Medieval Money Pokies
Although Medieval Money is a pokie themed around ye olden days, its design, gameplay and extra features are right up to date, with high quality graphics, slick animations and 4 bonus rounds to enjoy.
It comes from IGT, one of the top games developers and can be played across mobile and desktop versions of the many online casinos that feature this extensive range. Filled with knights, maidens, kings, queens and jesters, Medieval Money has free spins with extra wilds, pick a prize rounds and a wheel of fortune that can all add extra cash to a players’ account when they take a journey back to an age of chivalry.
Playing Medieval Money
The towers, turrets and battlements of a castle sit behind the reels of this game, while above them is the title, written across a flag, and below there’s piles of sliver and golden coins along with a series of control buttons. These buttons are used to adjust the stake per spin, with minimums and maximums of 0.20 and 200.00, which should be suitable for just about everyone.
Symbols are arranged over 5 reels and in 3 rows, while across the game, there’s 20 paylines, all of which are permanently activated. During the normal run of play, prizes are won by lining 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols across a line running from the left side on adjacent reels, although the bonus features can see wins come in a variety of different ways.
Like many pokies, Medieval Money uses the high card symbols to make up the lower value combinations, although in this case the J, Q, K and A all look like they are parts from a suit of armour, which is a nice touch and typical of the care with which this pokie has been designed. The first 3 of these are worth 5x, 20x or 100x the line bet when they stop on 3, 4 or 5 reels, and the A is worth a little more. But it’s the characters that will pay out the most, topped off by the king symbol who awards players with 30, 100 or 300x their line bet when he stops across the reels, and the game logo that pays 50, 150 or 1000x.
Medieval Money
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Wild And Bonus Symbols
Although the design and standard gameplay are perfectly good, this pokie is all about the potential for big wins in the various bonus rounds that pop up quite frequently. The jesters’ hat is a wild, so it will act as all others, with the exception of the bonus, if it can complete a winning combination, or stretch a line across extra reels for a higher payout. The wild only lands on reels 2, 3 and 4 though, so it can’t make up a line on its own.
The bonus symbol is an archery target and whenever it appears in any 3 positions on the middle 3 reels a series of 9 targets will be revealed on a second screen. Players pick just 1 of these to see which bonus game they will be taken to, but whichever they trigger, each one has some guaranteed rewards.
Extra Features
A couple of these are simple rounds where players pick a prize, with the Money Bags game returning wins of between 2x to 50x the total bet and the Spell Picker seeing a wizard offering 5 bottles with hidden values of 5x to 100x. The Spell round gives players the opportunity to accept their first pick or to go on until they find the prize they like, but there’s always the risk that their first choice was the best.
The Dragon Path bonus has a medieval-style wheel of fortune, complete with skulls on it. If a number is spun up, players move along a path that can lead to a prize of up to 200x the bet, although landing on a skull takes players straight to the top prize.
Lastly, there’s a Joust free spins game and during the 7 spins, different symbols are in play, including a couple of knight who are extra wilds. If they both appear at once, they will joust to turn either all blue or all red symbols into additional wilds, so it’s pretty much guaranteed that any remaining spins will see win after win created.
The Verdict
Medieval Money is one of those rare pokies that has lots going for it and very little to criticise. It looks great, has lots of rewarding bonus features and even in normal gameplay, there’s plenty of potential wins to be had.
Maybe the 0.20 minimum per spin will put a few people off, but even this isn’t a very high starting point for such a top-quality game.