Golden Goose Megaways

Big Time Gaming sends its reels into the clouds for Golden Goose Megaways, picking up the beanstalk story past the point where the family cow gets sold off. A gated castle sits behind the grid, a beanstalk runs up the left side of the screen, and a climbing character scurries along the reels between the castle and a set of prize clouds throughout both the base game and free spins.

Six reels can each hold up to seven symbols, generating as many as 117,649 ways to win via the Megaways engine, and every win clears the involved symbols so replacements can fall from above and chain further wins in the same spin. Card values from 9 to A pay 0.8x to 1x the stake for a full reel, while four golden objects — a bell, a watering can, a box and a harp — pay 1.25x up to 25x. A wild appears only on reels two through five and substitutes for everything except the scatter and the Egg symbol, and Egg symbols are the one icon that gets replaced during the win-clearing sequence rather than simply removed with the rest.

Sitting above reels two to five are four Cloud Prizes, each starting at 2x the stake and growing by up to 500x every time an Egg lands above it. The climbing character shows up above the reels on any spin or chain reaction and, when he does, collects one Cloud Prize outright for the player before it resets to zero — in the base game he can also multiply what he collects by 10. Three scatters award 10 free spins, with each additional scatter adding 5 more, and any Cloud Prize value built up carries across into the bonus. Free spins add an uncapped multiplier to the mix: the first collection during the round is worth 1x, the second 2x, and so on for as long as the feature runs, with fresh scatter hits during the round adding 5 spins apiece.

Outside the free spins, landing 80x the stake or more in a single base-game win lets a player swap that win for 10 free spins outright, while a win between 25x and 80x can instead be risked on a wheel for a chance at the same 10 spins. A straight bonus buy is also available for 80 times the stake. The default RTP is 96.44%, volatility is rated high, and the game's ceiling runs to 150,335x the stake across a betting range of 0.20 to 275.