Grand Patron Slot Overview
Grand Patron from BGaming drops you into a cartel-themed airstrip on a 5-reel, 3-to-5 row grid with 20 paylines. Two additional horizontal reels sit above and below the main grid, and they are the engine behind every major feature in this game. RTP sits at 96.67%, volatility is high, and the max win goes up to 10,000x your stake.
If I'm honest with chat, the Narcos-meets-Scarface vibe is pretty well done. Guns, drugs, a Pablo lookalike as the top symbol. Gritty art style, a private airstrip backdrop, police helicopters in the bonus. It sets a mood, though the cartel theme obviously won't be for everyone.
Symbols and Paytable
Lower-paying symbols here are marijuana leaves, phones, guns, cigars, and cocaine packets. Five of a kind with any of those pays between 1x and 3x your bet. Higher-paying symbols are five coloured characters: the green mule, blue enforcer, yellow middleman, orange right-hand man, and the red El Patron figure. A full line of five pays 5x to 25x, with the red character sitting at the top.
Beyond the regular paytable, you also get a Plane Wild that substitutes for all paying symbols, a Badge Scatter on the additional reels, plus Bomb, Prison, and Multiplier specials. All the interesting stuff happens through those extra reel positions, which I'll break down next.
Symbol Payouts
Bonus Features and Additional Reels
Everything revolves around the two Additional Reels. Each spin, they reveal one random symbol each, and the combination decides what fires. Wild Conversion triggers when a Wild lands on one additional reel and a regular symbol on the other, turning all copies of that symbol into Wilds. Spawners activate when both extra reels show the same symbol, dropping 3 copies of it onto the main grid. That works with Wilds too.
Bombs paired with a regular symbol remove all matching symbols and replace them. Two Bombs together clear the entire grid and trigger a respin. Prison is the big one: pair it with a regular symbol and all copies of that symbol lock in place for a respin. Land Prison on both additional reels and every position fills with one random paying symbol, paying across all 20 lines. Multiplier symbols boost the paired symbol's wins, and two multipliers combine their values for the whole spin.
Free Spins trigger when 2 Scatters land on the additional reels, awarding 12 spins. During the bonus, the additional reels open sequentially from the left, locking in features as they activate and opening a second reel for stacking. If the bonus starts with 2 Prison symbols, you get 3 extra spins where every spin fills the grid with a single random paying symbol. There is also an Ante Bet that increases your stake for better Scatter odds.
Bonus Buy Options
Landing 2 Scatter symbols on the Additional Reels triggers 12 free spins. Additional Reels open sequentially from the left, locking bonuses and increasing chances of stacking features.
Instantly awards 12 Free Spins.
Feature Cost: 100x
Awards 15 Free Spins plus 1 guaranteed Prison Symbol at the start.
Feature Cost: 250x
Awards 15 Free Spins plus 2 guaranteed Prison Symbols at the start.
Feature Cost: 1,000x
Increases current bet to boost the chance of landing Scatter Symbols on the Additional Reels.
Feature Buy Options
Three Feature Buy tiers are available. 100x your bet gets you 12 Free Spins with no guarantees. 250x gives 15 Free Spins plus 1 guaranteed Prison symbol at the start. 1,000x also awards 15 Free Spins but with 2 guaranteed Prison symbols, which means the grid-fill mechanic fires immediately. That top tier is expensive, but the Prison-on-both-reels scenario is where the massive payouts come from.
