Chicken Rush Slot Overview
Chicken Rush is a Wild West-themed video slot from BGaming, built on a 5x5 grid with 3,125 ways to win. Released in May 2024, it puts a cartoonish spin on the Western genre by casting three rooster sheriffs as the lead characters. Bets range from 0.20 to 50, and the game runs at a generous 97% RTP with medium-high volatility.
What stands out here is the contrast between a deliberately simple base game and a highly unusual bonus round. Wilds carrying multipliers up to 10x keep the main reels ticking over, but the real draw is a free spins feature where every symbol turns into a wooden box waiting to be blown open. I found the visual presentation charming, if a little niche; not every player will connect with the chicken-sheriff premise.
Symbols and Paytable
Lower-paying symbols are the standard card royals: 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A. Five of a kind here pays between 0.2x and 0.3x your stake. Higher-paying icons include a chicken roast, a revolver, and three rooster characters in green, red, and purple. Five purple roosters return the top regular payout of 3x.
Wild symbols appear only during the base game. Designed as a silver sheriff's badge, each Wild substitutes for everything except the Scatter and carries a random multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x, or 10x. That multiplier applies to every winning combination the Wild helps complete, which can produce surprisingly strong base game hits despite the otherwise modest paytable values.
Symbol Payouts
Purple Rooster
Highest-paying regular symbol on the paytable.
Red Rooster
Second highest-paying regular symbol.
Green Rooster
Third highest-paying regular symbol.
Chicken Roast
Mid-tier thematic symbol.
Revolver
Mid-tier thematic symbol.
K
Low-paying card symbol.
J
Low-paying card symbol.
9
Lowest-paying card symbol.
Bonus Game and Feature Buy
Landing 3, 4, or 5 golden coin Scatter symbols triggers the Bonus Game, awarding 5, 7, or 10 free spins respectively. Before the round begins, one paying symbol is randomly selected as the sticky symbol for the entire feature. All grid positions then convert into wooden boxes.
Each spin explodes a random number of boxes, revealing the chosen sticky symbol (which locks in place), a multiplier of 2x to 10x, an extra free spin, or nothing. Dynamite occasionally lands on the reels and blasts open additional boxes. The catch with multipliers is that you must collect at least five before they activate; if you do, the total multiplier value is applied to random locked symbol positions. I found this mechanic engaging but inconsistent. In my sessions, triggering the multiplier collection was rare, though it did produce the largest payouts when it hit.
Three Bonus Buy tiers are available. Bronze costs 50x and mirrors a natural trigger with all symbols eligible. Silver at 100x removes low-value symbols from the pool. Gold at 300x keeps the high-value-only filter and doubles any collected multipliers from 5 to 10. Each tier carries a different volatility level while maintaining the same 97% RTP. The design choice to offer three separate buy-in levels gives players real control over risk, which is a smart touch from BGaming.
Bonus Buy Options
Land 3, 4, or 5 Scatter symbols to trigger 5, 7, or 10 free spins. A random sticky symbol is chosen and all positions turn into wooden boxes. Each spin explodes boxes to reveal the sticky symbol, multipliers up to 10x, or +1 free spin. Collect 5 multipliers to apply their total value to random locked symbols.
RTP: 97.00%
Activates the Bonus Game at 50x bet. All symbols can appear as the selected sticky symbol. Low volatility option.
Feature Cost: 50xRTP: 97.00%Volatility: Low
Activates the Bonus Game at 100x bet. Only higher-paying symbols can appear as the selected sticky symbol. Medium volatility option. Cannot be triggered naturally.
Feature Cost: 100xRTP: 97.00%Volatility: Medium
Activates the Bonus Game at 300x bet. Only higher-paying symbols can appear. When 5 multipliers are collected, they are doubled to 10 multipliers before being applied. High volatility option. Cannot be triggered naturally.
Feature Cost: 300xRTP: 97.00%Volatility: High
RTP, Volatility and Max Win
Chicken Rush runs at 97% RTP across all play modes, including each Bonus Buy tier. That figure sits well above the industry average and continues BGaming's recent trend of higher-RTP releases. Hit frequency is listed at 22.72%, meaning roughly one in four to five spins produces a payout. Free spins trigger on average once every 123 spins.
Medium-high volatility positions the slot between frequent small returns and the potential for larger bonus payouts. Max win caps at 5,000x, which is respectable but not huge compared to the studio's previous work on higher-ceiling titles. For players who prefer a balance of consistent action and occasional big rounds, the numbers here are well suited.
