Midas Hand Of Fortune

Midas Hand Of Fortune Overview

Midas Hand Of Fortune is a five-reel, four-row slot from Mancala with 40 paylines, a 95% RTP, a very high volatility rating and a published ceiling of 5,032x. It was released on 30 April 2025.

That 5,032 is worth noting: it is a calculated figure rather than a marketing number. All figures below were read from demo play at a 200.00 total bet.

A King on a Throne

The reels sit in a gilded frame between marble columns, with clouds behind them. To the left, Midas himself sits on a golden throne in red robes – he is part of the furniture, not a symbol.

When the free spins begin the whole scene turns gold and two enormous golden hands rise on either side of the grid, palms open. It is the clearest visual signal of a mode change in this batch.

The symbols are a harpist, a bowl of fruit, a lyre and an amphora above the four card suits, with a golden hand on a disc and a portrait of Midas as the specials.

The Paytable

At the 200.00 bet the harpist leads on 8,000.00 for five, 2,200.00 for four and 600.00 for three. The fruit bowl pays 3,600.00, the lyre 1,600.00 and the amphora 1,200.00.

The suits are the floor: hearts 800.00 for five, diamonds 400.00, clubs 300.00 and spades 200.00 – exactly the stake back.

Converted, five harpists is 40x and five spades is 1x. So the line game covers a range of forty to one, and the published ceiling of 5,032x sits a hundred times above its best line. Everything that matters happens in the round.

The Wild Only Lands in the Middle

The paytable spells out the rule, and it is the most important sentence on the game: The Wild symbol substitutes any regular symbol and can appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. When a Wild symbol lands, it may expand and fill the entire reel. Additionally, during the Bonus Game, it expands with a multiplier range of x2, x3, x5 and x7.

Three consequences follow. The wild can never start or finish a five-symbol line on its own, because reels one and five are closed to it. An expanded wild covers a full column of four positions. And in the base game those expansions carry no multiplier at all.

That last point is the whole design. The same expanding wild that pays a flat line in the base game pays up to seven times in the bonus – so the difference between the two halves of this slot is not the symbols, it is the multiplier attached to them.

What the Base Game Paid

One capture has three gold W wilds stacked in the middle of the grid for 850.00 – 4.25x the stake, and the best base result in the session.

Another shows five golden hand discs along the top row with a Midas scatter beside them, the running winnings field reading 10,450.00 while the balance sat at 14,500.00.

The golden hand discs are worth a closer look. In that capture five of them fill the whole top row while the ordinary symbols sit dark below – and the row is framed in gold rather than paying a line, which marks the hand as a collect symbol rather than a paying one.

Ten Free Spins, and They Retrigger

Three SCATTER symbols – the Midas portrait on a flaming plate – trigger the round, and the award screen is a golden scroll: You won 10 Free Spins!

The counter above the reels tells the rest. It reads 9 in one capture and 13 in a later one, so the round retriggers from inside itself – more scatters during the round push the count back up rather than awarding a separate feature.

The scatters keep landing too: one free-spin capture has three of them on the grid at once while the round is already running.

What the Round Produced

The free-spin wins in the captures are 300.00 (1.5x), 600.00 (3x) and 2,100.00 (10.5x), the last from four fruit bowls along the bottom row.

The winnings field climbs alongside them – 600.00, then 900.00, then 3,600.00 – which is 18x the stake accumulated over the round, with spins still remaining.

Set that against the 5,032x ceiling and the shape of the game is clear: an ordinary round returns tens of times the stake, and the maximum needs the x7 expansion on the best symbol several times over.

The scatters land where you would expect them to: the trigger capture has them on the first, third and fifth reels, each on its own flaming plate with SCATTER written across it, so they are read anywhere on the grid rather than along a line.

The Buy Is Unusually Cheap

The Buy Bonus Feature panel is refreshingly plain: Win 10 Free Spins with additional prizes, a stake-per-spin selector reading 200.00 and a total cost of 10,800.00.

That is 54x the stake – by far the cheapest bonus purchase in this batch, where the other games ask 100x, 200x, 300x, 600x and 800x. On a game whose captured round returned 18x and whose ceiling is 5,032x, a 54x entry is a genuinely different proposition.

The panel also has minus and plus arrows on the stake, so the price scales with the bet rather than being fixed.

The balance is the least flattering number here. Across the captures it runs 19,600.00, then 14,500.00, then 3,700.00 DEM – a fall of some 15,900, or 79x the stake, over the same stretch that produced the 850.00 and 2,100.00 wins.

The demo runs in DEM units rather than a real currency, and the footer narrates the state in plain words – Place your bets! between spins, Good luck! while they resolve – with a BUY BONUS star button in the top-right corner and a coin-stake key, autoplay and spin down the right rail.

A 95% Return

The one number that tempers all of this is the RTP. 95% is below average, and on a very high volatility game it means long stretches of nothing between rounds. The cheap buy and the low return are two sides of the same design.

Who Should Play It

Midas Hand Of Fortune is for players who want an expanding-wild slot with a clearly priced way in. The golden-hands transformation is the best mode change in this batch, the wild rule is stated honestly on the paytable, and at 54x the buy is cheap enough to be used more than once.

The reservations are the 95% return, a base game where a full line of spades returns exactly the stake, and a wild restricted to three of five reels. Without the bonus multiplier this is a very quiet slot.

Where to Play Midas Hand Of Fortune

You can try this game on Casino007 Online Casino. There’s a unique casino bonus offer of 400% up to £1200 for a limited time.

Midas Hand Of Fortune was listed under Mancala in all six of our partner casino libraries when we checked on 22 September 2026.