Golden Nugget Megaways Slot – Free Demo

The Extra Reel and the Ways It Adds

Golden Nugget Megaways is an Inspired Gaming slot launched in November 2021, and with its 6 reels plus an Extra Reel and up to 117,649 ways, it's a fairly simple and unfussy slot that hides a layered bonus all the same. Matches of just two adjacent symbols already count as a win here. This one is all about the cascading mechanics. New symbols drop in from above on the six main reels and in from the right on the Extra Reel. Winning combinations are swapped with fresh symbols, thus giving players an opportunity to win again and again from one spin. The Extra Reel itself adds one more symbol to reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Players can wager from 0.20 all the way up to 20.00 per spin. Everything logged below was played at 1.00 a spin, near the bottom of that ladder.

In this 6-reel slot, players meet the top-paying Golden Nugget. Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, whatever height each reel happens to land at.

The Golden Nugget at the Top of the Paytable

Spinning the reels you will encounter the roulette wheel. Below it sit the dice, the cards and the 9-to-A ranks. It pays 7.50 times your stake for six. Five of them return 2.50 times the stake. The most lucrative symbol, however, is the Golden Nugget, with 6 across neighbouring reels producing 50 times your stake. Five of them pay 25 times the stake, and every award is then multiplied by the number of symbols landing per reel in the combination.

When it comes to special symbols there's only one. The Wild replaces all other symbols to help boost your likelihood of hitting winning combinations, and it shows up on the Extra Reel only. That holds in the free spins as well as the base game.

Minty’s Closing Thought: 95.56% is the figure Inspired prints here, the same one it prints on Reel Spooky King Megaways and a shade under the 96.01% on Dice Spinner Megaways; 300 spins here gave back 252.20 of the 300.00 staked, with both bonus rounds landing inside that stretch.

White Reels, Dings and the VIP Slot Bonus

Triggering the free spins here is slightly different from what you would normally expect from a slot. In the base game between zero and six reels light white with a ding as they land, always running from the leftmost reel rightwards. Every Cascade lights one more reel white. Six white reels place the VIP Slot Bonus over the reels, where each VIP Slot that lights all three of its reels moves you along a Free Spins trail, and players can trigger as many as 25 free spins depending on the entry level with a possibility to retrigger the feature during the course of the bonus. One further Cascade past six reels lifts the entry to the Super VIP Slot Bonus, and more Cascades again to the Mega VIP Slot Bonus.

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Do expect wins involving multipliers here, and each winning Cascade adds 1 to an uncapped multiplier. When all six reels light white again inside the round the VIP Slot Bonus returns over the reels, adding 1, 2 or 3 more free spins and up to 3 to the multiplier.

300 Spins at a Stake of 1.00

Golden Nugget Megaways is a plain slot by the standards of Inspired Gaming. Cash and free spins won from the VIP Slot feature can be taken to the Free Spins Gamble, which builds a total of up to 25 free spins before it collects automatically. It's no less enjoyable, as the prospect for retriggers as well as the rising multiplier will keep the players on their toes throughout the session. My balance peaked at 1,025.70 on spin 128, on the best single hit of the run at 60.00, and bottomed out at 917.10. It can be a bit of a balance eater. Only 71 of my 300 spins paid anything at all, 30 of those returned less than the stake, and the longest gap without a win ran 15 spins. My 300 spins at 1.00 yielded 252.20 of the 300.00 bet, with the two bonus rounds paying 72.00 of that and 249 spins between them.