Tycoons: Billionaire Bucks is BetSoft’s high-volatility Hold & Win slot, released on 14 December 2023 as the year-end sequel to 2015’s Tycoons. It brings back four familiar High Rollers and stakes everything on one gold-bullion bonus round.<\/p>\n
We found a game that pays modestly on the lines but banks its real money for the Hold & Win feature. A free demo lets us trigger that round before staking real cash.<\/p>\n
The game runs on a 5-reel, 3-row grid with 25 fixed paylines. Bets range from $0.25 to $35 a spin, reachable for casual players while rewarding bigger stakes with bigger jackpots.<\/p>\n
The theme is unapologetic wealth. Four High Rollers \u2014 the Banker, the Sheikh, the Tech Bro and the Vintner \u2014 return from the original Tycoons as the top-paying characters, backed by bags of cash, oil barrels, vintage wine and smartphones lower down.<\/p>\n
This is one entry in BetSoft’s 2023 Hold & Win lineup<\/a>, and it leans hard into high volatility \u2014 the swings are steep, and most of the value sits behind the bonus.<\/p>\n The Hold & Win round is the heart of the game, triggered when six or more scattered Bonus symbols land anywhere on the reels. Those triggering symbols lock in place, and the game awards three respins.<\/p>\n Every new Bonus symbol that lands resets the respin counter to three. The feature runs until the reels fill or a respin passes with no new Bonus symbol.<\/p>\n Here is the catch that defines the design: the gold-bullion Bonus symbols pay nothing in the base game. They matter only once the feature triggers, at which point every locked value is added together for the payout.<\/p>\n It is the same collect-and-lock engine behind Heist: Bank Rush, BetSoft’s money-grab Hold & Win sibling<\/a>, dressed here in billionaire excess.<\/p>\n Each gold-bullion Bonus symbol carries either an instant cash prize worth 2x to 45x the bet, or one of four fixed jackpots. The jackpot tiers are set multiples of the bet:<\/p>\n These jackpot bullion symbols can also drop on any random spin, not just inside the feature. Stacked across a full Hold & Win round, they build toward the headline max win of 10,257x the bet \u2014 reach that rivals Take the Vault, another BetSoft money-themed Hold & Win<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter and the Bonus, and it can land on any of the five reels. Alongside the Suitcase Scatter, it ranks among the highest-paying symbols in the base game.<\/p>\n The purple briefcase Scatter pays in its own right: land three or more for a 20x prize, with five awarding 150, and scatter wins are added on top of any payline wins.<\/p>\n Below the characters and special symbols, the lower-value icons keep the money theme running \u2014 wine bottles, smartphones, oil barrels and cash bags fill the reels between bonus hunts.<\/p>\n Tycoons: Billionaire Bucks carries an RTP of 96.26%, sitting right around the industry average. The volatility, though, is firmly high \u2014 this is a feast-or-famine machine.<\/p>\n BetSoft lists an official hit rate of 42.33%, which works out to a payout on roughly every second spin. Most of those returns are small line wins; the large sums stay locked behind the Hold & Win round.<\/p>\nThe Hold & Win Feature<\/h2>\n
Mini, Minor, Major and Grand Jackpots<\/h2>\n
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Wilds, Scatters and Symbols<\/h2>\n
RTP, Volatility and Hit Rate<\/h2>\n