Lucky Fishing Megaways

Lucky Fishing Megaways Slot Review

A fishing rod rests on the planks of a wooden pier, a wicker bucket of the day’s catch sitting at the far end, and calm turquoise water stretching back to a palm-lined shore. Lucky Fishing Megaways is the rare fishing slot that gets by without a fisherman hauling cash off the reels, and it doesn’t miss him. The setting is hand-drawn, bright and unhurried, and the game is content to let the lake do the talking.

It comes from Pragmatic Play, running six reels with up to 117,649 ways to win, 96.55% RTP, high volatility, a 5,000x win cap and bets from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin. The water looks calm enough. Whether the fish are biting is what the rest of this is about.

The Base Game and Its Ways to Win

Six reels sit inside that wooden frame, each spinning up a different number of symbols. Reels 1 and 6 can hold up to seven symbols; the middle four hold up to six each, plus one extra on a top row that spins independently from right to left. Multiply it all out and the grid tops out at 117,649 possible ways to win.

Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels. Only the highest combination counts on each way, and all winning ways are added together.

The wild is a fisherman who substitutes for everything except the scatter and the fishing boat, and he only appears on the top row of the middle reels. The rest of the paytable splits between four fish and the card royals, with all values expressed as multiples of the total bet:

• Purple Fish: 0.5x for two, 1x for three, 5x for four, 10x for five, 20x for six
• Golden Fish: pays 0.5x, 2x, 2.5x and 5x for three to six of a kind
• Green Fish: from 0.5x at three up to 2.5x at six, with 1x and 1.5x for four and five
• Blue Fish: three pays 0.25x, four 0.5x, five 0.75x and six 2x
• A: 0.2x for three, 0.4x for four, 0.6x for five, 1.5x for six
• K: pays 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.5x and 1.25x for three to six of a kind
• Q: three pays 0.15x, four 0.25x, five 0.5x, six 1x
• J: 0.15x at three, 0.25x at four, 0.5x at five, 0.9x at six
• 10: 0.1x for three, 0.2x for four, 0.4x for five, 0.8x for six
• 9: three pays 0.1x, four 0.2x, five 0.4x and six 0.6x

Tumble Feature

Every winning spin triggers a tumble. Winning symbols are paid and then disappear, the remaining symbols drop to the bottom of the screen, and new symbols fall in from above to fill the gaps.

If those new symbols form another win, the cycle repeats, and it keeps repeating until a tumble produces no new combination. Only once the whole chain has finished does the total land in your balance.

The Fishing Boat Feature

This is the game’s own idea, and it’s a good one. The fishing boat is a two-position-wide symbol that can only land on the top row of reels 2 to 5, and it doesn’t pay anything itself. Its job is different: whenever it arrives fully visible, whether on a normal spin or after a tumble, every symbol on the reels directly below it transforms into a wild.

There’s a second layer to it. If a tumble shifts the boat to a new position on the top row, the transformation fires again for the reels now beneath it. A single boat can keep turning reels wild as the tumbles roll on.

It demands precision, though. If the boat isn’t fully visible on the top row, or a tumble leaves it where it was, nothing happens.

Free Spins

4 or more scatter symbols, which can appear on any reel, trigger the free spins round. The scatter is a treasure chest, and the more of them you land, the bigger the starting award:

• 4 scatters: 10 free spins
• 5 scatters: 14 free spins
• 6 scatters: 18 free spins
• 7 scatters: 22 free spins
• Landing 8 scatters starts the round on 26 free spins
• 9 scatters: 30 free spins

Before the round begins, there’s a gamble option if you won between 10 and 18 spins. A wheel spins and either adds four more free spins or takes the lot. The odds improve as you climb: 62.81% going from 10 to 14, 70.39% from 14 to 18, and 75.02% from 18 to 22. You can’t gamble past 22 spins, and rounds won with 26 or 30 spins go straight into play.

Inside the round, a win multiplier starts at 1x and increases by 1x with every tumble, with each tumble’s win multiplied by the current value. The fishing boat feature stays active throughout, and 3 scatters during the round award four extra spins on special reels.

Hit 5,000x the bet at any point and the round ends immediately, the win is paid, and any remaining spins are forfeited.

Buy Free Spins

The free spins round can be bought from the base game for 100x the current total bet, and it runs at 96.97% RTP when bought. A purchase drops a random number of scatters, awarding between 10 and 22 free spins, and those spins can be gambled exactly like ones earned the slow way.

It’s a flat single-tier buy, so there’s no choosing between volatile and safer versions of the round. What you’re paying for is skipping the trigger wait and rolling the dice on where in the 10-to-22 range you land, with the gamble wheel there if the number feels low.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Most of a session here is spent on calm water: tumbles roll, small wins come and go, and then a boat pulls up and rewrites the screen. That boat is what you’d come for, and it earns the trip. When it slides along the top row mid-tumble, a losing spin can become something entirely different in the space of one cascade.

The strength is that the base game isn’t a waiting room. Between the boat, the tumbles and the gamble wheel’s improving odds, there’s always something in motion, and that’s rarer among Megaways titles than it should be. The weakness is the money: 5,000x is a modest ceiling for a game built this volatile, and outside the purple fish the paytable pays crumbs.

It suits the patient kind of angler, someone who enjoys the slow build of a tumble game and counts a boatful of wilds as the day’s catch. Anyone chasing five-figure multipliers should cast elsewhere. The rod’s still resting on the pier for a reason: this one rewards the wait.

Lucky Fishing Megaways FAQs

• What is the RTP of Lucky Fishing Megaways?

  Lucky Fishing Megaways runs at 96.55% RTP. If you use the Buy Free Spins option, the RTP for the bought round is 96.97%.
• Is Lucky Fishing Megaways high volatility?

  Yes, Lucky Fishing Megaways is a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be less frequent but can be larger when they arrive.
• How many paylines does Lucky Fishing Megaways have?

  The game uses the Megaways system, with a maximum of 117,649 possible ways to win on any given spin.
• How does the Fishing Boat feature work?

  The fishing boat is a two-position-wide symbol that only appears on the top row of reels 2 to 5. When it lands fully visible, all symbols on the reels below it turn into wilds. If a tumble moves the boat to a new position, the transformation triggers again.
• How do you trigger free spins in Lucky Fishing Megaways?

  Landing 4 or more scatter symbols anywhere on the screen triggers the free spins round. 4 scatters award 10 free spins, rising to 30 free spins for 9 scatters, and 3 scatters during the round add 4 more spins.
• Can you buy the bonus on Lucky Fishing Megaways?

  Yes. The free spins round can be bought for 100x your current total bet, awarding a random number of spins between 10 and 22 that can then be gambled for more.
• What is the maximum win on Lucky Fishing Megaways?

  The maximum win is capped at 5,000x your bet. If a round’s total win reaches that cap, the round ends immediately, the win is paid, and any remaining features are forfeited.
• Who makes Lucky Fishing Megaways?

  Lucky Fishing Megaways is made by Pragmatic Play. Its release date is 27 December 2022.