Odds On Winner

Odds On Winner Slot Review

Plenty of slots decorate a bonus round with a theme; Odds On Winner is built the other way round, with a 10-line base game so plain it barely registers until the horses arrive. Pragmatic Play have taken one racing-themed feature and made it carry the entire game, which is a gamble that only pays off if the race itself is worth watching. The reels sit in starting stalls under a gantry of jockey silks, the running rail curves off towards a distant grandstand, and everything interesting happens once those gates open.

Odds On Winner plays on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, a 96.51% RTP and medium volatility, with stakes from 0.10 to 250.00 per spin. It sits in the same approachable middle ground as stablemates like Floating Dragon Wild Horses and Big Bass Splash: a plain base game feeding one properly built bonus round. Whether the horses run far enough to justify a flutter is what the rest of this page works out.

Base Game & Features

This is a classic 10-line layout: three rows, five reels, wins paid left to right on adjacent reels. Only the highest combination on each line counts. It’s a format that needs no explaining, which suits a game whose real business begins once the bonus gates open.

The reels carry racing prizes and card royals. The trophy WILD symbol can land of the base game and substitutes for everything except the BONUS symbol; the HORSE wilds that matter most only arrive with the free spins. The paytable is built around the racecourse, and it’s a steep drop from top to bottom:

• Trophy Shield – 0.5x for two, 5x for three, 20x for four, 200x for five
• Rosette – 3x for three, 15x for four, 100x for five
• Horseshoe – 2x for three, 10x for four, 50x for five
• A / K – 1x for three, 2x for four, 6x for five
• Q / J / 10 – 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 3x for five

Five shields at the top stake is the game’s biggest base-game result, and the royals below them pay pocket money by comparison. Two shields are enough for a small return, which is unusual on a 10-line game and gives the top symbol a presence beyond the five-of-a-kind.

Ante Bet

Before you spin there’s a decision to make. The Ante Bet raises the bet multiplier from 10x to 15x and puts more BONUS symbols on the reels, improving the odds of the free spins arriving on their own. Switch it on and the bonus buy switches off, so it’s one route or the other.

Two BONUS symbols short of a trigger isn’t always the end of it, either. The game will sometimes drop extra BONUS symbols into random positions to complete a set of three, four or five. It’s a small mercy that keeps the base game from being purely a waiting exercise.

Odds On Winner Free Spins & Horse Race Bonus

Free Spins

Land three, four or five BONUS symbols anywhere on screen and the round begins with 10, 12 or 15 free spins respectively. Special reels are in play for the duration. Three HORSE symbols of different colours take up residence on reels two, three and four, substituting for all symbols with an x3 multiplier attached.

The horses aren’t decoration. Everything they do feeds the payout, one step and one spin at a time:

• Each horse runs its own six-position track towards a finish line
• Whenever its colour symbol hits, that horse moves one position forward and awards one additional free spin
• A horse crossing the line applies a further x3 multiplier to the round’s total win
• Multipliers stack: two horses home means x6, all three means x12
• Each finisher awards three additional free spins; the third horse to finish brings nine more on top

The practical effect is that a round which starts on 10 spins can run a good deal longer, because every colour hit and every finish line tops the total up again. A round where all three horses complete the course finishes on x12 of everything it has already paid.

Wreaths

Symbols will occasionally carry a wreath marking. A wreath travels to a random spot on a track, and any horse that lands on that spot gains an extra step forward after every remaining free spin. One well-placed wreath can carry a horse most of the way home.

Buy Free Spins

If waiting isn’t your style, the round can be bought outright from the base game:

• Buy Free Spins – 100x current total bet, triggering the round instantly
• On the triggering spin, three, four or five BONUS symbols can hit at random, deciding whether you start on 10, 12 or 15 spins
• The buy is disabled while the Ante Bet is active

At the minimum stake that’s a 10.00 outlay for a guaranteed seat at the gates; at the top it’s 25,000. Those are the two ends of a wide range, and the round you get is the same one either way – the random BONUS draw on the triggering spin is the only variable.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

You spend most of your time in Odds On Winner watching the stalls, not the race. The base game is polite 10-line spinning where the biggest thrill is two shields landing, and the reason anyone chooses this over a hundred other mid-volatility titles is the free spins, where three horses carry your whole round down the track with them.

The race is a genuinely well-made feature: every win pushes a horse forward and buys you a spin, so a good round keeps extending itself, and the stacked multipliers at each finish line mean the best runs end on x12 of an already healthy total. The weakness is what surrounds it. The paytable drops off a cliff after the shield, and there’s no published ceiling on the round, so the thunder the racing promises never quite matches what the maths will hand over.

It suits patient players who enjoy watching a bonus build, spin by spin and step by step, rather than anyone after a single swing for a headline number. For a slow afternoon at the track, this one runs an honest race.

Odds On Winner FAQs

• How do you trigger the free spins in Odds On Winner?

  Hit three, four or five BONUS symbols on the reels at once and the round starts with 10, 12 or 15 free spins. When only two BONUS symbols are showing, extra BONUS symbols can be dropped into random positions to complete the set.
• What do the horses do in the Odds On Winner bonus round?

  Three HORSE symbols of different colours appear on reels two, three and four as wilds carrying an x3 multiplier. Each colour hit moves the matching horse one position along a six-position track and awards an extra free spin, and a horse that crosses the finish line adds a stacking x3 multiplier to the round total.
• Does the free spins round retrigger in Odds On Winner?

  Yes. Every horse that completes the course adds three more spins, and the third finisher brings nine additional free spins on top of that.
• What does the wreath symbol do in Odds On Winner?

  A wreath travels to a random spot on a horse’s track. Any horse that lands on that spot gains an extra step forward after every remaining free spin.
• Can you buy the bonus on Odds On Winner?

  Yes. The free spins round costs 100x your current total bet, and three, four or five BONUS symbols can hit on the triggering spin to set your starting spins. The buy is unavailable while the Ante Bet is running.
• What does the Ante Bet do in Odds On Winner?

  It raises the bet multiplier from 10x to 15x and puts more BONUS symbols on the reels, improving the natural trigger chance. While it’s active, the bonus buy can’t be used.
• What is the RTP of Odds On Winner?

  The RTP is 96.51%, paired with medium volatility.
• What are the stakes and paylines in Odds On Winner?

  The game runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, and stakes run from 0.10 to 250.00 per spin.
• Who makes Odds On Winner?

  Odds On Winner is a Pragmatic Play slot, and its release date is 9 May 2024.