The three buys
| Bonus | Price | Buy RTP | Average loss per buy | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Train Robbery | 80x | 96.27% | 2.98x | Medium |
| Duel at Dawn | 200x | 96.33% | 7.34x | Very high |
| Dead Man’s Hand | 400x | 96.43% | 14.28x | High |
Each buy drops you straight into that bonus with the bonus’s normal rules. The bonus games guide explains what happens inside each one.
What they cost at your stake
| Stake | Train Robbery | Duel at Dawn | Dead Man’s Hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.20 | $16 | $40 | $80 |
| $0.50 | $40 | $100 | $200 |
| $1 | $80 | $200 | $400 |
| $2 | $160 | $400 | $800 |
| $5 | $400 | $1,000 | $2,000 |
| $10 | $800 | $2,000 | $4,000 |
| $100 | $8,000 | $20,000 | $40,000 |
For scale: the streamers in the record clips were betting $1,500 a spin at a casino that allowed it. At that stake one Duel at Dawn costs $300,000 and one Dead Man’s Hand $600,000.
What buying doesn’t change
- The long-run price, almost. The buys return 96.27% to 96.43%, against the base game’s default of 96.38%. You are not buying meaningfully better odds.
- The cap. A bought bonus can still pay no more than 12,500x the base bet, not the price: about 156 times a Train Robbery buy, or 31 times a Dead Man’s Hand.
- The bonus itself. A buy takes you straight into the round. None of the sources describes any difference between a bought bonus and a triggered one.
What it does change is the size of each decision. One buy is 80 to 400 spins’ worth of stake in a single click, with a single result.
The case against buying
Say you have $200 to play with at $1 a spin. You can spin 200 times, or buy one Duel at Dawn. On average both cost you about the same, a little over $7. But they feel nothing alike.
The 200 spins give you 200 small results, the chance of a VS hit in the base game, and the chance of triggering any of the three bonuses without paying extra for them. The buy gives you one round, rated very high volatility, and plenty of Duel at Dawn rounds return a fraction of their price. Then the money is gone.
If you do buy
- Decide how many buys you can afford before the first one, and stop there.
- Train Robbery is the cheapest and the least swingy way to see a bonus.
- Check the game’s RTP first. The buy figures above appear to belong to the 96.38% version.
- The buy RTPs here describe Hacksaw Gaming’s release. The version on vip.hacksaw.tv has the same 80x, 200x and 400x buys (stakes up to 75), and these figures don’t describe it.
Where you can’t buy
SlotCatalog’s review is explicit that the bonus buy is not offered to UK players. Bigwinboard words it as “if the option is available”, because casinos and markets can switch it off. If you don’t see the buy button, that is why; the bonuses can still be triggered the normal way.
One more thing people search for: we found no BonusHunt FeatureSpins option in Wanted. That and the 60x FeatureSpins buys belong to the separate 2024 game Duel at Dawn, which our DuelReels comparison covers.
Questions people ask
How much is the bonus buy in Wanted Dead or a Wild?
80x the bet for The Great Train Robbery, 200x for Duel at Dawn and 400x for Dead Man's Hand. At $1 a spin that is $80, $200 and $400.
Which bonus buy is best?
The differences are small on average: they return 96.27%, 96.33% and 96.43%. Train Robbery is the cheapest and steadiest; Duel at Dawn swings hardest and is the one Hacksaw calls the best shot at a max win.
Can you buy the bonus in the UK?
Not according to SlotCatalog, which lists the Wanted bonus buy as unavailable to UK players. That fits UK rules on feature buys, but we found no Hacksaw statement on it.
Does Wanted Dead or a Wild have BonusHunt FeatureSpins?
Not that we found: every source lists only Wanted's three bonus buys. BonusHunt FeatureSpins and the 60x FeatureSpins options belong to Hacksaw's 2024 game Duel at Dawn.
