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5 Lions Megaways 2 slot: pick your own free spins
Scatters here open a choice screen: many spins with small wild multipliers, few spins with large ones, or a mystery option that keeps its pick to itself until the round starts. Reel heights change on every spin for up to 262144 ways, RTP is 96.50%, volatility high, and the ceiling of 8000x is modest by the studio's standards, which is exactly why the base game here has a pulse. Open the 5 Lions Megaways 2 demo above to try the menu; the same slot waits in the Hit tab at Vavada.
- ProviderPragmatic Play
- RTP96.50%
- VolatilityHigh
- Max win8000x
- Reels6x8
- Ways to win262144
- ReleaseFebruary 2025
Reels that change height, and wilds that carry numbers
Every spin redraws the machine. Each reel shows a different count of symbols, the game recounts the winning ways from that layout, and the top of the range is the figure in the spec table above. Wins pay left to right across adjacent reels, then tumble away and let new symbols drop.
- Ways: matching symbols on consecutive reels pay wherever they sit on those reels. A tall spin gives more combinations than a short one, and the layout resets the moment the spin ends.
- Tumbles: a paid combination is removed and the gap refills, so one spin can pay several times before the sequence stops.
- Wild multipliers: wilds carry values and apply them to the ways they complete. Two wilds in the same way multiply each other.
- Premium symbols: the lion pays most, then the dragon, the phoenix and the tortoise, all in the studio's gold and red style. Card symbols fill the rest of the grid.
- Scatters and the buy button: three scatters stop the reels and open the choice menu, and the buy button opens the same menu for a fixed multiple of your bet. A super scatter among the three starts the round one level higher with a few spins already added.
The base game earns its keep. Tumbles and changing heights produce small wins often, and the balance ticks up and down where the candy grids in this tab simply slide.
The menu: many small multipliers or few large ones
Three scatters stop everything and put the choice screen in front of you, and that screen is the whole personality of this game. Eight options stand on it. At one end, twenty five spins whose wilds carry the smallest multipliers in the set; at the other, five spins whose wilds carry values several times larger; five steps fill the space between them, and a blind option lets the game pick and show you what it picked when the round starts. Once the round is running, fresh scatters stop mattering and the level coins take over: every third coin adds three spins and deletes the smallest multiplier from the set, so a long round that keeps collecting them finishes with the wild values of a short one. The studio publishes one RTP for the whole game, and nothing in the paytable marks one option as the better deal, so the menu is a question about the shape of your evening.
| Menu option | What it hands you | Who should take it |
|---|---|---|
| Most spins, smallest multipliers | A long round where wins arrive steadily and rarely explode | Anyone playing a fixed budget for an hour |
| Fewest spins, largest multipliers | A short round that either lands a big way early or ends flat | Players chasing a screenshot, on a balance that can absorb a blank |
| Mystery option | A draw between the two, revealed when the round starts | Anyone who finds the choice itself stressful |
| Buy button | The same menu, opened for a fixed multiple of the bet | People who already know which option they want |
I take the long option most nights and the short one when I have already decided the session is over. That second habit is not strategy; it is me buying an ending. The mystery option annoys me more than it deserves, probably because it takes away the only thing in this game I get to decide. The round that stuck in my memory was a short one: the first spin produced a tall grid, two wilds landed in the same way, and the payout arrived before I had put my phone down. Three short rounds after it paid nothing at all, which is the part the clip on social media never shows.
RTP 96.50% with a lower ceiling: what that trade buys
The declared return is 96.50% and the volatility is rated high, yet the ceiling of 8000x sits far below the candy grids next door. That combination is deliberate. A lower maximum means the same return is spread across more of the ordinary spins, and you feel it: the base game pays small amounts often, and the money spent hunting scatters comes back in dribs while you hunt.
So the profile is high volatility with the edges filed down. It suits a long session at a small stake and a player who prefers a pile of decent rounds to one enormous one. It suits nobody hunting the biggest number on the shelf, because this game traded that number away on purpose.
Questions I get about this one
Is the mystery option better than choosing?
The game carries one published RTP of 96.50%, and the paytable marks no option as the better deal. The mystery pick is a coin toss between two shapes of the same round, and it exists for players who dislike making the call themselves.
Does the old 5 Lions page lead here?
Yes. The address of the first 5 Lions review on this site now opens this page, because the sequel is the version standing in the Hit tab at Vavada, where the first forty cards are the ones the casino puts in front of you.
Can I clear the welcome bonus on this slot?
Yes. The Vavada bonus runs at x35 in slots, and every spin on this grid counts the same as any other slot spin. A bet placed in live games, crash or sports while the bonus is active is what kills it.
5 Lions Megaways 2 demo: try the menu, then decide
Play money is the only thing the demo above changes. The ways engine, the wild values and the choice screen are exactly the ones a deposit buys, so the 5 Lions Megaways 2 demo puts the menu in your hands at no cost. Spend the first ten minutes taking one option, the second ten taking the other, and you will have your own answer to the only question this game asks.
That test costs nothing, and it answers the one thing a 5 Lions Megaways 2 slot review has no way of answering for you: which option belongs at your choice screen depends on how long your evening is and how much of it you want to spend watching. Nobody writing an article knows that. I know what the buttons under the demo are for; the demo still works whether or not you press them.
What the Vavada package pays for a long month here
On a deposit the slot opens from the Hit tab. This is a grind game, so the parts of the Vavada package that matter here are the ones that pay for time on the machine.
| What Vavada gives | The condition | Why it fits this slot | My take |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cashback 10% | Calculated on the first day of each month and wagered x5; an unclaimed cashback expires in 14 days, and sports bets stay outside the calculation | A long month on a livelier base game is exactly what the percentage is counted from | Claim it the day it lands: the clock on it is short |
| 100 free spins after registration | Minimum bet, any slots, winnings wagered x20 | Enough spins to see the height changes do their work | Free, and the only condition is the minimum bet |
| Bonus 100% on the first deposit | Wagering x35, slots only | Frequent small wins keep the wagering moving in steady steps | The calmest slot in this batch to clear it on |
| Status ladder | Beginner, Player, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, confirmed on the first day of each month | Steady betting on a game like this is how the ladder is climbed | Watch the withdrawal limits climb with it |
Cashback conditions and the wagering arithmetic live on the bonus page; what each status changes about withdrawal limits is on the payments page.
Note. The cashback counts net loss since registration, minus whatever cashback you were already paid, so the percentage is applied to your whole history and not to last night alone. A month at a small stake on this slot is the cheapest way to see what it returns in practice.
Where to go when the lions get quiet
Gates of Olympus 1000 is the studio flagship from the other end of the risk range: multipliers rain down during free spins and the ceiling is far above this one, with a base game that gives much less back. Take it when the ordinary spins have stopped mattering to you. The Dog House sits closer to this game in temper, with sticky wild multipliers during free spins and a round you watch, with no button left to press. Both stand in the Hit tab a few cards away.
Choose the menu, or choose a different lion?
- What works
- The free spins menu is a real decision: length of round against size of multiplier, taken by you.
- Up to 262144 ways with RTP 96.50%: the base game pays often enough to feel alive.
- A ceiling of 8000x keeps more of the return in ordinary spins and less of it in the tail.
- Calm enough to clear the x35 bonus and collect cashback while you play it.
- What to keep in mind
- That same ceiling is small next to the candy grids in this tab, and chasers will notice.
- Short rounds with big multipliers end empty often, and the menu makes that your decision to regret.
- Changing reel heights make the grid hard to read at a glance on a small phone.
The low ceiling is the thing I hold against this game and the reason I keep it in rotation, and I have stopped pretending those two feelings will ever settle. What I can tell you is the practical part. Take the long option if the evening is long. Take the short one if you already have your coat on.
