Mega Moolah Pokie

The game is played on 5 reels and 25 fixed lines placed against the background of African savannah. Immersive sounds of exuberant African fauna make players feel being there while dynamic spinning of the reels makes a strong impression of the environment full of life. To set the reels in motion and start the hunt for jackpots and regular line wins, a player has to adjust a bet first. The pokie supports a pretty broad betting range: the line bet starts at NZ$0.01 and can be increased up to NZ$0.25, thus the total bet is set within the range of NZ$0.25 to NZ$6.25 per spin. The slot machine offering huge wins is affordable to any player including players on a budget. Nevertheless, players should be aware that Mega Moolah is a bet-sensitive case and thus chances to hit any out of four available progressive jackpots depend on the size of a bet. It is advisable to set the bet as high as possible if the ultimate goal is a jackpot prize. Wins are fetched with the help of playing cards and African animals acting as regular and feature symbols. Non-feature symbols are cards from 10 to A (pay between x2 and x150 the line bet) when at least 3 cards of kind hit a line. Animals pay better in two respects: firstly, they award wins between x10 and x750 the line bet; secondly, two animals with the highest paytable, a buffalo and elephant, start paying when there are at least 2 identical icons on a line. All regular and feature symbols in the online casino pokie pay from left to right counting from the leftmost reel. A gold thatched Lion is a wild symbol and a versatile one. First of all, it substitutes for any regular icon although it cannot do this for a scatter. Secondly, when a lion enters any line combination, it doubles the win thus making regular symbols pay up to x1,500 the line bet. The last but not least, the wild symbol pays the best award among all game symbols and landing two or more Lions pays between x15 and x15,000 the line bet. This is up to NZ$3,000 at the top bet. A playful monkey is a scatter. It appears in any position and pays whenever there are at least 2 scatters. Hitting two or more scatters awards x2 to x100 the total bet or up to NZ$625 at max bet, this award is paid as an extra to line wins.

Landing 3+ scatters activates free spins. Firstly, the slot machine pays out all wins occurred in the triggering round (including a scatter award). Then it starts playing 15 free spins. There are 2 special properties related to the feature:

• The bonus is retriggerable and hitting 3+ scatters again awards 15 extra free spins
• All wins during the feature are tripled, so regular icons will pay out x6 to x2,250 the line bet, wilds will pay between x45 and x45,000 the line bet and scatters will award x6 to x300 the total bet.

This means that the best cash prize available during the feature amounts up to NZ$11,250. Besides, the rules do not prevent wilds from multiplying wins during the feature so a lion and 4 elephants hit during free spins add x4,500 the line bet to the balance. These are extremely good wins which look really great when added to the balance and withdrawn in hard cash under the rules of the online casino in which a player chooses to play Mega Moolah. The only downside is that the Progressive Jackpot bonus game cannot trigger during free spins. It is active only in the base game.

This is “the” feature of the pokie as it is a chance to hit the top prize. The pokie machine offers four jackpots including Mini, Minor, Major and Mega. Mini is the smallest prize with the starting value of NZ$10. Minor progresses from NZ$100, Major from NZ$10,000 and the largest, Mega Jackpot starts its climb from an epic NZ$1,000,000. As players know, this progressive prize grows every second with every spin played on Mega Moolah worldwide. This is how it has reached the size of nearly USD22 million, referred to above. The only question remains open: how to win the jackpot? It can be drawn in the course of a special jackpot bonus game that triggers at random. That is, it may launch after any spin in the base game (but never during free spins). If a player is lucky to trigger free spins and the jackpot round in a single spin, the bonus game comes first, followed by free spins. The higher the bet the better chances to play a jackpot bonus round and win 1 out of 4 progressives. When the feature unlocks, a bonus wheel appears. The wheel is divided into equal wedges, each bearing a title of one jackpot. Although wedges are equal in size, their numbers are not and most of the wheel is covered with Mini and Minor wedges while the Mega Jackpot is written only on a single wedge. Given the size the Mega prize can reach, it is a fair arrangement. On the other hand, there are no empty wedges, so some win is guaranteed. The jackpot prize is paid as an extra to wins earned in the triggering round.

Mega Moolah pokie machine is a strongly recommended choice for online casino players looking for king-size progressive wins. It accepts stakes between NZ$0.01 and NZ$0.25 per line and pays up to x15,000 the line bet and x100 the total bet in the base game. Wilds double line wins. All wins are tripled during free spins. The bonus game draws 4 progressive jackpots with seed values between NZ$10 and NZ$1,000,000.