Almighty Mustang Express

{
  "game": {
    "name": "Almighty Mustang Express",
    "provider": "Blueprint Gaming",
    "theme": "Wild-west steam-locomotive heist with a black mustang horse, a golden bell, a purple-winged eagle, a blue fox and a green prickly-pear cactus, a golden armoured train and fireball-shaped cash coins, on a dramatic red-purple dusk sky.",
    "art_style": "polished 3D-rendered cartoon look with glossy gold metalwork frames, painterly gradient card backdrops, glowing rim light and fiery particle effects, dramatic dusk lighting, side-on view, bold adventurous mobile-casino mood.",
    "wordmark_in_game": "ALMIGHTY MUSTANG EXPRESS with a TM mark, red-and-orange stacked wordmark with the word EXPRESS in cyan-blue on a purple plate, topped by a golden locomotive front belching smoke; the same artwork appears on the loading screen, the top left of the reels and the top of Game Information.",
    "wordmark_matches_catalog_name": true,
    "sub_brand_badge": "CASH LOCK (gold plate with a dollar-coin 'O'), shown on the loading screen and at the start of the Cash Feature rules.",
    "documentation_purpose": "Exhaustive accessibility documentation (blind/low-vision, deaf/hard-of-hearing, colour-blind, motor-impaired users) built from desktop 1280x800 frames, OCR of the Game Information panel and zoomed crops.",
    "device_documented": "desktop 1280x800",
    "language": "English",
    "game_kind": "video slot",
    "grid": "5 reels x 3 rows in the base game, Bonus Spins and Cash Feature (15 positions); the Almighty Mustang Express feature uses a separate 10-position train-carriage layout (2 rows of 5 round portholes).",
    "paylines": "20 fixed lines, left to right, 3/4/5 matching symbols from the leftmost reel (paytable_p11, paytable_p12 line diagrams 1-20)."
  },
  "color_palette": {
    "base_game_background": "Dark navy-blue reel window inside an ornate gold frame; behind it a dramatic purple-to-crimson dusk sky with smoky clouds; a glowing golden locomotive nose sits at the left edge on dark rails.",
    "frame": "Warm antique gold with brass pipes, gauges and rivets; jackpot plaques have dark metal wings.",
    "feature_backgrounds": "Cash Feature and Almighty Mustang Express feature turn the whole background deep red (Cash Feature, with the reel window unchanged); Almighty Mustang Express feature moves inside a mustard-yellow riveted train carriage with brass pipes; Bonus Spins have a burnt-orange/brown smoky sky.",
    "accent_colors": "gold, fiery orange, crimson red, purple, cyan-blue, green",
    "accent_colors_where": "Gold: frames, bell, headings. Fiery orange/red: cash-coin fireballs and the wordmark. Purple: eagle card, A royal, GRAND-adjacent banners and the START button. Blue: fox card, MAJOR plaque, J royal. Green: cactus card, MINOR plaque and the confirm tick of Express Bet. Yellow: all UI text labels (STAKE, CREDIT, headings of Game Information).",
    "ui_text": "Bright yellow headings and labels on near-black panels (Game Information, STAKE SELECT, AUTOPLAY), white body text, white outlined round buttons."
  },
  "symbols": {
    "note": "Identities and values read from zoomed paytable_p2/paytable_p3 crops. Paytable is printed in pounds at a stake of 1.00 (paytable_bet_anchor 1.00); on the reels line wins are multiplied by the base game bet (rules: 'REEL WINS ARE MULTIPLIED BY THE VALUE OF THE BASE GAME BET'). Proof of basis: base_game_win_line.png shows LINE 16 PAYS 1.50 for five bells at STAKE 0.10 (bell x5 = 15.00 at 1.00). The paytable prints no wild or scatter payout.",
    "wild": {
      "name": "Black mustang (WILD)",
      "appearance": "A black rearing mustang horse with a flowing mane in a tall gold-framed card with a fiery red-orange sky and a sunset over a plain behind it. In the Game Information panel the wild is shown twice: as the normal square horse-head card, and as a tall full-reel version with the horse rearing up on its hind legs.",
      "on_symbol_text": "No text is printed on the card; the Game Information heading above it reads WILD SYMBOL.",
      "behaviour": "Substitutes for all symbols except Bonus scatters, Cash Pot scatter symbols, Cash Prize scatter symbols and Train symbols. In Bonus Spins any wild that lands in view expands to cover the whole reel it lands on (expanded_wild frame: the rearing horse fills reel 3). Bonus Spins reels contain stacked wilds; intro screen says 'NUDGING STACKED WILDS' (a stack of wilds shifts down into view).",
      "same_as_top_symbol": "Visually the wild is the same black-horse artwork as the highest-paying horse symbol in the paytable (red medallion with a stylised horse at the bottom of the card); the paytable lists one horse entry with the pays below. Whether the reel strip treats horse and wild as one symbol is not stated on the frames.",
      "payouts": {"5": "15.00", "4": "10.00", "3": "2.00"}
    },
    "high_value": [
      {
        "name": "Black mustang / horse head",
        "appearance": "Black horse head in profile with a flowing mane on a fiery red-orange card in a gold frame with a red round medallion at the bottom.",
        "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "15.00", "4": "10.00", "3": "2.00"},
        "rank": "joint highest (equal to the bell)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Golden bell",
        "appearance": "Large shiny gold bell with a stylised horse emblem and a knotted rope pull, on a dark-purple card in a gold frame with a bead border.",
        "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "15.00", "4": "10.00", "3": "2.00"},
        "rank": "joint highest (equal to the horse)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Eagle",
        "appearance": "Purple-winged eagle in flight over a violet sky, in a purple frame with a purple gem at the base.",
        "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "10.00", "4": "6.00", "3": "1.00"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Fox",
        "appearance": "Blue-grey fox standing on a rock against a blue sky, in a blue frame with a blue gem at the base.",
        "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "10.00", "4": "6.00", "3": "1.00"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Cactus",
        "appearance": "Green prickly-pear cactus with yellow flowers against a green sunrise, in a green frame with a green gem at the base.",
        "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "5.00", "4": "2.00", "3": "1.00"}
      }
    ],
    "low_value": [
      {"name": "A", "appearance": "Magenta-purple ornate serif letter A with a gold outline", "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "3.00", "4": "1.00", "3": "0.20"}},
      {"name": "K", "appearance": "Orange-red ornate letter K with a gold outline", "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "3.00", "4": "1.00", "3": "0.20"}},
      {"name": "Q", "appearance": "Golden-yellow ornate letter Q with a gold outline", "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "3.00", "4": "1.00", "3": "0.20"}},
      {"name": "J", "appearance": "Blue ornate letter J with a gold outline", "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "1.00", "4": "0.50", "3": "0.20"}},
      {"name": "10", "appearance": "Red ornate number 10 with a gold outline", "payouts_at_stake_1_00": {"5": "1.00", "4": "0.50", "3": "0.20"}}
    ],
    "special": [
      {
        "name": "Bonus scatter",
        "appearance": "Round gold-rimmed wooden plaque with two crossed cream railway-crossing boards reading BONUS BONUS around a small gold hexagon with the letter N and two small R letters, evoking a railroad crossing sign.",
        "behaviour": "3 or more in view in the main game trigger Bonus Spins: 3 = 6 spins, 4 = 8 spins, 5 = 10 spins. No scatter pay value is printed.",
        "payouts": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Cash Prize scatter (fireball cash coin)",
        "appearance": "Round fireball coin ringed with flames showing a red number with a gold outline (value in currency; colour of digits varies, e.g. red for small, purple for larger such as 15.00).",
        "behaviour": "Appears anywhere on the reels. Values 1-15 x bet in the main game, Bonus Spins and the Cash Feature; 5-50 x bet in the Almighty Mustang Express feature. Paid in addition to line wins.",
        "values_seen_on_frames": "base game at stake 1.00: 1.00, 2.50, 15.00, 10.00; features at stake 0.10: 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25, 0.30, 0.50, 0.60, 0.70, 0.80."
      },
      {
        "name": "Cash Pot scatters MAJOR and MINOR",
        "appearance": "Fireball coin with a blue ribbon banner reading MAJOR (100 x bet) or a green ribbon banner reading MINOR (25 x bet); in the Almighty Mustang Express feature the fireballs sit in round portholes (a partly visible MAJOR is on ame_play_1).",
        "behaviour": "At most 1 of each type per spin; prize value revealed and paid as a cash prize. Both can appear during any spin.",
        "payouts": {"MAJOR": "100 x bet", "MINOR": "25 x bet"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Grand Cash Pot",
        "appearance": "Not a symbol on the reels; the red GRAND plaque above the reels. Value 500 x bet. Shows a red counter 'N TILL GRAND' during the cash features.",
        "behaviour": "Awarded when every available symbol position is filled with Cash Prize/Cash Pot symbols, with or without a train symbol.",
        "payouts": {"GRAND": "500 x bet"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Train symbol (two forms)",
        "appearance": "Golden armoured steam locomotive with purple headlight glow and a smoke plume; a square card form (main game and Cash Feature) on a purple backdrop and a circular porthole form (Almighty Mustang Express feature) with a gold ring.",
        "behaviour": "At most 1 train symbol in view at a time. 5 cash symbols plus 1 train in view trigger the Cash Feature; a train in view at the end of the Cash Feature triggers the Almighty Mustang Express feature; a train in view at the end of that feature retriggers it."
      },
      {
        "name": "Blank / empty position (Cash Feature)",
        "appearance": "Dark blue round disc with a faint stylised horse-wing emblem (Cash Feature, 15 positions); in the carriage feature a bronze porthole with a red glowing horse-wing emblem.",
        "behaviour": "Only cash symbols, a train symbol or blanks can land during the features."
      }
    ],
    "paytable_notes": "Winning combinations of 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols from the left reel on a line; only the highest win on each line is paid; wins on different lines are added."
  },
  "technical_summary": {
    "grid": "5x3, 20 fixed paylines (line diagrams on Game Information, paytable_p11 and p12).",
    "rtp": "95% (paytable_p14). EXPRESS BET RTP: 95% (same page).",
    "max_win": "THE MAXIMUM PAYOUT IS X1800, 'based on long-term simulations and a multiplier of base game bet'; if reached the round ends with the maximum awarded (paytable_p14).",
    "volatility": null,
    "payout_basis": "total (base game) bet: LINE 16 PAYS 1.50 with five bells at STAKE 0.10 (bell x5 = 15.00 at 1.00); rules state reel wins are multiplied by the base game bet.",
    "bet_ladder_demo": "STAKE SELECT lists 14 values: 0.10, 0.20, 0.40, 0.60, 0.80, 1.00, 2.00, 3.00, 5.00, 10.00, 20.00, 50.00, 100.00, 125.00 (settings_stake_select.png). The stake window gives min 0.10 and max 125.00 in this demo build; no other bet limits were seen on the frames.",
    "express_bet": "Optional side bet: additional cost of 0.5 x base stake (0.10 base -> 0.15 plate; 1.00 base -> 1.50 plate), raises the chance of triggering the Cash Feature. Both RTP figures are 95%. Features are played at the base stake (FEATURE STAKE label shows the base stake e.g. 0.10).",
    "bonus_buy": "none seen: no purchase button on the reels or panels.",
    "jackpots": "Three fixed prizes shown above the reels, scaling with stake: MINOR 25 x bet, MAJOR 100 x bet, GRAND 500 x bet (at stake 1.00: 25.00 / 100.00 / 500.00; at stake 0.10: 2.50 / 10.00 / 50.00).",
    "game_version": "GAME VERSION 1.7.0.2_HOTFIX_4; rules VERSION V7.0, APPLICABLE DATE FROM 6/5/2026 (edition date of the rules text, not a release date).",
    "autoplay": "Spin counts 10, 25, 50, 75, 100; subject to operator configuration; stops with the Stop button. Spacebar may start a spin depending on jurisdiction.",
    "currency_shown": "pounds (£) in the build seen; demo credit starts at £1,000.00.",
    "other_rules_text": "Malfunction voids all pays and plays; game history viewer shows a representation of the on-screen result; the Almighty Mustang Express collection feature (cash prizes collected onto the logo) is visual only and does not influence outcomes."
  },
  "features": {
    "bonus_spins": {
      "trigger": "3, 4 or 5 Bonus scatters in view in the main game: 6, 8 or 10 Bonus Spins.",
      "mechanics": "Different set of reels containing stacked wilds; any wild landing in view expands to cover the entire reel; spin counter shown as 'SPINS n/N' in a round badge on the right (e.g. SPINS 3/6, 6/6, 6/8, 2/6). Cash symbols and train symbols can land. 6 cash symbols (or 5 plus a train) trigger the Cash Feature immediately after win evaluation of the triggering spin, then the game returns to remaining Bonus Spins.",
      "intro_screen": "Purple plaque with gold coins on top: '6 SPINS', 'NUDGING STACKED WILDS', train card 'IN COMBINATION WITH 5 OR MORE CASH SYMBOLS TRIGGERS ALMIGHTY MUSTANG EXPRESS FEATURE', 'CAN ADD ... TO THE REELS 6+ TO TRIGGER CASH FEATURE', pink START button.",
      "end": "'PAID 0.92 BONUS COMPLETE' under the field, return to the base field; no banner for a small round."
    },
    "cash_feature_cash_lock": {
      "trigger": "In the main game or Bonus Spins: 6 or more Cash Prize/Cash Pot scatters, or 5 of them with 1 train symbol in view.",
      "mechanics": "Starts with 3 spins; any landing non-blank symbol locks in place and resets the counter to 3; ends after 3 spins in a row with no new symbol, paying the total value of all cash symbols in view, plus the Grand Cash Pot if all positions are full. Spins remaining are shown as '3 SPINS REMAINING', '2 SPINS REMAINING' and 'FINAL SPIN'. A red counter '5 TILL GRAND' above the GRAND plaque shows how many positions are still empty (15 positions).",
      "intro_screen": "CASH FEATURE plaque: CASH LOCK badge, '$$$' fireball and train card, 'LANDING CASH OR TRAIN SYMBOLS IN VIEW WILL RESET THE SPINS REMAINING TO 3', a 15-coin grid with GRAND 500x, 'FULL WINDOW OF CASH PAYS GRAND CASH POT!', START button.",
      "visuals": "Whole background turns deep red; dark blank discs fill empty positions."
    },
    "almighty_mustang_express_feature": {
      "trigger": "A train symbol in view at the end of the Cash Feature.",
      "mechanics": "10 active symbol positions (two rows of 5 round portholes in a yellow train carriage; centre plaque shows 'N TILL GRAND' - 10 at start). Starts with 3 spins, same lock-and-reset rule; cash values are 5-50 x bet. Ends paying all cash values in view (+ Grand Cash Pot of 500 x bet if all 10 are full). Retriggered if a train symbol is in view at the end; a total of 5 such features can occur in one game round. Intro screen: 'BIGGER CASH PRIZES!', 'RETRIGGER THE FEATURE WITH ONLY 1', 'TRIGGER FEATURE UP TO 5 TIMES IN TOTAL!'.",
      "collection": "After the Cash Feature a transitional screen shows 10 empty round hatches on the carriage before the feature starts. Cash prizes seen in the feature at 0.10 base stake: 0.60, 0.70, 0.80; filled count e.g. 8 of 10 positions (bonus_ame_express_fill_wide.png), none reached the Grand."
    },
    "train_collector": {
      "description": "Cash prize scatter values that land are added to the Almighty Mustang Express logo. Randomly on any main game or Bonus Spin the train can add at least 2 cash prize/cash pot symbols, or 1 train symbol plus at least 1 cash symbol, onto any reel position (overlaying the reels); it can also add wild symbols on any main game or Bonus Spin, or Bonus scatters on any main game spin; only one of these per spin. At the end of a main-game or Bonus Spin the train can shoot cash prize scatters onto the reels guaranteeing the Almighty Mustang Express feature.",
      "seen_on_frames": "The train symbol overlaying cash symbols is visible in Bonus Spins (free_spins_bonus_spins_play_train.png); the base-game version of this event is not captured."
    },
    "express_bet": {
      "description": "Panel at the right of the reels titled EXPRESS BET with a price plate (1.50 at stake 1.00; 0.15 at stake 0.10), text 'INCREASED BONUS CHANCE' and two small buttons: green tick (on) and red X (off). In the off state the X is bright and the tick dim; with Express Bet on the tick is bright (base_game_express_on.png) and STAKE shows base + 0.5x (0.15 at 0.10 base).",
      "effect": "Raises the chance of the Cash Feature; features play at the base stake."
    },
    "win_presentation": {
      "banners": "SUPER WIN banner (purple-magenta text with a huge gold number; seen 5.02 and 6.10) and BIG WIN banner (2.84 seen) with gold numbers over the reels. Round totals in the features: 'PAID 5.65 BONUS COMPLETE' with a purple plaque holding the total 5.65 in gold; other totals 6.10, 3.60, 2.05 (decorative-font numbers read by eye).",
      "line_win_text": "'PAID 5.02' with 'LINE 16 PAYS 1.50' under the reels, winning symbols outlined by a glowing frame and a thin orange line drawn through the line."
    }
  },
  "screens": {
    "loading_screen": {"frame": "preview.png", "description": "Black screen: game logo, white progress bar with percentage, Blueprint Gaming logo (blue 'blue' and white 'print', yellow smiling sun mark) and the CASH LOCK badge."},
    "intro_carousel": {"frames": "intro_feature_2/3/4.png", "description": "Full-screen purple plaques before the base game, three pages: 'BIGGER CASH PRIZES' (MAJOR/MINOR/$$$ fireballs, FILL ALL POSITIONS TO WIN GRAND, RETRIGGER THE FEATURE WITH ONLY 1); 'BONUS SPINS' with nudging stacked wilds and the cash-symbol trigger; 'CASH FEATURE CASH LOCK', 6+ to trigger, GRAND 500x. Page 1 of the carousel was not captured."},
    "base_game": {
      "frames": "base_game.png, base_game_stake_010.png, base_game_express_on.png, base_game_win_line.png",
      "layout": "Reels in the centre inside a gold frame. Above them three plaques: MINOR (green, left), GRAND (red, centre), MAJOR (blue, right) with values. Game wordmark at the top left over the reels, golden locomotive at the far left below it. Round spin button (big circle with a refresh arrow) at the right middle; EXPRESS BET panel just below it at the lower right. Bottom left: hamburger menu button and coins (stake) button above the STAKE label; fast-forward (triple arrow) button at the left of the reels; autoplay (two arrows) and speaker buttons at the lower right. Status line under the reels: 'PRESS TO SPIN' or 'PAID x / LINE n PAYS y'. Bottom bar: 'STAKE £1.00' left, 'CREDIT £1,000.00' right, game name left of the clock (14:31 style local time) at the bottom.",
      "controls": "Menu (three lines) opens Game Information (only the 'i' and a close X in the left bar); coins button opens STAKE SELECT; autoplay button opens AUTOPLAY; speaker toggles sound; the triple-arrow button toggles faster play; the big round button spins (turns into a square stop button during feature spins)."
    },
    "stake_select": {"frame": "settings_stake_select.png", "description": "Dark blurred dialog 'STAKE SELECT' with 14 outlined buttons in rows of 6, 6 and 2, the current value (1.00) shown as a white filled button; a close X at the top right."},
    "autoplay": {"frame": "autoplay.png", "description": "Dialog 'AUTOPLAY' - SELECT NUMBER OF SPINS - five buttons 10, 25, 50, 75, 100; close X at the top right."},
    "game_information": {
      "frames": "paytable_p1..p14",
      "description": "One long scrolling panel titled GAME INFORMATION. Sections in order: logo, WINPLAN (symbol pays), WILD SYMBOL, BONUS SCATTER SYMBOL, CASH PRIZE AND CASH POT SCATTER SYMBOLS, GRAND CASH POT, TRAIN SYMBOLS, CASH FEATURE, TRAIN COLLECTOR, ALMIGHTY MUSTANG EXPRESS FEATURE, EXPRESS BET, WINLINES 1-20 (yellow squares on 5x3 mini-grids), AUTOPLAY, GAME RULES, OUTCOMES (max payout, RTP, version), GAME INTERFACE INFORMATION, version/date."
    },
    "feature_screens": "bonus_spins_intro, bonus_cash_feature_intro (also with Express Bet on), bonus_ame_feature_intro: purple plaque with gold coin trim and a pink START button; play frames for Bonus Spins, Cash Feature and Almighty Mustang Express feature; completion frames with PAID and BONUS COMPLETE."
  },
  "accessibility_observations": {
    "colorblind": [
      "High symbols are distinguished by SHAPE (horse, bell, eagle, fox, cactus) as well as colour of their frames (red-orange, purple-black, purple, blue, green); the frame colour is a secondary cue only.",
      "Royals A, K, Q, J, 10 are letters/numerals, so colour (magenta, orange-red, yellow, blue, red) is not needed to tell them apart; K and 10 are both red-orange family but have different shapes.",
      "Jackpot plaques MINOR (green), GRAND (red), MAJOR (blue) are labelled with text, so colour is redundant.",
      "Express Bet on/off is shown by a tick versus an X plus brightness, not just green versus red.",
      "Cash coins show their value as a number, so value does not depend on colour; digits in a darker purple for bigger values are an extra cue only."
    ],
    "low_vision": "Yellow-on-black headings and white text give strong contrast in menus; the status line under the reels and the banner numbers are large. Reel symbols are large and outlined with gold. Small text such as the bottom STAKE/CREDIT line and the Express Bet plate is small.",
    "deaf_hard_of_hearing": "All outcomes are text on screen: PAID amounts, spins remaining, 'N TILL GRAND' counters, 'BONUS COMPLETE'. No frame shows a sound-only cue; the speaker button toggles sound.",
    "motor": "Single big round spin button; autoplay presets up to 100 spins; the fast-forward button speeds up spins; spacebar may start a spin depending on jurisdiction. Feature intros require clicking START.",
    "blind_screen_reader": "Game is drawn on a canvas; the on-screen texts (status line, PAID, counters, panel texts) are the information carriers, and the Game Information panel holds the full rules in plain text."
  },
  "unreadable_or_uncertain": [
    "Release date: not on these frames. 'APPLICABLE DATE FROM 6/5/2026' is the rules edition date, not a release date.",
    "Volatility: not printed on the frames (null).",
    "Wild payout: the paytable has no separate wild line; the wild art equals the horse symbol, and whether it is the same reel symbol is not stated.",
    "Bonus scatter and cash-symbol pay values on a line: not printed (cash values are multiples of bet 1-15 x or 5-50 x).",
    "Intro carousel page 1 not captured.",
    "Train Collector random addition in the base game and the Grand Cash Pot award were not observed on the frames (rules text only).",
    "Demo stake ladder tops at 125.00; the game's own stake maximum for real-money play is not printed in-game.",
    "Real-money stake limits and currency variants: not on frames; demo credit capped at the starting 1,000.00 in this build (credit does not display above that)."
  ]
}