The Wild West Gold Megaways Bonus Math
Base Game Wild Multipliers
The wild symbol is the sheriff's badge. It lands on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5 only, substituting for any symbol on the reels except the scatter, and every wild that lands in the base game arrives with a random multiplier of 2x, 3x, or 5x the bet. When a wild completes a winning combination, that multiplier applies to the win. On a Tumble chain, the wild rides every payout it participates in until it is cleared from the grid, so a single high-multiplier wild can take a small connection and turn it into the headline win of the spin.
Free Spins
The Free Spins round triggers when 3 or more scatters land on the reels in the same spin, awarding 7 Free Spins. The trigger also pays a direct cash bonus that scales precisely with the scatter count:
| Scatters | Direct cash payout |
|---|
| 3 | 4x total bet |
| 4 | 20x total bet |
| 5 | 100x total bet |
| 6 | 500x total bet |
Inside the round, the math changes in one structural way: every wild that lands is sticky for the rest of the bonus. Its 2x, 3x, or 5x multiplier stays attached, and each new sticky wild stacks on top of the ones already in place. That is the entire upgrade story versus the original Wild West Gold, whose multiplier wilds were not sticky.
The round can also retrigger. Landing 2 overlay scatters during Free Spins awards +2 extra spins, 3 overlay scatters award +3, 4 award +4, 5 award +5, and 6 award +6. Stacking retriggers is the way a session extends past the base 7 spins and gives the sticky-wild grid more time to compound.
The free-spins round is where the 5,000x ceiling is built. A spin at the 0.20 floor caps at 1,000 in absolute value; a 100 stake spin caps at 500,000. The path to that ceiling is a stack of high-multiplier sticky wilds firing into a Tumble chain on a 117,649-way grid, which is statistically infrequent and exactly why the volatility class is set to its highest tier.
Bonus Buy
The Bonus Buy costs 100x the bet and triggers the Free Spins round directly. It is not available in the UK or other restricted jurisdictions where regulators have banned paid bonus features. Buying skips the wait for a 3-scatter trigger but does not guarantee any specific outcome inside the round; the sticky-wild math runs the same way it does on a natural trigger. Note: enabling Ante Bet disables the Buy Free Spins option — the two features cannot be active simultaneously.
