About Badge Blitz
Badge Blitz arrived in September 2024 — the 16th as an exclusive, the 26th on wide release according to SlotCatalog. It plays on a 5×3 grid with 25 fixed paylines, not 20 as our database claimed. The theme is the Wild West: bandits, holsters, carriages and money bags as premium symbols, with horse wilds completing lines.
The base game is deliberately plain. It is the two features that carry the whole thing, and the first is a Hold & Spin.
Six or more sheriff badge symbols trigger the feature. Every badge on screen then turns into a money symbol, and three spins are awarded. Each new badge, or each jackpot landed, resets the counter to three. The feature therefore only ends when three consecutive spins pass without adding anything.
Five fixed jackpots circulate during this phase, and SlotCatalog gives their values: Mini at 10x, Minor at 50x, Major at 100x, Mega at 250x and Grand at 1,000x. Filling all fifteen positions on the grid awards the Grand. These are fixed amounts expressed as multiples of the stake, not progressive pots funded by players.
The second feature is a free spins round, opened by three or more scatters, for up to eight spins. Its own rule is interesting: on every spin, all reels except the first can be entirely covered by an expanded wild, and two expanded wilds are guaranteed per spin. Badges appearing during this phase can retrigger the Hold & Spin.
The default RTP is 96.50%: £3.50 of house margin per £100 staked. That is exactly the studio's standard setting, which 503 of the 634 Pragmatic Play titles in our database carry to the hundredth. Two downgraded builds exist, at 95.48% and 94.49%. In the lowest, margin rises to £5.51 per £100 staked — 57% more for a game that is identical on screen.
Stakes run from £0.25 to £250 per spin. The maximum win is 3,000x, which is £750 at minimum stake, £3,000 at £1 and £750,000 at £250. SlotCatalog puts the odds of reaching it at 1 spin in 4,001,284, and those of simply clearing 1,000x at 1 in 191,571.
Those figures deserve to be set against each other. The Grand jackpot is worth 1,000x, while the game's ceiling is 3,000x: the best named prize in the Hold & Spin therefore represents only a third of the theoretical maximum, the remainder having to come from an accumulation of money symbols and lower jackpots within the same feature. Beyond that, 3,000x places Badge Blitz in the bottom 11.4% of the Pragmatic Play catalogue, whose median is 10,000x and 87.5% of whose titles clear 5,000x.
Hit frequency is 23.31%, a paying spin roughly every 4.29, and the free spins trigger naturally once every 169.56 spins according to SlotCatalog.
The bonus buy costs 100x the stake and places six or more sheriff badges on the following spin, so it opens the Hold & Spin rather than the free spins. One detail is worth flagging: SlotCatalog states that this purchase nudges RTP up, to 96.52%. That is counter-intuitive, since feature purchases generally return slightly less than base play. At 100x, that means £25 at minimum stake and £100 at £1. The option is banned in the United Kingdom, where the Gambling Commission treats feature purchases as a loss accelerator.
