The Frog Prince Slot Review
Broad lily pads sit on green water, pink lotus blossoms half-hidden among them, misty cliffs rising behind and a canopy of bright leaves hanging over the top-left corner. It’s a storybook pond, and The Frog Prince makes the most of it. This is a fairytale slot whose one sharp idea – a princess who expands to fill her reel – is asked to carry the entire game, and for the most part she manages.
It’s a 5×4, 243-ways game from KA Gaming running at 96% RTP, and the studio’s catalogue also takes in Borderland, Donut City and Ghost Hunter. The rules here are kept simple: left-to-right ways pays, a scatter that opens a free spins round, and one symbol with a trick up her sleeve.
How the Pond Pays
Wins pay from the leftmost position to the right across 243 ways, and only the highest combination for each symbol counts. It’s the standard ways setup, so there’s no payline map to memorise and no adjacency rules beyond the left-to-right direction. Matching symbols on consecutive reels from the first onwards will pay, wherever they sit vertically on those reels.
The 5×4 grid gives each of the middle reels four rows’ worth of positions, which matters more than it might sound. Four rows mean more symbols per spin, more ways for the left-to-right chains to complete, and more surface for the game’s one real feature to work with.
The reels sit inside a pink, rounded frame with swirled knobs and a gold zigzag band along the top, which suits the storybook look down to the ground. It’s a small touch, but it’s the sort of small touch this game gets right.
The frog wild substitutes for everything except the scatter and appears only on reels two, three and four. That’s its whole job. The scatter is a castle icon, paying 2x for three, 5x for four and 10x for five, in addition to triggering the free spins round. Scatter pays are the one exception to the left-to-right rule, landing anywhere on the five reels.
Because the scatters count wherever they land, five castles across a 5×4 grid means 20 possible positions, and the round doesn’t care which of them they occupy. It’s a forgiving trigger shape, and it pairs with the scatter’s own pay table: even a minimum three-castle trigger pays out before the free spins begin.
The Paytable
Seven symbols carry the pays, running from the fairytale cast down to pond trinkets. The values below are what each symbol pays at the game’s quoted bet level.
- Princess: 3 pays 1.00, 4 pays 4.00, 5 pays 15.00
- King: 0.50 / 2.00 / 5.00
- Masked Thief: 0.50 / 1.00 / 2.00
- Lily Pond Landscape: 0.25 / 0.50 / 1.25
- Crown: 0.25 / 0.50 / 1.00
- Gold Ball: 0.10 / 0.20 / 0.50
- Pearl Shell: 0.10 / 0.20 / 0.40
The shape of that ladder is worth a look. The Princess sits well clear of everything else at the top, paying 15.00 for a full five-of-a-kind, with the King a third of that and the Masked Thief less again.
From the Lily Pond Landscape downwards the pays compress quickly, and the two trinket symbols at the bottom – the Gold Ball and the Pearl Shell – pay in fractions. Five Pearl Shells returns less than half of what a single scatter triplet pays.
There’s a clear two-tier structure to the cast. The Princess, the King and the Thief form the premium end and do the heavy lifting on any decent win, while the landscape and trinket symbols keep the small returns ticking over between them. With 243 ways in play, three- and four-of-a-kind on the lower symbols are the bread and butter of the game.
One quirk of the ladder: the gap between four and five Princess symbols is by far the widest on the table, quadrupling from 4.00 to 15.00, while the lower symbols barely double across the same step. The premium end rewards the full chain far more sharply, and a full-height wild on the middle reels is what most often completes that chain.
The Expanding Princess Wild
The feature that gives the game its character is the expanding wild. When the princess wild lands, it turns her entire reel into a full-height wild for that spin. Anywhere the frog wild might have contributed, the princess now does too, across all four rows at once.
Each full-height wild may also carry a multiplier of 2x or 3x. When more than one lands, the multipliers multiply together, so two expanded reels at 3x each pay nine times the base win. Stack a 2x and a 3x and the combined hit pays six times over.
It’s a simple system with real reach. The expansion only does its work on a reel the wild can actually occupy, and the middle reels are where the ways chains run through, so a full-height wild lands in the most valuable real estate on the grid. A single spin with two or three expanded reels can turn a modest ways win into something much bigger.
The maths favours the top of the paytable when it happens. A full-height wild on reels two, three and four completes every chain that touches those reels, and the Princess’s steep five-of-a-kind value is precisely the kind of win the multiplier stack inflates best.
That combination is the base game’s ceiling. A 3x expanded reel sitting beside two matching premium symbols turns a routine catch into the biggest hit the base game can produce.
Free Game
Landing three, four or five scatter castles anywhere on the reels awards the Free Game round. The awards step up sharply with the trigger:
- 3 scatters: 10 free spins
- 4 scatters: 18 free spins
- 5 scatters: 30 free spins
The jump from four to five castles is the steep one – twelve extra spins for a single additional scatter. Five castles also pay 10x on their own, so the biggest trigger rewards twice over.
The round plays at the bet that set it off, and the wild rules carry over unchanged. That’s where the round’s potential sits: with the frog wild on the middle three reels and the princess expansion on top, the free spins give the multiplier stacking its best chances to build.
There’s no separate reel set or feature tweak to speak of – what changes is simply volume, more spins for the same mechanics to work in. That volume is the whole argument for chasing the bigger triggers. Thirty spins at the triggering bet, each one a fresh chance for an expanded reel or two to land together, is a far better shop window for the multiplier mechanic than ten.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a game you load for one reason: the moment a princess expands on two reels at once and the multipliers stack, a quiet pond gets loud. Everything around that moment is gentle, storybook fare – small ways wins on the trinket symbols, a patient wait for castles.
The strength is how much work that single mechanic does. The expanding wild sits on the middle reels, feeds the steep top of the paytable and carries the free spins round with it, so one idea powers the whole game. The weakness is that there is nothing behind it: one wild, one bonus round, and a bottom half of the paytable that pays in fractions. The Princess carries this game, and some days she isn’t on the reels.
It suits someone after a pretty, undemanding slot with one mechanic that can genuinely punch, and it will leave anyone wanting layered bonus rounds cold. The pond is small, but it’s beautifully drawn, and when the princess lands right, she pays like royalty.
The Frog Prince FAQs
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What is the RTP of The Frog Prince?
The Frog Prince runs at an RTP of 96%. -
How many paylines does The Frog Prince have?
The Frog Prince has 243 ways to win, paying from the leftmost position to the right across the reels. -
What is the grid size of The Frog Prince?
The Frog Prince uses a 5×4 grid, five reels by four rows. -
How do you trigger free spins in The Frog Prince?
Landing three, four or five scatter castle symbols anywhere on the reels awards 10, 18 or 30 free spins respectively. The round uses the same bet as the triggering spin. -
What does the expanding wild do in The Frog Prince?
The princess wild expands to fill her whole reel as a full-height wild for that spin. Each full-height wild may carry a 2x or 3x multiplier, and multiple multipliers are multiplied together. -
Where does the wild appear in The Frog Prince?
The frog wild substitutes for all symbols except the scatter, and it only appears on the second, third and fourth reels. -
What does the scatter pay in The Frog Prince?
Three scatter castles pay 3x the bet, four pay 7.5x and five pay 15x, on top of awarding the free spins round. -
Can you buy the bonus in The Frog Prince?
No. There is no bonus buy option in The Frog Prince; the Free Game round can only be triggered by landing scatter symbols.
