Dead by Noon Slot (Hacksaw Gaming)

The Dead by Noon slot has 5 reels, 4 rows and 14 paylines: landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols across a payline, from left to right and starting from reel 1, will constitute a winning combination. Only the highest win per payline will be awarded.

With a minimum bet of 10p per spin, the most you can play for in the UK is £5 a spin (or £2 if under 25). Non-UK players can make use of Autoplay (up to 1,000 auto spins) and Turbo/Super Turbo modes for faster spin speed.

The Dead by Noon RTP rate is 96.27%. With 94.39% and 92.18% RTP versions, check within the game’s Paytable at your chosen site. The number of expected spins based on a £20 balance and playing at 10p per spin for each RTP version is below:

• 96.27% = 5,336 spins
• 94.39% = 3,541 spins
• 92.18% = 2,545 spins

High volatility (5/5), a winning combination will form every 4.55 spins on average with the hit frequency rate at 21.94%. Finally, Dead by Noon offers 10,000 x bet max win potential, which can be won in the base game and 2 free spins features.

With a Wild West theme, the Dead by Noon slot follows on from other Hacksaw Gaming titles such as Duel at Dawn, Bullets and Bounty, Wanted Dead or a Wild and 2 Wild 2 Die.

In this game, you walk into a 1-street town and experience the tension at high noon in a gritty outlaw adventure. With a typical Western setting, the soundtrack is also quite generic. The first thing you’ll notice is the mean-looking character with pistol in hand to the side of the reels.

Intimidating and prominent, symbols include low-value clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts. Higher-value symbols include wheels, ram skulls, cowboy hats, pistols and sheriff badges: the sheriff badge symbol pays the most, awarding 5 x your total bet for 5 across a payline.

With a Wild symbol that substitutes for paying symbols and pays 5 x bet for 5 in combination, other symbols include a Poker Chip and FS Scatters.

Dead by Noon Mobile

Dead by Noon can be played on mobile, tablet and desktop devices, as it uses HTML5 technology. Adapting to any device, you’ll play in Portrait Mode when accessing on an iOS or Android smartphone.

The Dead by Noon slot comes with Row Cascades, Multiplier Chambers that combine across successive reels and 2 free spins modes.

Row Cascades

When a winning combination is formed, the Row Cascades feature is triggered. All symbols on the bottom row are removed, with all other symbols moving down 1 row. New symbols then drop in to fill the empty symbol positions on the top row.

Multiplier Chambers

When a Poker Chip symbol lands, it will become active if there is a win on the reels or if the Poker Chip symbol is part of a win.

Triggering the Multiplier Chamber above that reel before any wins are handled, the 5 Multiplier Chambers above each reel reveal a number between 1 and 9.

When a Poker Chip symbol activates a Multiplier Chamber, it transforms into a Wild symbol. Activated Multiplier Chambers stay active during Row Cascades, too. New Poker Chip symbols can also land during Row Cascades on reels with inactive Multiplier Chambers.

When Row Cascades have taken place, wins are multiplied by the combined number produced by the activated Multiplier Chambers numbers. Starting from left to right, if different Multiplier Chamber numbers are 2, 5 and 1, the total multiplier will be 251x.

Only numbers that are on a continuous line beginning with the leftmost Multiplier Chamber will be added together. Finally, only 1 Poker Chip symbol can be on a reel at any time. Multiplier Chambers then reset for the next spin.

Free Spins

Dead by Noon comes with 2 free spins modes, triggered by 3 or 4 FS Scatters, respectively:

• Draw or Die: With 8 free spins, there is an increased chance of Poker Chip symbols landing.
• No Aim, No Fame: With 10 free spins, 1 Poker Chip symbol is guaranteed to land on every free spin.

With both features, landing 2 or 3 FS Scatters will reward you with 2 or 4 extra free spins, respectively.

Bonus Buy

Dead by Noon has 5 Bonus Buy options. 2 of them aren’t available in the UK, though. Below is all the information:

High-Roller FeatureSpins

In terms of the High-Roller FeatureSpins option, only Wanted Poster and Dead symbols appear on the reels. When Wanted Poster symbols land, between 1 and 4 of them will land on each reel (3-4 on reel 1, 2-4 on reel 2, 1-3 on reels 3 and 4 and 1-2 on reel 5).

Once this happens, you are awarded 6 shots. With 5 shots fired, 1 is fired on each reel. If the shots hit 1 Wanted Posted symbol on all 5 reels, you’ll win the game’s max win (10,000 x your total bet). If 4 shots hit Wanted Poster symbols and 1 hits a Dead symbol, the Lucky Shot occurs with the 6^th shot fired at the missed Wanted Poster. You have a 1 in 10.39 chance of winning the max win.

Dead by Noon Slot

Rating: 4.2/5

Dead by Noon is another solid Western that focuses on compounding Multiplier Chambers that will determine that whether your duels result in victory or death.

Chris Taylor

The Dead by Noon slot may be another Wild West-themed release but this brutal game focuses on Multiplier Chambers that can mean you’ll be the last gunslinger standing in this tense adventure.

Visually reminiscent of Duel at Dawn, Dead by Noon uses the Row Cascade feature found in the Smoking Dragon slot. If you get a winning combination with symbols on the upper rows, you will continue to win until they drop off the bottom reel.

Then you have the Multiplier Chambers which are more miss than hit. To activate them, you need a win on the reels or if a Poker Chip is part of a win. Now, for them to apply, you need to activate a Poker Chip on reel 1, with subsequent reels needs for the multipliers to multiply each other.

I’ve landed multipliers on reels 1, 3, 4 and 5 a few times but landing them on consecutive reels is the key to winning big. In the 2 free spins modes, you have a higher chance of Poker Chip symbols and 1 guaranteed Poker Chip symbol on each free spin.

Non-UK players with deeper pockets should consider the all-action High-Roller FeatureSpins option. If you manage to shoot Wanted Poster symbols on all 5 reels, you’ll pocket the game’s max win.

With 10,000 x bet max wins, Dead by Noon doesn’t offer the payout potential of other Western slots (Tombstone Slaughter comes to mind) but the unique way the Multiplier Chambers can combine and light up the screen is something to behold. That said, expect plenty of near misses in this all or nothing-type game.

If it’s Wild West slots you want, my guide recommends the 10 best games including the Tombstone games from Nolimit City, NetEnt’s Dead or Alive 2, Relax Gaming’s Money Train 2 and Hacksaw Gaming’s very own Le Cowboy.

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The Dead by Noon slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades.

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