How To Play Grand Melee Mobile Slot
Head back to when knights battled it out for supremacy in the Thunderkick Grand Melee slot machine.
The Grand Melee mobile slot is a high volatility 6×4 reel 1119 ways to win a game featuring random Sticky Respins with Symbol Upgrades, Reel Expansions and Expanding Symbols, plus a Free Spins bonus with Sticky Respins on every spin. Add a high 96.17% RTP and 5,000x max win, and it’s got lots of potential.
Potential not only to entertain but also to payout some very decent wins thanks to the Sticky Respin feature, which shows up often and provides added value to your spins.
Random Sticky Respins with Special Features
Randomly on any spin, the slot chooses one of the paying or bonus symbols before the reels stop spinning. If you land 5 or more of the chosen symbol, you’ll get a respin of the reels with the symbols held in place.
It’s a slot mechanic that’s been used to good effect in many other online slots, including the Mayhem slot from Red Tiger and the Blue Fortune slot from Quickspin.
And Thunderkick uses it well here too.
You continue getting respins for as long as more of the same symbols land ending when no more do, at which point, if you’ve created one or more of the 1191 connected pay ways, you’ll get a win.
However, Thunderkick added to the Sticky Respins thanks to three special symbols which could land on any spin, helping upgrade all of the sticky symbols to higher value ones, expanding one of the symbols vertically to cover an entire reel or expanding the rows by one to help create more potential wins.
We’ve only ever encountered these in the free spins, where you’ll be more likely to land the Grand Melee slot’s biggest wins.
Win up to 5,000x Bet In Grand Melee Free Spins
The top win of this Grand Melee slot is a decent 5,000x your bet, the same as the Book of Dead slot from Play’n GO and the Forge Of Olympus slot from Pragmatic Play.
You’ll have to play hard to get close to that top win, as the Free Spins bonus round can take a few hundred spins to trigger, but it is the more likely place to win big. Why?
Cause on every spin in the Free Spins, you get a Sticky Respin.
This gives you more chances to line up a winning combination of symbols and more chances at randomly activating the Symbol Upgrades, Symbol Expansion and Game Area Expansion.
It’s how we won 180x our bet on a single spin. However, there are no guarantees you’ll win big, as we’ve also walked away with just a few bucks.
Related: Try more Thunderkick slots, including the Sword of Shoguns slot featuring Free Spins with expanding scatters.
Grand Melee Slot Stats
Mobile Slot Released | 16th August 2023 |
Slot Type | Video Slot |
Software Provider | Thunderkick |
Slot Reels / Paylines | 6 Reels / 1 Payline |
House Edge / RTP | 3.83% / 96.17% |
Slot Volatility | High |
Min/Max Bet | 0.10 / 100 |
Max Win | 5,000x Stake |
Free Spins | Varied | Bonus Features |
Bonus Rounds | Sticky Respins, Free Spins, Symbol Upgrade, Symbol Expansion, Reel Expansion |
Slot Themes | Historical |
Grand Melee Bonus Features
Sticky Symbol Respins: On any spin the Sticky Respin can trigger. A symbol is randomly selected above the reels; if 5 of those symbols land, you'll get a respin with the chosen symbols held in place. If, on the respin, more of the same symbols land, you'll continue to spin until no more show up. If, in the end, they have created a connecting pay win, then you'll get a payout. During the respins, special symbols can appear, triggering special features.
- Symbol Upgrades - transforms all instances of the Sticky Symbol into a more valuable symbol
- Symbol Expansion - can expand vertically the sticky symbol to cover an entire reel
- Game Area Expansion - can transform the current symbol and add a new row to the bottom of the reels with randomly selected symbols. This can occur three times up to a max 7 rows.
Free Spins: Find 5 or more Bonus symbols across the six reels, and you'll get the corresponding amount of free spins. During the free spins, the Sticky Respins feature is active on every spin.
Pros
- High 96.17% RTP
- Decent 5,000x bet max win
- Sticky Symbol Respins feature
- Free Spins bonus
- Low 0.10 minimum bet
Cons
- Free Spins are hard to trigger