Action Cash Lightning Bounty Slot Review
Three strongboxes sit open above the reels of a desert ranch at sunset, green, red and purple, each stamped with a gold sheriff’s star and each slowly filling with coins as you play. Action Cash Lightning Bounty hides almost all of its interest in those chests: SpinPlay Games has built a slot whose base game barely matters and whose coin-colour meter decides everything about what the bonus round becomes.
It runs on a 5×3 grid, 20 paylines in the base game stretching to 40 in one boost, at 96.43% RTP and high volatility, with stakes from 0.20 to 50.00. The same Action Cash mechanic turned up in 777 Gold Action Cash in 2024, and the Action Boost Max games run this family’s other format. No maximum win figure exists for this one, unusual for a game with four jackpots attached.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a straightforward 20-payline affair. Wins pay left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination counts on each payline. If several winning combinations land on a single line, the best one takes the payout.
The total win for a spin is simply the sum of every line win. The four coin symbols, green, red, purple and gold, all act as wilds.
They substitute for everything except the Action Cash and Prize symbols, and they can form their own winning combinations too. Every coin that lands also collects into the chest of its matching colour above the reels, so the wilds do two jobs at once: completing line wins and feeding the feature meter.
The paying symbols are a tidy western set, topped by the guns and bounty icon. Here’s what each one returns as a multiple of your line bet:
- Guns/Bounty: 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 5x for five
- Gold Bars and Money Bag: 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 2.5x for five
- Cowboy Hat and Boots: 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 2x for five
- A, K, Q, J, 10, 9: 0.1x for three, 0.25x for four, 1x for five
Action Cash Feature
One symbol breaks the ordinary rhythm. The Action Cash symbol lands on reel 5 in the base game, and when it does, every Action Cash symbol on screen awards the prize displayed on each Prize symbol.
During Green Coin free spins it appears on reels 1 and 5 as well, doubling the doors it can walk through. That’s the mechanic the whole family of these games is named for, and it’s the reason reel 5 is worth watching on every base spin.
Action Cash Lightning Bounty Action Boost Free Spins
Whenever one or more coins appear, there’s a chance the free spins trigger. Each coin collects into the chest of its own colour above the reels.
The combination of coins that have collected when the round fires determines which Action Boost you get. The bet multiplier stays the same as the triggering game. One, two or three boosts triggering on a single spin award 10, 15 or 20 initial free spins respectively, and further boosts can trigger inside the round, each adding five more spins. Once all boosts are running, no additional spins can be won.
The Gold Coin is the odd one out. It only appears during Red Coin free spins or when every boost is active, and it doesn’t collect to any chest and can’t award additional free spins. It’s pure wild when it lands, nothing more.
Green Coin Action Boost
The green boost is the structural one. All five reels grow to a height of five symbols, the payline count rises to 40, and Action Cash symbols are added to reel 1.
The Green Coin itself doesn’t appear during the round, so what you gain in grid space and Action Cash coverage, you give up in further green collection.
Red Coin Action Boost
This is the jackpot round. Every coin that lands awards a coloured star, and the stars collect towards four fixed jackpots:
- 6 Red Stars wins the MEGA jackpot
- 5 Purple Stars wins the MAJOR jackpot
- 4 Blue Stars wins the MINOR jackpot
- 3 Green Stars wins the MINI jackpot
Collect every star for a jackpot and that jackpot pays, then its stars reset to zero. A single round can therefore take more than one shot at the ladder.
The Red Coin doesn’t appear during the round, but the Gold Coin does, keeping the star flow going.
Purple Coin Action Boost
The purple boost upgrades the Action Cash symbol itself. When it lands, it awards either +1 free spin, +2 free spins, or a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier.
The multiplier applies only to the prizes that particular Action Cash symbol pays out, not to the whole round, which keeps the big multipliers honest and localised. As with the others, the Purple Coin doesn’t appear during its own round.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Most of a session here is spent watching the strongboxes rather than the reels. That’s the honest shape of it: you’re filling three chests above a fairly plain ranch, and the payoff is whatever their contents unlock. For a player who likes that slow build, that meter-watching is exactly the draw.
The best thing in it is the jackpot ladder resetting after it pays, because a single Red Coin round can legitimately climb it twice. The weak spot is everything before that: five-of-a-kind on the top symbol returns just 5x your line bet, and the base game gives you little to show for the wait.
This one’s for jackpot chasers and patient collectors who enjoy a slot that makes them work for the good part. Anyone after a base game that entertains on its own will ride out of this canyon early; those who stay for the chests get a genuinely layered round when they finally open.
Action Cash Lightning Bounty FAQs
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What is the RTP of Action Cash Lightning Bounty?
Action Cash Lightning Bounty runs at 96.43% RTP, which is comfortably above the typical floor for a high-volatility release. -
Is Action Cash Lightning Bounty high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility slot, with a hit frequency of 22.66%, so wins land on roughly one spin in four and dry spells are part of the deal. -
How does the Action Cash feature trigger?
The Action Cash symbol lands on reel 5 in the base game, and on reels 1 and 5 during Green Coin Action Boost free spins. When it lands, every Action Cash symbol on screen awards the prize displayed on each Prize symbol. -
What do the Red Coin stars do in Action Cash Lightning Bounty?
During Red Coin Action Boost free spins, every coin awards a coloured star. Collect 6 Red Stars for the MEGA jackpot, 5 Purple for MAJOR, 4 Blue for MINOR or 3 Green for MINI. Once a jackpot pays, its stars reset, so the ladder can be climbed again in the same round. -
How many free spins does Action Cash Lightning Bounty award?
One, two or three Action Boosts triggering on a single spin award 10, 15 or 20 initial free spins respectively. Each additional boost triggered inside the round adds five more spins. -
What do wilds substitute for in Action Cash Lightning Bounty?
The green, red, purple and gold coin symbols are all wilds, standing in for everything apart from the Action Cash and Prize symbols, and they count as paying symbols in their own right. The gold coin only appears during Red Coin free spins or when all Action Boosts are active, and it doesn’t collect to the chests. -
How many paylines does Action Cash Lightning Bounty have?
The base game plays 20 fixed paylines, rising to 40 during the Green Coin Action Boost, when all reels grow to five symbol positions. -
Who makes Action Cash Lightning Bounty?
SpinPlay Games, the studio behind the wider Action Boost and Action Cash families, including 777 Gold Action Cash and the Action Boost Max series.
