Dead Man's Bullet Slot Review
Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona, has a very famous headstone 🪦. It belongs to Lester Moore, a Wells Fargo agent who got into an argument with a customer over a mangled package 📦, and the 2 of them shot each other.
The marker reads: "Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs from a .44 🔫, no Les no more." It's still standing, and it's one of the most photographed graves in the West. Customer service has come a long way, thankfully.
Dead Man's Bullet slot is Skywind's trip back to that same dusty corner of the West, and I'd like to walk out with less air conditioning than Les.
Gameplay
Considering this is a Western-themed game, we were always going to find the grid in the middle of a dusty street in a one-horse town. Because god forbid the designers have to come up with something innovative.
The grid is 3x1 with 1 payline, so 3 reels and 1 row. The RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 96.5%, volatility is medium, and the max multiplier is 9,990x. The max win is $399,600, with bets running from $0.20 to $40.
Read that again, because it's the headline: a 9,990x max multiplier out of 3 reels and 1 payline, at medium volatility - that's not something you see every day.
The Cash Coin symbol lands on any reel in the base game and comes in 3 tiers. Bronze pays 0.1x or 0.2x, Silver pays 0.5x or 1x, and Gold pays 2x, 5x or 10x. The Blank lands on any reel too, and it's exactly what it sounds like.
The Golden Coin also turns up on any reel, but in the base game only. It can randomly kick off the Static Jackpots feature.
The Collector is the sheriff of this town, and he only lands on reel 2. He starts the Re-spins feature, and he carries a star (Bronze, Silver or Golden, which tells you which multiplier wheel he spins) plus 1, 2 or 3 bullets.
He's also a bit pushy. If the Collector stops directly above or below a Blank on reel 2 and there's no Golden Coin on reels 1 and 3, he can randomly nudge up or down onto the line and start the feature anyway.
There are 4 fixed jackpots beside the reels: Mini (15x), Minor (30x), Major (100x) and Mega (1,000x).
Features
RE-SPINS:
The Collector landing on reel 2, straight up or by the nudge, starts Re-spins. He locks onto reel 2 for the whole feature.
A multiplier wheel matching his star color appears above him and spins his opening multiplier. The bullets he's carrying (1, 2 or 3) are your re-spins.
Each re-spin only spins reels 1 and 3. Any Cash Coin that lands there gets collected by the Collector and added to his cash pile.
Multiplier symbols land on reels 1 and 3 in Bronze, Silver and Gold tiers, and each spins its own wheel. The Bronze Wheel gives 2x to 7x, the Silver Wheel 8x to 18x, and the Golden Wheel 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 333x or 999x.
Whatever the wheel lands on gets added to the Collector's multiplier, which caps at 999x. Once he's there, extra Multiplier symbols add nothing.
Bullet symbols on reels 1 and 3 keep you in the saddle. One Bullet adds 1 re-spin, 2 Bullets add 2, and no Bullet can land while 3 re-spins are already banked. One thing to note, though, is that a Blank on BOTH reels 1 and 3 costs you 1 re-spin.
When the re-spins run out, the Collector pays his collected cash times his collected multiplier. If he never collected any cash, the feature pays nothing, whatever the multiplier says. A 999x on an empty pile is a very expensive way to multiply zero.
STATIC JACKPOTS:
A Golden Coin in the base game may randomly award Static Jackpots. Note the word may, because not every Golden Coin does.
Reels 1 and 3 stop on Reward symbols (Mini, Minor, Major and Mega), which only show up in this feature. If they don't match, reel 1 nudges down and reel 3 nudges up until they do.
Then reel 2 spins, and 3 things can happen. A Blank respins the reels and the matching starts over. The Collector takes the matched jackpot and the feature ends.
The Super Collector is the one you want. He takes that jackpot and stays locked, then reels 1 and 3 spin and nudge again until a second pair matches. He takes that one too, and the feature ends with both paid.
So you walk out with 1 jackpot, anywhere from the 15x Mini to the 1,000x Mega, or 2 if the Super Collector shows up for work.
Performance
I didn't have to put a bullet in this game like a lame mule. It ran just fine and whizzed through thousands of games in auto-play mode with turbo on.
Maximum Win
Stack the max multiplier of 9,990x on the top bet of $40 and the max win is $399,600. The minimum bet is $0.20.
Conclusion
The money in the slot lives in Re-spins, where the Collector's cash pile gets multiplied by his multiplier. Static Jackpots is the other earner, and a handy one, but it plays second fiddle.
The max multiplier is exactly a 10x Gold Cash Coin times the 999x multiplier cap, so it needs the Collector maxed out at 999x AND sitting on 10x of cash.
Static Jackpots can't get you anywhere near that. The best it does is 2 Mega jackpots via the Super Collector, which is 2,000x. Nice money, but a fraction of the max multiplier.
There’s no shortcut, either. You wait for the Collector and the Golden Coin like everybody else in town.
Medium-risk players on small to mid bets are the natural fit, especially if a simple 3-reel machine with a proper top prize sounds like a good night.
Slot Details
Game Provider: Skywind
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 1
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.5%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 9,990x
Max Win: $399,600
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