Bounty Gulch free slot
A Wild West slot where every Wanted Poster wild sticks where it lands and respins the rest of the board for free. Three Strongboxes open Safe Cracker, a pick-a-safe bonus with cash, extra picks and a ×2.
How Bounty Gulch works
- Wins pay left to right on 20 fixed lines.
- The Wanted Poster is wild on reels 2 to 5 and stands in for every symbol except the Strongbox.
Paytable highlights
| Symbol | Five | Four | Three |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Nuggets | 60× | 15× | 3× |
| Revolver | 30× | 7× | 1.75× |
| Stetson | 17.5× | 5× | 1.5× |
| Spurred Boot | 12× | 3.5× | 1.25× |
| Ace, King | 6× | 2.25× | 0.6× |
| Queen, Jack, Ten | 4.5× | 1.5× | 0.3× |
Line pays as a multiple of your total bet. Strongboxes don't pay on their own. Three of them start the bonus.
Sticky respins and Safe Cracker, step by step
- When a Wanted Poster lands, the spin's line wins pay, then the poster sticks in place and every other spot respins for free.
- Each respin pays its own line wins. If a new poster lands, it sticks too and you get another respin. It ends on a respin with no new poster. Strongboxes don't turn up on respins.
- Safe Cracker starts when a Strongbox lands on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the same spin. It plays after any respins.
- 12 safes hide 9 cash prizes, 2 extra picks and one ×2. You start with 3 picks. Opening an extra-pick safe doesn't use one up.
- Cash prizes run from 4× to 225× your bet. When your picks run out, the bonus pays the cash you found, doubled if you found the ×2. Total wins are capped at 2,500× your bet.
Controls
Press spin, or the space bar on a keyboard. Press it again while the reels are moving to stop them early. Use + and − to change your bet, the lightning button for faster spins and the circular-arrows button for autoplay. The i button opens the full paytable and rules.
RTP and volatility in plain English
Bounty Gulch returned 95.9% over 5 million simulated rounds, give or take about 0.5 points. That's an average across millions of spins, not a prediction for your next few, and it's all play money here.
We call it medium volatility. Some win landed about once every 3.3 spins, and a poster started sticky respins about once every 5 spins, worth about 1.5× the bet on average. Safe Cracker came about once every 141 spins and averaged about 47× the bet, a third of the return (33.4 of 95.9 points). The best round in 5 million was 586×.
Getting the most out of the demo
- Which safe you pick doesn't matter. The prizes are shuffled, so every closed safe has the same chance of holding anything.
- Respins are part of the same spin and don't cost extra credits.
- Bet size scales every prize, not how often posters or Strongboxes land.
Bounty Gulch FAQ
How do sticky respins work in Bounty Gulch?
A Wanted Poster sticks where it lands and the rest of the board respins for free. Every new poster sticks and earns another respin, and each respin pays its own wins.
How do I get the Safe Cracker bonus?
Land a Strongbox on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the same spin. It came about once every 141 spins in our simulation.
What's the most I can win in Safe Cracker?
Cash prizes go up to 225× your bet, and the ×2 doubles everything you find. Total wins are capped at 2,500× your bet.
How it compares
Leprechaun's Hoard also locks symbols in place, but with gold coins and jackpots. Cosmic Crystals turns its sticky wilds into whole reels for its respins.
Want to play for prizes?
Here the credits are play money. At sweepstakes casinos you can play similar games with Sweeps Coins and redeem the Sweeps Coins you win for prizes, in the states where each operator allows prize play and only if you meet its minimum age (18, 19 or 21, depending on the operator). See the best sweepstakes casinos, or start with how Sweeps Coins and Gold Coins differ.
