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Wanted Dead or a Wild Slot by Hacksaw Gaming

by Hacksaw GamingReleased Sep 29, 2021

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Hacksaw's breakout Western slot with DuelReels - VS symbols duel for multipliers up to 100x per reel. Three bonus modes from medium to extreme volatility, 12,500x max win, and a base game that became a streaming legend.

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Specifications

Game TypeSlots
RTP96.38%
RTP Range88.42 / 92.33 / 94.55 / 96.38
VolatilityHigh
Max Win12,500x
Grid5x5
Paylines15 Fixed Paylines
Min Bet$0.2
Max Bet$100
Hit Freq19.36%
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About Wanted Dead or a Wild Slot

A VS symbol drops between two outlaw silhouettes on the 5x5 grid. They duel. The winner's multiplier - anywhere from 2x to 100x - turns that entire reel into a Wild. Land VS symbols on multiple reels in the same spin and those multiplier values stack before they hit your payline wins. That's the DuelReels mechanic, and it carries the entire game. The paytable itself is kept deliberately flat (even the top symbol only pays 2x for three of a kind) because Hacksaw routed all the firepower through those reel-wide multiplier Wilds.

Three separate bonuses, each with its own buy-in price. Great Train Robbery gives 10 free spins with sticky Wilds for 80x - the tamest option, building a wall of locked Wilds across the grid. At 200x, Duel at Dawn floods the reels with extra VS symbols and cranks the volatility to extreme. Then Dead Man's Hand at 400x runs a two-phase sequence: first you collect Wilds (up to 20) and multipliers (up to 31x combined) across a series of spins where each successful collect resets your counter back to 3. Three blank spins in a row end the collection and trigger the Showdown - three final spins where every collected Wild scatters across the grid and your total multiplier applies to all wins. It's the most complex bonus Hacksaw had built at the time.

The streaming community turned this into a phenomenon. Record-setting clips in the tens of millions circulated for months, and that visibility pulled in a wave of players who then discovered the other side of the math: bonus frequency sits around 1 in 265 spins and the base game runs lean between triggers. On top of the three direct buys, there's a FeatureSpins ante toggle that raises your bet percentage to boost trigger odds - four separate paths into the bonus rounds from a single slot, which was unusual for 2021.

Reviewed by Arina, Slots Editor at Spinoxy Media Ltd.