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grand melee slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

I don’t remember coming across any previous online slots that featured the word ‘melee’ in their titles, but there are certainly plenty which includes wars and fighting in some way. One of my favourite examples has to be NetEnt’s Street Fighter 2 online slot, a machine which did a remarkable job of recreating the feel of playing the classic arcade game!  Then there’s Nolimit City’s The Cage, an MMA-based game with a huge jackpot of 25,000x the total bet. You would expect a game based around melee combat to be much darker than either of those games, but Thunderkick has taken a much more light-hearted approach here – the fighters look nothing short of hapless in their medieval gear, whilst the backdrop wouldn’t look out of place in a circus-themed game! It’s still a well-presented slot, but I’m not sure everything glues together quite as it should.

If you were hoping that the switch from regular payways to connected ones would result in a notable increase in the payouts on the paytable, I suspect you’ll probably feel slightly disappointed at this part. The highest-paying symbol is the golden knight, offering a top payout of 10x the total bet for a full payway of six of a kind, whilst the red knight returns half as much at 5x for all five of his symbols. There are three more high-paying knights – the pink guy will award 4x the current stake for a six-of-a-kind combination, whilst the green and blue varieties return 3.5x and 3x, respectively. As for the low pays, six aces will get you 1.5x the total bet back in winnings, followed by 1.3x for six kings, 1.2x for six aces, 1.1x for six jacks, and 1x for the tens.

Clicking on your current bet, displayed next to the main spin control, will open a pop-up window with a choice of different wager amounts. The minimum/maximum limits have been set at €0.10 and €100.00 per spin, respectively.

base game & modifiers

The initial reel setup used in Grand Melee consists of six columns of four rows each, but this can be expanded up to seven rows via the expansion symbol. The payways used in this game are a little different to what you may be used to as well – wins require all symbols to be connected horizontally or at the corners rather than just having them on adjacent reels as with standard pay way slots. 

During the base game, special features such as the sticky re-spin can trigger randomly as modifiers. When the bonus game is triggered, the same features are available on every spin. 

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grand melee slot bonus features

You’ll need to hit at least five bonus scatter symbols simultaneously to trigger the bonus game, but you can get a little help with this courtesy of the sticky re-spin feature. If the scatter symbol appears above the reels, any bonus symbols that land during that spin will lock into place, allowing you to accumulate additional scatters during subsequent re-spins. The number of spins awarded equals the final number of visible bonus symbols. 

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