The rules give the RTP as a band, 96.58% at the top and 96.47% at the bottom, and Pragmatic Play’s own figure of 96.50% sits inside it. Great Rhino Megaways is the game where Pragmatic Play first used the Megaways engine, released on 30 April 2020 under licence from Big Time Gaming. A tumble clears winning symbols and drops new ones in, and you choose the shape of the free spins round, 15 spins at 1x, 10 at 5x, 5 at 10x, or a random pair, with a multiplier that climbs by 1 on every tumble. The rules cap a round at 20,000x.
Reels 1 and 6 hold up to 7 symbols. Reels 2 to 5 hold up to 8, because a separate top row runs above them and spins on its own from right to left. The rules put the total at 200,704 ways, and a full-height board shows that exact number on the counter. Wins form left to right on adjacent reels from reel 1, in any size, and the game adds up every way that pays. The wild is a rhino with a gold horn, and it only appears in that top row over reels 2 to 5.
After a spin pays, the winning symbols disappear, the remaining symbols fall to the bottom of their reels, and new symbols drop in from above at the same size as the ones on the initial spin. That keeps the ways count fixed through the sequence. The game keeps tumbling until nothing new pays, then credits every win from the sequence in one go. Mid-collapse, the grid shows gaps where the winning symbols had been, and that pause is the only moment the sequence is slow enough to read.
The scatter is the gold rhino coin, on all 6 reels, and 4 or more anywhere on the screen start free spins. Before the round begins, the game offers four options. With 4 scatters the choice is 15 spins at a 1x starting multiplier, 10 spins at 5x, 5 spins at 10x, or a random number of spins with a random multiplier. Five scatters raise the fixed options to 19, 14 and 9 spins, and 6 scatters raise them to 23, 18 and 13.
Whichever you take, every tumble inside the round adds 1x to the multiplier, and the game applies the current value to that tumble’s win. Three scatters during the round add 5 spins with no limit on retriggers, and the rules note that special reels are in play. Once a round’s winnings hit the 20,000x cap, the game closes the round on the spot, and the spins that were left go unplayed.
The ante switch beside reel 1 raises the stake from 20x the base unit to 25x, $2.50 at the demo stake, and the rules say the chance of free spins doubles because more scatters sit on the reels. With the ante on, the game disables the buy button.
With it off, Buy Free Spins costs 100x the current stake, which the buy sign shows as $200 at the demo stake, and the bought round still opens with the same four options. The $300.00 maximum bet in the rules is the ante-bet figure, and the demo gives no normal-play maximum.
The narrow strip across the top of reels 2 to 5 is where the wild lives and the only part of the board that moves sideways. It carries one symbol per reel, so the wild can add one position per reel at most, and a symbol there counts toward the reel beneath it for ways. The Megaways counter above reel 6 shows the total once every reel has stopped. A tap of the space bar or enter sets the reels going, and the same key stops them early.
The bet menu runs from $0.20 to $300 with the ante bet on. The rules list a maximum RTP of 96.58% and a minimum of 96.47%, with no separate ante or buy figures. Pragmatic Play quotes 96.50% for the game, and operators can also run it at 95.59% or 94.69%.
The cheetah pays from 2 of a kind, worth 1x the stake, and reaches 50x for 6 on one way, which shows as $100.00 on the rules screen when the bet is $2.00. Every other symbol needs 3. Each figure below is per way.
| Symbol | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheetah | 1x | 2x | 10x | 25x | 50x |
| Gorilla | – | 1x | 2x | 2.5x | 5x |
| Crocodile | – | 0.3x | 0.5x | 1x | 2.5x |
| Hyena | – | 0.3x | 0.5x | 0.8x | 2x |
| Flamingo | – | 0.2x | 0.4x | 0.6x | 1.5x |
| A | – | 0.2x | 0.4x | 0.6x | 1.5x |
| K | – | 0.2x | 0.4x | 0.6x | 1.5x |
| Q | – | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.4x | 1x |
| J | – | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.4x | 1x |
| 10 | – | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.4x | 1x |
The gap between the cheetah and the gorilla is 10 to 1 at the top end. A single 6-long cheetah way pays 50x, and with several ways through the same symbols the tumble can repeat that before the reels settle. Below the gorilla, the tiers flatten fast. The crocodile and the hyena match at 3 and 4 and split at 5, where the crocodile pays 1x to the hyena’s 0.8x, and the flamingo shares its row exactly with the A and the K. The three lowest cards, Q, J and 10, take the same values as each other, so a board full of card symbols pays the same whichever of the three land. The scatter has no pay value of its own; 4 of them open the free spins choice.
The rules cover the pay rule in one line: the game takes the highest win per winning combination “on the same pay way”, and the next line says it adds wins on different ways together. The same screen says free spins winnings are added to your credits after the round completes, and the game history records the whole cycle as a single entry, so a long tumbling round shows up as a single figure rather than spin by spin.
The buy sign and the ante switch hang on the post beside reel 1, and their prices follow the stake. The $200 buy shown at $2.00 is $20 at the $0.20 minimum, and the $2.50 ante becomes $0.25. Turn the ante on and the buy sign greys out, so the two never run together. The rules restate the 20,000x cap a second time with one difference in wording; there, the game settles the win “up to the cap”, and it’s remaining features rather than remaining spins that lapse. The table below is what the 4-scatter trigger offers, bought or landed.
| Scatters | Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 15 spins at 1x | 10 spins at 5x | 5 spins at 10x | Random spins, random multiplier |
| 5 | 19 spins at 1x | 14 spins at 5x | 9 spins at 10x | Random spins, random multiplier |
| 6 | 23 spins at 1x | 18 spins at 5x | 13 spins at 10x | Random spins, random multiplier |
Great Rhino Megaways is Pragmatic Play's first Megaways slot, with 200,704 ways, a tumble on every win and a 20,000x cap. The free spins pick, 15 spins at 1x through 5 at 10x with a multiplier climbing on every tumble, is the reason to play.
A tumble win here means empty cells across reels 1 to 4 for a beat before the refill drops in, and a blank means two tall hyenas filling reel 1 on a 1,440-way board with nothing connecting past reel 2. That is the base game in two screens.
The board is dark green cloth in a wooden frame with spears and feathers at the corners. The top row sits in its own strip and is easy to miss until a rhino wild lands in it.
The rules page calls the game Low volatility, but the maths does not support that. A 20,000x cap, a pick that opens 5 spins at 10x, and a multiplier that never resets all point to High, and the game plays High. The badge fits the spins between rounds, where tumbles keep small wins ticking over.
The pick screen is the part worth spending demo time on. Fifteen spins at 1x gives the multiplier room to climb. Five at 10x starts high and depends on the first tumble landing. Nothing in the rules ranks them, and the deflation of a 5-spin round that ends with one small win is as much a part of the game as the version that runs.
Pragmatic Play built a long Megaways line after this, and Buffalo King Megaways and The Dog House Megaways are both on the site. Among the Megaways slots here, this review lands on it as the strongest of the Pragmatic Play Megaways demos for a player who wants a decision inside the round.
