Beetlejuice Megaways Slot – Free Demo

Five Reels With Their Top Half Asleep

Beetlejuice Megaways is one of Light & Wonder's Megaways slots. Curse of the Werewolf Megaways and Reel Spooky King Megaways also run on Megaways. It is constructed on the mechanic licensed from BTG, so let’s have a glance. I played 400 spins at a stake of 2.00, starting from a balance of 1,000.00.

Beetlejuice Megaways employs 5 reels. Before each spin starts, the top half of each reel is inactive. There are up to 248,832 ways, with each reel displaying 2, 3 or 6 symbols. When the top half becomes active, those counts double to 4, 6 or 12 symbols per reel.

RTP is 96.00%, and volatility is high (5/6). My 400 spins returned 429.00 on 800.00 wagered, a session return of 53.6%, and the balance never rose above the 1,000.00 it started with before finishing at its lowest point of 629.00.

Players obtain a win when identical symbols land on adjacent reels from left to right. This triggers the cascade feature. In my session 84 of the 400 spins paid something, 35 of them less than the 2.00 stake, and the longest run without a win lasted 24 spins.

The wild appears on any reel in the base game and Free Spins. It only substitutes for a symbol that is in view and can form a win with it. It does not create wins on its own but substitutes for everything except Bonus and Ghost. Those are discussed in the following section. The Ghost can land in both the base game and Free Spins.

Ghosts, Cascades and the Betelgeuse Sign

This portion might not make much sense after one pass through. The essence is simple, though – cascades open up the reels and drive the Free Spins multiplier upward, so let’s glance at the particulars.

The secret to it all is the cascade feature, where winning symbols burst to let fresh symbols tumble into the spaces, culminating in possible more wins. Wins are counted before the winning symbols explode, and the total for the spin is paid only once the cascades stop. Cascades proceed to burst until no fresh winners emerge. Spin 44 paid 18.40, or 9.2x the stake, through cascades. The first one reveals the upper half of the reels. On spin 21 a cascade opened the top half, 4 ways of five Tens paid 3.20, and the spin finished on 7.00.

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Ghost symbols land only with the first spin. Then every Ghost transforms into the identical symbol, never Wild or Bonus, though the unveiling does not invariably produce a win.

Bonus symbols scatter on all reels. But they merely register when they are in the active play area. A Bonus symbol in the inactive top half therefore does not count towards a trigger. Three, four or five Bonus symbols award 8, 12, or 16 free spins correspondingly, and the identical counts during the round contribute 4, 6 or 8 extra. Free Spins play automatically at the same total bet as the triggering spin, and each cascade is multiplied by the current win multiplier. The win multiplier begins at x1. It climbs by 1 after every cascade, with no top cap. My first round came on spin 158 with 4 Bonus symbols and 12 Free Spins, no retrigger, and paid 36.00, or 18.0x the stake.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: It’s a fairly secure wager that Megaways fans in general will be fairly thrilled about what Light & Wonder has created here, and studying the rules will rather probably bewilder you more than simply cranking Beetlejuice Megaways up and having a go. The second round came on spin 337, 179 spins after the first, with 5 Bonus symbols and 16 Free Spins, and paid 5.20, or 2.6x the stake. Successive cascades stack up an ever larger multiplier as they roll along, and it’s Bonus symbols you need to trigger the Free Spins. The two rounds paid 41.20 between them, 10% of everything I won, while my biggest single hit was 52.00 on spin 85, or 26.0x the stake.