Mammoth Gold Megaways Slot – Free Demo

The volcano sits on the top row and nowhere else

At last a game worth playing arriving from the Pragmatic Play assembly line, and Mammoth Gold Megaways is a traditional Megaways slot, but with a touch of a quirk to it. The reels run the full Megaways set, with the top row of reels 2 to 5 spinning independently from right to left. Everything is precisely what you would anticipate to see from this sort of slot, apart from the Wild multiplier meter. Every volcano Wild that lands carries a random x2 or x3, and that value is collected in the meter. It permits each volcano Wild multiply the amount already collected - on the top row only naturally. The collected figure applies to the current tumble and to the ones that follow it. You can anticipate a retrigger happy bonus feature with abundant promise, just as in the old standards.

Mammoth Gold Megaways, is a 6-reel slot with up to 117,649 ways to win. Reels 1 and 6 can show up to 7 symbols, the four reels between them up to 6 each plus the extra top-row position. That renders it playable from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin. The session behind this review ran 470 spins at the top of that range, 240.00 a spin, for 112,800.00 wagered. As you may have surmised by the name, it's founded on the ice age and has rather a nice prehistoric theme going on, and with a cartoonish flourish bundled up in a frozen backdrop, Mammoth Gold Megaways wears the ice age look plainly. The longest stretch without a win across those spins ran 18 spins, ending on spin 292.

Mammoths pay from two, everything else from three

In customary Megaways style, the low-value symbols are depicted by the blue ace, red heart, green club and purple diamond card suit symbols. The green club and purple diamond are the cheapest of the set, worth 0.5x the stake for six across the reels. The premiums, here depicted by dodos, bears, boars, wolves, sabertooth tigers and mammoths, are rather uncommon, lending an inventive flourish to the game, and as you would anticipate, the volcano is the wild and therefore substitutes all symbols except the Bonus. Six sabertooth tigers pay 3x the stake and six wolves 2x. The base game has value to give as well, while most of the promise is concentrated to the free spins; land 6 mammoths across the reels and you'll win 5 times your stake. The mammoth is also the only symbol that pays from two in a row, at 0.5x the stake.

It's an uncomplicated old-school slot at its core, but it arrives with an intriguing tumble feature, and following any win, the winning symbols vanish and fresh ones fall in from above, as many times as it takes to land no further winning combinations. Everything the chain earns is added to the balance once the tumbling has finished. This can prove useful if you need that third Bonus symbol, or if you happen to be one symbol short of a mammoth line in the base game. Power of Thor Megaways and Curse of the Werewolf Megaways are two more Pragmatic Play Megaways games built on the same tumbling wins. The Wild multipliers, however, revert to x1 at the close of the spin's tumbles. The best single result of the 470 spins came on spin 70, a tumble chain worth 23,040.00 at a 240.00 stake, or 96 times it. You shouldn't rely on carrying them over.

Seven free spins, collected rather than gambled

The free spins game can, naturally, be reached by landing 3, 4, 5 or 6 Bonus symbols anywhere in view, and this will grant you a random 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 or 14 free spins. Landing 2 to 6 further Bonus symbols inside the round adds 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 spins, and there is no limit on how often that can happen. Now, if you've tried any of the other Megaways releases, you already know what to anticipate. Where the award comes in below 14, a wheel is offered that adds one more free spin on a win and forfeits the whole round on a loss. Most of us have. You can skip the trigger altogether and buy the round for 100 times the total bet. Special reels are in play, and every tumble lifts the multiplier meter by a further x1 during the free spins to build more sizeable wins.

I did not judge this slot to be as retrigger happy as the rest of them. The one round arrived on spin 40, off three Bonus symbols. One round in 470 spins, seven free spins taken without the gamble wheel, no retrigger, and a return of 11 times the stake. That was 2,640.00, about 4% of the 61,080.00 the session won in all.

Minty Slots Verdict: One bonus round across 470 spins, and the meter that everyone talks about did its best work in the base game instead — spin 70 paid 96 times the stake without a free spin in sight. The bought round costs 100 times the bet and shaves the stated RTP from 96.03% to 96.00%, which is the going rate for skipping the wait.

What 54.1% looks like over 470 spins

Mammoth Gold Megaways is more than merely another Megaways slot, and the multiplier meter is the one part that behaves differently. The 470 spins gave back 54.1% of the 112,800.00 staked, with 80 of them paying and half of those paying less than the stake. It's released already.