Lady Merlin Lightning Chase Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Lady Merlin Lightning Chase Review

The first thing to know about Boomerang’s Lady Merlin Lightning Chase, is that this is basically 2 very different games rolled into one. Without the Boom+ Ante Bet feature turned on, you don’t get access to the bonus round, the RTP is below average and the max win deflates to a meager 3,808x your stake. You’re basically left with a Hold & Respins feature and a lousy math model, to put it bluntly.

The good news is that you can still play with bets as low as 40p per spin with the Boom+ feature switched on, so even penny punters should be able to afford it. The cartoonish fantasy theme is decent enough, and you get plenty of cash collect base game wins with the Boom+ turned on. Access to the increasing multiplier wild bonus round is vital if you want to crack the 25,600x potential, and we see no reason to play this game with the Boom+ feature off.

Lady Merlin Lightning Chase Features

The above mentioned Boom+ feature greatly affects wilds in this game. When turned off, you get regular wilds that step in for all regular pay symbols. When switched on however, wilds also step in for scatters and the collect symbol.

Lightning coil cash symbols can land anywhere, and they come with a multiplier prize between 1x and 100x your stake. If you land a collect symbol on the middle reel (or a wild on the 3 middle reels if Boom+ is turned on), all cash coil values are collected. The x2 wild multiplier applies to lightning coil cash wins as well.

If you land at least 6 lightning coil cash symbols with no collect/wild symbol in view, they become sticky for 3 respins. The respins counter resets per new cash coil symbol you land, and only blanks, cash coils and collect symbols land in the Hold & Respins feature. When you land a collect symbol, all cash coils are summed up, and you start over with 3 streak respins and no sticky cash symbols on the first spin.

You can only trigger the Bonus Round with Boom+ switched on, and you win 10 free spins when you land 3+ scatters anywhere in sight.

The bonus round can also be triggered randomly from the base game, just as long as you don’t trigger the Hold & Respin feature, or the bonus round itself, on that spin. You can trigger the Hold & Respin feature from within the bonus round though, and the free spins feature can also be retriggered.

The 200 Spins Lady Merlin Lightning Chase Experience

We get several okay cash collect payouts in the base game, before we trigger the bonus round at the 2-minute mark of the 4+ minutes long highlights video. We got a smaller scatter win up front, and the default 10 free spins was dealt out. You can see how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The whole Boom+ ante bet feature seems totally unnecessary in this game, as Lady Merlin Lightning Chase is not even half the game without it. We don’t see the point in confusing players with this nonsense, but it is what it is. Without Boom+ the potential is a measly 3,808x your stake, compared to a very solid 25,600x with the Ante bet active.

You need Boom+ to even be able to access the bonus round, and you get to collect far more cash coils when also the wild serves as a collector symbol. Since you can still spin the reels for less than 50p, the Ante Bet is highly recommended to say the least. That is, of course, if you find this game to be worthy of your time and money.

Pros

• Cash collect feature
• Hold & Respis feature
• Bonus round w/ increasing wild multiplier
• Win up to 25,600x your stake

Cons

• No bonus round without Ante Bet active
• 3,808x max win without Ant Bet active

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