MGM Grand Gamble Slot Review

MGM Grand Gamble: Slot Overview

I first opened MGM Grand Gamble knowing it had grown out of the big corporate deal where MGM picked up Push Gaming. It feels like a direct lift of that panda hit, just reskinned in green with the famous lion front and centre. On the reels you are set outside the MGM hotel in Las Vegas, while free spins move you indoors into plush, casino style surroundings.

When I look at numbers, MGM Grand Gamble runs on a high volatility setup with two RTP options, 96.13% by default or 96.52% when the gamble is active. Stakes go from 10p to 20 quid per spin, which covers casual play and harsher sessions. The grid uses 5 reels and 6 rows, giving 50 fixed paylines for standard left to right wins.

MGM Grand Gamble Symbols and Paytable

The symbol set leaves nature behind and sticks to old school casino fruit. Low pays are pears, lemons, plums and cherries, all paying 0.4 times your stake for five of a kind. High pays step up to horseshoes, bells, sevens and the dollar sign, which match the Las Vegas mood a lot better. Once those line up across the 50 lines, the slot starts to show what it can really do.

From the paytable, the premium dollar sign symbol pays up to 150 times your bet for five, with steps of 0.5x for two, 2x for three and 10x for four. Other high symbols run around 12x to 20x for a full line, dropping down through smaller multipliers for three or four. The wild symbol copies the dollar sign values and substitutes for any regular pay symbol, which helps drag those better hits through.

The low symbols sit at the bottom on 0.4x for five of a kind and 0.1x to 0.2x for smaller connections, so you really need features or premiums for proper returns. Scatter symbols do not pay directly, but they are your route into free spins and the whole upgrade system. I often find myself watching for them more than any simple line hit, as the bigger money almost always comes from the bonus side.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x150
	4	x10
	3	x2
	2	x0.5
	5	x20
	4	x2
	3	x0.5
	5	x16
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.4
	5	x12
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.3
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Wild
	5	x150
	4	x10
	3	x2
	2	x0.5
	Scatter

Mystery MGM Symbols in MGM Grand Gamble

Mystery MGM symbols can land anywhere on the 5x6 grid in both base game and bonus in MGM Grand Gamble. When they appear, they flip into matching symbols across all positions, revealing the same pay symbols, wilds or Grand Gamble symbols. In practice, they are the glue that pulls the whole design together, turning what would have been dead spins into stacked wins, bonus teases or full feature triggers.

Grand Gamble Feature in MGM Grand Gamble

When Mystery MGM symbols reveal a Grand Gamble symbol, the Grand Gamble feature kicks in and each position spins on its own like a little reel. On every spin you can land instant prize symbols worth from 1x up to a chunky 5,000x, multipliers from 2x to 10x, scatters, gamble scatters or a collector. The collector holds its place and keeps grabbing the value of instant prizes and other collectors.

Scatters and gamble scatters can appear naturally or through the Grand Gamble symbol, using reels two, three and four in the base game and any reel inside the feature. With scatters on reels two and three, a gamble scatter may drop on reel four, spinning to show either nothing, 4 to 9 free spins, 7 to 9 spins with two low symbols converted or 8 to 10 spins with four lows converted.

Free Spins and Gamble Feature in MGM Grand Gamble

Once you are in free spins in MGM Grand Gamble, scatters collect beside the reels on four small dots for each low paying symbol. Filling a set of dots converts that low symbol into Mystery MGM symbols for the rest of the bonus, starting with +4 extra spins for the first conversion, then +3, +3 and +2. Every converted symbol also adds a multiplier used on instant prizes and collectors.

The gamble feature sits on top of this, offering a shot at improving weaker free spins awards that arrive from the gamble scatter. You spin a wheel and either move up to a stronger combination of spins and conversions or lose the lot, which adds a proper sweat. Extra free spins can also appear during the Grand Gamble itself, showing +1, +2 or +3 and stretching a good bonus even longer.

Buy Feature in MGM Grand Gamble

On sessions where I do not want to grind the base, MGM Grand Gamble lets me buy straight into the action via the star button. There are four options, costing 99x for 7 to 9 free spins with no converted symbols, 179x for 7 to 9 spins with two conversions, 608x for 8 to 10 spins and four conversions, or 300x for a random layout of spins and setups.

MGM Grand Gamble: Slot Verdict

I see MGM Grand Gamble as a big green conversion of a proven slot, pushed out as a LeoVegas exclusive to show off the MGM brand. The reskin job itself is slick, letting you spin outside and inside the famous hotel without needing to set foot in Nevada. At the same time, the lack of fresh mechanics or characters does leave it feeling a bit generic if you know the original.

From a gambling point of view, the game carries proper punch with its high volatility, 96.13% to 96.52% RTP band and 50,000x maximum win. The Mystery MGM, Grand Gamble and conversion system link together well, and when they line up I have seen some wild swings. I treat it as a feature hunter’s slot, so if I fancy a sharp, high risk session wrapped in Vegas branding, MGM Grand Gamble does the job.

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