Super Lion Bonanza Slot Review
Magenta and violet lasers slash across a near-black purple sky behind the reels, with star points scattered through the haze, and a lion prowling through it all as the scatter. It’s a lion slot that doesn’t want to be one: Super Lion Bonanza parks its biggest payout outside the bonus round entirely, which makes it the rare scatter-pays game worth playing for its base game alone.
Skywind Group have taken the familiar Bonanza formula and pointed it somewhere slightly odd. It runs on a 6×5 grid with eight-or-more cluster wins, mid volatility and a 10,000x ceiling, landing in the same scatter-pays territory as Wild Fish Bonanza and Wild Moose Bonanza, with a crystal multiplier that can run to 1,000x in the free games.
Cluster Pays and Cascading Reels
There are no paylines here. Eight or more of the same symbol anywhere on the 6×5 grid awards a win, and only the highest prize counts per combination. When multiple combinations land together, all of them are added to the total. It’s the scatter-pays setup the Bonanza family is built on, and it keeps every spin readable: you’re counting symbols, not tracing lines.
Any win, in the base game or the free games, triggers the cascades. Winning symbols are removed and new ones drop in from above. The two special symbols, the lion scatter and the crystal multiplier, are the exception: they stay put while everything around them clears.
If the refreshed grid produces another win, that win is awarded and the clearing happens again. The cycle keeps running until no winning combinations remain, so a single spin can chain several payouts, each one settling on top of the last.
The paying symbols split into two families: four ornate circle emblems at the top and five coloured gems below them. Every figure in the list is a multiple of the base bet.
- Orange Triskele Circle pays 40x at 12+, 20x at 10-11, 8x at 8-9
- Green Celtic Knot Circle pays 20x at 12+, 8x at 10-11, 2x at 8-9
- Pink Clover Circle pays 12x at 12+, 4x at 10-11, 1.6x at 8-9
- Purple Triquetra pays 9.6x at 12+, 1.6x at 10-11, 1.2x at 8-9
- Orange Gem pays 8x at 12+, 1.2x at 10-11, 0.8x at 8-9
- Green Gem pays 6.4x at 12+, 0.96x at 10-11, 0.64x at 8-9
- Pink Gem pays 4x at 12+, 0.8x at 10-11, 0.4x at 8-9
- Blue Gem pays 3.2x at 12+, 0.72x at 10-11, 0.32x at 8-9
- Red Gem pays 1.6x at 12+, 0.6x at 10-11, 0.2x at 8-9
The lion is the scatter and the richest symbol on the grid, paying 80x for six or more, 4x for five and 2.4x for four, with scatter wins added to the total win. The crystal is the multiplier symbol, and it does its work entirely in the free games. Neither is removed by the cascades.
Top Prize
This is the game’s one real departure from the template. Land six glowed reels, with any symbols, simultaneously on screen and you win the Top Prize of 10,000x the base bet. That’s the same figure as the game’s overall win ceiling, so this is the max win route.
There’s a catch, and it’s an unusual one: the Top Prize is only available during a regular spin in the base game. Free games can’t produce it. Every other slot in this family points its biggest moment at the bonus round; this one points it at an ordinary spin.
The ceiling itself works as a hard cap rather than a theoretical target. If a round’s total win reaches 10,000x the current base bet, the round ends immediately, the win is paid up to the cap, and any remaining features are forfeited. Chase the lion hard enough and the game will simply call time.
Free Games Feature
Four, five or six lion scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free games respectively. The round runs automatically on the same base bet as the spin that triggered it, so nothing changes on the stake side once you’re in.
The crystal multiplier is what the round is about. It may land on any spin and carries a random multiplier from 2x up to 1,000x. When several crystals appear on the same screen, their values are added together and the total win of the spin is multiplied by the combined figure.
A screen with a 5x and a 20x crystal pays the spin at 25x, so the stacks build fast when they land together. Free games with a minimum 10x multiplier can also be awarded at random, which is where the round’s real potential sits: every crystal in those games starts at double figures before the stacking begins.
Three or more scatters during the feature retrigger five extra free games, and there’s no stated limit on how often that can happen. A long round with a floor of 10x multipliers is where this game does its best work.
Buy In Feature
The free games can be bought outright from the base game for a single payment, with two options. Pressing buy pays for the feature and spins the reels, and the spin that follows is guaranteed to award four, five or six scatters, meaning a guaranteed 10, 15 or 20 free games.
- Free Games with random multipliers: 100x base bet, with crystal multipliers from 2x up to 1,000x
- Free Games with minimum 10x multiplier: 250x base bet, every crystal guaranteed to start at 10x or better
The premium option costs two and a half times the standard one, which buys certainty on the floor rather than the ceiling. Both carry the same spin-count lottery: you could pay 250x and draw the ten-game end of the guarantee.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Playing Super Lion Bonanza is a steady count-the-symbols rhythm under lasers, with the odd glowed-reel tease keeping ordinary spins interesting. The one reason to pick it is that inverted payout structure: this is a cluster game where the base game, not the bonus, holds the top prize.
That glowed-reel Top Prize is the strength, because it makes every regular spin carry something the free games can’t offer. The weakness is that the free games themselves are stock: stacking crystals and a retrigger you’ve seen a dozen times, dressed in neon you’ve seen before too.
It’s a good fit for anyone who likes the scatter-pays rhythm at a gentler, mid-volatility pace, and a poor one for anyone chasing the genre’s wildest ceilings. For a calm spin under the purple lights, though, the lion is perfectly good company.
Super Lion Bonanza FAQs
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How do you trigger the free games in Super Lion Bonanza?
Lion scatters open the round: four of them start 10 free games, five start 15 and six start 20. Three or more scatters during the feature retrigger five extra free games. -
What does the crystal multiplier symbol do?
During the free games, the crystal may land on any spin carrying a random multiplier from 2x up to 1,000x. When several appear, their values are added together and the spin’s total win is multiplied by the combined figure. -
Can the Top Prize be won during the free games?
No. The Top Prize of 10,000x the base bet is only available during a regular spin in the base game, awarded for landing six glowed reels with any symbols simultaneously on screen. -
Can you buy the bonus on Super Lion Bonanza?
Yes. The Buy In Feature offers two options: the standard free games with random multipliers for 100x the base bet, or free games with a minimum 10x multiplier for 250x the base bet. -
What is the maximum win on Super Lion Bonanza?
The maximum win is 10,000x the base bet. If a round’s total win reaches that cap, the round ends immediately and any remaining features are forfeited. -
Do the cascading reels remove the scatter and multiplier symbols?
No. Winning symbols are cleared for the cascades, but the lion scatter and the crystal multiplier stay on the reels while the rest drop away. -
Is Super Lion Bonanza high volatility?
No. Super Lion Bonanza is a mid-volatility slot, so swings should be gentler than the genre’s high-variance entries. -
Who makes Super Lion Bonanza?
Super Lion Bonanza is made by Skywind Group, whose scatter-pays titles include Wild Fish Bonanza and Wild Moose Bonanza.
