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power of merlin megaways slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Typing Merlin’s name into our search engine only returns nine results, and only a couple of those even have the wizard's name in their titles! I have to say that I found this very surprising – I was certain that I had personally reviewed at least a handful of games based on this guy by now! Stranger still, the top result isn’t based on ‘’this guy’ at all – it’s Boomerang Studio's quirky Lady Merlin slot! I suspect that the reason for this anomaly is that many other games featuring the wizard are primarily based on Camelot – Clash of Camelot, for example, or the Avalon series by Microgaming. Let’s not forget ELK Studios' excellent Avalon Gold slot whilst we’re at it – that machine offered a similarly mammoth jackpot as this release from Pragmatic Play, making it an obvious choice to compare it to. ELK’s game looks a little more up to date, in my view, but I tend to prefer the features offered in Pragmatic Play’s games most of the time. In terms of RTP, Power of Merlin Megaways definitely has the edge, and at more than a 2% difference, it isn’t a small one either. 

Moving on to the paytable, the highest-paying regular symbol on offer here is Merlin himself, worth 20x the total bet for a full payway of six of a kind. He’s a bit of an outlier though – the next symbol down is an owl which pays just 5x for all six symbols, whilst Merlin’s staff will only get you 2.5x your stake for a complete payway. The potion bottle has a return of 2x for hitting six of a kind, which brings us to the six low-paying royal symbols; yes, I did say six! Six low-value symbols feels a little bit unfair when you consider that there are only four high-paying ones, but on the plus side, there isn’t much of a gap between the two groups. Six aces will get you 1.5x the total bet back in winnings, whilst, at the other end of the scale, you will receive 0.6x back for hitting six nines. 

Pragmatic Play is one of the few developers who has not fallen into the trap of imposing arbitrary restrictions on how much you can bet. This machine has three selectors for choosing a bet, coin value, and total bet, allowing you to select any multiple of the €0.20 minimum up to the maximum of €100.00 per spin.

base game & modifiers

Fans of existing Megaways slots will be right at home with the design of Power of Merlin Megaways; it’s the same six reel layout that we have all come to know (and mostly love), along with an additional horizontal reel positioned above reels two through five. Merlin himself has a payout for just two matching symbols starting from the left, whilst everything else requires at least three matches before you’ll be awarded any winnings. 

Another familiar aspect of this game is its cascading reels feature. The tumble feature removes all winning symbols from the reels immediately after they land, creating empty spaces for new symbols to drop into view and create further winning combinations. A single round can theoretically continue indefinitely as long as tumbles continue to create new winning combinations. 

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power of merlin megaways slot bonus features

Unless you pay to utilise the bonus buy facility, you’ll need to hit at least four scatter symbols to trigger the free spin bonus round. A four scatter trigger will award you ten free spins, increasing to 14, 18, 22, 26, or 30 spins when five, six, seven, eight, or nine scatters feature in the triggering combination. 

If you’re unhappy with the number of spins you are awarded initially, a pie gamble feature allows you to try and boost your counter before the bonus round begins. When gambling from 10 to 14 spins, your odds are at their worst, just 63.10%, but they do get better as you win more spins. This makes it extremely tempting to keep gambling until you reach the maximum of 30 spins, as a gamble from 26 to 30 has odds of 78.92%. 

However, let me put things another way here – if you start with 10 free spins and make all five gambles necessary to reach the maximum of 30, your odds of successfully starting the bonus drop to just 19.56%! Gambling just once or twice is much more likely to result in a positive outcome, so keep that in mind.

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