Fifty thousand times your stake sits at the top of the paytable, fifty times what the 2014 Thai Flower classic could reach. Thai Flower Megaways slot earns that number from the Megaways ways-counter fitted over Reel Time Gaming’s old favourite.
Play a few rounds, though, and the game underneath is bare. No cascades, no multipliers, and a bonus that rests on a blind pick of three symbols. The lotus, the Thai lady, the temple and the elephant come straight from the original, with more ways to win laid over the top. The potential is real on paper, and the players most at home here are the ones who already loved the classic.
The pink lotus is the one symbol that does everything. It stands in for every other symbol to finish a win, and three or more of them landing anywhere open the free games. There is no separate wild and no separate scatter, so the flower holds both roles, and a line of lotuses pays on its own on top of any win it helps complete.
Three lotuses award 10 free games, rising through 15 and 20 to a full 25 for six. Before the round begins, you pick a trio of lotus pods, and each turns over a symbol that becomes one of the only ones on the reels for every free game that follows. Reveal the Thai lady or the temple, and the round can build a real win, as the top payers. Draw the low cards, and the round is stuck with a weak return before a reel even spins. Your picks are locked in the moment you choose them.
Most Megaways games stack seven symbols on a reel for 117,649 ways. Thai Flower Megaways stops at five per reel across its six columns, so the top figure is 15,625, and it climbs and falls each spin as the reels land at different heights. Wins pay from the leftmost reel across matching symbols on the next reels along, any height, and every winning line adds to the total.
A spin costs anywhere from 0.10 to 5.00 credits, and the bonus can’t be bought, so the free games only arrive when at least three lotuses land together. Autoplay runs from 10 to 100 spins with loss and win limits, and there is no turbo mode in the demo. The game sits high on the volatility scale, so a bonus can stay away through long, flat spells.
The Thai lady leads and is the only symbol paying from just two in a row, up to 10x for a full six of her. The card royals fill the bottom of the table, faces carried over from the original.
| Symbol | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thai Lady | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Temple | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.6 | – |
| Elephant | 1.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | – |
| Boat / Gold Urn | 1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | – |
| A / K | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | – |
| Q / J / 10 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | – |
| Lotus (Scatter) | 25 FG | 20 FG | 15 FG | 10 FG | – |
Symbol wins as a multiple of the credits staked, counted from the leftmost reel.
Thai Flower Megaways answers one question cleanly. It's the same game with more ways to win, and it doesn't try to be anything more. Fans of the 2014 original get the symbols and the pick-your-symbols bonus they know, now able to pay far bigger. Everyone else meets a tired look, a slow base game, and a bonus riding on a blind pick. Fun for the faithful, underwhelming for the rest.
Between triggers, the reels are a quiet place. There is no backing track here, just the reel-tone jingle Reel Time Gaming also uses on its Fishin’ Frenzy games and a few chimes as symbols land. The Thai artwork falls between a handsome opening screen and a set of blocky, low-res symbols that never quite pull the theme together. The tally above the grid runs up and down, and a neat row of gold urns paid 8.60 on one spin, but for long stretches the reels simply turn.
Everything points at the lotus. Three landed after a dry spell and opened 10 free games, then came the pick that decides the round. You pick three lotus pods, each turning over a symbol, and only those show on the reels for the bonus. Ours gave the King, Jack and Queen, the lowest symbols on the table, and ten games of them returned 4.40. Get the Thai lady or the temple in that pick and the round can look completely different. That one pick shapes the round more than the count of free games does.
Set beside the 2014 original, the appeal is clear. It keeps the original’s symbols and pick-your-symbols bonus, with the Megaways frame the only new part. What it doesn’t add is anything the years after Megaways arrived have made standard, so a returning fan gets the game they remember with more room to win, while a player raised on cascades and multiplier trails will find little here. A few spins in free play tell the whole story, and our review rates the remake worth a look for the far larger top win it now carries.
