Tombstone RIP Slot Overview
Tombstone RIP is a Wild West slot from Nolimit City that launched in January 2022, and honestly, mate, it hit like a freight train. Built on a 2-3-3-3-1 reel layout with 108 ways to win, the whole thing is soaked in this bleak monochrome style. Hangings, outlaws, wanted posters. Proper dark stuff.
Right from the loading screen you get asked a daft question before you can even play. Charming, innit? Stakes run from 10p up to 50 quid, volatility is rated insane by the developer themselves, and there is a record-breaking 300,000x max win lurking in the maths. Not your relaxed Sunday afternoon spinner, this one. More like a showdown at high noon with your bankroll.
Symbols and Paytable
Five low-pay royals (10 through A) sit at the bottom of the paytable, worth 0.5x to 0.9x for a five of a kind. Premium symbols are character tiles: Sheriff, Gambler, Skinny Joe, Edda Star and El Gordo. El Gordo tops the lot at 4x your bet for five. Not huge on paper, but the wild mechanics blow things open.
Wilds come in several flavours. xNudge Wilds are stacked on the three middle reels and always nudge fully visible, adding +1 to their multiplier per nudge. Reel Split Wilds chop every symbol on their reel in half, doubling them. Then there is the xSplit Wild on reel 5, which counts as two symbols and slices symbols to its left in four different patterns. If it splits an xNudge Wild, the multiplier gets doubled. Sounds complicated but you pick it up after a few spins.
Only premium symbols, wilds and scatters land on reel 5, and everything on that reel counts as two symbols. Also worth knowing: the xRIP feature cancels any win that is less than your bet. So those tiny 0.1x hits? Gone. Just gone. Brutal, but it feeds into that massive top-end potential.
Symbol Payouts
| 5 | x4 |
| 4 | x0.8 |
| 3 | x0.5 |
| 5 | x3 |
| 4 | x0.6 |
| 3 | x0.4 |
| 5 | x2.5 |
| 4 | x0.5 |
| 3 | x0.4 |
| 5 | x1.5 |
| 4 | x0.4 |
| 3 | x0.3 |
| 5 | x1 |
| 4 | x0.4 |
| 3 | x0.3 |
| 5 | x0.9 |
| 4 | x0.3 |
| 3 | x0.2 |
| 5 | x0.8 |
| 4 | x0.3 |
| 3 | x0.2 |
| 5 | x0.7 |
| 4 | x0.2 |
| 3 | x0.1 |
| 5 | x0.6 |
| 4 | x0.2 |
| 3 | x0.1 |
| 5 | x0.5 |
| 4 | x0.2 |
| 3 | x0.1 |
Bonus Features
Land 3 Hang 'em High scatters on the middle reels and you get 8 Hang 'em High Free Spins. A progressive win multiplier builds throughout the round every time a wild lands, and it never resets. Triggers roughly once every 194 spins, or 1 in 96 with the Enhanced Bet active. Decent enough, but I found these rounds a bit hit and miss. You can genuinely walk away with zero.
Boothill Free Spins are the big prize. You need those 3 Hang 'em High scatters plus a Boothill scatter on reel 5, all at once. Good luck with that; the natural trigger rate is 1 in 85,000 spins. You get 10 free spins where a Cowboy symbol on the last reel turns all matching symbols wild, and a random multiplier between x5 and x999 gets slapped on top. The max win chance from Boothill is 1 in 16,000, which is genuinely remarkable for a non-jackpot slot.
Outside the UK, you can buy your way in. Hang 'em High Free Spins cost 70x your bet (RTP 96.47%), while Boothill Free Spins will set you back a staggering 3,000x your bet (RTP 97.03%). Fair warning: you will not recoup that Boothill buy about 70% of the time. Not for the faint-hearted.
Bonus Buy Options
Volatility, RTP and Max Win
RTP sits at 96.08% by default, bumping to 96.28% with the Enhanced Bet. Keep your eyes peeled though, because a lower 94.08% version exists and plenty of casinos use it. Always check the help files. Volatility is officially rated insane, 10 out of 10 by Nolimit City. Hit frequency is around 8.7%, so you are not winning often.
Max win is 300,000x your stake. When this came out, it was the highest non-jackpot payout available anywhere online. Hitting it from the base game is a 1 in 130 million shot. From Boothill Free Spins it drops to 1 in 16,000, which still sounds long but is genuinely achievable compared to most jackpot slots. Winning 100x or more happens roughly once every 1,014 spins on average, so the game does pay when it pays.
