Reel King Big Money keeps the jolly crowned king and the fruit-machine symbols the name is known for, then builds a fresh game under them. This is a ten-line slot that puts a Big Money collect bonus where the Megaways keeps its cascades. Land at least 3 of the king’s 777 Bonus scatters and the backdrop turns red, money bags start dropping onto the reels, each showing its own value, and the Reel King collects them while a multiplier trail climbs overhead to 10x. It is the same character the Reel King Megaways slot built its bonus around, here put to work as a collector instead.
Watch a run of spins and the reel backings light gold as the symbols settle, sometimes one, often more. Fill all 5 on one spin and the Reel King pops up to name one of 3 modifiers before the reels turn again to pay it. Super Bonus Reels seeds extra 777 scatters to improve your odds of triggering the round. A 5-of-a-Kind names a number of five-symbol wins the next spin then delivers. A Big Win promises at least 20x your stake and pays it on the respin. No numbered counter sits beside the grid to track any of this, so the lit backings are the only tell that something is coming.
Get 3, 4 or 5 of the 777 scatters and the Big Money Bonus opens, the count setting where you begin on a multiplier trail above the grid, 1x from 3, 2x from 4 or 3x from 5.
The backdrop reddens, and every money bag now carries a value of 1x, 2x, 5x or 10x, ranging up through 25x and 50x to 100x your stake.
Land a Reel King and he works as a cash collector, sweeping up every bag on the reels and moving one step along that trail, while a 777 reel icon called the Reel follows him, pushed on by every plain Reel symbol that lands.
Each step the king takes lifts the multiplier on his collections, running through 2x, 3x, 4x, 6x and 8x to a peak of 10x, and the round goes on until the Reel draws level with him.
Being cornered does not always end the fun. As soon as the Reel draws level, the king spins a blank reel of his own, the Royal Spin, and it settles on one of 3 results.
Two of the 3 outcomes buy you more time, so a round that looks finished can find another gear.
Switch on Fortune Spins and the usual reels give way to a stripped game, cut back to money bags, 777 scatters and the Reel King alone. The king still doubles as a wild and a money collector, banking any bag amount that shares the grid with him. It plays at whatever stake you set and gives a more direct route to the bags than the full symbol set does.
Wins can be gambled on a pair of wheels. One pushes a win up by a third, double or triple. The other plays for the bonus round, staking your win against a shot at the Big Money, Super Big Money or Mega Big Money tier, with plus and minus arrows setting the target, a bigger one for a slimmer chance. Green pays, red takes the lot, and you can set it to arm on every win or only on wins of 5x your stake and above.
Skip the wait and the Bonus Buy hands you the round for 100x your stake, guaranteeing a minimum of 3 scatters drop. It is the surest way into the feature, though the entry tier is still tied to how many scatters the purchase brings, so it can open on the 1x or 2x start rather than the top one.
Wins here pay from the leftmost reel along ten fixed lines, and each line pays only its highest win. The four coloured money bags are the one wrinkle to learn, because they pay as one mixed symbol, so a run of bags on a line scores together even when the colours differ, from 1x for 3 up to 20x for 5.
The 777 Bonus ignores that rule and pays from anywhere, helping build the round. Free play in the demo runs the same at every stake, and should the balance ever dip below one spin’s cost, Spin Chance offers to wager what is left for one more go.
Reel King Big Money ships with two return-to-player settings, 94.5% and 92%, so the figure on the rules screen is the one your operator has chosen. The play sits at medium volatility, which fits how it feels, the money bags dripping small returns while the trail and its multiplier hold back the larger ones.
The top win is 5,000x your stake, and the buy pays back an average of 94.5% over its own cycle. You can bet anything from 0.10 to 40.00 a spin.
Values below are shown as a multiple of your stake.
| Symbol | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild | 200x | 20x | – | – |
| Watermelon | 200x | 20x | 5x | 0.5x |
| Plum | 100x | 15x | 3x | – |
| Cherries / Orange | 50x | 10x | 2x | – |
| Money Bags (mixed) | 20x | 5x | 1x | – |
| King | – | – | 5x | 0.5x |
| 10 / J / Q / K / A | 10x | 2.5x | 0.5x | – |
The wild replaces any symbol but the 777 Bonus and shares the watermelon’s best line of 200x. The crowned king pays from just two on a line, and the money bags are the only symbol that scores across colours.
Reel King Big Money bolts on more than its Megaways cousin, adding reel modifiers, Fortune Spins, a gamble and a buy, but they all serve one round: the Big Money collect bonus is what you come to play, built on a money-bag trail and a climbing multiplier, and it is a good one. It still sits a rung below our 3.7 Reel King Megaways, at 3.6, because the Megaways spreads its pull across the whole game while Big Money banks nearly all of its in that one round. The stronger bonus of the two, then, wrapped in a quieter ten-line game.
The tell is in the reels lighting up. On the Reel King Megaways slot, each cascade lights a reel and filling all six is the road to the king, so the walk into the bonus is the main game’s whole draw. Big Money keeps the lit backings but gives them a smaller job, since filling 5 only earns a one-off modifier, while the round itself waits on 3 of the 777 scatters showing. The road into the bonus is a matter of scatters landing here, not reels filling.
What you get back is a bonus with more to grip. Where the Megaways king round runs on lit reels and a spins trail, the Big Money round gives you the bags stacking up and the multiplier rising as the king collects. Our best came from a 100x buy that reached the 3x stage and closed at 106.50, the trail doing the work the paytable never could.
The Royal Spin is the piece the Megaways has no answer to. When the Reel finally catches the king, that final spin decides whether the round dies, buys back two rungs or bumps the king to his next multiplier, and the swing is real. One buy of ours was run down after 7 spins and paid 38.50, an identical one lasted 24 spins and nearly tripled it, the difference sitting entirely in what the king’s own reel kept turning up.
For a game that reaches for the wallet in its title, the surprise is how much sits around the bonus. The reel modifiers turn up in standard play and within the round, where a 5-of-a-Kind or a Big Win can refill the reels mid-collect. Fortune Spins runs a pared-back mode after the bags alone, the gamble can spin a win straight into a bonus tier, and the buy is there when patience runs out. The Megaways has none of these, so on feature count Big Money is the busier build by a distance.
Set against the wider family, this lands as the collector’s Reel King while the Reel King Megaways stays the one for the cascade climb. Reel Spooky King Megaways is really that Megaways in Halloween dress, with a livelier reel-lighting sequence and no new engine, so it sits closer to it than to this game. Big Money is the odd sibling out, sharing the king and the coins but almost nothing of how you get to him.
None of it changes the shape of this review. The Big Money round is a smart, legible feature and the Royal Spin gives it a hook the Megaways lacks. That makes it the Reel King for players who want the bonus on tap, with the Megaways still ahead when it is the climb up to the king you enjoy.
