Grand Monarch is a 5-reel 50-payline slot featuring Monarch, or Milkweed, one of the most beautiful butterflies in the world. You get an opportunity to bet at least $1 per line or as much as a true high roller may imagine, and a chance to win up to x1000 a line bet in a base game and twice as much in a free spin mode. A Stacked Wilds feature is of great help. Find the rules and tips below, take your ring net and rush to an online casino for the Grand Monarch!

Gameplay: The charm of natural beauty

This is a huge mystery, the way a butterfly develops. It passes through several stages which are so different that it is impossible to tie them in a single process. And then a day of glory comes and real magic appears: a magnificent butterfly presents itself to the world. This is about how the slot works. Five reels are all about the beautiful and charming world of the Grand Monarch residing and travelling across Americas. Besides, it is an online replica of a physical slot from real-life land-based casinos. You may activate up to 50 paylines and adjust your line bet between $1 and an amount matching the glory of the Monarch and your gambling budget.

This is a slot for a broad range of gamblers yet high rollers are clearly welcome: you may bet $50 or $100 or $200 or more per line and try your luck at a huge scale. The gameplay may be managed manually or in an automated mode. To let the slot do the job for you, select up to 50 automatic spins and the slot goes through all of them, one by one, until it runs out of spins or you stop a mode manually or a bonus feature activates. An autospin mode runs at a bet you placed in a base game or a bet that you specifically place for this mode.

Slot symbols: Paying beauties

There is a neat and nice set of slot symbols including 10 non-feature icons, a Wild symbol and a Scatter. A Wild featuring the Grand Monarch is a twofold icon. It is a Wild and does subs for any symbols except for a Bonus Scatter and it is the best paying symbol as well. All 10 non-feature symbols and the 11th paying symbol, a Wild icon, create winning combos based on the same rules. They pay from the leftmost reel to the rightmost reel when you land 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols on an active payline. The number of active paylines in this slot can be adjusted by the player. Inactive paylines do not pay whatever combination appears on them. So it is advisable to activate them all in each spin to maximize chances for winning. It is especially so in view of a Stacked Wilds feature to be reviewed below.

The paytable features wins from x5 up to x1000 a line bet. All line wins you manage to achieve in a spin are paid jointly. At that if a line features coinciding wins, the highest line win pays only, not all of them. This is how it happens and works: imagine you land 3 Wilds (a Grand Monarch icon) plus one J on an active payline. There you have as many as two winning combinations on a single line. The first line winner is three Wilds and the second line winner is 4 J’s (because Wilds substitute for J’s). So 3 Wilds pay x50 a line bet while 4 J’s pay x25 line bet; x50 is higher than x25 and the former, x50, is paid.

Stacked Wilds feature: A Grand Monarch show

A Stacked Wilds feature makes Wild icons (Grand Monarch) appear on the reels in stacked positions. This means that Wild symbols stack on the reels, one on top of another, and sometimes they fill in an entire reel or even two or more entire reels as the case may be. It is not just marvelous and nice to see. When it happens, the chances for winning it huge grow progressively and remarkably. It is a fact that Wilds coming in stacked positions make more line combinations shape up and become complete, that is, collect at least 3 non-feature symbols. And the outcome is that more paylines become winning and pay a cash award.

Bonus Free Spins

An imago of a Grand Monarch butterfly is a Bonus Scatter symbol. A Scatter reveals a picture as amazing as that of a butterfly emerging from its last and already dead stage, an imago. So, when you land at least three Bonus Scatters on any 3 central reels, that is, reel 2, 3 or 4, an instant cash prize of x2 your total bet is paid. Then 5 free spins is awarded. It is not much, yet it is a lot for this specific slot.

The feature is retriggerable and you may re-activate it during a free spin mode for many times, in fact, up to 255 free spins in a row as the slot developer states. Each time you retrigger a Free Spins bonus you earn a prize of x2 your total bet. This is a guaranteed award, it is paid because you activate the feature and it does not depend on any winning lines.

During free spins, the reels behave more generously and a Stacked Wilds feature becomes more plentiful. This is an appealing reason to play Grand Monarch for real money and not to waste any of your time for a fun mode and for placing petty bets. Make your luck shine just the way Grand Monarch does!

Summary

This is a 5-reel 50-payline slot by IGT developed for different breeds of gamblers. The game accepts line bets starting from $1 and running up to infinity and offers a reward of up to x1000 a line bet, a Stacked Wilds feature, Scatter wins of x2 a total bet and 5 retriggerable free spins (up to 255 free spins in a row, potentially). The slot is made with great care for those who visit online casinos on different devices, including desktop and iOS/Android smartphones and tablets.