A Fistful of Coins

The Sheriff Star acts as the game's Wild Symbol, substituting for ordinary paying symbols but not the Scatter or Bonus symbols. ZeusPlay confirms that the Wild can appear on reels 2 through 5.

There's no multiplier, expansion or additional behaviour attached to it. It's simply there to help complete regular payline combinations.

Perfectly functional, although this particular sheriff isn't going to be cleaning up the entire town.

Landing three Scatter symbols across reels 2, 3 and 4 triggers the game's Free Spins feature.

Having the Scatters restricted to the three central reels makes the trigger extremely easy to follow. More importantly, Free Spins don't simply provide another eight goes at exactly the same reels.

ZeusPlay makes a meaningful change to the symbol set.

The Scatter combination awards 8 Free Spins, with the reels modified so that only the highest paying regular symbols appear.

I like this more than a completely vanilla Free Spins round.

Removing the lower value symbols effectively improves the quality of what's available on every spin without requiring another complicated modifier. It's simple, immediately understandable and actually changes the nature of the reels.

Eight spins isn't particularly generous, though, so there's not much time for the upgraded symbol set to make an impression.

The Free Spins feature can be retriggered, giving players the opportunity to extend the original eight spins. ZeusPlay specifically confirms retriggers in its original game announcement.

It's a fairly standard addition but more useful here than it might initially appear. With only eight spins initially awarded, extending the feature can make a substantial difference.

The Coin Bags act as Bonus Symbols and provide access to the game's second and more interesting feature.

Landing six or more anywhere across the 5x3 grid triggers Hold and Respin.

Each Coin Bag can carry its own multiplier value, so the symbols you're collecting aren't merely there to fill positions. Their individual values determine the eventual reward.

That immediately gives you two things to watch: how many spaces you're filling and what's actually sitting inside them.

ZeusPlay describes its main bonus as Hold and Respin, which falls under the broader industry term Hold and Win.

Trigger the feature with six or more Bonus symbols and they remain locked while the empty positions respin. You begin with three Respins, and every additional Bonus symbol resets the counter to three.

It's one of the most familiar mechanics in modern slots, so there's very little originality credit available simply for including it.

It remains effective, though.

Every new Coin Bag simultaneously adds another prize and buys you another three attempts to find more. That naturally creates more tension as the grid begins filling.

A Fistful of Coins quickly becomes two fistfuls, then three, and suddenly you're wondering whether there's enough room left on the horse.

Each Bonus symbol inside Hold and Respin carries a random multiplier, with documented values including 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 75x and as much as 500x.

When the feature ends, the values of the collected Bonus symbols are combined to determine the reward.

This gives individual Coin Bags very different importance. Filling another position with a small multiplier keeps the feature alive, but seeing one of those much larger values arrive provides the real excitement.

Completely filling all 15 positions ends Hold and Respin with the entire collection of multipliers awarded. ZeusPlay confirms that the feature concludes either when no Respins remain or when the grid has been completely filled.

There's no separate progressive jackpot attached to this achievement, so I wouldn't classify A Fistful of Coins as a jackpot slot.

The maximum advertised potential across the game is 7,500x the stake.