Wild West Gold is a slot machine by Pragmatic Play. According to the number of players searching for it, Wild West Gold is a moderately popular slot. It's not up there with the most widely-known titles, but it has captured the attention of some slot machine players, so give it a try for free to see for yourself. As an added bonus, the slot comes with three bonus features; a free spins feature with sticky wilds, a free spins feature with theoretically infinite spins and multipliers (so long as you continue to progress to the next level), and a randomly-occurring instant cash prize of up to 100x your stake. There’s nothing ugly about that!
How to Win on Winner of the West
There are 20 win lines across the reels of this game, though not in the usual positions. Just 10 of those lines are the normal ones going from left to right across the reels. There are then 5 more diagonals slanting from the lower left to the upper right, and 5 pointing downwards from the upper left to right too. This is the same setup used in the Crazy Money range of games.
To make things even more interesting, different symbols trigger wins in each direction. There are regular symbols which work with the 10 ‘normal’ win lines. There are then slanted symbols, in the form of banknotes which either point up or down from left to right. These only trigger wins on the slanting win-lines. I’d like to say this was easy to tune in to, unfortunately that was not what I found, in fact it is rather difficult to figure out where the wins are coming from.
At least the payouts are generous for the diagonal wins at least. The biggest is 1500 coins for 3 of the red banknotes, you can win 1000 for just 2 on one of the shorter diagonals sloping downwards from the left to right. Wins for the up (from left to right) diagonals are smaller, the best of these being 300. Both of these wins eclipse the regular symbols going across the screen. Here the top prize is for 5 of the cowgirl figures and comes in at 100 coins.
The cowgirl is huge compared to the reels and will appear randomly. When she does appear she throws playing cards into the air, then draws a gun and shoots at them as they fall back down. You will end up with extra wilds on the reels. There can be several of these at once, which triggers wins in different directions.
Different Sized Bonus Prizes
You can trigger each of the two bonuses in 3 different sizes – depending on the 3rd scatter symbol. The first 2 scatters are colorful bonus symbol. You’ll then see the reels speed up and hopefully you will see either a bank or a safe symbol in one of the last reels. There are 3 of each, different colors, which say ‘big’, ‘bigger’ or ‘biggest’. The amount you can win in the games depends on which one you get.
For the Bank Bust Bonus you’ll see an old Western Style bank, you then see an explosion and lots of green bills floating around. You get 15 picks, and need to tap the screen to ‘catch’ each of the bills. As you tap them they reveal credit amounts.
For the sage bonus you see a very bright gold and wood safe. Your task is to get it open, which will result in a big prize. To do this you need to find 3 of the ‘dial’ symbols before you get to 3 of the sheriffs badges. You click on the arrows around the edge of the safe door, revealing one of those symbols or a cash prize.
Playing the Wild West Slot Game
Wild West has 5 reels and 3 rows with 10 possible paylines, and all ten lines are automatically bet each spin. Bets start at 2c for a total of 20c per spin and go all the way up to $4 for a $40 total bet. The range is ideal for penny players who want to keep their bets small and high rollers have the option to go whole hog with the Gamble Feature and SuperBet (more on those later).
The characters in Wild West are expertly animated. The saucy barmaid wears a skimpy equally saucy dress and a wry expression on her face while the hilarious horse is grinning and holding a handful of playing cards. There’s also the saloon, a stack of cash and chips, a decanter of liquor with a couple glasses, a pair of boots with spurs, and a dealing shoe. Cowboys who catch the barmaid will win big, with a total of 1,000 possible coins at stake.
The autoplay button is a favorite feature of players who prefer to sit back and enjoy their John Barleycorn and vittles (that’s beer and food for you city folk) rather than constantly clicking the play button. Players can select from 5 to 100 successive spins.
The Wild West Free Game Feature
Cowboys who appear on the third, fourth, or fifth reel triggers 5 free games. They also act as wild cards and are instant substitutes for any other symbol on the board. During the free games, stacks of red and white chips may appear on the reels. Those chips stacks award random chip prizes. Any cowboys that show up on the reels during the free spins triggers another round of free spins, so free play can theoretically go on for quite a while.
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Extra Wild West Features
Like a number of other NextGen games, Wild West has a Gamble Feature that allows players to let their slot wins ride on a game of chance. Clicking on the small red and black chip under the slot reels takes players to a screen where they can bet on both the color and suit of the hidden card. A correct guess on color is worth double the just-won amount while correctly guessing the suit is worth 4x the spin win.
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There’s also the option to activate the SuperBet, a clickable liquor bottle sitting on top of a flashing blue and yellow button to the right of the slot screen. Players can juice the games max bet by either playing 10 lines and 40 coins for a 5x multiple on any wild wins or players can bet 10 lines and 10 coins for a slightly more affordable gamble that pays out double for any wild wins.