Merlin’s Moneyburst

Merlin’s Money Burst is NextGen's bet for the summer of 2019 (with international launch scheduled for July 20). This magic slot is played on a very special board, with 5 reels of structure 2-2-4-4-4 and 60 lines. The highest prize you can get in a spin is € 1,500, with the maximum bet of € 7.5 per spin, some operators increase the maximum to € 62.5). The minimum available is € 0.30.

With 96.75% RTP, high volatility, a potential X200 per regular combination and a rather low bet limit, Merlin’s Money Burst is perfect for any pocket. With the extras the potential reaches x10,000: it includes wilds, free spins, multipliers, scatters and a symbol substitution function.

How to play the Merlin slot

The most Important before you start is that you adjust your budget: the RTP of the game drops to a meager 95.50% if you don't activate all the functions, so make the game last long enough to see all the extras. The more you bet, the more the RTP goes up. These are the available bet levels:

In total in the base game there are 3 "magic" features to win including re-spins, free spins, and spins with additional wilds, which will make the game much more exciting (and lucrative):

It is the one that is activated most frequently, each time the 2 × 2 part of the grid draws matching symbols. Then there is a re-spin of 5 spins in which the 2 × 2 part remains stagnant and the 3 × 4 symbols change to try to achieve winning combinations. As an added bonus, Merlin can appear randomly to transform some of the regular symbols into wilds; and if you get 3 scatters, add 5 re-spins to the remaining ones.

Free spins on Merlin Money Burst

Place 3 scatters on any of the spaces on reels 3, 4 and 5 and you get 10 a round of 10 bonus free spins with random wilds on reels 3-4-5, and an additional 10 spins each time you roll 3 scatters again. The re-spins feature is also available in free spins.

Merlin's Wild Spin

It is something like a double bonus, which will surely ring a bell if you have ever played the slot Bruce Lee's officer. When you roll 4 matching symbols on the 2 × 2 and on the 3 × 4 part of the board you get 3 scatters (1 per reel), the 4 symbols on the left become wild for 10 free spins. And also Merlin will make the regular symbols turn into stacked wilds on 3 × 4. Another 3 scatters will add an additional 10 Wild spins.

If you liked Merlin's Money Burst…

NextGen with Merlin comes a long way, as does the Camelot and cavalry theme in the WMS group, of which his studies are part. However, magic and medieval aside, veterans have surely noticed that Merlin’s Money Burst looks a lot like other slot machines from the brand, like Fire Queen or Queens Knight II.