After releasing slots like Frogs & Bugs, Guarana Eyes of the Amazon, and Sticky Bees, Pragmatic Play is one developer that has proven its willingness to get outdoors, get its fingers mucky, and commune with nature. Here, players have another chance to experience a more natural side of life in the online slot Mr Toad Gold Megaways. While out in the boonies, be sure to look out for wild multipliers, free spins with sticky wilds, and free spins with raining wilds. It's all about getting wild around here, by the looks.
Speaking of looks, a damp patch of the woods is the setting for Mr Toad Gold Megaways. Its rickety wooden framed gaming panel resides by a pond covered in lily pads, backgrounded by a misty, tree-framed environment. It might look like the sort of place visitors would be assaulted by a thousand mosquitoes, but Pragmatic Play has designed the creatures in the game so they seem like friends as much as anything else. A jolly-as-it-gets soundtrack provides the finishing touch on what begins as a jaunty trip to the bush to hang with woodland creatures.
Let's not forget the word 'Gold' in the title, though, and Mr Toad Gold Megaways is a highly volatile gambling machine. It produces an RTP of 96.55%, either when betting 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin or when buying the free spins bonus round. The gaming takes place on a 6-reel Megaways grid that drops up to 7 symbols at random on each reel, on each spin. Ways to win vary depending on the number of symbols in view, going all the way up to 117,649 when maxed out to full capacity.
Mr Toad Gold Megaways awards wins when matching symbols land on adjacent reels starting from reel number 1. There are 10 to A card ranks as the low pays, then a snail, a dragonfly, a bird, a hippo, a lady toad, then Mr Toad as the high pays. Hitting a 6 OAK winning way awards 0.5 to 1 times the bet when made up of low pays or 1.5 to 7.5 times the bet for the premiums. Lotus flower wilds appear on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5, substituting for any pay symbol. When wilds land in the base game, they may have a multiplier of x2 or x3, which is applied to any win they are part of. When more than one wild is part of a win, the multipliers multiply each other.
Rain and sticky stuff are the subject of Mr Toad Gold Megaways' two free spins bonus rounds. Both are triggered when at least 3 mushroom scatter symbols land. When triggered, players pick the free spins round they would prefer to go for.
Depending on the number of triggering scatter symbols, players get a certain number of free spins and sticky wilds. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 7, 12, or 15 free spins, respectively, with from 2 to 7 sticky wilds on each reel. Or, landing 6 scatters awards 20 free spins with from 3 to 7 sticky wilds on each reel. During the round, whenever a wild hits, it gets a multiplier of x1, x2, or x3, and it remains on the reels till the feature ends. The feature cannot be retriggered.
When choosing this option, players get 15, 18, 25, or 30 free spins when triggered by 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters, respectively, with raining wilds. During this round, on each spin, up to 6 wilds with multipliers of x1, x2, or x3 may be added to the reels in random positions. Wilds do not stick, and this feature cannot be retriggered.
The free spins round may be triggered instantly from the base game by buying it for 100x the bet. When bought, 3 to 6 scatters land and players can then choose which round they would prefer.
Mr Toad Gold Megaways does interesting stuff by adding random wilds or making them sticky, but there was something a little off about the game, which meant it didn't immediately stick. Not quite sure why exactly, and there's not much to say about Mr Toad Gold Megaways that's negative as such. Maybe the mood for traipsing about the woods with a bunch of bugs and toads simply wasn't present at review time. Hard to say what prevented Mr. Toad Gold Megaways from really getting its hooks in, initially. Perhaps, apart from the skin, the rest of the game had already been seen in The Dog House Megaways.
From a technical perspective, Mr Toad Gold Megaways has a host of positive things to offer. Perhaps a cascade pay system might have brightened up the base game, but it does have multiplier wilds, so that's something in its favour. The game did start to pick up the pace after playing through a few of the free spins bonus rounds. Both could be effective in powering off decent winning results. The sticky wild version was the most appealing to start with since, you know, sticky wilds with multipliers which multiply each other on a Megaways game board with a lot of possible ways to win and all. However, raining wilds could be pretty cool, too. Provided a good number of them hit where you want them to. Both have the power of raining coins down in the count-up screen, and are backed by winning potential in the region of 12,000x the bet.
In the end, Mr Toad Gold Megaways won us over to a degree. However, it didn't come across as being anywhere near an instant classic or a major goto slot or anything like that. But its chipper vibe, cuddly characters, and variety of means for deploying multiplier wilds might give players something to hop about, that is, if they can tear themselves away from the doggy originator.
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