Buffalo Stack ‘n’ Sync

Theme & Concept

The theme once again takes us to the North American wilderness and the wild animals that live there. Where Hacksaw Gaming have usually used more original themes, or at least reworked them, this is perhaps a slightly surprising choice from them.

Even if the layout would not really be anything new to us, it’s already surprising that they have never made more than one casino game on a 10-line base before. If we compare it to other releases of the same line, we are looking at a game that is slightly more complex or feature-rich, but it’s not hard to understand either. We’ll go into more detail in the following paragraphs.

Win multipliers of up to 100x in the Stampede Spins.

Details of the Buffalo Stack ‘n’ Sync game

Buffalo Stack ‘n’ Sync is a five reel wide, four row high video slot with ten (10) left to right paylines. Winning combinations require three to five matching winning patterns and/or wilds.

The paytable lists the 10-A card patterns plus wild horses, cougars, wolves, eagles and buffalo, with the main winning pattern having a line value of 20x the bet on five reels. Of the special patterns, cacti are wilds and animal legs covered in flames are scatters. The wild line is also worth x20.

Special Features

Stack n Sync & Respin

The special patterns don’t stop there, as there are also SNS symbols on the reels. When such a symbol lands on one of the five reels, 15, 30, 45 or 60 stacked winning patterns are added to the same reel for one Respin, depending on the meter reading. If a new SNS symbol is seen on a Respin, it is linked to the previous reel so that they have identical stacked payout patterns.

If the reels have a full stack of buffalo or bison, they will then have a multiplier of x1 to x100. The winning multipliers of multiple “Stampede Reels” are added together.

Buffalo Stack n Sync vs. 3 other slots by Hacksaw Gaming

Free Spins

A minimum of three scatter symbols trigger the Free Spins feature and four scatter symbols trigger the Stampede Free Spins feature. The former free spins feature has ten free spins, with a higher probability of SNS symbols and their stacked animal patterns.

The Stampede free spins feature also has ten free spins, but now the reels only have S symbols, buffalo and their skulls. Whenever a stacked payout pattern symbol lands on a reel, 5-60 stacked buffalo are added to that reel, removing the skulls. All S symbols also pay one additional spin.

Bonus bets are priced at x15, x100 and x250 – in order of Respin, Free Spins and Stampede Free Spins respectively.

The maximum win in Buffalo Stack ‘n’ Sync is 10 000 x bet.

The payout percentage is capped at 96.36% excluding different versions and bonus bets.

Summary

Hacksaw Gaming shows its creativity again in this release with all the special and free spins features. If there was a point of comparison, it would be Nolimit City’s Buffalo Hunter because of its theme, its name and partly also its free spins feature.