Grand National: Sporting Legends Slot Review

Grand National: Sporting Legends RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Grand National: Sporting Legends takes place across 5 reels, 4 rows and 40 paylines, in the base game. The number of paylines and rows can increase in the Free Spins round, however, but we’ll talk more about this later. Wins are created in a regular way – simply land 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels along a payline, from left to right.

You can play Grand National: Sporting Legends for as little as 10p, up to £500 per spin. This wide bet range makes the slot perfect for casual players and high rolling jackpot hunters. To adjust your stake, click the coins icon above the bet amount. With the same button you can also enable Turbo Mode for faster spins.

Outside of the UK, the slot also has an Autoplay feature, which allows you to play between 10 and 100 spins without clicking. You can also configure the feature to only stop when a feature begins but note that you cannot set loss/win limits.

Grand National: Sporting Legends has an RTP rate of 94.85%. This is below the average for online slots, but fairly standard for jackpot slots. With a medium volatility, the slot also offers 11,954 x stake max regular wins. Whilst this is fairly generous, remember about the jackpots too!

The Sporting Legends Mega Jackpot has an average win of around £673,000 but the biggest win to date was over £1,000,000!

Theme – enjoy the famous steeplechase

As the name suggests, the Grand National: Sporting Legends slot is based around the horse race of the same name. Famous for its fences, you can now take a punt on the Grand National all year round.
The reels hang against the famous steeplechase racecourse, where it looks to be clear blue skies. Not a regular site in Liverpool in April, but it does look appealing. The soundtrack, on the other hand, is best muted as it doesn’t really add to the theme. The lower end of the paytable includes 10 to Ace royals, whilst higher-value symbols include betting slips, binoculars, horseshoes, trophies and, naturally, horses.

The game also boasts a jockey Wild symbol, that substitutes for all regular symbols. The finish post Scatter is the game’s highest paying symbol, rewarding you with 50 x your stake for a 5-of-a-kind combination. Landing 3 scatters also triggers the Free Spins round.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3, or 0.5 x stake
Jack	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3, or 0.5 x stake
Queen	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3, or 0.5 x stake
King	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3, or 0.5 x stake
Ace	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3, or 0.5 x stake
Betting Slip	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.8, or 1 x stake
Binoculars	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.8, or 1 x stake
Horseshoe	3, 4 or 5 = 0.3, 0.8, or 1.5 x stake
Trophy	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 1, or 2 x stake
Horse	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1.5, or 3 x stake
Wild	Substitutes for all symbols above + pays up to 3 x stake
Scatter	3+ triggers Free Spins + pays up to 50 x stake

Grand National: Sporting Legends mobile

As with all Playtech slots, Grand National: Sporting Legends runs on HTML5 technology. This means you can play it on mobile, PC, laptop and/or tablet devices. The clear design and 5×4 layout also means the slot works well on smaller screens.

Grand National: Sporting Legends Bonus Features

Grand National: Sporting Legends comes with 3 main bonus features. This includes a Wild Horses feature in the base game, a Free Spins round, and the all-important Sporting Legends Jackpot prizes.

Wild Horses Feature

During any base game spin, horses may gallop onto the reels. This feature is triggered randomly, but can deliver up to 8 wild symbols. Your win payout is then recalculated to take the wilds into consideration. A simple feature that keeps the base game interesting.

Free Spins Feature

You must land 3 or more scatter symbols to trigger the Free Spins feature. You’ll receive 6 free spins to begin with, and you’ll first be transported to watch a horse race.

Each horse running comes with ‘improvements’. You’ll receive one of 12 improvements following for each of the 3 first horses to cross the line. These include:

• 3, 5, or 8 additional free spins
• x2, x3, or x5 win multipliers
• Expanding wilds, sticky wilds, or random wilds (adds up to 3 wilds to the reels)
• An extra row of symbols (so the layout becomes 5×5)
• No low-paying royal (10, J, Q, K, A) symbols on the reels
• Wins paid as ways instead of line ways

The last improvement is probably the most interesting. This can lead to up to 3125 ways to win, when combined with the 5×5 expansion improvement.

Land 3 more scatters on the reels to retrigger the round. You’ll receive an additional 6 free spins, plus any additional spins awarded by the improvements feature.

Jackpot Feature

The Grand National: Sporting Legends slot is part of Playtech’s Sporting Legends progressive network. This means you have a chance of winning 1 of 3 jackpot prizes on every spin.

Whilst the jackpot feature triggers at random, the higher your stake, the more chance you have of landing it. Check out the current jackpot amounts here:

Grand National: Sporting Legends Review Summary – a basic slot with generous jackpots

Playtech have created several Sporting Legends slots now, catering to nice sports fans markets. They are the perfect slots to attempt to convert bettors at sportsbooks, so it’s no surprise they remain popular.
That said, The Grand National: Sporting Legends slot fails to bring the excitement of such a famous race.

The base game is a little slow, though the Wild Horses feature helps. The Free Spins round delivers the main bulk of the action, besides the jackpots, with the improvements leading to sizeable wins.

Of course, this slot is designed for progressive jackpot fans. If that’s you, then you’re probably not too bothered about extra features. All in all, it’s a decent simple yet effective progressive slot, that follows the others in the series. Check them out here:

• Brian Lara: Sporting Legends
• AP McCoy: Sporting Legends
• Ronnie O’Sullivan: Sporting Legends
• Frankie Dettori: Sporting Legends
• Cheltenham: Sporting Legends