| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| RTP | 96.5% (read off the demo info screen) |
| Volatility | High — in-game meter at four of five bolts |
| Max win | 3,520x stake, sourced from listing catalogues; the demo names no cap across its seven info pages |
| The engine | Three-plus yin-yang scatters open the “SELECT FREE SPINS AND WILD MULTIPLIER” panel — seven options trading spin count against multiplier range, 25 spins at 2x/3x/5x through 6 spins at 15x/30x/40x, plus a MYSTERY draw; inside the round the board EXPANDS to 576 ways by adding a fourth row to reels 2, 3 and 4 — exactly the three reels the golden-lion wild is confined to; retriggers deal a fresh round |
| Base game | Tops out at a flat 20x dragon full line — a waiting room, not a payer |
| Bet | A$1.00-A$125.00 total; note the floor — a dollar minimum makes coverage arithmetic harsher than the usual Pragmatic A$0.20 |
The winning line
One screen decides how 5 Lions treats you: the seven-option panel opened by three yin-yangs. Almost all the game’s value is handed out there. The quiet tiebreaker is the 576-ways expansion, which adds a fourth row to reels 2-4, the only reels visited by the wild. That extra landing space earns its keep across MANY spins, so when the choice is tight, take spins over range. Survive the A$1.00 floor, make the pick on purpose, then bank the round.
Step 1 — Buy the wait on a one-dollar floor
Nothing counts until three scatters land, and the minimum bet is A$1.00, five times the usual Pragmatic floor, so the coverage maths looks rough from the start. An A$100 wallet buys one hundred minimum spins. On a four-bolt title, that can disappear before the panel shows even once.
Action: Set the flat total from the wallet: A$1.00 remains right for anything under A$150; every step above it must be earned through 100-spin blocks.
Watch for: Small base drips masquerading as momentum. The 20x dragon ceiling tells the story. The base is a waiting room, and the balance slowly leaks while you wait for scatters.
Decision branches:
- If the wallet can’t hold ~100 spins at A$1.00 → this is the wrong machine today; the floor doesn’t negotiate.
- If the panel opens early with the roll healthy → play it under Steps 2-3 and bank the result; never feed a fresh round’s pay straight back into base spins.
Step 2 — Trade spins against range like it’s the whole game, because it is
The panel is where the value lives. Option six shows 15x/30x/40x across six spins; the 25-spin end offers 2x/3x/5x, with five graded steps sitting between them, while MYSTERY pulls both numbers from that same pool. Every option has identical expected value. What changes is how the round can fail: the short end blanks often, while the long end can grind away without ever spiking.
Action: Make the pick BEFORE the trigger, using the wallet as the guide: healthy roll and wanting time for the round to build → options one to three; chasing a deliberate swing and accepting a blank → the short high-range end. Use MYSTERY only when you truly do not care. It hands the machine the one meaningful decision you actually get.
Watch for: Letting the 40x make the decision. It only pays when a wild joins a win, and six spins gives that coincidence very little room to happen.
Decision branches:
- If the session needs the round to last → high spin count, capped ceiling, maximum retrigger surface.
- If the session is a swing at the tail → low spins, high range, with the blank logged as the priced outcome, fair enough.
- If you are tempted by MYSTERY to dodge the decision → honestly, that is exactly why you should make the call yourself.
Step 3 — Count the fourth row into every close call
Here is the bit most write-ups miss. The golden lion only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. It cannot start or finish a combination. It only boosts a win already travelling through the middle. The free-spins board also stretches to 576 ways by adding a fourth row to those exact three reels. More spots on the wild’s home reels means more chances for wilds to drop in. Mind you, that extra space does its work over MANY spins, not six.
Action: When two options are almost level, use the geometry and lean toward the longer one. The expansion gives a per-spin probability lift, and that value climbs in a straight line with the number of spins.
Watch for: Treating a high range like a sure thing. The multiplier only kicks in with a wild-in-win event. Range sets the reward when a collision lands; spin count decides how many shots you get.
Decision branches:
- If the pick is between adjacent options → take the one with more spins; well, the fourth row simply gets more room to work.
- If a short-range round blanks → that is the geometry doing exactly what six spins allow. No make-up round at a raised stake.
Step 4 — Let retriggers deal the fresh round they promise
Land three more scatters during the feature and you get a completely fresh round, not just a handful of bolt-on spins. That gives the longer options another edge because more spins means more chances to retrigger. It also means the round is not done until the counter actually hits zero.
Action: Play every round right through to the end, including retriggers, at the stake fixed by the original trigger. Count the final result once the counter hits zero.
Watch for: A quiet first half that suddenly turns into a mid-round retrigger. The distribution is deliberately lumpy here. Early silence tells you nothing, honestly.
Decision branches:
- If a retrigger lands → the sample doubled; the exit decision waits for the full total.
- If the round closes at a genuine session win → Step 5, immediately.
Step 5 — Bank it before the waiting room drips it back
After a paying round, the base game’s role is reclamation: a 20x ceiling, slow drips and the scatter clock reset to zero. Every spin afterwards at A$1.00+ is another full-price ticket for a show that has already finished.
Action: Bank any round that returns a meaningful multiple. Close the tab. The 3,520x listing figure belongs in the catalogue tail, not in a session plan.
Watch for: “One more trigger” maths. The next panel may sit 100+ spins away, and every one of those spins comes at full freight.
Decision branches:
- If the round paid → out, cleanly, today.
- If half the roll is gone with no panel → also out; four bolts ran their course and owe nothing.
The maths that backs the playbook
There is no public PAR sigma and no community sample strong enough to cite, so the honest inputs come from the demo itself: 96.5% return, four of five bolts, a 20x base ceiling and a seven-way pick that distributes feature value at constant EV. The toll works out at ~3.5 cents per dollar cycled, and nothing on the panel changes that. The pick only reshapes variance. The geometry is the one analytical edge worth taking to the screen: wilds restricted to reels 2-4, the multiplier conditional on wild-in-win, and the 576-ways expansion adding a fourth row to those same reels. Each free spin becomes a collision trial, wild landing × paying run through the middle, where range multiplies the reward for a success and spin count multiplies the number of trials. The expansion improves trials; it does nothing to rewards. That gives the standing rule: when the decision is close, geometry favours spins over range. The A$1.00 floor creates the other hard limit, with coverage measured in blocks of 100 spins per A$100, while the 3,520x catalogue figure sits deep in the tail of a distribution whose ordinary paying rounds finish two orders of magnitude lower. The plan is built around those rounds, not the tail.
What breaks the playbook
- Grabbing option six for the 40x. Six spins of centre-reel collision hunting ends empty more often than it spikes; that’s the shape, not misfortune.
- Ignoring the fourth row. The expansion is a standing argument for spin count; picking short throws away the board’s own upgrade.
- Defaulting to MYSTERY. Delegating the one real decision matches no bankroll and dodges no variance.
- Reading base drips as warmth. The 20x ceiling tells the story, honestly, the base can’t pay. It can only sit there and wait.
- Stretching a thin wallet across the A$1.00 floor is a rough ask. One hundred spins is the entry ticket, and turning up with sixty is, well, paying full price for half a session.
The cut-off
Floor gate: with under ~100 spins of coverage at A$1.00, the session never really gets moving. There is no room to grind it out.
Middle line: if half the roll is gone and no panel has shown up, call it there. Sure, no top-ups against a scatter clock.
Round bank: one proper session win shuts the tab. A blank swing pick does the same, mind you, with no second crack at it.
Pick discipline: lock in the option before the trigger and match it to the wallet. Never choose from the 40x, and never lean on MYSTERY as a way out.
Strategy by Dave Holloway , Floor Veteran. Last updated: 16 Jul 2026. 18+. Gamble responsibly. Gambling Help Online , 1800 858 858 | Lifeline 13 11 14.
Specs
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| Released | 2018 |
| Mechanic | 243-ways base game, wild multipliers on the three centre reels, scatter-triggered free spins with a 7-option pick that expands the grid to 576 ways |
| Reels | 5×3 (reels 2, 3 and 4 gain a fourth row in free spins) |
| Ways to win | 243 (base game); 576 (free spins) |
| RTP | 96.5% (read off the demo info screen: “The theoretical RTP of this game is 96.5%”) |
| Volatility | High (in-game meter shows 4 of 5 bolts filled) |
| Max win | 3,520x stake (sourced from AdventureGamers / SlotCatalog listings; the demo states no cap) |
| Bet range | A$1.00 to A$125.00 total bet |
| Theme | Chinese fortune; golden guardian lions (foo dogs), dragon, phoenix, koi, money frog, turtle and yin-yang over a gold, imperial-red and purple palette |
5 Lions is one of Pragmatic Play’s 2018 releases, and it doesn’t try to dress itself up as something cleverer than it is. It’s a Chinese-fortune pokie, plain and simple: golden guardian lions, a red dragon, a phoenix, a money frog and a yin-yang symbol, all dropped onto a 5×3 grid with 243 ways to win. Gold everywhere. Imperial red and purple everywhere too. Fair enough, but you’ve seen this jacket before. Plenty of Asian-themed pokies lean on the same lucky-symbol parade and the same colour mood, so the skin isn’t really where the decision sits. The free-spins feature is. That’s where 5 Lions finally asks you to choose something that matters: seven options, each one swapping more spins for a wider or sharper wild-multiplier range, while the board can stretch from 243 ways to 576. That’s the bit worth caring about. Start there.
The setup is dead simple. Five reels, three rows, 243 ways, paying left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel. No fixed paylines to muck around with. No bonus-buy button in this build either. Every number in the table above that could be checked inside the live AUD demo, I checked in fun-play. Where the game keeps its mouth shut, it stays marked as sourced, not dressed up as gospel. One number has to sit in that bucket: the maximum win. The demo does not give it, not on any of the seven info pages. The 3,520x on this page comes from AdventureGamers and SlotCatalog, and it is labelled that way for a reason. I am not pretending the machine showed it. The rest, the 96.5% return, the 243 and 576 ways markers, the wild-multiplier set, and the A$1.00 to A$125.00 bet spread, came straight off the demo screens.
Symbols & paytable
Pragmatic Play lays the paytable out clearly on the Game Rules page here. Good. Because plenty of newer builds love hiding the useful stuff under shiny rubbish. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win is paid per winning way. Once the theme lands in your head, the ladder is easy enough. Dragon on top. Then the phoenix and the money frog, pretty much shoulder to shoulder. After that, the koi fish and the turtle. Then the gold-styled royals: A and K first, with Q, J, 10 and 9 sitting down the bottom.
These cash values came from a A$10.00 bet in the demo. Divide each one by the stake and there is your bet multiple. No trick to it. The dragon is the top regular symbol, but even a full five-of-a-kind dragon line only pays A$200.00 at that stake. That is 20x the total bet. Keep that bit in your head. Biggest full-line base-game hit on the best symbol: 20x. Says plenty about what the base game is there to do. Says plenty about what it is not there to do, too.
| Symbol | 5 of a kind | 4 of a kind | 3 of a kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon (top symbol) | A$200.00 (20x bet) | A$20.00 | A$10.00 |
| Phoenix | A$160.00 | A$20.00 | A$7.00 |
| Money frog | A$160.00 | A$20.00 | A$6.00 |
| Koi fish | A$60.00 | A$10.00 | A$4.00 |
| Turtle | A$60.00 | A$7.00 | A$3.00 |
| A / K (royals) | A$40.00 | A$6.00 / A$4.00 | A$2.00 |
| Q / J / 10 / 9 (royals) | A$20.00 | A$3.00 / A$2.00 | A$2.00 / A$1.00 |
Two special symbols do most of the heavy work here. The wild is the golden guardian lion, and its reel rule matters more than it first looks. It only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4, the three centre reels. Never on the first. Never on the last. It substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and on every spin the game pulls a random multiplier value. Any winning combination on that spin with at least one wild gets multiplied by that value. The possible values are 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 30x and 40x, so the splash screen’s “winning combinations multiplied up to 40X” line checks out. A 1x wild is barely a nudge. A 40x wild in the right spot, different story.
The scatter is the yin-yang symbol, and it can land on any reel. It pays on its own too: 2x total bet for three, 5x for four and 20x for five. Still, that’s not the main reason you’re watching it. Three or more scatters on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel trigger the free-spins feature. That double role matters, because you’re not just looking at another paying symbol. You’re looking at the door into the round the whole pokie is really built around.
Game rules
Base game and the 243 ways
The base game sits on a fixed 5×3 grid with 243 ways to win. No lines to turn on. No trimming it back. All 243 ways are live every spin. Your only real lever is the total stake, and the live demo confirmed the spread runs from A$1.00 to A$125.00. A way pays when matching symbols land on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel, wherever they land in the rows. That is why 243 ways can catch those ugly little shapes a straight-line machine would just ignore.
- Five reels, three rows, and all 243 ways live on every spin, nothing to toggle.
- Symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the best win on each way counts.
- Your one lever is the total stake, A$1.00 up to A$125.00, with no line count and no bonus-buy anywhere.
The centre-reel wild multipliers
The wild is the golden lion, and the placement rule is the base-game quirk worth watching. It only lands on reels 2, 3 and 4. So no, it will not rescue a dead first reel. It will not clean up the last reel either. Each spin draws one multiplier value from 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 30x or 40x. Any win on that spin with at least one wild gets multiplied by that drawn value. Then done. Gone. Next spin redraws it, no carry-over.
- Reels 2, 3 and 4 only for the wild, and it stands in for everything bar the scatter.
- Every spin picks a multiplier from the 1x to 40x set, then applies it to any win that used a wild.
- No accumulation to it either, since that value gets redrawn fresh on the next spin.
The scatter trigger and the seven-option pick
Three or more yin-yang scatters on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel trigger the free spins, but the game doesn’t throw you straight into them. You have to pick first. The “SELECT FREE SPINS AND WILD MULTIPLIER” screen gives you seven options, and each one locks a spin count against a wild-multiplier range for the whole round. The ladder runs through 25/20/15/13/10/6 spins across options one to six, with more spins meaning a softer multiplier range. Fewer spins means the range gets heavier, with the 40x top still available. The MYSTERY option leaves both the spin count and the range to the game, drawn from the same pool as the listed choices.
| Free-spins option | Free spins | Wild-multiplier range in the round |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 2x, 3x, 5x |
| 2 | 20 | 3x, 5x, 8x |
| 3 | 15 | 5x, 8x, 10x |
| 4 | 13 | 8x, 10x, 15x |
| 5 | 10 | 10x, 15x, 30x |
| 6 | 6 | 15x, 30x, 40x |
| 7 | MYSTERY | Random spin count and multiplier range, drawn from the other options |
- Land three or more yin-yang scatters and the pick screen opens with its seven options.
- Whatever you choose locks a spin count against a wild-multiplier range for the entire round.
- MYSTERY is the odd one out, drawing both the spin count and the range from that same pool.
The 576-ways expansion and retriggers
Once the free spins start, the board changes shape. Three extra symbol positions are added to the top of reels 2, 3 and 4, so those centre reels run four rows instead of three, and the ways count climbs from 243 to 576. Same wild zone, just taller. The wild multipliers still appear only on those centre reels, now with more room to land. Each spin draws a value from the range you chose. Three or more scatters landing during the round retrigger the feature, and those extra spins play after the current round finishes.
- A fourth row lands on reels 2, 3 and 4 during the round, pushing the board to 576 ways.
- Special reels run through the feature, and each spin still draws its wild multiplier from the range you chose.
- Catch three or more scatters mid-round and it retriggers, with the fresh spins tacked on at the end.
Max win
The demo does not state a maximum win. None of the seven info pages gives a win-cap line, so the figure on this page is sourced rather than read straight off the machine. Listing catalogues including AdventureGamers and SlotCatalog put the top win at 3,520x stake, which is why it’s in the specs table and labelled as sourced. Treat it as the far-end ceiling from a strong free-spins round, not something the fun-play demo personally showed.
- Not one of the seven info pages carries a win-cap line, so the demo is silent on it.
- The 3,520x stake figure leans on AdventureGamers and SlotCatalog listings instead, not the machine.
- Either way it is a far-tail result off the free-spins wild multipliers, not something you see often.
Screenshots
The three shots below are our own captures from the live AUD demo, and they’re embedded on this page so you can check the mechanics in fun-play yourself. The balance on screen is demo credit. Not staking advice. Each caption says exactly what’s happening in that frame too, including the middle shot, which is the free-spins selection screen, not a live round.
The free-spins pick is the whole game, so learn to read it
Plenty of Pragmatic pokies from this era chuck you into a fixed bonus and let the maths grind away. 5 Lions doesn’t do that. It makes you choose first, and that seven-option pick is the biggest decision on the machine. Treating it like a harmless tap is a bad read. The base game’s best full-line hit is only 20x bet on the dragon, so most of the serious upside sits in the feature, and in how you set that feature up before it starts.
Look at the two ends first. Option one gives you 25 free spins, but the wilds only draw from 2x, 3x or 5x. Option six gives you just 6 spins, but the range jumps to 15x, 30x or 40x. The middle choices sit between them, nothing mystical. More spins means more cracks at landing a wild on one of the three centre reels, more cracks at a retrigger, and more chances to use a multiplier when it turns up. Fewer spins means the wilds can hit harder when they do connect, because the range is stacked higher. Nice clean idea on paper. Messier when your balance is the thing wearing it, because each side still needs the other half to show.
The problem begins with the wild itself. A wild multiplier does nothing on its own. Nothing. It only pays when the lion wild is part of a winning combination, and that wild can only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4. Pick the 6-spin, high-range option, miss the useful wild connections, and the round can be over before it feels like it started. Pick the 25-spin, low-range option and you get more breathing room, usually more wild sightings too, but the ceiling is low enough that it can just potter along without landing a proper punch. The 576-ways expansion helps both ends a bit, because the taller centre reels give more landing room and more ways to connect. Still the same trade-off, though.
RTP won’t make the choice for you. The return stays 96.5% no matter which option you choose, so you’re not finding some secret better-paying door. You’re not backing the right horse in a dodgy little field either. You’re choosing the variance shape of the feature. That’s it. That’s the decision.
MYSTERY, and why it is not a shortcut
Option seven, MYSTERY, randomises both the spin count and the multiplier range, using the same set as options one to six. It might give you a long, softer round. It might spit out a short, spicy one. Once you tap it, you’re not steering anything. Some punters like that, fair enough. Let the game drive and see where it ends up. But MYSTERY isn’t a hidden best play, and it doesn’t magically give you both sides of the ladder at once. It just hands the biggest decision on the machine to the random draw. Want a longer grind through more spins? Pick that. Want a sharper swing with fewer spins? Pick that. MYSTERY only makes sense when you honestly don’t care which shape lands.
High volatility, and what the base game is really for
Pragmatic’s in-game meter shows four of five bolts filled, so the pokie is clearly marked as high volatility, and the demo felt like it. Base spins were mostly small or dead. The balance sagged through quiet patches, then jumped when a wild multiplier finally got involved in a win. That’s the rhythm. The 20x dragon full line is the top normal base-game pay, so the base game is not where this session is meant to be won. It’s the waiting room before three scatters take you to the pick screen.
For an Australian punter, the practical read is boring but useful. Expect dry stretches. Don’t treat a few small hits as the game warming up or being due, because it isn’t. Those little hits slow the bleed, sure, but they’re not the event. Mistaking that drip for momentum is how a bankroll gets chewed up before the feature even arrives. On a live run, one 15-spin feature pick returned A$36.16 on a A$10.00 bet, roughly 3.6x the stake. Modest. And not cherry-picked as some horror show either. It shows the shape neatly: a feature can pay well under stake, or it can blow open when a 40x wild joins a busy combination.
Punters mix up RTP and volatility all the time, so split the two properly. The 96.5% is the long-run return across a massive sample. Basically the game’s toll over time. The high-volatility rating tells you how rough the ride can get while you’re nowhere near that sample. One is the long-run cost. The other is the bruising on the way there, and on this pokie most of that bruising happens while you’re stuck waiting in the base game.
The wild-multiplier maths on the three centre reels
The centre-reels-only wild rule is easy to skim past. Still matters. It changes how wins are actually built. Because the lion never lands on reel one or reel five, it can’t start a combination from the left edge and it can’t rescue one at the far end. It has to sit inside the run, boosting a win the paying symbols have already started to form. Think middle-of-the-grid booster, not a rope thrown in from either side.
That placement is exactly why more spins have proper value. Each spin gives you another shot at landing a wild on one of those three centre reels at the same time a paying combination runs through it. Only then does the drawn multiplier matter. In the base game the multiplier value is redrawn every single spin, so a big 40x can show on a spin where no wild joins a win, and you get nothing from it. During free spins the rule is the same, except the range is locked to the band you picked, and the taller centre reels give the wild more room to appear. The 576-ways expansion and the three centre reels are pointing at the same thing: the money is concentrated where the wilds can land, and the feature pick is really a bet on how those centre-reel wilds behave.
Provider context
Pragmatic Play is a Malta-headquartered studio and one of the most widely distributed slot makers reaching Australian players, usually through offshore casinos. 5 Lions is a 2018 release from the studio’s earlier catalogue, before the later ways-based Megaways builds and buy-feature machines, and it sits pretty neatly beside its other Asian-fortune, multiplier-wild pokies. The legal backdrop is the same as it is for every offshore RNG studio. Needs saying plainly too, because access and currency questions pop up on almost every AU-facing title under the Australian Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and IGA 2001.
- Pragmatic Play is not licensed under the Australian Interactive Gambling Act 2001, because no offshore RNG slot studio is; AU players reach its titles only through offshore-licensed casinos.
- Accessing an offshore casino is not itself a criminal offence for the player under the IGA 2001; what the Act bars is operating or advertising real-money online slots to Australians locally.
- The demo on this page runs in AUD fun-play, so you can test the centre-reel wilds, the scatter trigger and the seven-option free-spins pick yourself before deciding whether the high-variance profile suits you.
Game series and comparisons
5 Lions turned into a numbered family over time, with later Megaways and Gold builds carrying the name, but this page is about the original 2018 release. That’s the one being judged here. On this site, the two cleanest comparison points sit on different sides of Pragmatic’s Asian and multiplier-wild range.
| Title | Provider | Engine | Key difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Frozen Charms Megaways | Pragmatic Play | Megaways | Shares the seven-option free-spins pick idea, but on a variable 117,649-ways Megaways grid with tumbling reels, rather than this fixed 243-to-576-ways board with no cascades |
| 3 Kingdoms – Battle of Red Cliffs | Pragmatic Play | 25-line video slot | A same-era Chinese-theme build whose value hangs off a 40-point collection meter and stacked wilds rather than a wild-multiplier free-spins pick |
Mechanics should decide the pick, not the logo on the loading screen. Want the same free-spins choice idea on a newer, tumbling Megaways grid? 5 Frozen Charms Megaways is the bigger, busier version. Want another classic-era Asian pokie, but one built around a slow collection meter instead of a multiplier pick? 3 Kingdoms is that shape. All three come from Pragmatic’s back catalogue, so you’re really choosing feature style, not studio.
Demo notes
The demo embedded on this page runs through Pragmatic’s own demo gateway. It loads with fresh fun-play credits, not a real balance, which makes it a clean place to test the machine’s behaviour before any outcome matters. Watch the base game drip along, land three scatters, check the seven-option pick screen, and, if a feature triggers, watch the grid expand to 576 ways when the extra row appears on the centre reels.
The gateway served the game in AUD and displayed A$ throughout, and the bet stepper confirmed the full spread from A$1.00 minimum to A$125.00 maximum total bet. Two gaps need to be said straight. First, the demo states its RTP at 96.5% and lays out the full mechanics across the seven info pages, but it does not name a maximum win anywhere. That’s why the 3,520x used on this page comes from listing catalogues and is labelled that way. Second, the game runs as a full WebGL canvas with no DOM controls, so the wild-multiplier set, scatter pays, seven-option pick and 243 ways to 576 ways expansion were read from the game’s own info and paytable screens rather than scraped from a listing.
FAQ
Q: What is the headline feature in 5 Lions? A: Straight up, it’s the seven-option free-spins pick. Three or more yin-yang scatters open the round, then you choose an option that trades spin count against wild-multiplier range, from 25 spins at a soft range down to 6 spins at 15x/30x/40x, plus a MYSTERY choice.
Q: How do the wild multipliers work? A: Look, the golden lion wild only lands on reels 2, 3 and 4, and every spin draws a random value from 1x up to 40x. Any win on that spin containing a wild gets multiplied by the drawn value, then the value is redrawn next spin. No carry-over.
Q: What is the max win? A: Quick one, the demo names no cap on any of its seven info pages, so the figure is sourced. Listing catalogues put the top win at 3,520x stake, which this page uses and labels as sourced, a rare-tail result reached through the free-spins wilds.
Q: What is the RTP and how volatile is it? A: The info screen states 96.5%, read straight off the machine. Volatility is high, with the in-game meter showing four of five bolts, and the live run matched that pretty neatly: quiet base spins, then sharp jumps when a wild multiplier finally landed.
Q: How many ways to win are there? A: Not fixed the whole way through, actually. The base game runs 243 ways on a 5×3 grid, and once free spins add a fourth row to reels 2, 3 and 4, the board climbs to 576 ways for the whole round.
Last updated: 3 Jul 2026 Reviewed by Mark Henderson, Senior Slots Analyst
Demo embed · played in fun-money mode. No real-money play here.