The Border

Nolimit City Money & luxury

Provider	Nolimit City
RTP	96.17%
RTP base / bonus	53.77% / 42.4%
Volatility	19.8 (provider index)
Max win	44288x
Bet range	0.2 - 100
Hit frequency	29.6%
Reels	6x6
Theme	Money & luxury
Licences	UKGC
Release	2022-09-13

Features

bonus buy
free spins
wild
scatter
xWays
xNudge

The Border: RTP and specs

The Border is a slot machine by Nolimit City with an RTP of 96.17%, released in 2022.

Overview

Hope can only get you so far. Discover the desolate world of trigger-happy patrol agents and cash fuelled cartel kingpins. Freedom and riches beyond your wildest desires await, but there’s one thing in the way. Don’t underestimate the power of this wall - Most end up being the vulture’s evening feed.

Description provided by Nolimit City.

Our analysis

The Border is a Nolimit City slot with a money-luxury theme, released on 13 September 2022. It is built on a 6x6 grid, a square block that suits the studio's cluster and wild mechanics, providing a wide and even playing field on which its named features operate.

The feature set is extensive. A Cluster Payout governs base wins, an xBomb Wild and a Boosted xRip shape the grid, and Mule Spins and Coyote Spins make up the bonus modes. An xCluster operates during bonus modes, an xNudge Cluster Wild builds multipliers, and Seized and Destroyed is the maximum-win event. A Nolimit Bonus feature buy provides direct entry. The mechanics also include bonus buy, free spins, wild, scatter, xWays and xNudge, which together feed the cluster-based bonus play.

The risk profile is extreme. Volatility is given as 19.8 and the maximum win reaches 44288x, against an RTP of 96.17%. Stakes run from 0.2 to 100 per spin. A volatility figure near 20 with a five-figure ceiling marks this as a high-variance game weighted toward its bonus events rather than its base play, with the nudging cluster wild building the multipliers that drive the larger outcomes.

Factually, the specifications suit a player comfortable with very high volatility who wants cluster-based wild mechanics, xWays and xNudge features, distinct bonus modes and a feature-buy option. The 0.2 to 100 stake range and the 44288x ceiling define the stakes and the upper bound on returns, and the spread of cluster and wild features shows where the headline potential is concentrated.

Editorial analysis by machinesasous.co, based on published data.

Bonus features

The Border offers 9 special features, as published by Nolimit City:

Cluster Payout: Cluster wins are achieved with five or more matching symbols that are touching horizontally and/or vertically. After a winning cluster, the symbols are destroyed allowing new ones to drop in.
xBomb Wild: Wall? What wall? An exploding xBomb Wild removes adjacent symbols except for Scatter and xNudge symbols increasing the win multiplier by one for the next collapse.\n\nIf the xBomb gets split, it will increase the win multiplier for the next collapse with the amount it has been split into.
Boosted xRip: At a cost of an extra 50%, the player is guaranteed a Scatter symbol on reel 1. When Boosted xRip is activated, there are no payout for the winnings below the base bet. The payout for each symbol is not affected.
Mule Spins: Freedom awaits! 6 Scatters will trigger 10 Mule Spins. \n \nWhen xWays is part of Cluster wins, Cluster symbols on the same reel would be infected before the xSplit and xNudge get into action. xWays revealing 2 or 4 symbols would infect them to split into 2 or 4 symbols respectively.\n \nLanding additional Scatter symbols in Mule Spins will upgrade the bonus mode to Coyote Spins, awarding 2 extra spins per Scatter.
Coyote Spins: 7 or more Scatters trigger the Coyote Spins. 7 Scatter symbols award 12 spins, and any additional Scatter symbols will award 2 extra spins per symbol.\n\nxWays symbols will infect Cluster symbols, but unlike Mule Spins all the cluster symbols will get infected.\n\nAll xBombs will add +1 symbol value on all symbols with an xX indicator that are not blown away.\n\nThe win multiplier count does not reset during the Coyote Spins.
xCluster - During Bonus Modes: Illegals intercepted! 2 or more unique symbol clusters in the same avalanche would trigger xCluster - increasing the win multiplier by +1 for each unique symbol cluster from the second cluster onwards.\n\nThe xCluster multiplier is instantly added and affects all current wins of that spin.
xNudge Cluster Wild: xNudge Cluster WIld is a Wild symbol that can nudge both up and down if it’s a part of a winning cluster and increments the win multiplier by +1 for each symbol it nudges over.\n\nThe nudge continues until no further symbols are part of a winning Cluster. If the xNudge Cluster Wild has been split by an xSplit, it will start by adding its own multiplier to the overall win multiplier.
Seized and Destroyed: Not on our watch! The max payout of the game is 44,288 times the base bet.
Nolimit Bonus - Feature Buy Functionality: Buy your way straight into one of the different bonus features, ranging from 98x to 914x the base bet.

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How it works & rules

RTP: The Border has an RTP of 96.17%, the theoretical payout rate returned to players over the very long run. It is a statistical average, never a per-session guarantee. RTP definition · RTP vs volatility
Volatility: The Border volatility: 19.8. It describes how often and how big wins are. Understand volatility
bonus buy: A bonus buy option lets you trigger the bonus round directly.
free spins: A free spins round, usually triggered by scatter symbols.
wild: Wild symbols substitute for others to complete winning combinations.
scatter: Scatter symbols pay anywhere and trigger bonus rounds.

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