Hand of Midas 2 Slot – Free Demo

Hand of Midas 2 at 240 credits a spin

Pragmatic Play's Hand of Midas 2 is a high volatility slot. I played 480 spins of it at 240 credits each and finished on a 457.8% session return.

Technically, Hand of Midas 2 is a 20-payline slot with 5 reels and 3 rows. Wins pay left to right, starting from the leftmost reel. It ships with a 96.07% RTP, and it is a high volatility monster that can be wagered from 0.20 to 240 credits a spin. Only 91 of my spins paid anything, and 45 of the paying ones returned less than the stake.

Royals, a chalice and King Midas on top

The low-paying symbols are depicted by your standard A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. Five of a kind pays 2.5 times the stake for A or K and 1.25 times the stake for Q, J or 10. The premiums are composed of a bearded man, a golden lady, a chest, fruit and a chalice, while King Midas, as the main character, is the most lucrative out of all symbols. Five of a kind pays 15 times the stake for the bearded man, 10 times for the golden lady or the chest, 7.5 times for the fruit and 5 times for the chalice. Should you hit 5 across a payline, he gives a 20 times the stake win. My biggest hit, 327,120 credits or 1,363 times the stake on spin 349, came in the base game.

The wild symbol stands in for all paying symbols. It lands only on reels 2, 3 and 4, and it can arrive with a random multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x. It has a very important role in the bonus. When several Wild multipliers land on the same spin, their values are added together and applied to the total win.

The Minty Summary: The label says 96.07% and my 480 spins came back at 457.8%, mostly on the strength of one base-game spin worth 1,363 times the stake. Strip spin 349 out and the session still returns 173.8%, so the published figure lost this argument twice over.

Mini reels count out the free spins

Players have to hit 3 golden hand scatter symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 to trigger the bonus. Those three Scatters also pay 2 times the stake. Nine mini reels displaying 1, 2 or 3 grant 9 to 27 free spins. Three of the mini reels spin for each triggering Scatter, so every Scatter adds between 3 and 9 spins to the count. Another 2 scatters during the bonus will grant you up to 18 extra free spins. Neither of the two rounds I triggered produced a retrigger.

Key to the bonus is the wild symbol, which now remains for the entire round and whose 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x multiplier now contributes to a win multiplier. My first round came on spin 141, gave 22 free spins and paid 81,840 credits, or 341 times the stake. That win multiplier extends to every win and does not revert, and the game has a max win of 8,000 times your stake. The second arrived 314 spins later on spin 455, gave 14 free spins and paid 31,200 credits, or 130 times the stake.

Is the Midas base game the dull half?

Hand of Midas 2 is a highly volatile slot, and the bonus rate is comparatively low. The two rounds I triggered in 480 spins paid 113,040 credits between them, 21% of everything I won.

In my view, the main game is a touch monotonous, but the bonus holds some crazy potential.