Bonanza Megapays Slot Review

Bonanza Megapays Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Bonanza Megapays slot at first looks like a Megaways casino slot. Using the Megaways engine, it comes with 6 reels. On each reel, between 2 and 7 symbols will appear randomly on each reel. If all 6 reels have 7 symbols each, you’ll play with 117,649 ways to win. To land a win, you need matching symbols on successive reels beginning from reel 1.

You can play Bonanza Megapays from as little as 20p to as much as £30 a spin. There’s the usual Auto Play facility where you choose up to 100 auto spins. You can add a loss limit as well as a single win limit if you wish. If you choose multiple options, any of the limits will stop auto play.

The Bonanza Megapays RTP is 96.4% which is above the slot average. However, this is a progressive jackpot slot. The 4 jackpots take up 9.6% of the RTP so in essence, the RTP of the game (excluding jackpots) is 86.8%.The variance is medium to high and rated as 4/5 by developer Big Time Gaming.

When it comes to payouts, the max win is 17,926 x your total stake per free spin. Well, the progressive jackpots can pay out a lot more with the Mega Jackpot starting at £300,000 (more info below).

Theme – go mining for jackpot gold

The Bonanza Megapays slot looks almost identical to Bonanza Megaways. With the same mining theme, you head to the hills where you’ll see wooden huts and waterfalls. The graphics are sharper and clearer than the original game. The hillbilly style soundtrack is the same as Bonanza Megaways.

Symbols are also the same as the original Bonanza slot. You will come across low value Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10 and 9 symbols. The higher value symbols are all gemstones. The purple diamond is the most lucrative symbol giving you 2, 5, 10, 25 or 50 x stake for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 in combination.

There’s a track above the reels which contains mining carts. With 4 symbols appearing on this horizontal reel, it add a symbol to the reel it is above for reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. This is important as the dynamite sticks wild symbol only appears in the carts. As you’d expect, it substitutes for all symbols bar the scatter. Here’s a list of payouts by symbol:

Symbol	Payouts
9	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.15, 0.25, 0.5 or 1 x stake
10	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.15, 0.25, 0.5 or 1 x stake
J	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.6 or 1.2 x stake
Q	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.6 or 1.2 x stake
K	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.25, 0.4, 0.7 or 1.75 x stake
A	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.25, 0.4, 0.7 or 1.75 x stake
Green Gemstone	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.3, 0.5, 1 or 2 x stake
Blue Gemstone	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.4, 1, 1.5 or 2.5 x stake
Red Gemstone	3, 4, 5 or 6 =1, 2, 2.5 or 7.5 x stake
Purple Diamond	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 = 2, 5, 10, 25 or 50 x stake
Dynamite Sticks Wild	Substitutes for all symbols above

Bonanza Megapays Mobile

Produced using HTML5 technology, there is a Bonanza Megapays mobile slot. In fact, it can be played on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. This means you can enjoy this crazy game on iOS, Android, MAC and Windows powered devices.

Bonanza Megapays Bonus Features

Bonanza Megapays has 4 bonus features. It comes with reactions, free spins and unlimited win multipliers. The added extra here is the Megapays feature which gives you the chance to win 1 of 4 progressive jackpots.

Reactions feature

Bonanza Megaways uses a Reactions feature. When you land a winning combination, all winning symbols are replaced with new symbols coming from above the reels and from the right in the carts. The reactions continue until no more new wins are formed meaning you can benefit from lots of successive wins (or reactions).

Megapays feature

Any spin can trigger the Megaways feature. You head to Las Vegas where you will come across a casino that resembles the Bellagio. Then either the Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10 or 9 symbol will be chosen as the Megaways symbol. Basically, a low value symbol will become the Megaways symbol.

Then a special spin occurs. If 1 or more instances of the Megapays symbol appears, all other symbols are removed. Each Megapays symbol instance drops and locks in position with a respin to follow. The respins continue until no more new instances of the Megapays symbol appears or until the Mega Jackpot is won.

There is a Megapays Ladder which keeps track of how many Megaways symbol instances have landed. If you land 4 or more, you will win a progressive jackpot. With 4 jackpots up for grabs, you can see from the table below how many instances you need, what jackpot you’ll win and what the minimum amount (seed) you’ll win:

So if you got 15 or more Megapays symbol instances, you’d win the Mega Jackpot which will be worth at least £300,000. The current Mega Jackpot is £1,594,162.66. As you spin the reels, 0.9% of your stake goes towards the Mini Jackpot, 0.9% to the Midi Jackpot, 0.5% to the Major Jackpot and 0.5% to the Mega Jackpot.

£1.7 Million UK Jackpot Winner

The first big winner of the Mega Jackpot came in December 2022 when a grandmother from Norfolk, East Anglia won £1,710,446.42 playing Bonanza Megapays from a 60p stake. The Tesco work now plans to retire. Here’s a replay of her win:

Free Spins feature

You will also see gold scatters on the reels (G, O, L, D). When all 4 gold scatters appear in any position, you will trigger the Free Spins feature with 12 free spins. If you trigger with an extra scatter, 5 more free spins are added. If you were to trigger with 6 scatters for example, you’d play with 22 free spins. Like in the base game, the Reactions feature is used meaning wins will lead to more free spins essentially.

During the free spins, an Unlimited Win Multiplier feature is used. Beginning with a 1x multiplier, each reaction/win increases the multiplier by 1. The multiplier is unlimited with no limits.

You will also see gold bars in the carts above the reels. 3 or 4 gold bars will give you another 5 or 10 free spins. You can win an unlimited number of additional free spins too.

Bonanza Megapays Summary – Bonanza with progressive jackpots basically

The Bonanza Megapays slot is very similar to Bonanza Megaways. Even writing this review is confusing as there’s 1 letter difference in the title of both slots. Design wise, it’s almost identical but with sharper graphics.

The gameplay is largely the same but with the added progressive jackpot element. The Bonanza Megapays jackpot slot is all down to how you view progressive jackpot slots. Big Time Gaming have a winner in the original game and added the Megapays feature to players searching for a life-changing progressive jackpot basically.

Bonanza Megaways is arguably the most popular online slot game around. The Megapays version jumps on that bandwagon and brings jackpots into the mix. Overall, it’s a good game if you like jackpot slots.

The RTP without jackpots is 86.8% meaning the original is still top dog (96%). Hardcore slots players will prefer the original due to the RTP rate but the jackpot version will appeal to many purely for the fact they can win 4 jackpots from any spin.

Furthermore, the max win per spin is 17,926 x stake as the original game offers 26,000 x bet max wins. That’s some difference. Unless you’re chasing progressive jackpots, the original Bonanza slot is recommended.

In summary, Big Time Gaming has done well in their first progressive jackpot release. They combined a hugely popular slot with 4 progressive jackpots. If you like chasing these progressive amounts, check out the Jackpot slots section which looks at these games in great detail.