Coyote Cash Slot Review: The Full RealTime Gaming Family

Clarification up top: This is RealTime Gaming’s Coyote Cash, a cartoon coyote-bandit slot on a 25-line RTG engine. It is not IGT’s Coyote Moon, the wolf-and-desert-moon land-based game with the stacked-symbol free spins that shows up on regulated casino floors. Different studio, different math, different symbols, different features. If you are looking for the IGT title, nothing on this page applies to it. Everything reviewed below is the RTG line, and the two should never be quoted interchangeably.

Availability note: Both Coyote Cash games are RealTime Gaming titles, and RTG does not supply the regulated US operators. You will not find Coyote Cash in the legal BetMGM or DraftKings lobbies. These slots live only at offshore casinos that run the RTG platform, which is where both versions are playable for real money. There is no land-based Coyote Cash cabinet; every build described here is an online HTML5 game.

Quick-View Table: The Flagship Coyote Cash

These headline numbers describe the original Coyote Cash, the 5-reel, 25-line game that started the family. Where RTG lets operators set a value, that is noted. Any figure the studio does not publish is marked so, rather than guessed. To understand why the return figure swings so much between casinos, our RTP explainer is a useful companion.

Version Comparison Table

Coyote Cash was a single title for years, so this is a short family, but the 2026 sequel changed the engine enough that the two versions play very differently. The original is a classic 25-line RTG slot with a multiplier free spins round; Coyote Cash 2 is a 243-ways game with a Lightning-style hold and spin jackpot feature and a bonus buy. Both are online-only offshore titles. Figures come from RTG and from operator pay tables where published; cells marked “Not published” mean the studio has not released that number.

There are no land-based Coyote Cash cabinets and no regulated US online build of either game. Aside from routine mobile and HTML5 re-releases of the original across the RTG network, the only real variant to track is Coyote Cash 2, which is a genuine new game rather than a re-skin. If a lobby lists anything else under the Coyote Cash name, the difference will be the posted RTP setting, not the reels or the features.

What Coyote Cash Is and How It Plays

Coyote Cash drops you into a dusty frontier town where a bandit coyote is on the run from the law with a sack of stolen loot, a classic Wild West setup. The reels are stocked with an American eagle sheriff, a rattlesnake bandit, a cactus, a bull skull, an armored van and a run of playing-card values, all drawn in RTG’s chunky cartoon style. The original runs a standard 5-reel, 3-row, 25-line engine, so paylines pay left to right from reel one on three or more matching symbols. A new player understands the base game in a single spin: pick how many lines to play, set a coin value, and spin.

What separates Coyote Cash from the hundreds of other RTG slots is the way its wild behaves. The coyote is not a passive substitute; whenever it helps complete a paying line, it doubles that win, and if two coyotes contribute to the same line the doubles stack. That single rule turns ordinary base-game hits into bigger ones and is the reason the game feels livelier than its plain layout suggests. Sitting above the fixed pays is RTG’s Real Series random progressive jackpot, a prize that can drop after any paid spin regardless of what lands on the reels, with its running value shown atop the game. Because the whole family leans on the bonus rather than the base game, our guide to volatility is worth a read before you size a session.

Coyote Cash 2 keeps that outlaw setting but rebuilds the machine. Gone are the 25 fixed lines; the sequel pays on 243 ways across the same 5-by-3 grid, so any matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left pay without a line restriction. The armored truck becomes the wild, a money sack is the scatter, and a new bandit coyote symbol drives a hold and spin round with four fixed jackpots. The sequel also adds a buy feature, letting you pay to trigger either bonus directly. The base rhythm still feels like Coyote Cash, but the sequel is a modern feature slot where the original is a classic line game.

Symbols and What They Pay

The two versions share a theme but not a symbol set, so it is worth taking them in turn. On the original, the pay table runs from a stack of Wild West characters down to the usual card ranks.

• Coyote (wild): the top symbol and the star of the game. Five coyotes on a line pay 10,000 times the line bet, four pay 1,000, three pay 100 and two pay 10. It substitutes for everything except the loot-bag scatter and doubles any win it completes.
• American eagle sheriff: the premium picture symbol below the wild, paying up to 5,000 times the line bet for five of a kind.
• Rattlesnake bandit: the next character pay, worth up to 2,500 for five, with the cactus, bull skull and armored van filling the mid tier.
• Card values (nine through ace): the low-pay filler symbols that keep the base game ticking with small three, four and five-of-a-kind wins.
• Green loot bag (scatter): the bonus symbol. It pays scattered wins from anywhere and, with three or more on screen, opens the free spins. Five loot bags pay a 200-coin scatter prize multiplied by the total bet.

Coyote Cash 2 reshuffles those jobs. The armored truck takes over as the wild and substitutes for everything except the two feature symbols. The money sack is the scatter that awards free games. A separate bandit coyote symbol is the special that feeds the hold and spin round; it does not trigger the free spins, which is a common point of confusion, so it is worth learning early.

Bonus Symbol Cross-Check

Because both games carry the Coyote Cash name, players reasonably assume the bonus symbols behave the same way. They do not, and this is the single most important cross-check on the page. On the original Coyote Cash, the green loot bag is the only bonus symbol: three or more of it anywhere award the 20 free spins, and the coyote is a pure wild. On Coyote Cash 2 the trigger work is split across two different symbols. The money sack scatter is what starts the free games, while the bandit coyote is a separate symbol that starts the hold and spin round when six or more land. So the answer to “do both versions use the same scatter” is no: the original has one loot-bag scatter, and the sequel has a money-sack scatter for free spins plus a distinct bandit-coyote symbol for the jackpot feature. Do not assume a feature symbol from one game behaves the same in the other.

How to Trigger the Bonus

On the original Coyote Cash, triggering is simple. Land three, four or five green loot-bag scatters anywhere on the reels in a single spin and you enter the free spins. The scatters can land on any reel, so there is no positional restriction, and playing fewer than all 25 lines does not cost you the trigger because scatters pay and trigger from anywhere. Once inside, the round is retriggerable: landing scatters again during the free spins adds another batch on top, so a lucky bonus can run well past its starting count.

Coyote Cash 2 has two separate entrances. The free games start when three or more money-sack scatters land, and more scatters during the round add extra free games. The hold and spin round is entirely separate: it fires when six or more bandit coyote symbols land on a single spin. The sequel also sells a shortcut. Its buy feature lets you pay a set multiple of your stake to trigger either the free games or the hold and spin directly, so you can skip the wait if you would rather pay for the bonus than chase it. There is no buy option on the original, so its only path into the free spins is landing the loot bags naturally.

How the Bonus Works

On the original, the free spins are the whole reason to play, and the trigger count sets the reward. Three loot bags award 20 free spins with a 2x multiplier, four award 20 spins at 3x, and five award 20 spins at 4x, so the more scatters you land, the harder the entire round pays. The chosen multiplier applies to every win for the duration, and it stacks with the coyote wild’s own doubling, which is where the biggest free-spin wins come from: a line of premiums helped by a coyote during a 4x round pays eight times its base value. Retriggers keep the round alive, and the Real Series progressive can still drop during the bonus, so a single free-spins run can, in principle, deliver a line win, a multiplied bonus hit and a jackpot at once.

Coyote Cash 2 splits its drama across two very different rounds. Its free games start at nine free spins for three scatters, and the game strips the low-paying card symbols off the reels for the duration, so every spin is denser with premiums and wilds. Additional scatters during the round add more free games. The hold and spin round is the headline. When six or more bandit coyotes land, they lock in place and you get three respins; each new coyote that lands resets the respin count to three and locks as well, and the symbols carry cash values or one of the fixed jackpots. Filling the grid, or landing the right jackpot symbols, awards the Mini, Minor, Major or Grand prize. Reported jackpot values run roughly Mini at 5x, Minor at 10x, Major at 20x and Grand at 1,000x the bet, and those jackpots are winnable only inside the hold and spin, never in the base game or free spins.

Version by Version

Coyote Cash (original)

The original Coyote Cash is the game that carried the name for over a decade, and sources place its release somewhere between 2013 and 2015, with RTG never pinning down a single public date. It runs five reels, three rows and 25 selectable paylines, with a headline RTP of up to 97.5 percent, though RTG lets operators set it anywhere down to 91 percent, so the exact figure depends on the casino and roughly 96 percent is a common middle setting. Volatility is rated medium to high depending on the reviewer; the base game dribbles out modest wins while the free spins carry the real weight. Betting is flexible from 0.01 per line, about 0.25 per spin with all lines lit, up to around 6.25 per spin, with higher ceilings on some setups.

The personality of the game is its coyote wild, which doubles any win it completes and pays 10,000 times the line bet for five on a line, the biggest fixed pay in the game. Three or more green loot-bag scatters award 20 free spins at a fixed 2x, 3x or 4x multiplier depending on whether three, four or five scatters triggered, and the round retriggers. Sitting on top is RTG’s Real Series random progressive jackpot, which can hit after any paid spin. There is no bonus buy, no hold and spin and no second-screen pick on the original; the multiplied free spins are the entire feature set, which is exactly why it plays as a clean, old-school RTG line slot. It remains fully playable across the offshore RTG lobbies as an online HTML5 game with no download.

Coyote Cash 2 (2026)

Coyote Cash 2 landed on April 29, 2026, as RTG’s long-delayed sequel, developed under the studio’s Spinlogic Gaming arm and distributed across the same RealTime Gaming network. It is a ground-up redesign rather than a re-skin. The 25 fixed lines are replaced by 243 ways to win on the 5-by-3 grid, volatility settles into a medium profile, and the maximum win is quoted at about 2,000 times the bet. RTP is again operator-configurable across RTG’s usual ladder, with 95, 96.25 and 97.5 percent builds cited and a 91 percent floor, so the same rule applies as on the original: check the posted number in the game information before you deposit. The bet range widens to roughly 0.25 up to 25 per spin.

The sequel’s headline additions are a hold and spin jackpot round and a buy feature, neither of which existed on the original. The armored truck is now the wild, the money sack is the free-games scatter, and a bandit coyote symbol drives the hold and spin: land six or more and you get three respins with locking cash and jackpot symbols, chasing the Mini, Minor, Major or Grand prize, the top of which is reported at 1,000 times the bet. The free games start at nine spins for three scatters and strip the low-pay cards from the reels for a denser bonus. The buy feature lets you purchase a trigger for either bonus. This is the version to load if you want a modern feature slot with fixed jackpots; the trade-off is that its top end, at about 2,000x, is more contained than the wild-driven ceiling on the classic. Because both share a studio and a network, they usually sit in the same offshore lobby, so you can try each and decide which style you prefer.

Betting and Line Configuration

The two games handle stakes differently. On the original, you choose how many of the 25 paylines to activate and set a coin value per line, so the total spin cost is lines multiplied by line bet. Line bets start at 0.01, putting a full 25-line spin at 0.25 and the top end commonly around 6.25 per spin, though some operators allow higher. Because scatters trigger from anywhere, playing fewer than all 25 lines still keeps the free-spins door open, but it thins out your line-win frequency, so most players run all 25 lines. Coyote Cash 2 drops line selection entirely; the 243-ways model bets on the whole grid at once, with a range of roughly 0.25 to 25 per spin. The practical upshot is that the sequel has fewer knobs to set, while the original rewards understanding how lines and coin value combine.

Symbol Pay Detail on the Original

For players who like the numbers, the original Coyote Cash pays are expressed as multiples of the line bet for a left-to-right combination. The coyote wild is the ceiling at 10,000 for five, 1,000 for four, 100 for three and 10 for two, and it doubles any win it joins on top of those figures. The American eagle sheriff is the top character pay at up to 5,000 for five, the rattlesnake bandit follows at up to 2,500, and the cactus, bull skull and armored van fill the mid tier beneath them. The card ranks nine through ace are the low pays. The green loot-bag scatter pays from anywhere, with five loot bags returning a 200-coin scatter prize multiplied by your total bet, on top of launching the free spins. Coyote Cash 2 does not publish a full public pay table symbol by symbol, but its structure is clear: card ranks as low pays that vanish in the free games, Wild West characters as premiums, the armored-truck wild, and the money-sack and bandit-coyote feature symbols.

Jackpots and Progressives

Both games carry jackpots, but of different kinds, and mixing them up is easy. The original Coyote Cash is tied into RealTime Gaming’s Real Series random progressive network. That prize is not triggered by any symbol combination; it can pop after any real-money paid spin regardless of the reels, and the current value is displayed above the game. Because the network is shared across many RTG titles at a casino, it can climb quickly. Coyote Cash 2 instead uses four fixed jackpots, Mini, Minor, Major and Grand, that are won only inside the hold and spin round by locking the right symbols, with the Grand reported at 1,000 times the bet. So the original’s jackpot is a random network progressive that can hit at any moment, while the sequel’s jackpots are feature-locked fixed prizes you have to reach the hold and spin to claim.

Max Win in Context

The top-end picture differs between the two. On the original, RTG does not publish a single overall maximum-win multiplier; the largest fixed line pay is 10,000 times the line bet for five coyotes, and the multiplied free spins can build meaningfully on top of the base pays, but the practical ceiling depends on how the wild doublings and the 4x multiplier line up during a bonus. Coyote Cash 2 is cleaner to quote at about 2,000 times the bet, a more contained top end that fits its medium-volatility profile and its reliance on the hold and spin jackpots rather than a single explosive line. Neither game is a modern extreme-ceiling slot; the appeal is the doubling wild on the original and the jackpot chase on the sequel, not a five-figure multiplier.

Mobile Play

Both Coyote Cash games are built in HTML5 and run in the browser on iOS and Android phones and tablets with no download required. The original’s simple 25-line grid scales cleanly to a portrait screen, and the free spins play identically to desktop. Coyote Cash 2’s hold and spin round was designed with touch in mind, so locking symbols and the respin counter read clearly on a phone. Autoplay and quick-spin options carry over to the mobile builds on both. For a broader look at playing RTG slots on a handset, see the mobile guide.

Where to Play

Coyote Cash is an offshore RTG title in the US market, so it lives at the licensed-offshore RTG casinos above rather than in any regulated state lobby. To see the current list of vetted sites that carry RealTime Gaming’s catalog, along with the bonus offers attached to each, start at the offshore casinos directory. Availability of any specific game can rotate, and the RTP setting can differ from one operator to the next, so once you are in a lobby, confirm both the game and its posted return in the information screen before you deposit. Coyote Cash 2 is newer, so it may reach some sites in the RTG group before others.

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