Snakes and Ladders Megadice Slot Review
A huge green snake with red ring markings drapes itself across the top of the frame like a banner, one bulging eye watching a pixel-art jungle hillside where wooden ladders lean against a white stone temple wall. Pragmatic Play has built a slot where the reels are the least interesting part: everything about the design, from the coin-only paytable to the wilds that count dots, is aimed at getting you off the reels and onto the board.
The board isn’t a bonus bolted onto a slot; it’s the whole point, and the reels mostly exist to get you there. The game runs on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, 96.68% RTP, medium volatility and a maximum win of 5,300x the bet. Players who like the cut of it will find more dice where that came from in Lucky Dice, Fruit Party Dice and Gates of Olympus Dice.
How the Base Game Pays
All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel, with wins multiplied by the bet per line. Only the highest combination counts on each line, and wins across multiple lines are added together. Bets run from 0.10 to 250 per spin.
The paytable is a modest one, and the values come in coins rather than stake multiples:
- Gorilla: 20, 50 or 100 coins for three, four or five of a kind
- Banana and Snake: 10, 20 or 40 coins
- Ladder: 6, 15 or 30 coins
- A and K: 3, 8 or 20 coins
- Q, J and 10: 1, 3 or 10 coins
The WILD DICE is the symbol doing the real work. It substitutes for everything except the BONUS symbol and pays at the top rate of 20, 50 and 100 coins. Each one carries one, two or three dots, which multiply the total win of that spin by 1x, 2x or 3x.
Those dots pull double duty. As well as boosting whatever the wild helps complete, they feed the snake collection that runs alongside every spin, which is where the base game stops being a plain five-reeler.
The Progressive Snake Feature
An 11-section snake sits beside the reels in the base game, and every section starts inactive. Each WILD DICE that lands activates a number of sections matching its dots, so a three-dot wild fills three sections at once. Fill all 11 and the Board Bonus is awarded immediately.
There are two rewards for overshooting. If the dots would land a section exactly on the fourth, a random two to five extra dice rolls are banked for the bonus that follows. And if enough dots are hit to fill the snake more than once, each additional fill queues an extra retrigger of the bonus game.
Leftover dots aren’t wasted either. When the final collection activates more sections than the snake needs, the difference is held over and counts towards future collections once you’re back in the base game.
Progress is saved separately for every bet level. Change your stake mid-collection and the active sections reset to nothing, or back to whatever was previously saved at that level. It’s a system that quietly rewards staying put.
The Snakes and Ladders Board Bonus
There are two ways in: fill all 11 sections of the snake, or land three or more BONUS symbols anywhere on the reels. The entry route decides how many dice rolls you start with:
- Snake filled: 12 rolls, plus any extra rolls banked from the base game, up to a maximum of 17
- 3 BONUS symbols: 12 rolls
- 4 BONUS symbols: 14 rolls
- 5 BONUS symbols: 16 rolls
The bonus plays out on a 12×12 board of 144 squares, with a monkey head token starting on square one. Two dice are rolled each turn, and the token moves forward by the combined total. Random items are scattered across the board before the round begins.
What’s on the Board
- Money awards: a random value from 4x to 100x the total bet, added to the round’s win
- Multipliers: multiply everything collected so far in the round
- Ladders: shortcuts from a lower square to a higher one
- Snakes: shortcuts from an upper square down to a lower one
- Bananas: trigger a sequence that adds random money awards to the board and removes all other bananas
- Skyscrapers: hidden shortcuts on any square that move the token to a random higher position
The interplay is what makes a board tick. A ladder early on can carry the token straight into a cluster of money awards; a snake late in the round can dump it back into empty squares and burn rolls for nothing. Because multipliers apply to everything already collected, the order in which the token meets them matters as much as the values themselves.
The round ends when the rolls run out or square 144 is reached, and everything collected is then paid. Hitting the game’s win cap during a round also ends it on the spot.
Rage Mode and Retriggers
Every bonus game carries a guaranteed minimum of 20x the total bet. If the collected amount is below that when the rolls finish, Rage Mode kicks in: the monkey head charges through every remaining square in order, scooping up all values and multipliers on the way, ignoring ladders, snakes, bananas and skyscrapers entirely.
Reaching square 144 ends the round and offers a retrigger roll of two dice. A double, from 1-1 through to 6-6, restarts the whole bonus from square one with the same number of rolls as the initial game. Multiple filled snakes in the base game can queue several bonus games back to back, with the round’s total win combining every board played.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 8/10
Playing this is mostly waiting. You grind spins, fill snake sections a few at a time, and occasionally a wild nudges you along, all so a monkey head can roll dice around a board that looks like the game you played as a kid. That board is why anyone chooses this slot, and honestly, it’s a good enough reason.
Its strength is that the bonus never leaves you empty-handed. The 20x floor means a dud board still pays, and the doubles-only restart at square 144 means a good one can run twice. That’s rarer than it should be in bonus-round slots.
The weakness is the wait itself. Symbol pays are thin, medium volatility stretches the build, and the pixel styling won’t win anyone over in the meantime. It’s one for patient players who enjoy collecting towards something and don’t need the reels to entertain them along the way; anyone who wants action on every spin will find the jungle quiet. Worth it if the long game is your game.
Snakes and Ladders Megadice FAQs
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How do you trigger the Snakes and Ladders Board Bonus?
Fill all 11 sections of the progressive snake with WILD DICE symbols in the base game, or land three or more BONUS symbols anywhere on the reels. The snake route starts with 12 rolls plus any banked extras, while 3, 4 or 5 BONUS symbols award 12, 14 or 16 rolls. -
What is Rage Mode in Snakes and Ladders Megadice?
Rage Mode triggers when the bonus finishes with less than 20x the total bet collected. The monkey head moves through all remaining squares in order, collecting every value and multiplier it passes, and the total of all multipliers collected is applied to the final amount. -
Can the Snakes and Ladders Board Bonus retrigger?
Yes. If the monkey head reaches square 144, two dice are rolled and any double from 1-1 to 6-6 restarts the bonus from the beginning with the same number of rolls as the initial game. Filling the snake more than once in the base game also queues additional bonus games. -
What does the WILD DICE symbol do in Snakes and Ladders Megadice?
It substitutes for all symbols except the BONUS symbol and carries one, two or three dots that multiply the total win of that spin by 1x, 2x or 3x. Its dots also activate sections of the 11-section progressive snake in the base game. -
What is the RTP of Snakes and Ladders Megadice?
The RTP is 96.68%, which sits above the typical industry average. -
What is the maximum win on Snakes and Ladders Megadice?
The maximum win is capped at 5,300x the bet, and the cap applies to both the base game and the Board Bonus. Reaching it ends the round on the spot and forfeits any remaining features. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Snakes and Ladders Megadice?
Stakes start at 0.10 per spin and go up to 250. -
Who makes Snakes and Ladders Megadice?
Pragmatic Play. It was released on 21 February 2022.
