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Wolf Gold

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Massively popular for a very long time, pragmatic slots biggest game was released in April 2017 and is still in the UK top 10. Its big top prize has been an attraction for sure, with a 5,000-times stake available via a very clever and popular bonus game that has inspired a whole load of spin-offs and not a few copycats. The game’s big bonus features are its stacked wilds, the money respin, and blazing reels. The mathematics are very, well, average, in a good way. The theoretical return to the player is 96.01% (this is a long-term measure of the proportion of all wagered cash over the entire lifespan of a game that will be returned to players; it is not a personal prediction). The volatility is medium. Volatility, or variability, is created by a ratio of prize size and prize frequency. Big prizes paid out less often mean the game is highly volatile; smaller prizes that trigger more often are the opposite. The set-up is classic too, with a 5 by 3 grid or symbols with 25 pay lines. There are eight standard symbols, topping off with a cougar, a mustang, aneagle,e and a bison, that place us firmly in the plains of the central United States of America. The wolf is a wild animal that subs in. A desert valley is the scatter, and it rewards free spins, during which you get the central reels linked as a single symbol. A moon is the money symbol and can reward a jackpot prize during the Money Respin feature. You need six moons to trigger it, and the second set of reels opens up for a short game of moon-symbols only. If you end the game with reels filled with moons, you get the Mega Jackpot. Wolf Gold is easy to play and understand, and it has been winning fans over since its release. There’s no reason to think it’s going anywhere in the short term.

Mustang Gold

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A good measure of a game’s success is its copycats, spin-offs, and sequels. This game was released in 2019, but you can certainly see it’s a relative of Wolf Gold as soon as you see the game design. Out go the wolves, and in come wild horses, with golden horseshoes as the big paying symbol that can deliver the jackpot. You can win up to a 12,000-times stake. The game set-up is very similar to its parent titles. There are eight standard symbols, with a top-four of two cow-persons, a black horse, and a white horse. There’s a wild and a scatter, triggering free spins. The gold horseshoes are the symbol at the heart of the Money collect feature and can help to award jackpots via the bonus game. The gameplay and design haven’t changed much at all, and this is a top 20 hit in the UK.

Wild Wild Riches

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The wildlife in this title is Irish and mythical, with toadstools and shamrocks blooming out over these big, paying reels. There’s a jackpot game here; many Irish titles are high-paying gamblers’ favorites, with a 100,000 coin top prize plus up to 4,608-times stake as a reel prize. The volatility is high, as it often is in such games, but the RTP is a very generous 96.77%. There are nine standard symbols, a wild and a bonus, plus the pragmatic play slots money collect feature with a cauldron full of coins as the money symbol.

Chilli Heat

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This is a veteran title that keeps slots fans queuing up at the chili pot. Mexican culture (to be kind to the designers here) themed games have come spinning off this big 2018 release. Again, we have the same pragmatic play casinos set up with a standard five by three grid and a respin/jackpot game using a money symbol to deliver the big prizes. In this game, we also get high value-only symbols in the free spins round in a medium-volatility game with just over 96% RTP. The top prize is 125,000 coins, and you can bet from 0.25 coins to 125 coins. This is a decent looking game with nice cartoon graphics that, our earlier remarks aside, isn’t overly offensive. Players certainly love it and have kept it at number 15 in the UK charts well over three years after its debut.

Joker’s Jewels

The Joker these days doesn’t usually summon up the actual card from the deck of playing cards. In slots, though, the joker still has that resonance, and that means that the appearance of the joker usually means that a game will be a retro, fruit-style game. This 2018 example from Free Pragmatic Slots isn’t untypical. It’s based on an old cabinet game with the pay table blinking away in neon over a 5 by 3 reel grid with just 5 pay lines. The top prize is 1,040-times stake, and the RTP is 96.5%. The betting starts at just 5p and runs up to 100 coins. The only extras in this game—these older-style titles often feature cut-down gameplay—are bonus symbols. Simpler games have been helped by the boom in mobile play, and Joker’s Jewels has obviously done something right to stay on the market for so long.

The Dog House

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Very different is this rather sophisticated video slot from March 2019. Despite its age, it’s a very modern-looking pragmatic play slots game with lovely, funny character cartoon graphics. Some of the mechanics look familiar, though, with a free spins round being the main extra feature in this game with a 6,750-times stake top prize.

Diamond Strike

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Just like jokers, gems and diamonds usually mean retro. Here's the aesthetic that comes out of the past in this April 2020 release. The symbols are straight off the pages of a History of Slots book, but the gameplay is slick and features the jackpot games that have been such a big hit in other Pragmatic Play slots.

Buffalo King Megaways

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In April 2021, Pragmatic Slots Play went back to the plains of the North American west with Megaways in their pockets and sent a herd of buffalo off over the prairies. This game feels like it’s from the Gold family but doesn’t feature their jackpot games, subbing in the usual Megaways features, which are a-typical reel sets, high volatility, more than 100,000 ways to win, and a big top prize of 5,000-times stake. Megaways have taken over the slots world in recent times, and everyone has to have at least one title.

Mysterious Egypt

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We’re still in the top 100 of UK titles with this one, released in January 2021, and taking that favorite theme of slots designers, Ancient Egypt. It’s a 5 by 3 game with 10 pay lines and a 5,533-times stake top prize on high volatility spins with a 96.5% RTP. The game uses mystery symbols and expanding symbols to deliver its biggest prizes, especially in the free spins round. In many ways, it’s a standard Egyptian game, though you can tell it’s a new-ish release by the highly sexualized imagery of the main character.

The Magic Cauldron

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Free pragmatic slots games often do well when they first come out, which is a reflection of the company’s power in the market. This one features a cluster mechanism that awards prizes for big groups of matching symbols rather than for linear sets along pay lines. It has very high volatility and a 5,000-times stake top prize. The game play in this fun magic game is sophisticated, with a number of bonus features, including collections that trigger modifiers on the reels. It’s a fun play with a great soundtrack.