Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win

Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win Slot Review

Red-rock mesas glow over a tawny prairie at dusk, and above the reels a set of weathered wooden placards hangs curved bison horns either side of the jackpot names. Northern Lights Gaming has built a slot here where the reels barely matter: the paytable tops out at 4x, and every serious result in the game arrives through one feature round. It’s a bold way to spend a beautiful setting.

Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win runs a 5×3 grid over 25 fixed paylines at 96.13% RTP, or 96.56% with the Win Booster active, and it’s a high volatility build. It shares its herd with Bison Moon Megaways, Bison Moon Power Combo and Bison Boom. It’s a pretty dusk, and you’ll be spending plenty of time under it.

Base Game & Features

The layout is a familiar 5×3 with 25 fixed paylines, paying left to right from the first reel. Where more than one combination lands on a single line, just the highest of them pays. Wins need matching symbols on adjacent reels, and the total payout for a spin is every line win added together, plus any scatter win.

The bear is the wild, standing in for everything except the Link&Win and scatter symbols, and it can land on any reel. Wilds can’t substitute for scatters either, so they help the line pays and nothing else.

Symbol pays for three, four and five of a kind, as multiples of the stake:

• Raccoon: 1x, 1.2x, 3x
• A: 0.5x, 0.8x, 4x
• Wolf: 0.8x, 2x, 4x
• Eagle: 0.8x, 1x, 3x
• K: 0.4x, 0.7x, 3x
• Q: 0.3x, 0.6x, 2.5x
• J: 0.3x, 0.5x, 2x

That’s a flat paytable by any measure. The premium animals and the ace tie at 4x for a full line, and everything below them trickles. Whatever this game pays out in size comes from the feature round, not the reels in front of you.

Scatters land on reels two, three and four only, and they pay in any position. Scatter wins are multiplied by the total bet rather than the line stake, and they’re paid alongside any line win from the same spin. Three of them also trigger the free spins round and pay 1x the total bet for the privilege.

Bison Stampede

Bison Stampede can trigger at random after any spin. Flaming bison heads charge across the reels and settle onto positions, then each one transforms to reveal one of three symbols: a Link&Win symbol, a wild, or a scatter.

Any wins from the revealed symbols are paid out after the reveal. It’s a base game-only feature, and it’s the one thing here that can manufacture a trigger from a dead spin. A scatter arriving this way counts towards the free spins trigger all the same.

Win Booster

The Win Booster is an optional toggle in the base game. Switched on, it adds extra Link&Win symbols to the reels, improving the odds of triggering the feature, and it costs an extra bet of 2.5 times your current stake on every spin.

It doesn’t change line pays or the values on Link&Win symbols, and it lifts the RTP from 96.13% to 96.56%. The state of the toggle carries into free spins and can’t be changed there, so decide before you trigger.

What triggers what, at a glance:

• Bison Stampede: random, after any base game spin
• Ultra Link&Win: 6 to 14 Link&Win symbols, base game or free spins
• Free Spins: 3 scatters on reels 2, 3 and 4
• Mini, Minor and Major jackpots: revealed on individual Link&Win symbols during the round
• Mega Jackpot: all 35 positions filled with Link&Win symbols

Ultra Link&Win and Free Spins in Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win

Ultra Link&Win

Six or more Link&Win symbols in any position trigger the round, and up to 14 can start it. All triggering symbols lock in place, and the feature opens with 4 locked rows and 3 unlocked rows plus three respins.

Each open position spins individually, and the respin reels carry nothing but Link&Win symbols and blanks. Every new symbol that lands locks in place and resets the respins to three. A blank simply burns one of them. New symbols can land on locked rows too, though unlocked symbols don’t count towards opening further rows.

Rows unlock as symbols land, so the grid grows while the round runs. It ends when the respins run out or when 35 symbols are locked in place. The round can trigger from the base game and from free spins, and wilds can’t stand in for Link&Win symbols.

Jackpots

Every Link&Win symbol reveals either a cash value or one of the Mini, Minor and Major jackpots, awarded per symbol. There’s no waiting for a ladder climb or a wheel: the jackpot is simply the value printed on the symbol that showed it. Fill the board with all 35 symbols and the Mega Jackpot is paid on top of the total collected across the symbols.

Free Spins

Three scatters on reels two, three and four trigger 10 free spins and pay 1x the total bet. During the round, the centre three reels merge into a single 3×3 Jumbo Block that acts as nine individual symbols.

Landing a scatter Jumbo Block awards 10 additional free spins plus 1x the total bet. A Link&Win Jumbo Block counts as nine separate symbols towards the feature trigger, so one block in the middle of the grid is worth as much as a full reel set elsewhere. Bets and lines stay exactly as they were on the triggering spin, and the Win Booster state carries over unchanged.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a long sit by the waterhole. Most spins do nothing worth writing down, and the canyon scenery is doing the entertaining until a feature arrives. That’s the deal you accept for the Ultra Link&Win round, which is genuinely one of the better respin builds going, because it keeps growing: every landing resets the counter and opens more of the board, so a hot round swells right to the last spin. Fill all 35 positions and the Mega lands on top of everything you’ve collected.

The weakness is everything outside that round. A paytable that tops out at 4x can’t support two hundred quiet spins, and the Stampede doesn’t fire often enough to paper over it.

Hold-and-respin players will feel at home here, and the 0.10 minimum makes the patience cheap. Anyone who wants the base reels to pay their way should graze elsewhere. For the rest, the dusk is lovely, and the herd does eventually come.

Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win FAQs

• What is the RTP of Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win?

  96.13%. Switch the Win Booster on and it rises to 96.56%, at the cost of an extra bet of 2.5 times your current stake on every spin.
• Is Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win high volatility?

  Yes. Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win is a high volatility slot, so wins land less often but with more room for bigger results.
• What is the hit frequency of Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win?

  30.30%, which works out at roughly one winning spin in three. Most of those wins are small line pays.
• How many paylines does Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win have?

  25 fixed paylines, paying left to right from the first reel.
• What is the grid size of Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win?

  A 5×3 grid. In the Ultra Link&Win round the reels switch to special respin reels that start with 4 locked rows and 3 unlocked rows, and in free spins the centre three reels merge into a 3×3 Jumbo Block.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win?

  Stakes run from 0.10 to 20.00 per spin. The Win Booster adds an extra bet of 2.5 times your current stake on top.
• When is Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win released?

  Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win’s release date is 26 October 2023.
• Who makes Bison Moon Ultra Link&Win?

  Northern Lights Gaming, the studio behind the Bison Moon series along with titles like ClusterBuck and Rock the Cash Bar.