Old Gold Miner Megaways

Old Gold Miner Megaways reworks a familiar Pragmatic Play frame, the oversized Madame Destiny Megaways board, into a mine-shaft setting complete with ore carts, swinging lanterns and a pair of animal characters doing most of the personality work against otherwise standard rock-and-rail scenery.

The grid runs six main reels holding up to seven symbols apiece, topped by a four-symbol horizontal bonus reel, and the Megaways engine driving it all can generate as many as 200,704 ways to win on a single spin. Winning symbols vanish and the gap tumbles closed with fresh icons dropping from above, and each new arrangement is checked for further wins before the tumble sequence ends.

Ten regular symbols make up the paytable: card royals from 10 through A sit at the bottom, giving way to mining tools, lanterns, carts, a dog and a mole as the higher-value tier. Six of a kind pays out 1x to 1.25x the bet for royal combinations, rising to 1.25x-20x for the non-royal icons. A bearded prospector serves as the Wild, appearing on every reel bar the leftmost, substituting for anything except the scatter and doubling the value of any combination it completes, in the base game or during free spins.

Gold nugget scatters can land on all six reels, and collecting three, four, five or six pays 5x, 10x, 20x or 100x the bet on the spot while also opening the Free Spins round. Before the spins begin, a two-ring Wheel of Fortune decides the outcome: one ring sets the starting spin count, the other locks in a persistent multiplier that applies to the total win on every spin of the round, though it stays fixed rather than climbing with each tumble. Landing three or more scatters during the round retriggers it, spinning the wheel again for another helping of spins and multiplier, with no cap on how many times that can happen. A direct purchase option is also available for 100x the base bet, though it is switched off whenever the Ante Bet is active.

Pragmatic Play lists the game at up to 96.56% RTP, rising to 96.67% with the Ante Bet engaged or when free spins are bought, alongside a 5-out-of-5 volatility rating. Betting runs from 0.20 to 125 per spin, with Ante Bet adding 25% to the stake in exchange for doubling the chance of triggering the bonus, and the maximum win reaches 5,000x. Between the near-200,000-way grid and a multiplier that adds to its previous value on every retrigger rather than growing within a single spin, most of the swing here comes from stacking extra spins and repeat triggers rather than one runaway multiplier.