits do most of the work. The earlier game in the series, Sticky Bandits, arrived on August 15, 2017 and is built on 30 bet lines. Sticky Bandits Wild Return pays across 40 bet lines, and it gains from Massive Symbols, bandits that occupy 2x2 or 3x3 spaces on the reels. A bandit hit by a lucky shot in the free spins turns its whole 2x2 or 3x3 block into Sticky Wilds. The centerpiece is the Lucky Shot Free Spins Bonus. I saw it twice in my 360 spins, on spin 160 and again on spin 249. There the mixture of bandits and sticky wilds can culminate in seven spins that decide the session. The base game on the spin that opened the first of mine paid 25.60 on its own.

What the cowgirl and the rifleman pay

Symbols encompass the cowgirl. The rifleman comes next among the bandits, at 5 times the stake for five of a kind. The most valuable of the regular symbols, it grants you 10 times your stake for 5 on a complete payline, and the wild awards the same 10 times your stake for 5 of a kind. The Regular Wild substitutes for everything except the Sticky Wild and the Bonus Scatter.

Core to the game is the Massive Symbols feature, and on any spin, bandit symbols can land occupying 2x2 or 3x3 spaces anywhere on the reels. The bandits are the cowgirl, the rifleman and the revolver bandit.

The Quick Slot Machine hangs off reel 5

There is also the Quick Slot Bonus. It never came up in my 360-spin run. It is initiated when a Quick Slot Symbol lands on reel 5 in the base game, and once triggered, you're handed 1 to 3 spins on the Quick Slot Machine. The frames I captured outside that run show the symbol arriving on reel 5 and then a screen announcing three spins awarded. That can return up to 500 times your bet in a single spin: 500x for 777, 80x for horseshoes, 20x for BAR and 4x to 8x for cherries. One of those captured Quick Slot Machine spins came back 32.00 at a total bet of 8.00, which is the single-cherry pay at four times the stake.

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Seven spins where every bandit fires a shot

Lastly, there is the Lucky Shot Free Spins Bonus. It comes into play when 3 Bonus Scatters land on the reels, granting 7 free spins, and once in, every bandit on the reels shoots a lucky shot that transforms a random symbol into a wild. The Sticky Wilds exist only inside this round, and they substitute for everything except the Bonus Scatters. Bandits become Sticky Wilds that lock for the remainder of the round. My second round moved a balance of 10,007.20 to 10,207.20 across its seven spins. Other symbols become Regular Wilds, and it's a potent pairing that leaves fewer positions to fill with every spin. I went into the first of mine at 4,168.80, the lowest my balance got all session. In a 360-spin stretch the first trigger, on spin 160, paid 777 times the stake off seven spins with no retrigger, much to my surprise. It left me at 10,402.40, and the following spin took me to the session peak of 10,490.40.

Minty Slots Verdict: Two Lucky Shot rounds inside 360 spins accounted for 87% of everything I won, and the seven spins that opened on spin 160 accounted for nearly all of that. Between them the base game paid on 73 spins, 45 of which came back under the stake.

One round in 360 did nearly all of it

Sticky Bandits Wild Return is a slot in which Quickspin lifts the bar, although mostly by making one round carry the rest. The second round arrived 89 spins later, on spin 249, and paid 26 times the stake. Only 73 of my 360 spins paid anything at all. Outside the two bonus rounds my best single spin returned 12 times the stake. 45 of those were for less than the stake, and one dry stretch went 19 spins. That one ended on spin 226.

With the Quick Slot Machine to keep you on your toes in the main game, along with the larger payouts in the free spins game, Sticky Bandits Wild Return keeps almost all of its money in two features. The 500x single-spin ceiling on the Quick Slot Machine needs 777 to land. My session concluded at 255.3%. Quickspin also has Beastwood, released September 13, 2022, which is built on 64 bet lines. Two bonus rounds represented 87% of everything I won.