The provider's Megaways catalogue collected on one page: how the mechanic works, what distinguishes each game, and how the newer 1000 variants relate to the originals.
Pragmatic Play licenses the Megaways engine for a compact family of slots: Great Rhino Megaways, The Dog House Megaways and its Dog House Megaways 1000 follow-up, 5 Lions Megaways and 5 Lions Megaways 2, Madame Destiny Megaways, Christmas Carol Megaways and Big Bass Bonanza Megaways. This hub collects them in one place, explains how the mechanic changes each base game, and points you to the full review of every title as we publish them. Search results for these games are dominated by single-game pages; nobody compares them side by side, which is exactly what this page is for.
Megaways replaces fixed paylines with reels that change height on every spin, so the number of ways to win is different from one spin to the next and runs into six figures at the top end of these engines. Symbols pay adjacently from the left rather than along set lines, and most titles in this family add a cascade: winning symbols are removed and new ones fall into their place, allowing several wins from a single spin. The practical effect is that the same base theme plays much more variably than its payline original - swings are larger in both directions, which is worth knowing before you choose a stake.
The provider's Megaways family counts eight releases. The engine advertises up to 117,649 ways to win on these titles, with the exact count changing every spin as reel heights vary. The table gives the one-line identity of each game; the sections after it say what you are actually choosing between. Full specifications with verified figures live on each game's own review page as we publish them - we would rather send you to a page with checked numbers than print a spec here we cannot verify.
| Game | What sets it apart |
|---|---|
| Great Rhino Megaways | The savannah original rebuilt on variable reels with cascading wins |
| The Dog House Megaways | The kennel favourite with sticky wilds swapped for Megaways rules |
| The Dog House Megaways 1000 | A later edition of the Dog House Megaways formula under the 1000 banner |
| 5 Lions Megaways | The Asian-themed original with a choice of free-spins styles |
| 5 Lions Megaways 2 | The sequel that keeps the choice-driven bonus and refreshes the engine |
| Madame Destiny Megaways | The fortune-teller slot with a multiplier-led free spins round |
| Christmas Carol Megaways | A seasonal entry that applies the engine to a holiday theme |
| Big Bass Bonanza Megaways | The fishing series' collect mechanic on variable reels, with a published top win of 4,000x stake |
Great Rhino Megaways, The Dog House Megaways and 5 Lions Megaways are conversions of the provider's three best-known animal slots, and each keeps the signature of its original: the rhino's respin identity becomes a cascade-driven chase, the Dog House trades its sticky-wild grid for variable reels, and 5 Lions keeps its defining choice of free-spins styles, letting you pick the volatility of the bonus yourself. 5 Lions Megaways 2 is the one true sequel in the family - same choice-driven bonus, newer engine generation.
Madame Destiny Megaways is the multiplier specialist of the family - its free spins round is built around multiplier growth rather than symbol collection. Christmas Carol Megaways is the seasonal entry, interesting mainly to theme completists. Big Bass Bonanza Megaways matters most on this site: it carries the fishing series' money-collect mechanic onto variable reels, and its published top win of 4,000x stake is a verified figure from our own review research. Its full specification is covered with the rest of the series on the big bass bonanza 1000 review and related pages.
Names ending in 1000 mark later editions built on the same theme, not re-skins of the same game. We treat each as a separate title with its own paytable and its own published figures, because that is how the provider ships them. The practical rule when comparing generations: never carry a number you learned on the original over to the 1000 edition - look up the specification of the exact edition you intend to play, and check its build in the in-game information screen.
Pick by base theme first, then by how much variance you want. If you already know the payline originals - say you have read our Big Bass Bonanza Paytable and Review: Symbols, Stakes and RTP Versions, or you know wolf gold and sweet bonanza from their classic versions - the Megaways editions of the themes you like are the natural next step, with the caveat that the engine makes every one of them swingier than its original. Newcomers are better served starting with one title and learning its bonus round properly than sampling the whole list; the pragmatic play slots hub is the wider map of the catalogue when you want it.
Every title in the table has an official free demo hosted by the provider, and the demos for all eight games live in one catalogue on its site, pragmaticplay.com. We deliberately do not print eight separate demo links here: in Great Britain demo play requires age verification first, and we link only to destinations we can verify - one checked link to the provider's own catalogue beats eight unchecked ones. The same honesty rule applies to figures: the provider publishes its games in more than one return setting, different casinos run different builds of the same title, and the in-game information screen is the only place that shows the figure for the build in front of you. Our reviews list the published versions so you know what to look for.
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