10 Cash Bisons: Slot Overview
Bison, those big lumbering gentle giants, really do get around the gambling industry, and have wandered back onto developer Push Gaming's patch of grass to wind up in yet another online slot. The slot in question is 10 Cash Bisons, a follow-up to 10 Flaming Bisons (2024), a game made in the mechanical spirit of 10 Swords or 9 Masks of Fire. It's the type of slot where certain symbols trigger instant prize wins, the size of which depends on the number of them that land. Not everyone's favourite feature, but it is a popular one, and Push Gaming has attempted to build on the success of 10 Flaming Bison by adding a new symbol collection feature.
Just like its flaming bro, 10 Cash Bisons takes place in the American countryside, where a bird floats above a rocky, grassy, parched scene. The Native American visual references have been removed, however, so the tents and character symbols are gone in 10 Cash Bisons. This time it's all wilderness, peaceful music, and getting away from it all without another human being in sight. Squint and it might be hard to tell the two games apart, and while the features look similar at a glance as well, Push Gaming has managed to revamp some of them, to an extent.
In the base game, 10 Cash Bisons' play area is a 5x3 grid in combination with 20 paylines; however, by engaging the Push-Up, this can be increased to 5x4 with 30 paylines, or 5x5 with 40 paylines. Base bets range from 10c to $/€100 per spin, with 5x4 and 5x5 Push-Up options increasing the stake by 2.5x and 5x, respectively. On the maths side, 10 Cash Bisons is low-medium volatile and has a max RTP of 96.29%, which remains the same when using the Push-Up.
At the lower edge of the paytable are diamonds, clubs, spades, and hearts, moving up to flowers, eggs, horns, wolves, cougars, and eagles. Card suit wins 5 OAK in size pay 1x the bet, while the rest of the pay symbols are worth 6x to 30x the bet for 5 OAK. Wilds are present on all reels. They have the same payout values as the eagles, as well as being able to substitute for any symbol except scatters or Bison.
10 Cash Bisons: Slot Features
10 Cash Bisons sticks quite closely to its Flaming friend in this section, offering features such as Bison symbol instant wins, Bison Cash Collects, free spins where the grid may be expanded, and a bonus buy.
Bison Symbol & Bison Cash Collect
Bison symbols may land in the base game and free spins feature. Landing 4 to 10 Bison symbols awards between 2x to 1,000x the bet. Moreover, collect symbols appear on the leftmost and rightmost reel. Collect symbols collect any instant prizes from regular Bison symbols or Jackpot Bison symbols. Regular Bison values range from 0.2x to 500x, while the jackpots are the 15x Mini, 50x Minor, 250x Major, and the 2,000x Mega.
Free Spins
Getting 3, 4, or 5 scatters on the reels awards 8, 10, or 12 free spins, respectively. During free spins, landed scatters fill the locked row meter, which requires 4 scatters to completely fill. Each unlocked row awards free spins: +3 for the first unlocked row, +2 for the second unlocked row, and +1 for the fourth unlocked row. At 5x7 size, there are 60 paylines.
Feature Buy
Instead of waiting for 3 or more scatters to hit, players can buy the free spins bonus round for 85x the bet.
10 Cash Bisons: Slot Verdict
How you felt about 10 Flaming Bisons is likely to be how you're going to respond to 10 Cash Bisons, as well. The games are, for the most part, pretty much the same, though there are some notable differences. Many of them are numerical or mathematical, where the game takes from here, puts it there, and so on. For instance, volatility is down, and changes have been made to jackpot values, though a Collect symbol has been introduced to diversify the way cash can be awarded. Push Gaming has taken quite a liking to this 9 Masks of Fire style since releasing 10 Swords, and the scatter symbol instant prize feature has become a go-to tool in its gameplay arsenal to draw from.
Other changes include the Bison Cash Collect. Before, you had to land Jackpot Bison symbols along with three or more other Bison symbols to win a jackpot. Now, the Collect symbol will do it for you. It will also collect the values imprinted on Bison symbols, which is a hugely popular mechanic. Some may begrudge the game's diminished Grand prize, dropping from 5,000x in 10 Flaming Bisons to the current 2,000x, but the max wins in both games are basically the same, with 10 Cash Bisons topping out at 5,600x the bet. In other words, there are different ways to win, but the overall monetary goal is about the same. The flow to potentially get there has been altered and is more entertaining to boot for those who enjoy collecting cash symbols.
Fair to say that players who liked 10 Flaming Bisons should slip effortlessly into 10 Cash Bisons as well. Aside from the Mega prize decrease, perhaps, the rest of the changes are positive ones, meaning the game delivers the same sort of feels in a somewhat new and revised way. Of course, if the previous Bison game didn't blow your hair back, and these scatter symbol prize ladder games appeal to a select audience, then there isn't much else 10 Cash Bisons does that is likely to change minds.
10 Cash Bisons refines the original with lower volatility and a new cash collect mechanic, but its appeal remains limited to fans of the Bison series.
