Reel King Slot Review

How Does the Reel King Slot Play?

Reel King is a five-reel game with twenty paylines, built in the classic fruit machine style. Cherries and plums make up the low symbols, with card symbols and a bag of gold above them. The look is plain, with little animation and a simple sound set.

The wild substitutes for other symbols on the three right-hand reels, so wins come from familiar line patterns.

Twenty lines keep the maths simple. If the stake is split across all of them, the £5 cap comes to 25p a line and the £2 cap to 10p. Because the wild appears only on reels three, four and five, a line that needs help on the first two reels has to be completed by the symbols themselves. That limits how often a near miss turns into a win, and it is the kind of detail the paytable spells out symbol by symbol.

Detail	Reel King
Provider	Novomatic / Greentube
Reels and lines	5 reels, 20 paylines
Style	Fruit machine with Vegas touches
RTP	94.00% for Reel King V2 (Greentube catalogue)

What Triggers the Reel King Feature?

The feature hangs on one symbol, because the Reel King symbol triggers it and it can appear after a winning spin or after one that paid nothing, so there is no scatter count to wait for. The symbol can land on any reel.

When the symbol appears, the game opens a small set of mini reels filled with coloured sevens. The colour of each seven sets its value, and the round continues while at least one seven appears.

1. A Reel King symbol lands on the main reels.
2. The mini reels open with sevens in different colours.
3. Each seven pays according to its colour.
4. The round ends on the first spin without a seven.

The guide to RTP in online slots covers how to read the return shown in the information screen.

The mini reels are the part of the info screen worth reading closely. Look for a table that lists the coloured sevens and what each colour pays, and for any line that states how the round starts and ends. The first spin without a seven is stated in the rules as the end of the round, so the colour values are the only thing left to judge. A game that pays most on one rare colour plays differently from one that pays evenly across colours.

Is Reel King Potty or Reel King Mega the Same Slot?

No. Searches for the title often return Reel King Potty and Reel King Mega, which are separate games from the same family with different layouts and features. A review of the original does not describe them.

When a lobby lists several Reel King titles, the full name decides which game opens, and the mini reels belong to the original design.

Where Does the Reel King Slot Stand at UK Casinos?

Availability changes from site to site, and the casino lobby decides whether the game can be opened. Several app-store titles carry the Reel King name as social casino games with virtual coins, and those are not the licensed slot.

A real-money game at a UK site sits behind age verification and a licence check, with stakes capped at £5 per spin from age 25 and £2 per spin for ages 18 to 24, as set by the UK Gambling Commission in 2025. A game whose own range runs higher, as some land-based originals do, is limited at the licensed site.

What Does the Fruit Machine Style Mean for How It Plays?

The Reel King slot follows the fruit-machine style, with few symbols and a small feature set. The main interest is in the single trigger, with no cascading reels, multiplier trails or pick screens to learn.

Each seven pays by colour and the round stops on the first spin without one, so the length of a feature round varies from a couple of spins to a longer run.

On £100 staked, 94.00% returns £94 over the long run and leaves £6 as the casino’s margin. The figure belongs to Reel King V2 in Greentube’s catalogue. Another listing we hold shows 90.03% for a Greentube version, so a percentage quoted without a version tells you very little, and the lobby tile or the help screen should name the edition before you compare numbers.

What Does the Land-Based Background Add?

Reel King began as a cabinet game in UK venues, and the land-based Reel King Classic exists as a separate cabinet. The online games that followed kept the symbols and the random trigger. Features that depend on a venue setting, such as cabinet buttons, do not carry over.

The symbol set is worth a look on the paytable. Cherries and plums are the low symbols, with card symbols and a bag of gold above them, and the order of payouts is stated on the screen and not assumed from the look of the symbols. Fruit machines often rank symbols differently from a card game, so a player who expects the bag of gold to top the table should confirm it before staking.

What Similar Slots Does the Site Cover?

Players who like the plain, line-based style can compare other classics reviewed here, such as Wolf Run, which uses a more modern bonus design.

Against Twin Spin, which publishes 96.55%, the Reel King figure of 94.00% is 2.55 points lower, or £2.55 less per £100 staked. The two also differ in structure. Reel King keeps one random trigger and a fixed set of lines, while Twin Spin links reels together on every spin. Both are plain by modern standards, and neither relies on a pick screen or a tumbling grid.

Cleopatra is another line-based classic, and the guide to slot volatility shows how to judge how a game swings.

Deposit limits and reality checks are worth setting before any session, and the limit and support tools page lists the support available, including GamStop.

A simple pacing example helps. Sixty spins at a flat £1 stake cost £60, and the same sixty spins at the £5 cap cost £300. UK rules do not allow autoplay on online slots, so every spin is a separate press, which gives natural pauses to check the balance against the budget set before play.