Reel Lucky King Megaways Slot Review
A rainbow arcs over a green meadow, shamrocks scattered across the grass and a heap of gold and jewels spilling along the bottom of the screen. Reel Lucky King Megaways looks like every Irish luck slot ever made, but it’s built around an idea most of them don’t have: the wins you string together matter far more than the win you land.
Nearly all of the game’s rewards are saved for the streaks. It’s an Inspired build, running on a 6×4 grid with Megaways ways that shift on every spin, at an RTP of 95.56%. Fans of the studio will find familiar company in Reel King Megaways, Centurion Megaways and Cops ‘N’ Robbers Megaways, all of which take the same no-nonsense approach to the licence.
How the Reels and Symbols Work
Wins land by matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost one, and a match can run from a pair up to a full line of six. The ways count changes with every spin as the reels resize, which is standard Megaways behaviour, and a counter above the grid keeps you posted on how many routes are live. Above the main set sits an extra reel.
That ways counter is worth a glance now and then. Because each reel can vary in height, a single spin can open up well over ten thousand routes, and the difference between a quiet spin and a busy one is often just how tall the middle reels decide to grow. When the counter reads high, small matches multiply into something more interesting.
The wild substitutes for all symbols and appears on that extra reel, both in the base game and during free spins. It’s the only special symbol doing substitution work here, and it can complete a win on its own reel’s row as easily as any other.
The Paytable
All values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Pot of Gold – 2 pays 2x, 3 pays 5x, 4 pays 10x, 5 pays 25x, 6 pays 50x
- A – 3 pays 1x, 4 pays 2x, 5 pays 2.5x, 6 pays 7.5x
- K – 3 pays 0.25x, 4 pays 1x, 5 pays 1.5x, 6 pays 2x
- Q – 3 pays 0.25x, 4 pays 0.5x, 5 pays 0.75x, 6 pays 2x
- J and 10 – 3 pays 0.2x, 4 pays 0.4x, 5 pays 0.6x, 6 pays 1.75x
- 9 – 3 pays 0.15x, 4 pays 0.25x, 5 pays 0.6x, 6 pays 1x
- Watermelon – 3 pays 0.15x, 4 pays 0.25x, 5 pays 0.5x, 6 pays 1x
- Eggplant – 3 pays 0.15x, 4 pays 0.25x, 5 pays 0.5x, 6 pays 0.9x
- Cherries – 3 pays 0.1x, 4 pays 0.2x, 5 pays 0.4x, 6 pays 0.8x
It’s a top-heavy table. The Pot of Gold is the only symbol that pays for a two-symbol match, and it’s worth nearly seven times what the runner-up A pays for a full line. Everything from the 9 down to the cherries returns less than your stake on a six-of-a-kind, which tells you the base game wins are built from cascades and feature upgrades rather than single lines.
The lower half of the table splits into two groups. Cherries, melon and eggplant are classic fruit machine stock, while the royals fill the middle ground between them and the top prize. They exist to keep the cascades fed. The Pot of Gold at the top is where the theme and the money meet.
Cascades and the King Upgrades
Winning symbols are removed and new ones cascade in, giving you another chance to win on the same spin. Cascades continue for as long as new wins form. On top of that, extra cascades are what drive the bonus progression here.
A chain works like this: the first win pays, the winning symbols vanish, and the replacements drop in. If those replacements form another win, that’s your first extra cascade, and it’s the extra cascades that do the bonus work rather than the win that started things off. A chain that runs three or four wins deep does far more for a session than three wins scattered across separate spins.
Each cascade during the base game can nudge you up a three-level ladder of king characters, shown with a rainbow slot reel icon: Lucky King, Super King and Reel King. The extra cascades trigger Super or Lucky King bonus upgrades, and the tiers escalate as the names suggest, with Reel King sitting at the top of the stack.
The order of the names matters more than it first appears. A single cascade can be enough to stir things, but the upgrades themselves come from the extra cascades, the ones that follow a win rather than the win that started it. Two wins in a row is a different animal from two wins on separate spins, and the whole design rests on that distinction.
There’s a free spins round too, running with the wild live on the extra reel. The exact trigger conditions for the upgrades and the spins count aren’t spelled out anywhere, so the practical way to learn the timing is to let the cascades tell you.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a game of streaks dressed as an Irish meadow, and the dressing isn’t the reason to play it. A spin here is either a quiet line win or the start of a chain, and everything interesting happens when one win feeds the next.
The king ladder is the best thing in it. Because upgrades ride on extra cascades rather than the wins themselves, a run of three or four carries you up levels that single spins never touch, and the top of that climb is where the game keeps its real money. The paytable is the honest weakness: outside the Pot of Gold, six-of-a-kinds return pennies, so the gaps between chains can feel long and thin.
It suits players who enjoy the long build and don’t mind a lean stretch to get there; anyone chasing big single-line hits will find the table has little for them. For cascade fans, though, the pot at the end of this rainbow is a climb worth making.
Reel Lucky King Megaways FAQs
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What is the RTP of Reel Lucky King Megaways?
Reel Lucky King Megaways runs at an RTP of 95.56%, a touch under the usual industry average. -
How do you win in Reel Lucky King Megaways?
Wins come from matching symbols across adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one, from a pair of Pot of Gold symbols up to a full line of six. The Megaways system means the number of ways to win changes on every spin. -
What is the grid size of Reel Lucky King Megaways?
The game runs on a 6×4 grid. -
How does the king upgrade system work in Reel Lucky King Megaways?
The game has three upgrade levels: Lucky King, Super King and Reel King. Extra cascades trigger Super or Lucky King bonus upgrades, so chains of consecutive wins are what push you up the ladder. -
What does the wild symbol do in Reel Lucky King Megaways?
The wild substitutes for all symbols and appears on the extra reel above the main grid. It’s active in both the base game and during free spins. -
What is the highest-paying symbol in Reel Lucky King Megaways?
The Pot of Gold is the top symbol, paying from just two matches and awarding up to 50x your total bet for a full line. -
Does Reel Lucky King Megaways have free spins?
Yes. A free spins round features in the game, and the wild keeps its place on the extra reel throughout it. -
When was Reel Lucky King Megaways released?
Reel Lucky King Megaways’s release date is 22 January 2021.
