Megaways Slots at Fortunica Casino

A Megaways slot recalculates how many ways there are to win on every spin. The reels drop a different number of symbols each time, so one spin can pay across 64 ways and the next across 46,656. Fortunica Casino runs the mechanic across titles from Playson and NetGame Entertainment, with wildlife and Ancient Egypt themes covering most of the category. Below is how the engine works, what each game in the lobby actually offers, and where the trade-offs sit.

How a Megaways Slot Differ From a Standard Slot

A standard slot fixes its layout. Five reels, three rows, twenty paylines: the grid looks the same on spin one and spin one thousand. Megaways replaces that with a random reel modifier. Each of the six reels drops between two and seven symbols, and the count changes with every spin. Wins pay for matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one, wherever those symbols happen to sit. Because the reel heights move, the ways total moves with them. The game displays the current figure on screen before you commit a stake.

Feature	Standard slot	Megaways slot
Paylines	Fixed number, set by the game	None — ways are recalculated each spin
Reel layout	Static grid, e.g. 5x3	Six reels, 2 to 7 symbols on each
Win condition	Symbols landing on a defined payline	Matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left
Volatility	Low to high, depending on the title	Usually high
Typical max win	500x to 5,000x the stake	5,000x to 20,000x the stake

How the Ways Count Is Calculated

Multiply the number of symbols on each reel. A spin landing 2, 6, 4, 5, 7, and 3 symbols gives 2 × 6 × 4 × 5 × 7 × 3 = 5,040 ways. Fill all six reels with seven symbols, and you reach 7⁶ = 117,649, the figure quoted most often. The ceiling is set by the provider rather than the engine. Big Time Gaming has licensed Megaways since 2016, and each studio caps it where its maths model needs to: Buffalo Power Megaways stops at 46,656, while Legend of Cleopatra Megaways runs to 200,704.

The Mechanics Behind the Reels

Megaways is the reel engine and nothing more. What separates one title from another is the feature set built on top of it. These are the mechanics in play across the Megaways category at Fortunica Casino:

Collapsing symbols — winning symbols clear and new ones drop in, so a single spin can pay several times over. Not universal. Playson leaves them out of both Power titles entirely.
Rising multipliers — a counter that climbs through a chain of wins, usually confined to the free spins round.
Expanding wilds — a wild symbol that stretches to cover the full reel it lands on.
Hold and Win respins — bonus symbols lock in position and the respin counter resets each time a new one lands.
Fixed jackpots — set prizes attached to the bonus round rather than a progressive pool, typically worth up to 2,000x or 3,000x the stake.
Top horizontal reel — an extra row feeding symbols into the middle reels. This is how Legend of Cleopatra Megaways pushes its ways count past 200,000.

Megaways Slots You Can Play at Fortunica Casino

Playson and NetGame Entertainment supply most of the Megaways category at Fortunica Casino. The four titles below carry the licensed engine. Two neighbouring games in the same lobby — Charge Bison from TaDa Gaming and Wild Buffalo Hold 'N' Link from NetGame — share the wildlife theme but run different mechanics, so read them as related titles rather than as Megaways.

Game	Provider	Ways to win	Max win
Wolf Power Megaways	Playson	64 – 46,656	20,000x
Legend of Cleopatra Megaways	Playson	324 – 200,704	6,584x
Wild Buffalo Megaways: Hold 'N' Link	NetGame	Up to 117,649	5,000x
Buffalo Power Megaways	Playson	46,656	10,000x

Wolf Power Megaways has the widest potential of the group at 20,000x. There are no collapsing symbols here, so the value sits in the free spins, where wolf wilds expand across the whole reel, and in the Hold and Win round with its 2,000x jackpot.

Legend of Cleopatra Megaways is the only title in the table with collapsing symbols and the highest ways count at 200,704. Free spins are triggered by clearing the top reel rather than by landing scatters, which makes them harder to reach. The 6,584x ceiling is modest for the format.

Wild Buffalo Megaways: Hold 'N' Link is the steadiest of the four. It pairs a 96.07% RTP with medium variance and a Hold 'N' Link bonus paying fixed jackpots up to 3,000x. It is the sensible starting point if you have not played the mechanic before.

Do More Ways Mean Better Odds?

No, and the number is easy to misread. The ways count describes how many symbol paths exist across the grid on a given spin. It says nothing about how often those paths pay or how much they return when they do. Two other figures carry that information: RTP, the long-run return, and volatility, the shape those returns take.

The games above sit between 95.84% and 96.07% RTP. That spread is narrow. The volatility spread is not. A high-variance Megaways title pays less often and larger, which in practice means long runs of dead spins between features. Legend of Cleopatra Megaways is the clearest case in the lobby: the biggest ways count of the four, and the bonus round that is hardest to trigger.

117,649 ways is not 117,649 chances. The ways count describes the grid, not your odds. Check the RTP and volatility in the game's info panel before you set your stake.

Which Megaways Slot Fits Your Session

Match the game to the session you have in mind, not to the largest number printed on the tile.

Short session, small stake — Wild Buffalo Megaways: Hold 'N' Link. The lowest variance of the four and the highest RTP, so the balance drains more slowly while you learn how the grid behaves.
Chasing the ceiling — Wolf Power Megaways. A 20,000x maximum, but reaching anywhere near it takes both patience and budget.
Feature-led play — Legend of Cleopatra Megaways. The collapsing symbols and the scarab multiplier keep the base game moving between bonus rounds, which the two Power titles do not.

Start Playing Megaways at Fortunica Casino

Log in, or register if you do not have an account yet.
Open the Megaways category from the slots menu.
Set your stake. All four titles in the table start at 0.20 per spin.
Find the ways counter before you spin. It sits above or beside the reels and updates with every new grid.

That counter is the quickest read on what the engine is doing. Watch it swing from a few hundred to tens of thousands across consecutive spins and the mechanic explains itself faster than any guide can.

Try the Games in Demo Mode First

Every Megaways title at Fortunica Casino runs in demo mode with play credits. Use it to learn how a bonus round triggers before you stake anything on it, particularly on Legend of Cleopatra Megaways, where the trigger works differently from the rest.

The Megaways category at Fortunica Casino runs on Playson and NetGame Entertainment titles, with more added as providers release them. Read the RTP and volatility figures before you set a stake, then open the Megaways lobby at Fortunica Casino and pick the game that suits the session you actually want.