Frightening Frankie

Our recorded Frightening Frankie bonus

We have opened Frightening Frankie once on 12 Jun 2026 on stream and logged the result. The best of them paid 38.4× the bet. That is too few open to say anything about how the game behaves — it is a record of what happened on that occasion, nothing more.

Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom cast the monster rather than its creator as the star of Frightening Frankie, built with a deliberately rough B-movie look. A 5x3 grid pays across 20 lines, with stakes from 0.05 to 250 a spin; an ante bet doubles the cost of each spin for better odds at the Monster Trail bonus, and using it — or buying the feature outright — leaves the ceiling RTP unchanged at 96.53%.

Card values 10 through Ace fill the bottom of the paytable, with buildings, torches, bolts and moons above them; five matching lows pay 1.6x the stake, while the picture symbols return 3.2x to 4.8x for a full line. Frankie himself doubles as the wild, landing on every reel, substituting for all paying symbols, and paying 16x the stake for five in a row.

Lightning symbols open the first bonus tier: even a single one triggers Lightning Free Spins worth 2 to 6 spins, and every Lightning symbol that lands strips one low-paying symbol from the reels — up to five in total — while adding another 2 to 6 spins to the round. Once five low pays are gone, Lightning symbols stop showing up altogether. Picking up three or more scatters at any point during this round escalates things straight into Monster Trail Free Spins, carrying over any spins left and keeping the low-pay symbols already removed.

Monster Trail Free Spins can also be reached directly from the base game by landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters, worth 10, 15 or 20 spins, and there's a random chance that two scatters alone triggers a lightning effect that adds a third. The round starts with a x2 multiplier on every win and keeps stripping low-paying symbols the same way as the earlier bonus, again capping at five removals. Test Tube symbols fill a separate meter through the round; collecting seven awards ten more free spins and tacks on an extra multiplier — anywhere between one and ten times — to whatever is already running. Impatient players can buy straight into Monster Trail Free Spins for 100x the total bet.

Frightening Frankie's maximum win of 2,800x the stake trails many of its high-volatility rivals, backed by a top RTP of 96.53% and a hit frequency near 1 in 4.08.