Book of Mega Moolah™ Slot Review
Original Mega Moolah, based on an African wild setting and released in 2006, is a world-renowned slot machine that probably turned more punters into millionaires than any other gambling game. Since that much fame never fades out, almost 20 years later, we got its modern follow-up.
Besides the lovely exotic animals and grid size, the sequel also retained the jackpot bonus feature, which still engages gamble punters from around the world. Yet, there are a lot of changes to level up the slot's prize capacities and the eventual excitement of playing it. The main two distinctions compared to Mega Moolah are popular Book mechanics and the Expanding Symbol feature during free spins, truly capable of making you tons of golden coins. Because of that, there is just one special symbol — the Book picture, execution of both — Scatter & Wild simultaneously. The max win also skyrocketed more than twice up to x5,508.5 by the current stake.
However, some changes took a reduction pattern: the starting amount of free spins decreased from 15 to 10, pay lines shrank from 25 to 10, and finally, RTP switched to the lower value of 86.71%.
Unlike the Mega Moolah, which had low volatility, the sequel got high variance, which resulted in a significant reduction of Hit Frequency from 46.36% to 30.16% while increasing the chances of rare but extensive wins. Therefore, we undoubtedly prefer the modern Book-mechanics version of this video slot.
Book Of Mega Moolah™ by Games Global Video Review
Book of Mega Moolah™ General Characteristics
- 10 paylines
- 5 reels and 3 rows
- High Volatility
- Hit frequency: 30.16% (1 in 3.16)
- RTP: 86.71% (Jackpot Contribution 5.30%)
- Bet amount: 0.1 EUR - 25 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x5,508.5
- Maximum win value: 137,712.5 EUR
- 9 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Book (Scatter & Wild)
Book of Mega Moolah™ Bonus Features
There are not so many bonus features, actually, in the Book of Mega Moolah. In our opinion, the simplicity of its gameplay is one of the greatest strengths of this slot, which distills the gaming process of collecting progressive trigger coins in anticipation of a jackpot coming and regular prizes during base or, if it lucks, free spins. So, let’s take them down, those three main features of this pretty much promising gambling game.
Wild & Scatter
As mentioned above, here in the Book of Mega Moolah is just one double-duty special symbol depicted as a book. Besides that, it's also a paying one, granting a x200 max win to the current stake for 5 of such pictures. Now let us take a look at its two bonus functions in turn.
Wild
As Wild, the Book symbol is capable of substituting for any other picture except the Expanding one. In contrast to Mega Moolah, wins of combinations Wild took part in, here don’t double.
Scatter
Scatters wins are payable regardless of where they landed on the reels. Their prizes summarized to ordinary pay lines cash wins. Also, Scatter triggers free spins.
Free Spins Round
There are just three Scatters landed on the screen you need to begin the free spins bonus feature. The starting amount of those is 10. Also, there allowed free spins retriggering, possible under the same circumstances as in the base game. 3 Scatters, simultaneously falling anywhere on the reels, adding another ten free spins.
Expanding Symbol
That is the all-new feature introduced in Book of Mega Moolah, able to produce a good prize amount. The Expanding symbol role plays one randomly chosen just before the free spin round starts any payable picture, except for the Book symbol. During free spins, it expands on all reel sizes of those it landed down, but only if that will result in a win. That expansion starts just after regular wins are paid out. To make a payout, Expanding combinations do not need to start from the leftmost reel (1) or to be adjacent.
Progressive Jackpots
This prize feature works almost like in slot predecessor — just collecting progressive trigger coins and waiting for function activation at any incident spin. There is a thing — the more stake you will choose, the more chances of the Jackpot feature beginning. In case of its triggering, the Jackpot Wheel will be presented for your service, granting with the random prize selection by spinning the wheel.
If both bonus functions are triggered simultaneously, free spins will play first. If the Jackpot feature initiates within the FS round, you will use the chance to take the big one just after the bonus game ends.
Our Experience Playing Book of Mega Moolah™
It's time to share our playing experience with the Book of Mega Moolah. Take note we have used €200 and 300 spins (€1 per spin).
Our first cash prize was awarded on the 6th spin, earning us €10.5. Then was a whole set of around €1 wins mixed in with non-payable spins. The 17th spin made us a bit more respectable sum of €3, but anyway, since almost 20 spins, there was just €198,5 on our balance, which is even less than at the beginning of the game process. So, we were still waiting for the main feature, which can help us get a much bigger one-piece — free spins round.
Before the 34th spin, which got us that bonus long-awaited game, there were several not-that-generous prizes of €1.5, €2.5, and €3. Three Book symbols on the reels have changed our mood for the better, but firstly giving a regular win of €5 due to substituting superpower. After that, the free spin round started, choosing the Q symbol as an expanding one. Its overall result was €62.5. So, after such a generous FS round, we had €254.5 on the balance. It was just a miracle — a few spins later, the FS round triggered more. This time, it earned us, besides the regular payment of €7.5 just before the bonus game, €19.5. As a result, our first hundred spins ended up with €229.5.
The second hundred spins were not as lucky as the previous since we did not have any free spins round. There were some winnings during those up to €10,5. But that highest prize was just once, while cash wins of €0.5, €1 and €2.5 offered much more often. At the end of 200 spins, the balance was just €180.
The third hundred spins turned a little luckier, presenting us the last chance to get better thanks to another free spin round. That triggered on the 204th spin, giving us €5 of the regular win. Overall, the bonus game result was an incredible €140. Then there were several wins up to €7.5, but most cash prizes, as usual, were around €1. So, the only reason we finished above the starting balance amount was undoubtedly those three FS games. The final balance value was €249.
Book of Mega Moolah™ Verdict
So, there couldn’t be a lot of answers to the question of whether this slot is worth playing. Of course, it is, especially if you are one of those punters, long-life dreaming of a million euros win. Besides that, it’s pretty simple, has adorable looks, and can provide enough generous prize propositions even without jackpot delivery.
Nevertheless, while learning the Book of Mega Moolah, we found a couple of flaws fairly common among slot machines with gameplay Book mechanics. Those are just ten pay lines and not that big 5x3 playfield grid. Also, there is way too low RTP in the Book of Mega Moolah, although the latter is quite a typical issue for most of the video slots with a progressive jackpot. The last downside about this slot you should know about — on the Jackpot Wheel is just one Mega Jackpot and three Major Jackpot segments. That highly minimizes your chances of getting them. So, most of the time, gamblers deal with not-so-impressive Minor and Mini-progressive jackpots.
