Great Rhino Megaways Slot

The slot has 6 reels of different sizes with reels 1 and 6 hosting up to 7 symbols and reels 2-5 hosting up to 8 symbols. Every spin, the Megaways mechanics by BTG makes the reels change their capacity in terms of the number of symbols they can accommodate. When every reel hosts the maximum possible number of symbols (7 or 8), the slot generates as many as 200,704 Megaways. The actual number of Megaways varies from spin to spin and is always displayed on a special counter above the reels. This number shows how many winning combinations matching symbols can create if they land in all positions. Symbols form combinations (or Megaways) when they land in any position on 2 or 3 adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. There is also a remarkable detail in the slot design: It has rows of different length, with the uppermost row being only 4 positions long. This row, by the way, has a fixed size and always hosts 4 symbols moving from the left while all other rows host icons that move vertically when a game round starts. This solution makes the reels look really fresh and adds intrigue into the gameplay. To make this amazing architecture produce amazing wins, Megaways slots including Great Rhino Megaways employ special math for calculating wins. It is of utmost importance to understand how it works because otherwise the paytable looks just miserable.

Great Rhino Megaways runs with 10 regular icons including five playing cards from 10 to A and five animals, Flamingos, Hyenas, Crocodiles, Mountain Gorillas and Cheetahs (the same set as any slot machine in the Great Rhino family). Cards and animals all pay from left to right when at least 3 adjacent reels host at least 1 icon of a kind each (or 2 for Cheetahs). The awards are from x0.1 to x20 the stake (up to $2,000 at the max bet). But math does the trick and turns this paytable into a bonanza. This is best illustrated by a showcase. Let there are 14 Cheetahs hitting the reels starting from the leftmost one and they sit as follows: three Cheetahs on reel 1, four Cheetahs on reel 2, three Cheetahs on reel 3 and four Cheetahs on reel 4. This is a 4-symbol combination awarding x10 the stake or $1,000 at the max bet. But 14 of these magnificent animals produce as many as 3x4x4x4=192 Megaways to win, therefore the total win amounts to 10×192=x1,920 the stake or $192,000 at max if played for real money. Regular icons are assisted by a wild symbol helping them create combinations or make them more lucrative. Wilds are Rhinos looking right into the player’s eyes: when this Rhino comes into play (joins any combination) it charges toward a player, what a breathtaking view. Wilds land in any position of the uppermost row only and substitute for any playing card or animal. Wilds cannot replace scatters or pay any wins. Scatters are pure triggers. They can appear anywhere and activate free spins.

Any win in the base game or during free spins awards a special bonus. It is the Tumble feature designed to produce cascades of wins. It works in a simple but joyful and beneficial way: the feature makes winning icons disappear and all remaining icons fall down into the emptied positions (or move leftward if on the upper row), and new randomly selected icons fall from above. Online casino players can notice that when a Tumble happens, the Megaways counter above the reels displays one and the same number of Megaways with every tumble. The point is that the Tumble feature blocks the process of random transformation of reels so it runs at a fixed number of Megaways coinciding with that in the triggering round. The total win in every Tumble sequence (a win in the triggering spin plus all Tumble wins) is paid when the sequence is over. The feature is available during free spins as well.

The Free Spins feature unlocks when 4+ scatters land. The design of free spins is as intricate as the Megaways mechanics itself. The number of scatters in the triggering spin is of high relevance: it makes the slot machine fairly interactive for it defines the options to be selected by a player and gives him a great deal of influence on the gameplay and the outcome of the feature. The options differ in the numbers of free spins, while the attached win multiplier values are fixed (x10, x5 or x1). Landing 4 scatters awards the choice of 5, 10 or 15 free spins with x10, x5 or x1 starting multipliers, respectively. Hitting 5 scatters, a player can select 9, 14 or 19 free spins, while six triggering scatters bring the chance to pick 13, 18 or 23 free spins. To give the player more control over the gameplay and let some intrigue into it, there is also a mystery choice awarding a random number of free spins running with the same set of multipliers. When the choice is made, the feature starts. Any win unlocks the Tumble feature and every tumble sequence adds +1 to the starting value of the win multiplier. When the tumble sequence is over, the online casino game calculates the total win and applies the multiplier. The slot machine awards 5 extra spins for landing 3 scatters during free spins and it does so with no limit. This means that the luckiest player from South Africa may play free spins with an endlessly growing win multiplier. The only restriction imposed on this fantastic opportunity is the maximum win in the game: it is capped at x20,000 the stake ($2,000,000 at max). The dark side of the feature is that it always awards only 5 extra FS regardless of the number of scatters landed in the course of free spins.

As some other games by Pragmatic Play, the slot machine is equipped with these two add-ons, Ante Bet and Bonus Buy. Both are similar in design and effect: either feature lets player increase the stake to improve chances for unlocking free spins. The difference between two features is the price: the Ante Bet makes the stake 25% higher and increase the number of scatters popping up on the reels and the probability of activating free spins. The Buy Bonus feature makes free spins play in the next paid round (immediately) but it has a higher price of x100 the stake. Both features are fully available to players in the base play.

Great Rhino Megaways is a popular video slot by Pragmatic Play accepting bets between $0.20 and $100 per spin and creating as many as 200,704 Megaways that pay off up to x20 the stake in the main game. Retriggerable free spins play with progressive multipliers helping players win up to x20,000 the stake.