Medusa Megaways Slot – Free Demo
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Light & Wonder
Six reels, heights redrawn every round, and one Medusa on an Extra Reel who turns symbols to stone. Over 500 spins at 1.00 Medusa's stare paid the bills: an 838x base-game hit at spin 35, while a 15-game bonus with an uncapped multiplier handed back six coins.
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Reels That Redraw Their Height
Medusa Megaways is a Medusa-themed 6-reel slot with 324 to 117,649 ways to win. That count includes the Extra Reel, which adds one symbol position to each of the reels it sits above. Its Megaways reels are 2-7 symbols tall on reels 1 and 6 and 2-6 symbols tall on reels 2 to 5. The height of each reel is drawn at random at the start of a round and stays fixed for the rest of that round. Driven by developer Light & Wonder, it's a release I've found to be interesting enough to showcase on the website, and it is available at 25 coins per spin on mobile devices, desktop computers and tablets.
Over 500 spins at a 1.00 stake I wagered 500.00 and won 1,078.60, finishing on 1,578.60 from a starting 1,000.00. Medusa Megaways is a very volatile, fast-paced slot with strong emphasis on various wild mechanics. Only 96 of those 500 spins paid anything, 44 of them less than the stake, and my longest run without a win lasted 32 spins.
A Winged Horse That Pays on Two
Symbols on the reels comprise A to 10 royals along with winged sandals, rings, gold emblems, shields and a winged horse, and the latter is the most lucrative, with 6 on a complete way granting you 30 times your stake. The winged horse is also the only symbol that pays from 2 of a kind, at 1.2x the stake, while the other high symbols need at least 3.
Core to the slot is the Medusa wild symbol. It substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter and the Soldier, a symbol that shows up on the Extra Reel only during free games. It appears on the Extra Reel above reels 2 to 5 solely. After any win, every symbol in a winning combination is removed and new ones fill the gaps, a Reaction that repeats for as long as fresh wins land.
Medusa on the Extra Reel
When this wild drops on the Extra Reel, Medusa's Gaze may activate. It can trigger once per spin and again after each Reaction. It may convert one or more symbols on the reels beneath into wilds. Medusa can turn any symbol into a Wild except the Scatter. These wilds remain in position until they are part of a win or the round ends. My biggest win, 838.00 on the 1.00 stake at spin 35, came from base-game Reactions with Medusa's Gaze Wilds on the reels.
Fifteen Games for Six Coins
In Medusa Megaways there is also 1 free spins round to activate:
Free Games - you'll activate the Free Games mode if you hit 3 scatter symbols. Each Scatter past the third adds 5 games, so my only trigger, 4 Scatters on spin 171, gave me 15. Beginning with 10 free spins, the Unlimited Win Multiplier will grant you an uncapped win multiplier from x2 that persists throughout, and the multiplier rises by one every time a Reaction occurs. Those 15 games paid 6.00 in total, and at the Temptation Feature I took Collect rather than Replay, which would have forfeited that win to play the same number of games again from x2.
Stony Stare, Paid in Full
Medusa Megaways is a very volatile slot from Light & Wonder.
Final Minty Score: one base-game spin at 838x the stake carried my 500-spin session, while the free games with their uncapped multiplier returned 6.00, about 1% of all I won — the Gaze paid, the bonus shrugged, and the published 96.286% RTP says nothing about which of the two turns up in the next session.