5 Frozen Charms Megaways Slot Review
A grinning, red-bearded leprechaun in a green coat and buckled hat stands beside the reels tossing a snowball, with a second one caught mid-flight at the corner of the screen, as if aimed at whoever’s about to spin. The throw is a fair warning: 5 Frozen Charms Megaways is calmer than it looks. For all the Megaways badge and the high-volatility label, this is a game built around one quiet decision, made before a single free spin drops, that shapes everything after it.
Pragmatic Play have built a high-volatility Megaways game on that frosty hillside: up to 117,649 ways to win, a 96.50% RTP and a 5,000x maximum win, sitting alongside Irish-themed stablemates like 7 Clovers of Fortune and Rainbow Gold. The snow is the costume. What’s underneath is a free spins picker that hands over the volatility dial, and the interesting question is where it gets set.
Base Game & Features
Symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost, and only the highest win per way counts, with all winning ways added together. Each of the six reels can carry up to seven symbols, which is what pushes the ways to that 117,649 ceiling. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240 per spin.
Symbol values are multiples of the total bet:
- Leprechaun: 1x, 2x, 4x and 25x for three, four, five and six
- Green Hat: 0.75x, 1.25x, 2.5x and 5x
- Golden Pipe: 0.5x, 0.75x, 1.5x and 5x
- Beer Mug: 0.3x, 0.5x, 1.25x and 2.5x
- Pink Mushroom: 0.3x, 0.5x, 1x and 2.5x
- A and K: 0.2x, 0.3x, 0.5x and 1.25x
- Q, J and 10: 0.1x, 0.2x, 0.4x and 1x
Those are total-bet multiples, so even the Leprechaun’s six-of-a-kind tops out at 25x before any wild gets involved. The royals fill most of the grid most of the time, and their pays reflect it.
The wild is a gold pouch that appears only on reels two, three, four and five, and substitutes for everything except the bonus symbol. That’s its whole day job, and it would be an unremarkable one if the game didn’t hand it a second duty that matters far more.
Tumble Feature
After every spin, winning combinations are paid and the winning symbols disappear. Whatever’s left falls to the bottom of the screen, and empty positions are filled with new symbols from above, matched in size to the initial result. Tumbling keeps going until no new win appears, and the whole chain is added to the balance once it finishes.
Wild Multiplier
Whenever a wild lands as part of a winning combination, in the base game or during tumbles, a random multiplier applies to every win that uses it. In the base game the possible values are:
- 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 30x and 40x
A 40x wild in the base game is where the smaller pays start looking respectable. A tumble chain that keeps connecting through a multiplied wild is the only route the base game has to anything sizeable.
Ante Bet
There’s a bet multiplier toggle with two settings:
- 20x: normal play
- 25x: doubles the chance of triggering free spins naturally by adding more bonus symbols to the reels; the paytable is unchanged and symbols pay as for 20x
5 Frozen Charms Megaways Free Spins & Bonus Buy
Free Spins
Three or more bonus symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the free spins round. The bonus symbol is a pot of gold, it appears on all reels, and it doesn’t explode during tumbles, so it can sit in place while the reels churn around it. It pays on its own, too:
- 3 bonus symbols: 1.5x the total bet
- 4 bonus symbols: 2.5x the total bet
- 5 bonus symbols: 12.5x the total bet
- 6 bonus symbols: 50x the total bet
Before the round starts, you pick one of seven options, each trading spin count against wild multiplier range:
- 25 free spins, 2x-5x wild multipliers
- 20 free spins, 3x-8x wild multipliers
- 15 free spins, 5x-10x wild multipliers
- 13 free spins, 8x-15x wild multipliers
- 10 free spins, 10x-30x wild multipliers
- 6 free spins, 15x-40x wild multipliers
- Mystery: a number of free spins and a multiplier range drawn from the other options
During the round, the wild works as it does in the base game except the multiplier is drawn from your chosen range. Special reels are in play throughout. Three or more bonus symbols during the round retrigger it, awarding the same number of spins as the option you picked, so a 25-spin choice retriggers for 25 more.
Buy Free Spins
The round can be bought outright from the base game for 100x the current total bet, options included. Buying is disabled while the 25x ante bet is switched on, so you choose one route or the other. The return is the same whether you spin normally, ante up or buy in.
One cap rule shapes the whole round: if a free spins round’s total win reaches the maximum, the round ends immediately, the win is awarded and every remaining spin is forfeited. A hot start can cut the round short before you’ve used what you paid for.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
You spend most of your time here waiting. The base game pays in crumbs, the tumbles mostly relaunch nothing, and the leprechaun’s snowball feels like the most eventful thing on screen for long stretches. That’s fine, because the reason to choose this one isn’t the waiting, it’s the choice you get to make at the end of it.
The option picker is genuinely good, and it’s good for a reason: it’s the rare bonus round where the risk is yours to set, and where picking wrong is your own doing rather than the game’s. The weakness is that everything above the crumbs depends on it. Six spins with a 40x wild is a knife-edge way to chase a 5,000x cap that can end the round before you’ve had your money’s worth, and a cold picker can leave a session with nothing to show.
For players who like being handed the dials and setting them themselves, it’s an easy game to enjoy. Anyone chasing the biggest ceilings in Megaways will find this one modest. But the hillside is pretty, the choices are real, and the charms hold up even when the snow doesn’t.
5 Frozen Charms Megaways FAQs
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What is the RTP of 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
The RTP is 96.50%, and it stays there whether you play normally, use the ante bet or buy the free spins round. -
Is 5 Frozen Charms Megaways high volatility?
Yes. It’s a high volatility game, which means payouts tend to come less often but with a better chance of a big win in a short session. -
How do you trigger the free spins in 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
Land three or more bonus symbols, the pot of gold, anywhere on the reels. The bonus symbol doesn’t disappear during tumbles, and three, four, five or six of them pay 1.5x, 2.5x, 12.5x and 50x the total bet respectively. -
What are the free spins options in 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
Before the round starts you pick one of seven options, ranging from 25 spins with 2x-5x wild multipliers down to 6 spins with 15x-40x multipliers, plus a Mystery option that draws both the spin count and multiplier range from the others. -
Can you buy the bonus on 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
Yes. The free spins round, options included, can be bought for 100x your total bet. The buy option is disabled while the 25x ante bet is switched on. -
Can free spins retrigger in 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
Yes. Landing three or more bonus symbols during the round awards more free spins, matching the number in the option you originally selected. -
What is the maximum win on 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
The maximum win is 5,000x your bet. If a free spins round reaches it, the round ends immediately, the win is paid and any remaining free spins are forfeited. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on 5 Frozen Charms Megaways?
The betting range spans 0.20 to 240 per spin, and the 25x ante bet raises the effective cost in exchange for double the natural chance of triggering free spins.
