Lady Merlin

Lady Merlin Slot Review

A crowned sorceress stands above the reels, a glowing orb balanced on one gloved hand while her staff throws a lightning bolt past the grid, two hooded stone monks flanking her like pillars. This is ReelPlay‘s Lady Merlin, and it’s a conventional 20-line slot where the wild matters more than the paytable ever will. The symbol wins are small change; the real money is in what the wilds do to everything around them.

Every wild that lands pushes a win multiplier up by one, and that multiplier runs through everything the game does. It’s a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines and medium-high volatility, with a 20,000x max win that sits well above Hypernova Megaways or Atlantis 10K Ways, two of ReelPlay’s better-known titles. If multiplier stacking sounds familiar, it should: this is the WinMulti mechanic, and it’s the reason to care about a conventional grid.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, with only the highest combination counting on each line and wins on different lines added together. It’s the classic line-based setup, and there’s nothing unusual about how it runs.

The wild is a Lady Merlin portrait that substitutes for everything except the Collect, Lightning Coil and scatter symbols. It also carries its own paytable values as the richest symbol in the game, worth up to 2.5x the total bet for five of a kind.

The paytable, as multiples of the total bet:

• Wild: 0.2x for two, 0.4x for three, 0.9x for four, 2.5x for five
• Red/orange snake book: 0.1x for two, 0.4x for three, 0.75x for four, 2x for five
• Orange magnifying-glass book / green eye book: 0.3x for three, 0.5x for four, 1.5x for five
• Blue book / pink book: 0.25x for three, 0.4x for four, 1.25x for five
• A, K, Q, J: 0.15x for three, 0.3x for four, 0.75x for five

WinMulti

Every wild that appears increases the win multiplier by one, and all wins are multiplied by the current figure. In the base game the multiplier resets to one at the end of each spin, so the build only lasts as long as the cascades do.

Cascade Bonus

Every winning symbol takes part in a reaction and is replaced by symbols dropping in from above, which is how a single spin can chain wins and stack wilds onto the multiplier. Free spin triggers don’t cause a reaction.

Strike Zone

On each base game spin, one special symbol may appear in the Strike Zone, a marked band on the reel frame. The possible symbols:

• Win Multi: increases the win multiplier by one to five
• A Collect symbol, usable once per spin
• A coin symbol, usable once per spin
• A scatter symbol, usable once per spin
• A second chance: when no win occurs after a spin or cascade, all A, K, Q and J symbols are removed and replaced from above
• A Win Multi lock: increases the multiplier by one and stops it resetting at the end of the spin

Each once-per-spin symbol can only be spent on the spin it appears. The Strike Zone is the game’s rhythm section: it can hand you a scatter you didn’t land, strip the low symbols out for a second run, or freeze a multiplier in place for another spin.

Lightning Coil and the Collect Feature

Lightning Coil symbols carry prizes between 0.5x and 500x the total bet, sitting on the reels until a Collect symbol lands on reels two, three or four. When it does, every Lightning Coil prize on display is paid out immediately.

The top of that ladder is tiered: MEGA pays 500x the total bet, MAJOR pays 50x, and MINI pays 20x. Those three sit on the reel frame as visible meters, ticking over every spin.

WILD+ Ante Bet

Where jurisdictions allow it, an additional wager unlocks WILD+, which adds extra wilds to the reels. On the default 0.60 stake that means betting 0.90 in total.

More wilds mean more multiplier, and more multiplier is the whole engine here, so the ante is priced at exactly the thing the game wants you to buy.

Lady Merlin Free Spins & Bonus Features

Three or more scatters trigger the free spins round, and scatters only appear on reels one, three and five. The award is five free spins. Five sounds thin. It isn’t, and here’s why.

Every free spin is a guaranteed win, and only spins that produce a win count towards the total. The win multiplier doesn’t reset for the duration of the round, and it starts at whatever the triggering spin had built. The round, in other words, inherits its own ignition.

Wilds keep adding to the multiplier as they land, so a round that opens at 3x can finish far higher. Collect symbols still pay out all Lightning Coil prizes immediately, and those prizes still run up to 500x the total bet. Free spins can retrigger, and they play at the same lines and stake as the spin that set them off.

The structure rewards patience in the base game. A triggering spin that arrives with the multiplier already stacked walks into the round ahead, and the no-reset rule means the round only ever builds.

Retriggers top the count back up mid-round, and the only-winning-spins-count rule stretches each one further, so a hot round can run well past its opening five.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Playing Lady Merlin is watching a slow spell charge. Most spins are quiet, and the reason to sit through them is that quiet spins can still seed the next one: a locked multiplier, a strike-zone scatter, a coil waiting on a Collect. The free spins round is the best thing here, because a multiplier that carries in and never resets gives five spins a genuine destination rather than five rolls of the dice.

The weakness is what sits between rounds. The paytable under the wild is thin, so the base game pays in small change and asks you to keep the faith while it builds. That’s a long walk on a 0.20 to 8 stake range.

It suits players who enjoy the build itself: cascade and multiplier fans who’d rather grow a number than chase one big hit. Anyone after instant drama will find the pace a grind. But the sorceress rewards those who sit with her, and the spell she’s casting is worth the wait.

Lady Merlin FAQs

• How do you trigger free spins in Lady Merlin?

  Three or more scatter symbols trigger five free spins. Scatters only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5. Every free spin is a guaranteed win, and the round can retrigger.
• What does the Collect symbol do in Lady Merlin?

  When a Collect symbol appears on reels 2, 3 or 4, every Lightning Coil prize on display is awarded immediately. Lightning Coil prizes range from 0.5x up to 500x the total bet.
• What is the WinMulti mechanic in Lady Merlin?

  Each wild that lands bumps the win multiplier up by one, and every win is multiplied by that figure. It resets after each base game spin, but holds for the whole free spins round.
• What is the WILD+ Ante Bet in Lady Merlin?

  WILD+ is an additional wager, offered where jurisdictions allow it, that adds extra wilds to the reels. At the default 0.60 stake the total bet rises to 0.90. Extra wilds feed the win multiplier.
• What does the Strike Zone do in Lady Merlin?

  The Strike Zone is a marked band on the reel frame that can produce one special symbol per base game spin. It can be a win multiplier boost of one to five, a Collect, coin or scatter symbol usable once per spin, a second chance that removes the A, K, Q and J symbols after a losing spin, or a Win Multi lock that stops the multiplier resetting.
• What is the maximum win on Lady Merlin?

  The maximum win is 20,000x the total bet. Wins in a single game will not exceed that figure.
• How many paylines does Lady Merlin have?

  Lady Merlin has 20 paylines on a 5×3 grid, with all wins paying left to right from the leftmost reel and only the highest win counting on each line.
• What are the bet limits on Lady Merlin?

  Bets run from 0.20 to 8 per spin, with the default bet size at 0.60 covering all 20 lines.