Thundering Buffalo is a game brought to you by High 5 Games. Stepping away from classic conventions, this has a 3-4-5-4-3 layout with 720 ways to win, and it also employs a MultiWay Xtra element to multiply and boost winnings.

This is a slot game that has been designed to suit the tastes of a variety of lot players. There are 720 ways to win which need to be staked at 50 credits a spin - but each credit can be staked from as little as 0.01 coins to 10 coins. This allows a minimum stake of just 0.5 coins a spin - and a maximum of 500 coins a spin. The other per-credit staking option are 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 1.0, 2.0 and 5.

You’ll find a nature scene for the background, with grass and mountains setting the backdrop for the reels. These are given a naturalistic makeover too, with tusk-like corner pieces, ribbon patterns around the outside, and a brown background. 

These buffalo like to have fun and games, and they've hidden all sorts of things around the reservation for you to find - but they have been kind enough to leave you some clues to their whereabouts in the form of some lettered symbols. Find these and you'll be rewarded with between 10 - 125 times your stake for 3-5 matching symbols.

Once you've solved the clues, you'll soon start finding wigwams and totem poles, so you and your fellow tribesmen can sleep under cover tonight and keep the evil spirits away. 5 wigwams pays 300 times your stake, whilst 5 totem poles pays 400 times your stake.

A good night's rest will get you fighting fit for tracking down the buffalo and, if you can find five of them, you'll get a massive 1,000 times your stake.

The interesting appeal of Thundering Buffalo is primarily with its multiway wins feature. This is a MultiWay Xtra game, so wins can be formed left to right as well as right to left, providing matching symbols appear in adjacent columns, whereby the number of these matching symbols from each column are multiplied to calculate your total payout. 

The main bonus away from the main game is with the free spins feature, where you’ll get 8 free spins to play with when you get 5 of the free spins symbol on your reels. These can be retriggered during the free spins round, so you have the potential for up to 240 free spins.

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The user interface is boldly laid out underneath the reels, with your lines in play and multiplier to the left, your bet, latest win and balance in the middle, and then the green spin button to the right. The balance, along with the time, can be found on the top left. Options are discretely shown at the top right of the screen, where you can toggle the sound on and off and view the paytable.

To play, simply select your multiplier, from x1, x2, x3, x5, x10, x20, x30, x50, x100, x200, x300, up to x400. Lines in play are not adjustable, with 720 ways set as standard. This results in a minimum bet of 0.50 and a maximum bet of 200, with a decent variation of increments in between. This should suit both those looking to play on a budget, and the higher rollers wanting to splash out.

Symbols fit well with the theme and include the charging buffalo, a headdress on a totem pole, the free spins symbol, a scatter set against a campfire at night, wild symbols, and a wigwam against moonlight. This is in addition to the card symbols, 10, J, K, Q, A.

Get the free spins symbol anywhere on 5 consecutive reels to trigger the free spins bonus, where 8 freebies will be coming your way. If more than one combination during your spin triggers free spins, these will be added up.

For combinations of symbols, there are tiered payouts and multipliers. For instance, 3, 4 or 5 of the scatter symbols will award a 50x, 10x and 2x multiplier, respectively. The highest paying symbol is the charging buffalo, as 5 of this beast will award 1,000x coins, while you’ll get 150x coins for 4 and 50x coins for 3. Other symbols also pay out staggered amounts for 3 or more on a payline. This MultiWay Xtra element adds a new depth to the game, not to mention winning potential. 

This involves one symbol from every adjacent reel, starting from the left or ending with the final reel on the right. The identical symbol, or a substitute, in a different position but on the same reel, will pay that same MultiWay win again, with the highest win only being paid for each of the MultiWay symbol combinations you obtain. Wins are multiplied by the credits you’ve bet per line, and scatters will award on any given position on the reels.

The wild symbol can appear on reels 2, 3 and 4, and it will substitute all symbols bar the scatter and free spins symbol.

Different reels come into play for the free spins round, which utilises the Multiway bet and bet multiplier throughout. Five of the free spins symbol will trigger 8 free spins on these reels, but you can retrigger more free spins if you land another free spins symbol on 5 consecutive reels. This bonus will continue until either there are no free spins left, or when 240 free spins have been used.

A bet is placed only when it has been received by our server from your handset using our software. Once a bet has been placed it is final and binding and cannot be cancelled or changed. For the avoidance of doubt, a bet remains valid even if the result cannot for any reason be displayed back to your handset (due, for example, to a network failure, interruption of communication, or if you receive a phone call). In the event of a game termination, any relevant jackpot will be paid out on a random draw authorised by the regulator.

The theoretical average return to player (RTP) is up to 94.9%. This RTP represents the long-term expected payback of the game which has been calculated by an independent testing company and monitored monthly.

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