Paylines
25 fixed paylines
Relax Gaming brought the mustachioed bandit back in February 2023, and the sequel barely resembles its 2020 predecessor. The original was a tidy 5×3 grid. This one stretches to 6×3 with 25 fixed paylines, swaps out the old mechanics entirely, and builds the entire experience around a counter-wild system that rewards patience over panic.
Here's the hook. Wilds only land on reels 2-5, and each one shows up wearing a number between 1 and 5. That number is the wild's lifespan. Every payline win it joins ticks the counter down by one. Hit zero and the wild gets collected, locking under its reel for the rest of the round. While that's happening, every wild win triggers a re-spin, so a single Chapo symbol can keep the reels turning for surprisingly long stretches.
The compounding bit is where things get interesting. Drop a second wild onto a reel that already has one stored, and the multiplier on that reel climbs by +1. Drop a third, +1 again. Eventually re-spins dry up and the Final Spin kicks in: every collected wild expands to fill its entire reel, and if you've stacked wilds across multiple reels, those multipliers don't add. They multiply against each other. That's how the 20,000x ceiling becomes mathematically possible rather than purely theoretical.
Free Spins work on a collection trigger instead of a single-spin scatter check. Sheriff Badges accumulate across the whole base round, and reaching 3, 4, 5, or 6 unlocks 7, 10, 15, or 25 spins respectively. Wilds persist for the full bonus round, not just adjacent re-spins, which is the real value here. Buy Feature sits at 70x stake with a slightly better 96.5% RTP if you'd rather skip the wait.
RTP of 96.10% is fine. Not class-leading, honestly, but acceptable for a high-volatility math model with a 20,000x cap. Bets run from 0.10 to 70 EUR. Is the comic-book Mexican Wild West theme a bit on the nose with its sombreros, cacti, and longhorn skulls? Sure. But the cartoon art has charm, and the desk-bound mathematics underneath is genuinely clever. The collect-and-multiply loop gives every spin a reason to matter, even when the screen looks dead.