The Hand of Midas Slot Demo & Review – Play for Free

The Hand of Midas was developed by Pragmatic Play, a much-loved provider in the Spina Zonke market, and one you’re probably familiar with to some degree as an SA player. They were founded in 2015 and are known for being mobile-first, with each of their games built on HTML5. Apart from slots, they also do live casino titles and bingo.  

The game’s theme is based directly on the King Midas myth, where everything the King touches turns to gold. It features reels set against ancient ruins and golden columns, which signal some serious wealth. I think the theme supports the game's core objective nicely: chasing Wild symbols to turn wins into gold-plated payouts.

The Hand of Midas is set on a classic 5-reel, 3-row format with 20 fixed paylines. The winning combinations only pay from left to right, starting from the leftmost reel on an active payline.

The stated RTP is 96.54%, which is comfortably above the 96% industry benchmark. But playing for real, the volatility is high, man. In some sessions, I went 100+ spins without a single Scatter (worth it in the end, I will say). This is a game for players with patience and a decent bankroll, who know how to budget for dry spells.

Depending on the casino you play at, bets start around 20c (Hollywoodbets) to 60c (Betway) and climb to a max of R6,000 – so both casual players and high-rollers can jump in at a stake they’re comfortable with. 

Betting Range hand of midas

The maximum payout potential is 5,000x your stake. If you’re betting R10, that’s R50,000. If you’re betting R100, that’s R500,000. That’s the dream, and it’s why high volatility players like myself endure the dry spells. I mean, this is a jackpot-sized win, without an actual in-game jackpot chase.

When you hit 3, 4, or 5 Scatters, miniature reels appear for each of them and give you 1 to 3 Free Spins. These are added together to give you a total Free Spins count for the round. For instance, if you hit three Scatters, you get between 3 and 9 spins. 

Then there are Sticky Wilds. Any Wild that lands during the feature stays locked in place for the entire round.

The multipliers attached to the sticky Wilds are added to a running total win multiplier for every win that follows (you can check the active Multiplier in the top right corner of your screen to keep track). If you stack up three or four sticky Wilds early, the remaining spins are explosive.

Pragmatic did what they do best and delivered on this high volatility title with a generous safety net for those dry spells – in the form of a guaranteed minimum win Multiplier based on the number of Scatters you triggered the Free Spins feature with. 

So, if you triggered with 3 Scatters, you’re looking at a 10x Multiplier at minimum. If your final total is less than the guarantee, you get extra spins until you hit that minimum. I