Barnyard Megahays Megaways

Barnyard Megahays Megaways: Slot Overview

It's time for some wholesome down-on-the-farm gambling with Pragmatic Play and its online slot Barnyard Megahays Megaways. As farmyard slots tend to do, this is a rural slot full of happy, smiling livestock that seem chuffed by being birthed, grown, and harvested for human consumption. Or maybe everyone's friends on this farm; it's fun to pretend. Barnyard Megahays Megaways is a collect symbol game with a twist. The twist being, once free spins trigger, collect symbols are removed from the reels, and players auto-collect whatever bounty the special symbols possess.

A lush, warm, sunny day greets players once they set foot on the Barnyard Megahays Megaways farm. A red tractor smokes away, the corn is popping, the produce is abundant, meaning the Mr and Mrs farmer characters clearly know a thing or two about growing crops. It's all very chipper, very cheerful, a classically romanticised depiction of online slot farm life. It's a bit like Relax Gaming's Wild Yield or dozens of other upbeat farm slots as well, no doubt.

Spinning within a red-timbered structure is a 6-reel Megaways matrix, each reel landing 2 to 7 symbols on each spin, providing players with up to 117,649 ways to win. Winning combinations pay left to right from the leftmost reel on the grid. Pragmatic Play has classed Barnyard Megahays Megaways' math model as highly volatile, and whether buying free spins or betting 20 c to $/€240, the default RTP figure is 96.5%.

The tumble mechanic means all winning symbols are removed from the board after they've paid and are replaced by symbols dropping down from the top. If this creates a new win after the drop, the tumble feature goes again. When it comes to knocking together ways wins, Barnyard Megahays Megaways lays on 10 regular paying symbols. Half of them are 10-A card ranks; the other half are made up of a pig, a cow, a dog, a lady farmer, and a man farmer. Hitting 6 OAK winning ways awards 0.5-1x when formed of low pays or 2-20 times the bet for the premiums. Wilds appear on all reels and can substitute for anything except the collect or special symbols.

Barnyard Megahays Megaways: Slot Features

Barnyard Megahays Megaways is focused on harvesting special symbols in conjunction with collect symbols in the base game, whereas in free spins, special symbols are always just granted with no need for the collect symbol.

Special Symbols

Barnyard Megahays Megaways has its share of extra symbols. One is the collect symbol, which collects the values of special symbols currently on the reels. The special symbol takes a random feature when it hits:

• Money Value – a random value of 1x to 100x the bet, which is collected immediately when a Collect symbol is on the screen.
• Wild – if collected, at the end of tumbles, it becomes a wild that substitutes for all symbols except Special or Collect.
• Wild Multiplier – if collected, at the end of tumbles, it transforms into a wild with a random multiplier of x2, x3, or x5. The multiplier applies to all wins resulting from winning combinations. If more than one wild multiplier is part of the same win, the multipliers multiply each other.
• Respin – if collected, at the end of tumbles, this awards one spin of all symbols on the screen.
• Max Win – if collected, it instantly awards the maximum possible win of 10,000x the bet.
• Free Spins – if collected, at the end of all tumbles, free spins are awarded.

Free Spins

Landing the collect and 1 or 2 free spins special symbols grants 10 or 20 free spins, respectively. In the free spins round, there is no collect symbol. Instead, the values of special symbols are always collected when they hit. Two new special symbols may randomly appear, awarding +3 or +10 free spins.

Free Spins Buy

The free spins round can be bought for 100 times the bet. On the bought triggering spin, 1 or 2 free spins special symbols as well as a collect are guaranteed to hit. The RTP is 96.5%.

Barnyard Megahays Megaways: Slot Verdict

At the time of Barnyard Megahays Megaways' review, it seemed some of the foot had come off the Megaways gas. Still popular, of course, but the mechanic wasn't as overwhelmingly riotously numerous as it once was. Perhaps the magic of the standard Megaways setup - tumbles, free spins with a rising multiplayer, maybe mystery symbols, had worn off for both players and developers alike. The good news, then, is that Barnyard Megahays Megaways doesn't do things the usual way. It's got tumbles, okay, but the game is built around getting Collect + Special symbols in the base game or just landing Specials in free spins to attempt to entertain users instead.

It's not a bad mix either. Collect games are a dime a dozen, but Barnyard Megahays Megaways is no Fishin' Frenzy on the farm experience. This is in part because, as well as collecting cash symbols, the other Special symbols trigger completely different effects. One which stood out was the Max Win Special symbol feature, as this is something that seems to be creeping in in greater numbers of late. ELK Studios has put the idea to use in a slot like Dam Beavers, as did Nolimit City in the retro extravaganza Brick Snake 2000. It's a bit like hitting a Jackpot symbol, in a way, so some may favour this method, while others might prefer to see massive winning ways results.

Each to their own, of course, and on a positive note, Barnyard Megahays Megaways provides a Megaways-driven farmyard slot that is quite unique. Pragmatic Play has nailed the happy homestead vibe, and there are things here you don't see in every Megaways slot, so yeah, why not, good for a look to see how it operates.