Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes Slot Review
A waterfall tumbles over dark rocks beside a riverside clearing, and standing in the middle of it is a giant wooden board-game frame, ladders propped against its edges with rungs climbing past the top rail. Most slots would treat that frame as scenery. Here it’s the point: Pragmatic Play have built a game where the reels are the warm-up and the board is the match, and the base game is thin because the dice were always meant to take over.
Snake Eyes runs on a 5×4 grid with 10 paylines, medium volatility and a 96.08% RTP, with wins capped at 5,300x the bet. It shares its board bonus with Snakes and Ladders Megadice and sits alongside 3 Buzzing Wilds and Wild Wild Bananas in the studio’s jungle-leaning output. Bets run from 0.10 to 250 per spin.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a straightforward five-reel set-up. All symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost, and wins are multiplied by the bet per line. Only the highest combination counts on each payline. Winning on several lines at once simply adds them together.
The symbols lean hard into the jungle theme. A gorilla sits at the top of the paytable, with bananas, snakes and a snake charmer basket behind it, then the royals from A down to 10. Here’s what each pays as a multiple of the total bet:
- Gorilla – 10x for three, 25x for four, 50x for five
- Banana / Snake – 5x for three, 10x for four, 20x for five
- Snake Charmer Basket – 3x for three, 7.5x for four, 15x for five
- A / K – 1.5x for three, 4x for four, 10x for five
- Q / J / 10 – 0.5x for three, 1.5x for four, 5x for five
Those royals do a lot of the day-to-day lifting, and the gap between a royal line and a gorilla line is a wide one. Bonus wins are the exception to the per-line maths: everything the board round awards is multiplied by the total bet instead.
Wild Dice
The Wild Dice symbol substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus symbol, and it carries its own twist: each one that lands shows one, two or three dots, which act as a 1x, 2x or 3x multiplier applied to the total win of that spin. It also pays like the top symbol when it forms its own line, at the gorilla’s rates.
A modest boost, then, but one that stacks with the paytable’s top end. The multiplier applies to the whole spin’s win, not just the line the wild sits on, so a lucky roll of the dots can lift an otherwise ordinary result. It gives the reels somewhere to go between boards.
Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes Board Bonus
Landing three or more Bonus symbols triggers the board bonus, and the count decides your dice:
- 3 Bonus symbols – 12 dice rolls
- 4 Bonus symbols – 14 dice rolls
- 5 Bonus symbols – 16 dice rolls
When four or five Bonus symbols trigger the feature, there’s a chance one of them transforms into a Snake Bonus symbol, worth an extra two dice rolls for the round. You’re then taken to a 12×12 board of 144 squares, with a monkey head starting on square one.
Before the first roll, random items are scattered across the grid: money awards, win multipliers, ladders of any size, snakes of any size and bananas. Each roll of two dice moves the monkey that many squares forward. What it lands on is where the round is won or lost:
- Money award – a random value from 4x to 100x the total bet, added to the round’s win
- Multiplier – multiplies everything collected so far
- Ladder – carries the monkey up to a higher square
- Snake – drops the monkey down to a lower square
- Banana – adds fresh money awards in random positions and clears the other bananas from the board
- Rope Charmer – a hidden shortcut on any square that lifts the monkey to a random higher position
- Square 144 – awards 1000x the total bet and ends the round
A ladder early on can carry the monkey into a cluster of money awards it would otherwise never reach, and a snake late in the round can dump it right back down. The rope charmers, hidden on any square, add a layer of luck on top of the dice. Position on the board is everything.
The banana squares reward staying on the lower half of the board. Repopulating it with fresh values is only useful while there are still rolls left to land on them, so a long game of snake avoidance can quietly pay for itself.
Rage Mode
The round carries a floor of 20x the total bet. If the rolls run out with less than that collected, the monkey enters Rage Mode and charges through every remaining square in order, scooping up all values and multipliers it passes and applying the combined multipliers to the final amount. Ladders, snakes and rope charmers are all ignored while it rages.
It’s a floor, not a feature you root for, but it means a dud board can’t leave you empty-handed. Because Rage Mode sweeps everything in its path, a board stacked with multipliers near the end can pay considerably more than the guarantee.
Retriggers
Reaching square 144 ends the round and offers a retrigger: roll two dice, and any double from 1-1 to 6-6 restarts the bonus from square one with the same number of rolls as the original. Every 1-1 rolled along the way adds one more roll.
Every double also fills a section of the four-part snake sitting above the reels, and all four sections bank another retrigger to be played once the current board finishes. The total win across every board played is what you take home, so a single trigger can turn into two, three or more full runs of the grid, each with its own shot at square 144’s 1000x payoff.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this is mostly waiting for the dice, and enjoying the waiting. The reels tick along under a waterfall, ladders propped against the frame like a reminder of where the real game lives, and when three Bonus symbols finally land, the slot you were playing becomes a different one entirely. That switch is the reason anybody picks it.
The board is the best version of this idea Pragmatic have shipped. Every roll changes where you stand, and where you stand changes what the next roll is worth, which is more than most bonus rounds ever manage. The weakness is everything either side of it: the base game is filler with a 3x ceiling on its one trick, and medium volatility keeps the whole thing polite rather than thrilling.
It suits players who like a bonus round with some texture to it, who’ll take a board you can lose ground on over free spins that play themselves. Chasers of brutal variance will find it tame. For everyone else, the monkey’s climb up those riverside ladders is worth the wait.
Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes FAQs
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What is the RTP of Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes?
The RTP is 96.08%, which sits comfortably in the standard range for an online slot. -
Is Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes high volatility?
No, it’s a medium volatility game. Expect a steady mix of pays ranging from low to very high, rather than the long dry spells of a high volatility title. -
How do you trigger the board bonus in Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes?
Landing three or more Bonus symbols triggers the Snakes & Ladders Board Bonus. Three awards 12 dice rolls, four awards 14 and five awards 16, with a chance of an extra two rolls if a Bonus symbol transforms into a Snake Bonus symbol. -
Can the board bonus retrigger in Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes?
Yes. Reaching square 144 ends the round with a dice roll that retriggers the bonus on any double. Every 1-1 rolled adds an extra roll, and every double fills one of four snake sections, with all four awarding an additional retrigger. -
What happens if the board bonus pays badly?
Every board round has a guaranteed minimum of 20x the total bet. If the rolls run out below that figure, Rage Mode kicks in and the monkey sweeps the remaining squares, collecting every value and multiplier on the way. -
What does the Wild Dice symbol do in Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes?
It substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus symbol and displays one, two or three dots, applying a 1x, 2x or 3x multiplier to the total win of that spin. -
How many paylines does Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes have?
It has 10 paylines on a 5×4 grid, with all symbols paying left to right from the leftmost reel. -
What is the maximum win on Snakes & Ladders 2 – Snake Eyes?
The maximum win is 5,300x your bet, capped in both the base game and the board bonus. Reaching it ends the round immediately and awards the win.
