Legendary Game’s Jackpot Exceeds £5 Million Once Again

If you play online casino games, regardless if it’s on a mobile app or desktop, there is a fair chance that you may have come acrossMega Moolah. It’s an online slot, available to play at plenty of casinos (mainly online, but you can find it at some land-based locations).

Mega Moolah was released by Microgaming in 2006 to very little fanfare. To be frank, it’s not the most aesthetically-pleasing casino game, although its jungle theme could be described as ‘cute’. The game has a certain charm, but it features basic 2D graphics and doesn’t have much in the way of gripping gameplay. The point is, if you didn’t know about it, you would easily pass over it when browsing casino games.

Microgaming caught lightning in a bottle with Mega Moolah

The question is, therefore, why is Mega Moolah such a phenomenon? Why is it one of the most-played slots at major online casinos like Mr Green? The answer would besimilar to the response given when asking what made Tetris or Candy Crush so popular. It simply has an x-factor quality that is hard to describe if you haven’t experienced playing it.

Of course, there are some elements of Mega Moolah with which its popularity becomes understandable. An obvious starting point is the fact that Mega Moolah holds the official Guinness World Record for biggest-ever jackpot for an online slot: £13.2 million (approx. $20 million) was paid to Jon Heywood from the UK in October 2015.

Low stakes spin triggered record payout

However, what was even more remarkable about Mr Heywood’s win was that it was triggered with a 25p spin. Many jackpot slots require a bigger stake to qualify for or, at the very least, increase your chances of triggering the progressive jackpot. Mega Moolah, in this case, shows that there are exceptions to the rule.

There are, in fact, four different Mega Moolah Jackpots: Mini, Minor, Major and Mega. The Jackpot Game can be triggered with any spin, taking you to a spinning wheel feature where you will be guaranteed to walk away with one of the four jackpots. The big one – the Mega Jackpot – has a guaranteed payout of £1,000,000. The average payout over the years is over £4,000,000.

Other features of slot are also popular with players. It boasts a free spins feature where all wins are tripled. Even in the base game, five Lion Wild Symbols on a payline will award 15000 your line bet, theoretically meaning a 1p spin could return £150.

Jackpot has gone over £5 million

But, it must be said, that players do cite the big jackpot as the main reason for playing. At the time of writing (June 2018), that jackpot has just tipped over the £5 million-mark again. There is no indication of when the big prize when go. For example, it was won twice in April this year, but hasn’t been won since that time.

Going back to how the game plays, its simplicity has actually become one of Mega Moolah’s strongest points. The quaint graphics offer a vintage feel, but also mean that none of the fun is lost when you play the game in its mobile format. Of course, the main thing to note is that those jackpots can be triggered just as easily when playing on a mobile app than on desktop.

Mega Moolah has been one of the most celebrated casino slots for a dozen years now. Due to its ever-growing jackpot, that popularity doesn’t seem like abating any time soon. Definitely worth checking out.