How To Play Merlin’s Mania Mobile Slot
The Bullshark Games Merlin’s Mania slot gives you a familiar magical journey with the most famous wizard, letting you win 12,000x your bet if you can get through all his spells and charm.
Merlin returns to the reels in Merlin’s Mania, a scatter-pays slot from Bullshark Games that closely follows the blueprint laid out by its predecessor, Merlin’s Alchemy. Any fans of Hacksaw Gaming slots should try out Bullshark Games slots.
Set in a shadowy chamber filled with glowing potions and arcane books, the game’s aesthetic leans heavily into classic wizardry vibes. Merlin himself, cloaked and holding mystical items, watches over the action, creating an immersive fantasy setting.
Played on a 6×5 grid with cascading wins, Merlin’s Mania online slot rewards players for landing 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels. No clusters needed, this is a scatter pay slot machine.
Winning symbols disappear, making way for cascading replacements. The medium volatility slot boasts an RTP of 96.31%(or a lower 94.38% variant) and a max win of 12,000x the stake. While the numbers look promising, the gameplay’s reliance on familiar mechanics feels a little repetitive.
Merlin’s Mania slot Magical Features and Gameplay
The Merlin’s Mania mobile slot stands out for its use of various wild symbols, global multipliers, and two distinct free spins rounds.
The first major feature is that each spin can introduce mystery symbols, which transform into different symbol types, including wilds, and more importantly, multiplier wilds.
The cascading mechanic ensures a steady flow of potential wins, but you’ll need some serious multiplier to get anywhere. The paytable isn’t quite strong enough to handle your budget, not unusual in a grid slot. And during the base game the multipliers reset between spins.
Which means you don’t tend to get many multiplier. The most we saw was about 3x. It’s ok. But it’s nowhere near the amount we need to hit that 12,000x your bet max win.
The True Magic Lies in the Merlin’s Mania Free Spins Rounds
3 scatters trigger 8 free spins with the multiplier starting at 8. This time when the mystery symbols wild increases the multiplier, it stays on the reels, allowing you to build much bigger multipliers.
You also have the extra addition of the sticky activator wild. It acts like a wild multiplier, but stays on screen and continues increasing the global multiplier on every single spin. On a decent round, you might get a multiplier of 5x to 10x.
However, if you are somehow lucky enough to catch the free spins with 4 scatters, you’ll trigger 10 free spins with a starting multiplier of 5x. That’s a brilliant head start and how you get anywhere near the max win of this Merlin’s Mania slot.
Merlin’s Mania slot is just fine
Compared to similar games like Moon Princess 100 slot by Play’n GO, which also uses cascading wins and progressive multipliers, Merlin’s Mania online slot introduces very little that’s different.
While Merlin’s Mania shares much of its DNA with its predecessor, it doesn’t bring enough innovation to carve out a distinct identity. The gameplay is polished, but it feel overly familiar for those of us who have already dived into similar scatter-pays titles, such as Gates of Olympus by Pragmatic Play.
The problem with the Merlin’s Mania slot is that you need to get 4 scatters to get those bigger wins, and the fact you can buy it for 200x your bet should tell you how often they show up and the high volatility of this feature.
Will we be back for more? Probably not often. But if you come across it along your magical online casino travels, it certainly has enough potential for an afternoon of play.
Related Slots: Try more magic themed games including Merlin’s Grimoire and Rise of Merlin or something completely different in Starburst Galaxy from NetEnt.
Merlin’s Mania Slot Stats
| Mobile Slot Released | 26th November 2024 |
| Slot Type | Video Slot |
| Software Provider | Bullshark |
| Slot Reels / Paylines | 5 Reels / All Ways Pay |
| House Edge / RTP | 3.69% / 96.31% |
| Slot Volatility | Medium |
| Min/Max Bet | 0.10 / 100 |
| Max Win | 12,000x Bet |
| Free Spins | 8 to 10 Free Spins / Sticky Multipliers |
| Bonus Rounds | Avalanching Wins, Scatter Wins, Scatters, Free Spins, Wild, Mystery Symbols, Bonus Buy |
| Slot Themes | Magic |
Merlin’s Mania Bonus Features
Scatter Win and Avalanching Wins: Any 8 symbols anywhere on the reels pay out, explode and then more symbols will come tumbling down, allowing for more wins.
Wild: The book is the wild symbols and will replace all other symbols except scatter.
Mystery Symbols: On any one spin 2 to 30 symbols can appear and transform into any one symbols. These can include:
- Any pay symbol.
- Adder Wild: Increases the global multiplier by 1–100.
- Activator Wild: Applies the global multiplier and substitutes pay symbols.
- Regular wild.
In free spins, may reveal Sticky Activator Wilds.
Global Multiplier:
- Base Game: Resets each spin and increase via the wild symbols
- Free Spins: Progressively increases and doesn't reset between spins
Wizard’s Favor Free Spins: The bonus triggers when you land 3 scatters. You'll get 8 free spins, with a progressive global multiplier starting at x1. During the mystery spins you can have sticky activator wild. It act like an ctivator Wild, applying the global multiplier to wins. However it stays on the grid after participating in a win, and remains in place until the end of the free spins.
Merlin’s Insanity Free Spins: If you land 4 scatters, you'll trigger 10 free spins with a global multiplier starting at 5x.
Bonus Buys: You have multiple bonus buy options
- Bonus Hunt FeatureSpins (3x bet): Increased free spins chance RTP 96.27%
- Mystery Madness FeatureSpins (40x bet): Guarantees 6 mystery symbols 96.42% RTP
- Wizard’s Favor Free Spins (100x bet): 96.35% RTP
- Merlin’s Insanity Free Spins (200x bet): 96.24% RTP
Pros
- Huge top win of 12,000x your bet for mid volatility slot
- Brilliant magical graphics
- Cascading wins with mystery symbols filled with multipliers
Cons
- Nothing new from it's predecessor
