Elephant King MegaJackpots Slot Review
The sun hangs low over the savanna, acacia trees flat-topped against an orange sky, and a reel cabinet framed in carved gold pillars stands in the middle of it all. Heat haze fades towards the horizon, cracked earth runs beneath the reels, and the whole scene glows like a painted wildlife study.
Elephant King MegaJackpots makes its argument straight away: unlike most progressive slots, it pays you in small pieces while you chase the half-million reset. IGT built it on a 5×3 grid with 40 fixed paylines and a total RTP of 91.02%, jackpot contribution included.
It’s a format IGT also work in Cash Eruption MegaJackpots. The savanna beats the scenery Cleopatra ever had, and this is the more interesting of the two to actually spin.
The Savanna Paytable
Betting is fixed across all 40 paylines, so every spin covers the full board. You set the total bet through the configuration menu, and the coin value and coin count shown on screen adjust with it. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and only the highest combination on each line counts.
The premium symbols are the animals, with the Elephant king himself at the top, and a run of card-suit royals fills out the lower end. The values are for three, four and five of a kind on a payline:
- Elephant – 25, 75, 500
- Rhino – 15, 75, 250
- Zebra – 15, 50, 125
- Antelope – 10, 20, 75
- Heart – 5, 20, 60
- Club and blue Diamond – 5, 15, 50
- Green Spade and teal Diamond – 2, 10, 40
There’s a steep drop from the animals to the royals. Five elephants pays 500; five green spades pays 40. The gap explains why the free spins round, which loads the reels with animal symbols only, matters so much to how this game pays.
The WILD symbol appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, and it substitutes for every symbol except the elephant head Bonus symbol. Because it’s limited to the middle reels, a stacked wild fill covers a large slice of the board at once, and the bigger base game wins come from exactly that.
The Bonus symbol, an elephant head icon, is the other special. It lands on reels 1, 3 and 5 only, and it’s the key to everything the game does beyond plain line wins.
The Prize Disk Feature
Every reel that can carry a Bonus symbol has a disk sitting above it, and each disk shows a prize. When a Bonus symbol lands on a reel, you win whatever that reel’s disk is showing. No waiting for a scatter count, no threshold to reach: the symbol arrives, the disk pays.
Each triggering symbol resolves into one of three outcomes:
- A bonus win – an immediate credit payout
- Free spins – entry into the Free Spins Bonus
- The MegaJackpots Bonus – the round that can pay the progressive
Which of the three you get depends on what the Prize Disk above that reel is showing when the symbol lands. The disks sit above the reels at all times, so you can see the prize you’re playing for before the Bonus symbol ever arrives.
That has a pleasant consequence. A single spin with Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 can deliver three different outcomes at once, one per reel, and any of them can be the MegaJackpots Bonus. The base game offers three disk triggers per spin; the free spins round offers more.
Free Spins Bonus
When a Prize Disk awards free spins, the round works a change on the reel set itself. The lower-value suit symbols are stripped out, and the reels load up with the higher-paying animal symbols instead. Every spin of the bonus therefore runs on the top half of the paytable, where the five-of-a-kind pays live.
The second change is just as important. During the round, the Bonus scatter symbols can appear on all five reels, rather than only on reels 1, 3 and 5. The trigger surface for the Prize Disk roughly doubles, and a round that keeps landing Bonus symbols keeps resolving disks throughout.
That’s what makes the round tick. More Bonus symbols means more Prize Disk resolutions, and each one pays a bonus win, more free spins, or a shot at the MegaJackpots Bonus, on top of whatever the animal symbols themselves are doing on the paylines. A good run here stacks all of it at once.
The MegaJackpots Progressive
The main event. The MegaJackpots Progressive is won inside the MegaJackpots Bonus, and only there: the MEGA JACKPOTS icon has to come up in the Prize Disk above the elephant head icon during that round. There is no other route to it.
The odds of hitting it increase with higher bets, which is standard practice for wide-area progressives. Stake more per spin and you carry proportionally more chance of the icon appearing. The jackpot resets at half a million and climbs from there, fed by a slice of every wager placed on the game.
That slice is where your return goes. The total of 91.02% includes the jackpot’s contribution; strip it out and the base game pays 88.99%. The distance between those figures and what a non-jackpot slot returns is what funds the half-million resets, and you pay it on every spin whether the icons align or not.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
You come here for one thing: a progressive that resets at half a million, wrapped in the best scenery this format has ever worn. And unlike most jackpot slots, the waiting doesn’t feel dead. Every bonus symbol resolves a disk on the spot, so even a session that goes nowhere hands you small payouts along the way.
The free spins round is the strongest part of the build. Loading the reels with animal symbols and opening all five reels to the scatter turns the paytable’s steep top half into the whole game, and a good run stacks line wins and disk prizes together.
The weakness is the price of admission. A 91.02% total return means every spin pays the jackpot tax, and the odds stay long no matter how pretty the savanna looks. This one suits players who want the progressive chase and accept the lean base returns that come with it; anyone here for regular session wins will find the watering hole dry.
Elephant King MegaJackpots FAQs
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What is the RTP of Elephant King MegaJackpots?
The total RTP is 91.02%, which includes the progressive jackpot’s contribution. Excluding the jackpot, the base return is 88.99%. -
How many paylines does Elephant King MegaJackpots have?
Elephant King MegaJackpots features 40 paylines, and betting is fixed across all of them on every spin. -
What is the grid size of Elephant King MegaJackpots?
The game runs on a 5×3 grid with five reels and three rows. -
How do you trigger the Prize Disk feature?
Bonus scatter symbols appear on reels 1, 3 and 5. When one lands on a reel, you win the prize shown in the disk above that reel: a bonus win, free spins, or the MegaJackpots Bonus. -
How do you win the MegaJackpots Progressive?
Only inside the MegaJackpots Bonus. The MEGA JACKPOTS icon must appear in the Prize Disk above the elephant head icon during that round, and the odds improve as your bet size rises. -
What does the wild symbol do in Elephant King MegaJackpots?
The wild stands in for every symbol except the elephant head Bonus symbol, and it only shows up on the middle three reels. -
What is different about the free spins round?
During the Free Spins Bonus, the reels are loaded with higher-paying animal symbols, and Bonus scatter symbols can appear on all five reels instead of just reels 1, 3 and 5. -
Can a single spin award more than one Prize Disk prize?
Yes. Bonus symbols can land on reels 1, 3 and 5 at the same time, and each one resolves the disk above its own reel, so three prizes can land on one spin. -
Who makes Elephant King MegaJackpots?
IGT. -
When is Elephant King MegaJackpots released?
The release date is 10 December 2021.
