Blazing Bison Unleashed Slot: How to Play, Features and Jackpots

Blazing Bison Unleashed is a 1024-ways slot from Fortune Factory Studios, played on a five-reel, four-row grid at 96.10% RTP and very high volatility.

Its headline mechanic is the full reel bison symbol, which lands with a multiplier attached, and adjacent full reels compound those multipliers together.

Fortune Factory Studios is an Isle of Man developer that builds exclusively for Games Global, and the game sets a flaming bison on the North American prairie as both the lead symbol and the central mechanic.

That is the trade-off running through the whole game: every reel the bison takes over removes ways from the board and puts a multiplier in their place.

How Do the 1024 Ways Work?

Symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel on adjacent reels only, and only the highest win is paid per way.

The 1024 figure is a starting point rather than a constant. Full reel symbols count as a single symbol when ways are calculated, so the count falls to 256, 64, 16, 4 or 1 way with one to five full reels on screen.

Fewer ways is the price of the multipliers. With five full reels in play, there’s one way left, and it carries everything the spin has accumulated.

What Are Full Reel Bison Symbols?

Four stacked bison symbols on a reel are replaced by a single full reel symbol carrying a random multiplier, and the size depends on the reel it lands on.

• Reels 1 and 2: 5x to 8x
• Reel 3: 5x to 7x
• Reels 4 and 5: 4x to 6x

Wins are awarded after the reel has filled.

The paytable explains why the mechanic carries the game. All five premium symbols pay the same and all six royals pay the same, so there’s no symbol ladder to climb, and only the bison pays from two of a kind.

How Do the Multipliers Compound?

When two or more full reel symbols land on adjacent reels, their multipliers are multiplied together, and both reels share the new compound figure. Every additional adjacent full reel compounds it again.

A 6x on reel 1 next to a 5x on reel 2 gives both reels a shared 30x. Add a 7x on reel 3 and all three share 210x.

Five compounded full reel symbols can award up to 16,128x.

How Do You Trigger the Bonus Spins?

Bonus symbols land on any base game reel carrying one to six tokens each. Every token collects to the Bonus Collect Meter, where it either increments the meter or fills it outright at random.

Filling the meter triggers the Bonus Wheel, which awards a random combination of 8 to 15 bonus spins, 50 to 250 extra bison symbols and 10 to 50 extra expanding wilds.

When the feature ends, the meter resets to 10%, 15% or 20% full, chosen at random.

What Happens During the Bonus Spins?

The extra symbols awarded by the wheel are added before the first spin: bison to all five reels and expanding wilds to reels 2, 3 and 4.

Expanding wilds that land in the feature become full reel symbols. One landing next to a full reel bison merges with it and transforms into a full reel bison. Multipliers compound here exactly as they do in the base game.

Retrigger symbols carry one to six tokens each to the Retrigger Meter, which starts 10% full and awards five extra spins when filled. There is no limit on the number of retriggers.

How Do the Blazing Bison Unleashed Jackpots Work?

Four jackpots are in play, all of them available only during the bonus spins. Jackpot symbols land on any reel in the feature and collect at random into one of four meters. Filling every slot in a meter awards that jackpot and resets it.

Values are fixed multiples of your base bet.

• Mini: 10x
• Minor: 25x
• Major: 250x
• Mega: 2,500x

Because they scale with the base bet, the cash values shown in the game change as you change your bet.

What Is the RTP of Blazing Bison Unleashed?

The RTP is 96.10%, identical across all game modes, and the volatility is very high. Our guide on how to play slots covers what those two figures mean across all games.

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Key Takeaways

• A five-reel, 1024-ways slot from Fortune Factory Studios, at 96.10% RTP and very high volatility.
• Four stacked bison become a full reel symbol carrying 5x to 8x on reels 1 and 2, 5x to 7x on reel 3 and 4x to 6x on reels 4 and 5.
• Full reel symbols count as one symbol, so ways drop to 256, 64, 16, 4 or 1 as more reels fill.
• Adjacent full reel multipliers compound, and five compounded full reels can award up to 16,128x.
• Bonus symbol tokens fill the Bonus Collect Meter, which triggers the Bonus Wheel, the bonus spins and the four jackpots.
• The jackpots pay 10x, 25x, 250x and 2,500x the base bet.

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