What is the RTP of Wanted Dead or a Wild?

The game info lists 96.38%. Buying The Great Train Robbery runs at 96.27%, Duel at Dawn at 96.33% and Dead Man's Hand at 96.43%.

12,500 times your bet. It can be hit in the base game, Duel at Dawn and Dead Man's Hand. When it is reached the round ends and any remaining free spins are discarded.

How much do the bonus buys cost?

The Great Train Robbery costs 80x the bet, Duel at Dawn 200x and Dead Man's Hand 400x. At a €2 bet that is €160, €400 and €800.

How do VS symbols work?

A VS symbol expands to fill its reel when it will be part of a win. Two outlaws duel, and the winner's multiplier, from 2x up to 100x, applies to the reel, which also turns wild. Several VS multipliers are added together before they multiply the line win.

How many free spins do the bonus games give?

Duel at Dawn and The Great Train Robbery give 10 free spins. Dead Man's Hand has no fixed count: the collect phase keeps going while you land wilds or multipliers, then the showdown adds three spins.

What bet range does the demo use?

The rules list bets from €0.20 to €2,000. The demo started at €2 with a €5,000 play balance.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Guide: Rules, VS Wilds, Three Bonus Games and Bonus Buy

Wanted Dead Or a Wild slot by Hacksaw Gaming

By the CasinoDemo editorial team · Updated 2026-11-09 · How we review

Wanted Dead or a Wild is Hacksaw Gaming's Western slot on a 5x5 grid with 15 fixed lines, VS symbols that turn a whole reel into a multiplied wild, and three separate bonus games you can trigger or buy. The game info lists a 96.38% RTP and a 12,500x max win, reachable in the base game, Duel at Dawn and Dead Man's Hand.

We loaded the demo, read the full game info screen and bought all three bonuses at a €2 bet. Everything below comes from the in-game rules and our own screenshots. Our results are single rounds, not averages, so treat them as examples of how each feature plays out.

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Wanted Dead Or a Wild at a glance

Provider: Hacksaw Gaming
Game type: Slot
Demo: Free, no sign-up

How Wanted Dead or a Wild works

The grid is 5 reels by 5 rows. Wins pay on 15 predefined lines, left to right from the leftmost reel, with at least three matching symbols on adjacent reels. Only the highest win per line is paid, and wins on different lines are added together.

The demo opened with a €2.00 bet and a €5,000 play balance. The rules give a bet range of €0.20 to €2,000, and note that feature buys can cost more than that limit.

Paytable values below are at the €2 bet, so divide by two for multiples of your bet. The five card symbols (10, J, Q, K, A) pay €0.20, €1 and €2 for three, four and five. The skull and the outlaw pay €1, €5 and €10. The money bag and the whiskey bottle pay €2, €10 and €20. The revolver cylinder is the top regular symbol at €4, €20 and €40, and five wilds also pay €40, which is 20x the bet.

Wanted Dead or a Wild base game showing the 5x5 grid with card, skull, whiskey and money bag symbols at a €2 bet — The base game at the default €2 bet.

Wilds and VS symbols

The wild substitutes for every symbol except the bonus scatters and the VS symbols.

VS symbols are the base game's main event. A VS symbol expands only if at least one VS will be part of a win once expanded. When it does, it covers the whole reel and shows two outlaws with different multipliers. They duel, the survivor's multiplier is applied across the reel, and the whole reel turns wild. If more than one VS expands, their values are added first and then multiplied with the line wins.

The possible multipliers are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 20x, 25x, 50x and 100x. If a VS lands on every reel and covers the full grid, the whole grid counts as wild. VS symbols appear in the base game and in Duel at Dawn.

Duel at Dawn

Three or more DUEL scatters in the base game trigger Duel at Dawn with 10 free spins. The rules say this feature is loaded with more VS symbols than the base game, and the trigger screen describes reels turning into wild multipliers of up to 100x.

We bought it for €400 (200x the bet). One spin showed a 2x skull reel on reel 1 and a duel between a 100x and an 8x outlaw on reel 5, but the frame showed no win on it. The round ended at €3.80 after 10 free spins. That is a single result, and the menu rates this buy as very high volatility, which matches what we saw: most of the value sits in rare VS hits.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Duel at Dawn free spin with two expanded VS reels showing 2x, 100x and 8x outlaw multipliers — Two VS reels in Duel at Dawn: a 2x reel and a 100x vs 8x duel.

Dead Man's Hand

Three or more DEAD scatters trigger Dead Man's Hand, which runs in two phases.

In the collect phase, only wild and multiplier symbols matter. The regular symbols are non-winning skull cards. Wilds are counted top left, the total multiplier top right, and every wild or multiplier you collect resets the remaining spins to 3. The phase ends after three non-winning spins in a row. The trigger screen says you can collect up to 20 wilds and a 31x multiplier.

Then comes the showdown: three spins where all your collected wilds land on the grid in random positions and every win is multiplied by the total multiplier.

Our €800 buy (400x the bet) collected 9 wilds and a 22x multiplier. The three showdown spins each landed big win banners, and the feature finished at €1,196.80 after 25 free spins, about 598x the bet. One round, so do not read it as typical.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Dead Man's Hand collect phase with 7 wilds and a 13x multiplier collected and a multiplier symbol landing — Collect phase: 7 wilds and 13x so far, spins reset to 3.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Dead Man's Hand showdown spin with 9 collected wilds scattered on the grid and a 22x multiplier — Showdown with 9 wilds and a 22x multiplier.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Dead Man's Hand total win screen showing 1196.80 after 25 free spins — Our Dead Man's Hand buy paid €1,196.80.

The Great Train Robbery

Three or more TRAIN ROBBERY scatters trigger The Great Train Robbery, a sticky wilds game with 10 free spins. Every wild that lands stays in place for the rest of the feature.

We bought it for €160 (80x the bet). The wilds stacked up steadily and by the last spins most of the grid was wild. It paid €157.00, close to the price. It is the cheapest buy and the menu labels it medium volatility.

Wanted Dead or a Wild Great Train Robbery free spins with many sticky wilds filling the grid — Sticky wilds building up late in The Great Train Robbery.

Bonus buy options and their RTP

The BUY BONUS button opens three cards, each with a volatility label and price. At the €2 bet:

The Great Train Robbery: €160 (80x), medium volatility, 96.27% RTP.

Duel at Dawn: €400 (200x), very high volatility, 96.33% RTP.

Dead Man's Hand: €800 (400x), high volatility, 96.43% RTP.

Dead Man's Hand has the highest buy RTP of the three, slightly above the 96.38% base figure. Train Robbery is the gentlest on a balance. Duel at Dawn swings hardest, and our buy of it returned under 1% of its price.

Wanted Dead or a Wild bonus buy menu with The Great Train Robbery at 160, Duel at Dawn at 400 and Dead Man's Hand at 800 on a €2 bet — The three buy options at a €2 bet.

RTP, max win and the cap

The rules list a 96.38% RTP, calculated over 10,000,000,000 simulated rounds. The max win is 12,500 times the bet. Once a round hits it, the game shows a message, ends the round right away and pays out. Any remaining free spins or bonus features are discarded. The game info does not list the odds of hitting the max win.

Our verdict

Wanted Dead or a Wild packs a lot into a plain 15-line grid. The VS duels give the base game real teeth, and the three bonuses play very differently: Train Robbery is a slow sticky-wild build, Duel at Dawn lives or dies on VS reels, and Dead Man's Hand rewards a long collect phase. Our demo buys show the range well, from €3.80 on a €400 Duel to €1,196.80 on an €800 Dead Man's Hand. Try each one in the free demo before you decide which suits your balance.

How to play Wanted Dead Or a Wild free in Canada

Press Play demo for free on the game page and the Hacksaw Gaming demo loads with virtual credits. There is nothing to download, no account to create and no deposit to make, and it works in your browser on desktop and mobile.

Because nothing is at stake, the demo is the easiest way to learn how Wanted Dead Or a Wild's features trigger and how often it pays.

Playing Wanted Dead Or a Wild for real money in Canada

Real-money online gambling in Canada is regulated province by province. Ontario runs a regulated market where licensed operators are overseen by iGaming Ontario and the AGCO; other provinces offer play through their own provincial sites, such as PlayNow (British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), Loto-Québec, PlayAlberta and ALC in Atlantic Canada.

The legal age is 19 in most provinces and 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. Only play at sites licensed where you live, set limits before you start, and treat gambling as entertainment, never as a way to make money.

Wanted Dead Or a Wild FAQ

What is the RTP of Wanted Dead or a Wild?: The game info lists 96.38%. Buying The Great Train Robbery runs at 96.27%, Duel at Dawn at 96.33% and Dead Man's Hand at 96.43%.
What is the max win?: 12,500 times your bet. It can be hit in the base game, Duel at Dawn and Dead Man's Hand. When it is reached the round ends and any remaining free spins are discarded.
How much do the bonus buys cost?: The Great Train Robbery costs 80x the bet, Duel at Dawn 200x and Dead Man's Hand 400x. At a €2 bet that is €160, €400 and €800.
How do VS symbols work?: A VS symbol expands to fill its reel when it will be part of a win. Two outlaws duel, and the winner's multiplier, from 2x up to 100x, applies to the reel, which also turns wild. Several VS multipliers are added together before they multiply the line win.
How many free spins do the bonus games give?: Duel at Dawn and The Great Train Robbery give 10 free spins. Dead Man's Hand has no fixed count: the collect phase keeps going while you land wilds or multipliers, then the showdown adds three spins.
What bet range does the demo use?: The rules list bets from €0.20 to €2,000. The demo started at €2 with a €5,000 play balance.

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Sources

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