Stampeding Strike - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Stampeding Strike Slot Overview

This is one of those slots that leans into its landscape, with five reels sitting against the prairie. You start with four rows but could end up at 4-6-6-6-4, which turns the 40 paylines into 60. Different animals can appear as wilds during free spins to expand and trigger other features. There’s also a hold and win round, but you’ll need our full Stampeding Strike slot overview for the complete lowdown on this Stakelogic and Iron Dog Studios game.

Across the Prairie

North America has a few scenic areas, from stormy coasts to broad deserts. The Stampeding Strike slot takes place on the prairie, that almost endless expanse of grass covering the Great Plains. The grass is golden, the sky is blue, and in the distance is a line of mountains capped in icy white.

Animals and Gold

Winning symbols in Stampeding Strike could come in several forms. They could be in plain wooden letters and numbers representing figures from a deck of cards, as are used in many slots. They could be the animals of the prairie - buffalo, deer, racoons, wolves, eagles and bears - or they could be collectible nuggets of gold, part of the Stampeding Strike bonus features.

Stampeding Strike RTP & Variance

The RTP of the Stampeding Strike slot is 96.12%. The variance is medium to high.

How to Play Stampeding Strike

Watch out for those stampedes:

1. Golden nuggets, like winning symbols, can be elusive in casinos, so protect yourself with a budget so you don’t get carried away.


2. There’s a minimum bet of 10p, but you can adjust it with the help of the coins button at the bottom right.


3. Other important buttons are the menu, which can open your settings and the help page, mute, and the paytable button, which explains payout potential. They’re all on the bottom left.


4. Read everything, adjust as you prefer, then spin. Sit back and enjoy, but don’t forget your limits. Review before spinning again.


5. This is when you can think about other responsible gambling measures, like timeout functions or self-exclusion.
6. When the fun stops, stop.

How to Win at Stampeding Strike

The 5x4 layout of Stampeding Strike isn’t unusual among Stakelogic slots, even slots with five reels are more likely to have three rows than four. It’s also not strange to have 40 paylines, the left-to-right routes across the reels where at least two or three (depending on type) matching symbols need to land if they’re going to pay. What mixes things up is triggering features and potentially expanding the layout as well as finding special symbols.

Stampeding Strike Top Win

• The paytable starts with the 10, which can pay up to 40 coins when found as five-of-a-kind.


• There are five low-value card symbols, four medium-value animals and three high-value animals.


• All three high paying animals - wolf, eagle and bear - are worth up to 1000.


• Golden nuggets can award mini, minor or major payouts if found three, four or five times.


• Overall, the max win available is x10,000.

Stampeding Strike Bonuses

Most modern slots, including Book of Adventure, have a wild symbol. Stampeding Strike has wild features during free spins. Its wilds expand, help you collect nuggets and sometimes even trigger more free spins. Separate from this, there’s the stampede feature to expand the layout, plus the hold and win round.

Stampede

Triggered at random at any point in the base game, this is when the second, third or fourth reels expand to have up to six rows instead of the original four. This means your paylines increase, to 44, 50 or 60 depending on whether one, two or three reels expand at once.

Free Spins

As is traditional in slots, this feature uses the scatter symbol:

• 3 scatters: 8 free spins.


• 4 scatters: 12 free spins.


• 5 scatters: 20 free spins.

Free spins are played on the full 4-6-6-6-4 layout. A dust cloud will appear and one wild will be chosen as a feature wild to be active during the round:

• Wolf Wild: expands so it fills three positions on the reel at once. If the expansion takes it over a golden nugget, it’ll collect that nugget’s value.


• Eagle Wild: also expands to take up three positions. If there’s no win on the same turn, this will also trigger one extra free spin.


• Grizzly Wild: if at least two grizzlies land on the central reels, one will expand and the other will flee, leaving wilds behind. Grizzlies can collect nugget cash values and boost the value of a regular or grizzly wild multiplier x1.

Hold and Win

Any combination of golden and strike nuggets can trigger this feature, as long as there are at least six. All nuggets become sticky and remain in the playing area for three spins, which resets to three again with every new nugget. If triggering nuggets are on the expanded reels during free spins, their cash values will be added to your total win before the feature starts.

A x2 win multiplier applies to all nuggets if you fill the grid. If that includes at least five strike nuggets, the multiplier will be x5.

Stampeding Strike Overview - Summary

Stampeding Strike is a modern video slot, that’s clear from its graphics, but becomes even more apparent with its sometimes complicated features. Free spins and multipliers aren’t unusual, but the mechanics of the feature wilds are more distinctive, whilst shifting layouts are more common in Megaways slots. Try and stay on top of it all.

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