Magic Monk Rasputin Slot – Free Demo

Russian mysticism on three reels

Ask me about my preferred online slot theme. There’s the probability that Russian mysticism will push its way into top position, and there’s simply something about it that chimes with me, and with so many other slot players as well. You’ll get to visit the candlelit realm of the deranged monk of the Russian court with Magic Monk Rasputin. I put 210 spins through it at a 0.20 stake. Can you conceive of a better theme for a slot!

The game is played using 3 reels linked by a group of 5 fixed paylines. The reels do not pay cash directly — each winning combination awards Steps instead. They are not something that you’re able to adjust. On the other hand, you do have the choice of altering your bet around effortlessly, so just employ the plus and minus buttons on either side of the stake box to pick sums between 0.10 and 5.00 per spin. The 0.20 I used sits close to the bottom of that range.

How a win becomes Steps

Winning combinations are created left to right on the chosen lines. How many Steps a combination is worth depends on the symbol and on whether two or three of a kind have landed. Only the largest win per line is counted, line and scatter wins are summed together, and on the three reels the symbol to watch for is Rasputin himself. Of my 210 spins, 73 paid something back.

All of this already seems like a perfect arrangement for an online slot game, but just wait until you discover what else you can gain from when playing Magic Monk Rasputin: there are a couple of special features worth going through.

The towers, the Cashpot and the gamble

So, what could render a slot game about a Russian mystic even better? Special features, naturally! Merkur hasn’t swamped this slot with such. But it does have one or two that make it a notable advance on just an ordinary base game, and the first of these extras is the game’s gamble. You get a card gamble on red or black, doubling your win or carrying it to the Top amount, and a ladder gamble that shifts in 1:1 steps. The ladder either steps the win up or lands it on a lower valued step. A Collect Half option is on hand as well. It halves the card gamble stake, or lowers the ladder gamble by one step, and books the saved amount as winnings. Though not while autospin is operating, it’s available from a 0.05 win upwards. My longest stretch without any win at all was 15 spins, ending on spin 93.

The game’s highlight is its Steps and Cashpot accumulator, though, and there’s no distinct round to enter here. The Cashpot can be taken at the end of any game, in whole or in part. Winning combinations grant Steps. A single combination is worth 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 steps. Those Steps lift one of the towers standing beside the reels, and above each tower a per step value is displayed, 0.50, 0.80 and 5.00 on the panel, with tops of 10.00, 16.00 and 100.00 at 20 steps. Steps won for the same tower on different lines are added together. Once a tower is at its top, each additional step simply pays that per step value. Each step adds to the Cashpot until the tower it lands on is full. The Cashpot is the total of the highest lit values of every tower, and Collect pays the entire Cashpot and resets every tower. Partial Collect drops each tower by one step and pays the difference. The gamble is offered after either kind of Collect as well as on a direct win. That’s not all though. Rasputin covering all the reel positions resets all the towers and puts the Cashpot back to 0.

Minty Slots Verdict: 42.00 staked over 210 spins came back as 29.50, a return of 70.2%, and the towers spent the whole run in their bottom few rungs rather than anywhere near a top.

What 210 spins at 0.20 gave back

This is of little importance when it comes to the amusement factor of the game, while it’s true that there may not be an enormous quantity of special features in Magic Monk Rasputin. The stated return for this build is 96.20%, and the help panel gives a range of 94.80% to 97.96% depending on the strategy used. It’s got a base game that carries the whole return. The two hits behind my best were 5.00 on spin 6 and 1.32 on spin 31. My own 210 spins at 0.20 were tame: 42.00 bet against 29.50 won, a session return of 70.2%. The lowest the balance got was 982.18. There were 73 paying spins of which 40 came back under the stake, a high of 1,004.26 on spin 7 and a best single hit of 7.80 on spin 174. That 7.80 was 39.0x the stake.

Because of the choice between Collect and Partial Collect, the Steps accumulator of the slot is one that holds added interest, and you’re able to keep lifting the towers thanks to those same winning combinations arriving on the reels. Fruitopia and The Three Musketeers are other Merkur slots built on five fixed lines. Magic Monk Rasputin is, on the whole, a sturdy Merkur slot.