Mustang Gold Megaways

The familiar herd at Pragmatic Play is kicking up dust over the prairie again — only this time the original 25 paylines have been trampled flat. In their place a Megaways engine roars under the hood, and the grid swells and shrinks with every cascade, as if the Wild West horizon itself were breathing. The good old cash-collect mechanic is still here — but now it is bolted onto a dynamic grid and cranked up to 117,649 ways.

The numbers, no poetry: base RTP is 96.55%, volatility is high (5/5 on the provider scale), up to 117,649 ways per spin with tumble cascades, and the win cap sits at 5,000x your bet. The signature feature inherits the original — money symbols of random value and four fixed jackpots that get swept up by a Collect.

What did Megaways do to the old cash-collect hit?

The base Mustang Gold from 2019 was a calm rodeo on 25 lines: money symbols, a jackpot wheel, nothing extra. The 2024 version took the same soul and transplanted it into a Megaways chassis — six reels of variable height (up to 7 symbols on the outer ones, up to 6 on the middle) plus a horizontal top reel with four positions. Multiply the maximums and you get those 117,649 ways.

But the width of the grid is only half the story. Every win triggers a tumble: winning symbols evaporate, new ones rain down from above, and the chain runs until the first dead spin. The old Mustang Gold ground out lines one paid spin at a time; here a single paid spin can ride several waves of cascades in a row — the gameplay feels noticeably denser than its ancestor.

How does money-collect gather jackpots in this version?

This is the heart of the slot, inherited from the original and tuned for cascades. Money symbols are scattered across the grid carrying a random value of 2x–15x your bet, and sometimes one of four fixed jackpots. On their own they stay silent: their value is locked in by a Collect symbol, which on landing sweeps every money and scatter value off the screen into your balance in one motion.

Scatter symbols are not just entry tokens either — each carries from 1 to 5 free spins, and the Collect scoops them up the same way it does money values. And right before the bonus the provider throws in a gamble ladder: you can risk for +3 or +5 spins, building your stash up to 100 free spins. Do not like waiting for the trigger — there is a Buy Free Spins for 120x your bet (an option the base Mustang Gold never had).

96.55% — and what does the prairie do to the variance?

The base RTP of 96.55% sits noticeably above the Pragmatic Play current average — a pleasant karma bonus for a high-volatility slot. Volatility, though, is high, the top of the provider scale: a hit frequency of 1 in 2.39 sounds generous, but the full bonus drops by roughly once every 366 spins. So small change ticks in often, while the big hits the whole thing was built around have to be hunted down.

Who'll take to this roaring Megaways herd?