Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot Slot Review
The jackpot ticker is doing all the selling here, and Pragmatic Play know it. Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot is a safari slot that rarely talks about its own reels: no max win figure is printed anywhere in the game, the free spins can’t retrigger, and the total return of 94.52% sits below what non-jackpot slots routinely offer. That is the deal on the table, and this review takes it seriously rather than at face value.
The game runs on a 5×3 grid with medium volatility, and its four progressive jackpots (Minor, Major, Mega, Grand) can all be live at once. That jackpot layer is the “Brasil Jackpot” half of the name, and it is the reason this game exists: the safari theme is the familiar half, the progressive ladder is the draw.
Pragmatic Play built the base game around multiplier wilds and a bonus trigger that pays from any position. It is a tidy design. Whether the pieces add up to a slot worth your time is what the rest of this review works through.
Base Game & Features
The reels carry a familiar safari cast: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, buffalo and zebra at the top, with A, K, Q, J and 10 filling the lower end. The lion leads the paytable, paying 37.5x the stake for five of a kind. Even the bottom card symbols pay something, starting at 0.1x for three.
- Lion: 2.5x / 7.5x / 37.5x for 3, 4 or 5 of a kind
- Leopard: 1.75x / 5x / 25x
- Elephant: 1.25x / 3x / 15x
- Rhino: 1x / 2x / 10x
- Buffalo: 0.6x / 1.25x / 7.5x
- Zebra: 0.4x / 1x / 5x
- A, K: 0.25x / 0.5x / 2.5x
- Q, J, 10: 0.1x / 0.25x / 1.25x
Wild Symbols
Wilds appear only on reels 2, 3 and 4. They substitute for all symbols except the Bonus, and every wild on a reel carries a random 2x or 3x multiplier on each spin, applied to the win of every payline it forms part of.
Where multiple wilds sit on the same payline, their multipliers are added together rather than multiplied. That is a generous rule: three wilds on one line is a big multiplier, not a compounded one, but it is far better than a single wild doing all the work.
Jackpot Bonus Game
The Jackpot Bonus Game can trigger randomly at the end of any base-game spin. There is no symbol combination to chase, no meter to fill. It simply happens, or it doesn’t.
Up to four progressive jackpots (Minor, Major, Mega and Grand) can be available simultaneously, and a minimum bet of $0.20 is required to be eligible. The winning jackpot is revealed by opening items on a bonus screen until three matching items appear.
One restriction matters: jackpots cannot be won during any feature. Free spins and the jackpot game are entirely separate systems, so the bonus round never carries jackpot potential.
Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot Free Spins & Bonus Features
Triggering Free Spins
Three Bonus symbols landing on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger the Free Spins round. The Bonus symbol appears only on those three reels and pays from any position on them, so it doesn’t need to sit on a payline. Three of them pay 5x the total bet before the round begins.
There is a nudge mechanic as well. Randomly, Bonus symbols already on screen can move down one position without leaving the reel area, triggering a respin in which the reels carrying Bonus symbols shift down while the others stay put. A near miss can resolve itself.
The Barrel Reveal
Before the round starts, a separate 3×3 barrel grid spins to reveal a number of free spins in each cell: 1, 2 or 3. The nine cells are totalled for the final award. A demo-build reveal totalling 15 free spins means most cells landed on 2.
During the round, wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4 become sticky and keep a random multiplier for the whole round. Bonus symbols do not appear during Free Spins, and the feature cannot be retriggered. What you start with is what you get.
Bonus Buys
Two purchase options sit beside the reels. Buy Free Spins costs 100x the total bet and guarantees three Bonus symbols on the triggering spin. Buy Super Free Spins costs 500x and runs the round with a substantial upgrade: every wild carries a random 10x or 20x multiplier each time it lands.
- Buy Free Spins: 100x total bet, standard round with sticky 2x/3x multiplier wilds
- Buy Super Free Spins: 500x total bet, wilds carry 10x or 20x multipliers on every hit
The Super version is where the real ceiling sits. Five times the price for multipliers up to ten times stronger is a steep but coherent trade, assuming the wilds cooperate and land where the paylines want them.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.8/10
The trade here is unusually clean: a slice of your expected return is diverted into a jackpot draw you cannot influence, cannot trigger by skill, and cannot win during a feature. Everything else about the game, the 94.52% return included, is priced around that diversion. Accept the lottery ticket and this is a sound piece of work; refuse it and the maths quietly works against you.
What it does well is the free spins round: sticky multiplier wilds, a barrel reveal with real variance in the award, and a Super buy at 10x-20x wilds that is the one genuinely exciting purchase on the menu. What it does badly is the jackpot presentation. A pick-until-three-match screen bolted onto a random trigger is the laziest version of that mechanic, and the game leans on it hardest where it tries least.
So: jackpot players and low-stakes dreamers will get their money’s worth, and there is nothing broken here for them. Anyone who wants a stated max win, a retriggerable bonus, or a base game with more going on than multiplier wilds should spend their stake on a slot that promises what this one deliberately omits.
Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot FAQs
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What is the RTP of Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
The total RTP is 94.52%, as printed on the game’s own Return to Player screen. On a jackpot game this figure includes the jackpot contribution, so it is the number to use when comparing this slot to others. -
Is Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot high volatility?
No. The game is rated medium volatility, which places it in the middle band between steady low-variance slots and the high-volatility games favoured by big-win chasers. -
How do you trigger free spins in Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
You need the Bonus symbol on the first, third and fifth reel at the same time. Position doesn’t matter, since this symbol pays wherever it lands on its reels. The combination is worth 5x your total bet and starts the round. -
Can free spins be retriggered in Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
No. Once the round begins, the count you won from the barrel reveal is fixed: the feature has no retrigger mechanism of any kind. The only way back in is to buy the bonus again or land a fresh trigger in the base game. -
Can you buy the bonus on Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
Yes, and there are two tiers. The standard purchase guarantees the free spins feature for 100x your stake, while the Super version at 500x upgrades the wild multipliers to between 10x and 20x for the whole round. -
How do you win a jackpot in Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
The Jackpot Bonus Game triggers randomly at the end of any base-game spin, with a minimum bet of $0.20 required. You then open items on a bonus screen until three matching items are revealed, which determines which of the up to four progressive jackpots you win. Jackpots cannot be won during any feature. -
What is the grid size of Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
The base game uses a standard 5×3 grid of five reels and three rows. A separate 3×3 barrel grid appears only on the Free Spins Won reveal screen, where it determines how many free spins you receive. -
Who makes Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot?
Pragmatic Play. Savannah Riches – Brasil Jackpot’s release date is 10 September 2026.
