Buffalo Blitz: Cash Collect Slot by Playtech

Land three or more Free Games symbols and the round pauses to ask which bonus you want, and the two choices play almost nothing alike. Pick the Cash Collect Free Games and a collector bolts onto reels 1 and 6 for the whole round, sitting there locked while cash coins drop across reels 2 through 5. Every locked collector sweeps up all of them on each spin, so two collectors on the board means every coin that lands gets banked twice. Pick the Blitz Free Games instead and the coins step aside: now any Wild that lands carries a random x2, x3 or x5 multiplier on the ways it completes, and when several Wilds sit in the same winning way those multipliers add together rather than multiply out. Keep hitting two or more Scatters in that round and the spins keep topping up.

The base game runs on the old Buffalo Blitz 4096-ways engine, so matching symbols pay from the leftmost reel across any adjacent positions instead of along fixed lines. The blazing-gold buffalo head is the one to chase. It lands stacked and wreathed in flame against a sky of bruised purple and fiery orange split by white lightning, with the reel window sitting over a cracked prairie that glows orange from below like cooling lava.

Cash Collect drives the money outside the bonus too. The collector shows up on reel 1, reel 6, or both at once, and whenever it does it hoovers up every coin value on screen in one go. A Cash Collect or Scatter that stops just above or below the grid can nudge into view to count. And there's a payout hook wired into it: if a Lightning Coin lands while a collector is present, it pays one of four fixed jackpots at random, from the Mini at 20x up through Minor and Major to the Grand at 1,000x your stake.

Then there's the Power Buffalo, which can stampede in on any spin, base game or Blitz round, and dump extra symbols onto the reels. That might be a scattering of cash and Lightning coins, one or two more collectors, or a pair of Scatters that hands you the bonus outright. Not keen on waiting for three Scatters to line up? The Buy Feature lets you purchase the Free Games directly, and you still get to pick which of the two types you play once you're in.