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Burning Hot
Amusnet · 6 reels, 5 betways · Max win 3,000x · Released 18 October 2019
RTP: sources give 95.97% and 96.45%. That disagreement is covered below and is not a rounding error.
- Provider
- Amusnet
- Volatility
- Medium
- Maximum win
- 3,000x
- Released
- 18 October 2019
The layout is genuinely unusual
Six reels with five betways.
Read that again. Nearly every slot ever built has more paylines than reels — five reels and twenty lines, five reels and forty lines. Burning Hot inverts it: six reels, and only five ways to win across them.
That is a very deliberate choice. Six reels means combinations need six matching symbols to pay the top award rather than five, which makes the top of the paytable considerably harder to reach. Five betways means very few chances per spin. Together they produce a game with a thin, sharp distribution — long stretches of nothing, punctuated by results that are large relative to the stake.
Amusnet describes the volatility as average. In practice the six-reel frame makes this a harsher game than the studio's five-reel classics.
The RTP disagreement
Two figures circulate:
| Figure | Source type |
|---|---|
| 96.45% | Current RTP trackers, which list it as Amusnet's highest-returning game |
| 95.97% | Game databases citing an earlier or alternative build |
Nearly half a percentage point apart. We are not resolving it, for a reason specific to this studio: Amusnet has documented history of revising published RTP figures downward on live games. Its 5 Hot Dice fell from 97.01% to 95.74% and 100 Super Dice from 97.00% to 95.76%.
So the two figures above may both be correct — at different times. That is the single most important thing to know about this catalogue and it is covered fully on the provider page.
Check the info screen at your operator. On this studio, that advice is not boilerplate.
The two scatters
Like Shining Crown, Burning Hot carries dual scatter symbols paying from any position.
On a game with only five betways, position-independent scatter pays are doing heavy lifting. Without them, a five-betway six-reel game would produce almost nothing between big hits. The scatters are what keep the session moving.
Expanding wilds and stacked symbols round out the feature set. There is no free spins round.
The 3,000x ceiling
Modest, and consistent with the design. Some Amusnet titles list caps around 5,000x, others lower with more lines. Burning Hot's 3,000x reflects a game where the top award requires six matching symbols on one of only five ways.
Stakes
Reported at 10 to 200 per spin, which is a narrow twenty-fold range compared with the thousand-fold ranges common in modern online slots. Another signal of a game designed around land-based cabinet conventions rather than online flexibility.
Who it suits
Someone who wants a classic fruit machine with a genuinely different mathematical shape from the rest of the genre. The six-reel five-betway frame is rare and it produces a distinctive session.
It suits nobody who wants frequent small wins — the Super Hot titles do that job far better.
Also on this site
- Shining Crown — the studio's other top-return classic, on ten lines
- 40 Burning Hot — the same brand at a much lower return
- Amusnet — the RTP revision problem in full
Sources: third-party slot databases and RTP trackers, which disagree. Reviewed 29 August 2026.
Verify the return figure in the game's own information screen. Operators deploy different certified builds of the same game, and the figure shown to you is the one that applies. Set a deposit limit first.
Reviewed by SlotzKilla Editorial · Published · Last updated · How we source figures
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