Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot from Microgaming

Mega Moolah Pokies

Microgaming is the one brand name where you can find progressive jackpots to enjoy at the casinos. The most famous among these jackpots is the Mega Moolah Jackpot. This pokies game is in fact known as the millionaire maker and it showed once again on April 6th 2016  when a punter from Microgaming’s Spin Palace Casino won the Mega Moolah Pokies game progressive jackpot worth 6.9 million dollars.
It is not the first time that the Mega Moolah progressive has paid out a huge win.  But it was in 2008 that this game has first paid out its initial jackpot to a winner.

Microgaming has continued to pay out wins at a regular rate, with total payouts now of over 505$ million. The largest of those payouts came back in October 2015, when UK-based former soldier Jon Heywood landed a world record win on an online progressive jackpot game when he won  £13.2 million jackpot which was confirmed as being the largest ever jackpot win in history by the Guinness Book of Records.

So you can now say that Mega Moolah provides the biggest jackpots online. Besides this, Mega Moolah the base game it has three other themes; a popular Egyptian theme, a summer holiday theme, and an all-American theme. Other games are also linked to Mega Moolah’s 4-tiered progressive jackpot including The Dark Knight with cinematic reels from the Batman movie. Players always have an option to play any of the five games linked to Mega Moolah’s 4-tiered progressive jackpot and have the possibility to win the Mega Jackpot. The jackpot in this pokies game starts from over $1M.

How to Play Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot

Mega Moolah progressive pokies game symbols

Mega Moolah Progressive base game has 5 total reels and you can play up to 25 pay lines. The minimum wager is as little as $0.01 and goes up to $0.05. The maximum number of coins that can be wagered on single spin is 125. Also you can customize your playing experience on the navigation bar and have complete control over the game. You can go through all options and even put the game on auto play mode.

You can play this Progressive Jackpot game with any of your web browser be it Safari for Mac users, Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer. If you are using windows there is a download option which installs the casino on the computer. Also you can play this pokies game on your smartphones be it iPhone, iPad or any Android Phone.

What is the theme of Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot?

This pokies game is based on Jungle theme where you will find wild African animals and you can go on a safari trip in this pokies game. Not only African lions you will find many other animals to encounter like monkeys, elephants and giraffes which will always hover around you in this Wheel of Fortune style jackpot game. Lions are the Wild and can double your winnings. The Scatters are featured as Head hunter trophies and if you hit some of these they will open the door to 15 Free Spins that re-trigger and 3x all of your winnings throughout the free spin cycle.

How is the Mega Moolah jackpot determined?

Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot

The Mega Moolah Jackpot Wheel offers one of four jackpots. During the bonus game a player spins the wheel and can win the mini, minor, major or Mega jackpot. Since Mega Moolah has a progressive jackpot that grows as more people play and can reach up to a million dollars. Any amount over this initial investment is based on a system where a small seed of every single bet goes to a collective progressive jackpot pool. There is no limit to how high the jackpot can grow. The more players that play Mega Moolah the higher the jackpot climbs till someone wins it at one of the Microgaming powered casinos.

It is to be noted the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot is based on a random number generator guaranteeing equal opportunity and total randomness of the game. Anyone can win the Mega Moolah and no one can determine when it pays out.

What is the free spin mode and the bonus round in Mega Moolah  Progressive Jackpot?

During the free spin mode, a player is awarded with 15 free spins. If any spins produce a win during this period, your winnings can be tripled. Also, if you happen to hit 3 monkeys on a spin during the bonus round, you would be awarded with 15 more free spins.

The monkey acts as the scatter symbol which triggers free spins when three or more are present on a spin. Since the lion is the king of the animal kingdom, it’s also king of this game. It acts as the wild symbol and when triggered can multiply any winnings on a spin.

Besides Mega Moolah which pokies games are associated with this Progressive Jackpot?

Now that you have come to know that this big progressive jackpot is the highest paying jackpot and the size of the progressive jackpots being won, just keeps on increasing.

You can actually play several other pokies that share the same huge jackpot fund like the

  • Mega Moolah 5 Reel Drive with American theme
  • Mega Moolah Isis with Egyptian theme
  • Mega Moolah Summertime with Holiday theme
  • The Dark Knight with cinematic reels from the Batman movie

All these four games, along with the original Mega Moolah pokies, pay into and share the same progressive jackpot fund and as such, playing on any one of these games can trigger a win.

How to win Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot?

Mega Moolah Jackpot Wheel

When playing any of the pokies stated above, Mega Moolah, the progressive jackpot game can be triggered at any time provided you have made the minimum bet in order to give you a chance to trigger the jackpot.

Mega Progressive jackpot starts at $1,000,000; Major Progressive at $10,000; Minor Progressive at $100, and Mini Progressive at $10.

The progressive jackpot game takes on a different form to the base game pokies behind it as it is a wheel. On that reel are four different coloured sectors, each sector, depending on the colour, corresponds to one of the four Mega Moolah jackpots available. Mini, Minor, Major and Mega.

To win a jackpot, you spin a jackpot wheel with white, yellow, orange, and red spaces. There is one white space and that’s the Mega Progressive.  When with your luck and play you land on that  you win huge millions.

In addition to the white space, there are three yellow spaces  which if you land are Major Progressive, six orange spaces  which if you land are Minor Progressive, and 10 red spaces which if you land are Mini Progressive.

Most of the time players will hit the Mini or Minor jackpots, but occasionally a Major jackpot is won but every so often, the Mega jackpot is triggered and somebody in the world has a guaranteed 1 million and credit win and often more than that.

You can only randomly trigger this Jackpot wheel when playing the Mega Moolah base game, which as said above comes with 5 reel pokies, with 25 paylines in operation and a maximum bet size of 125 coins. That equates to around 6.25 per spin, so you don’t have to break the bank betting large sums on every spin in order to give yourself a chance of the jackpot.

In Mega Moolah game your chances of triggering the bonus jackpot wheel increase with the more money you wager on the spin. This means that you can play for smaller amounts, but you have a smaller chance of triggering the bonus wheel. Play for higher amounts and you have slightly more chance.

There’s also the chance of a huge 225,000 jackpot available to be won in free spins, and a 75,000 coin jackpot available in the game. You can enjoy this medium to high variance game, with popular progressive to play online at the casinos of your choice.