Blaze Bank: how it plays, odds and payouts

Blaze Bank is a five-reel, four-row slot with 1,024 ways to win and a hold-and-spin round called Coin Strike. Wins pay left to right on neighbouring reels, and Blaze Coins that pile up on the screen can lock in and build a big total.

Coins are virtual with no cash value. The regular Spin returns 96.998% over time (96.996% to 96.998% including the optional Buy the Strike, a feature that may be switched off). Every spin is decided on our servers.

How a spin works

1. Set your bet and tap Spin. Your bet covers all 1,024 ways.
2. Each reel is a strip of 40 symbols. The server picks a stop on each reel, and the window shows that symbol and the next three.
3. 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on neighbouring reels, starting from the left reel, pay. The Volcano wild fills in for every symbol except the Blaze Coin on reels 2 to 5.
4. If 6 or more Blaze Coins show, Coin Strike starts.

A Blaze Coin pays nothing on its own: coins only pay once Coin Strike has started.

Ways to win

A way is one symbol from each reel, in a connected line from the left reel. If a reel shows two copies of a symbol, that doubles the ways, and so on. A win pays the per-way amount times the number of ways.

These are per way, as a multiple of your bet. They look small because a screen often has several ways at once.

Coin Strike

1. Six or more Blaze Coins lock in place. Each carries a value, chosen as it lands.
2. You get 3 strikes. On each strike, every empty socket of the 20 lands a coin with a 5.24% chance.
3. Any new coin resets the strikes to 3. The round ends when you run out of strikes or fill all 20 sockets.
4. Everything the coins show is added up. Filling all 20 sockets (the Full Forge) adds the Grand, 2,500x your bet.

Coin values and how often each comes up:

Averaged over all Coin Strikes that start, one is worth about 73.5x your bet, and about 11 coins are on the screen at the end. The chance that a spin includes a Mini is about 1 in 358, a Minor 1 in 837, a Major 1 in 2,379 and the Grand 1 in 102,195.

What a spin returns

Roughly 41% of the return comes from ways wins and 59% from Coin Strike. Over many spins:

About 38.7% of spins pay something, and about 9.9% pay more than the bet.

Worked example

You bet 100 coins. Reels 1 to 3 each show a Crucible and reel 2 also has a Volcano wild, then reel 4 has none. That is 1 x 2 x 1 = 2 ways of 3 Crucibles, 2 x 0.0618 = 0.1236x, so 12 coins back. Most paying spins are like this: a return of less than the bet. In another spin six coins land and lock, and Coin Strike adds their values, say 1x, 2x, 2x, 3x, 5x and 25x, and any coins that land on later strikes. A coin landing resets the strikes to 3.

Max win and limits

The biggest Blaze Bank result is 5,000x the bet in one spin, which is the game's own cap and is lower than the game-wide limits of 50,000x the bet and 250,000,000 coins per round. Volatility is very high.

What matters and what does not

• Bet size: scales every pay and does not change the odds.
• Tapping the reels: only skips the show.
• A "due" coin round: there is no pattern. Every spin is an independent draw. See the gambler's fallacy.

The published odds for every game are on the odds page. For how reels, ways and RTP fit together, read How Slot Machines Work: Reels, RNGs and Payouts.