Playson · 2020 · hold and win respins
Buffalo Power: Hold and Win on a phone
You can run this one-handed on a bus. 1.6 s to load, portrait holds, big buttons.
The phone check
Spin and bet sit where a thumb already is. One hand, no stretching. The demo pulls about 7 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 1.6 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.
One build, one return figure
Playson licenses a single build of this one, at 95.86%. The figure in the game's rules footer will match the figure above, every time. That is not true of the 123 titles here that ship in more than one configuration.
Where it sits on the board
That puts it 37 of 306 on our phone score, which weighs orientation first, then how long you wait, then whether the buttons are a sensible size. It arrives 0.5 s quicker than the 2.1 s median across all 306 titles.
For context, 3 of the 4 Playson games on this board hold portrait and the studio median is 2 s.
What the game is
Out in 2020. Playson built it as 5x3, 25 lines with hold and win respins. North-American buffalo slot with bonus-coin Hold and Win respins and three fixed jackpots up to x1000.
Volatility reads high, so the balance moves in lumps, and fifty spins will mislead you either way. Twenty dollars buys around 80 spins at the C$0.25 floor. Ceiling is 5,000x and it is not going to happen to you.
The rest of it
| Studio | Playson |
|---|---|
| Released | 2020 |
| Board | 5x3, 25 lines |
| Mechanic | hold and win respins |
| Volatility | High |
| Top licensed return | 95.86% |
| House edge on that build | 4.14% |
| Max win | 5,000x |
| Minimum stake | C$0.25 |
| Spins on twenty dollars | about 80 |
| Free demo | yes, no account needed |
| Tags | buffalo, hold-and-win, jackpot |
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