How To Play Piranha Pays Mobile Slot
That cute little goldfish has sharp fangs in this Play’n GO Piranha Pays slot. One bite could win you 5,000x your bet, thanks to a generous RTP of 96.2% and a brilliant free spins feature with mega wilds and expanding reels.
Piranha Pays starts as a 5×4 reel, 30 payline slot machine, but it doesn’t stay that way long. Once you’ve triggered the free spins using three bonus symbols, the reels change to a 5×5 reel slot with 35 paylines and one walking wild.
For every 3 scatters caught in the bonus, you’ll go up a level, add +5 spins, and potentially get to 5×7 reel slot with 50 paylines and a 4×4 walking wild. It sounds like a wild ride, but it is fairly calm and soothing.
Mostly, it’s because of the slot theme. Set in the background of the cosy little apartment where a hapless old man has mistakenly bought what he assumes is a cute little fish, you get to spin reels filled with fun symbols spinning in a tank to the sound of old-time piano chords.
The high-paying symbols are a ham leg, a meat pie, an egg on toast, cake, and biscuits, followed by Ace to J. Thankfully, they didn’t add the other fish in the tank, possibly because there are none left by the time we get playing.
This Piranha Pays slot has a healthy appetite
This is a high-variance slot machine, so you must be patient to hit the bonus. Thankfully, for a 30 payline slot, the minimum bet is 0.10 up to a maximum of 50, allowing you a healthy play choice when deciding how much to bet and when to increase.
What helps along the way is that the piranha on reel 1 is always wild, and you get random multipliers of x2 up to 10x on any spin—win or lose. It builds anticipation. And then, when you think you’ve almost won the free spin bonus… you might get a random cash win, usually 10 times your bet.
Make no mistake, the base game can sometimes feel a little slow, especially if you are used to the more action-heavy slot games like Rusty & Curly or Moon Princess Power of Love. But we are happy to report that once we played for over an hour, we rarely got the chance to miss the free spins bonus, often arriving in 20 to 50 spins.
How to get the max win of 5,000x your bet
This Piranha Pays online slot is all about building up anticipation, from the base game to the free spins.
Once you catch the three bonus symbols, you’ll play on bigger reels with 35 paylines and a roaming wild on each spin—it’s as fun here as it is in the Fat Santa slot.
Every 3 scatters collected gives you an extra row of symbols, more win lines, and a bigger wild. It just gets bigger and bigger, from 2×2 to 4×4, roaming the reels like a big fat red carnivorous destroyer of treasure.
You don’t get to the last level often. Genuinely, we only got to level 3 a couple of times at that, but never mind level 4. But we did find that we consistently got to level 2 on most bonus rounds, and on most rounds, we won somewhere near 50x our bet. Not always as much, and sometimes more, but this Piranha Pays slot is generally happy to pay once you hit the free spins.
Watch the video to see all th features in action.
Should I play the Piranha Pays slot?
Considering the high volatility, we found this cosy little Piranha Pays game to be simple, effective and well-crafted. Yes the paytable is a little weak, but the random multipliers can hit at any time, in the base game or the free spins, giving us hope on all spins, not just the bonus.
Of course, the Piranha Pays free spins are the crowning glory, as is often the case with these higher-variance machines. Just look at Banquet of Dead or Big Bass Day at the Races.
This should surprise no one who has played slot machines and online casinos for a while. What will surprise you is how well the theme and feature match to create a fun atmosphere where you know exactly how to anticipate your next win.
It is a fun and interesting little game that we hope lasts in players’ memories beyond its release month.
Piranha Pays Slot Stats
| Mobile Slot Released | March 2024 |
| Slot Type | Video Slot |
| Software Provider | Play'n GO |
| Slot Reels / Paylines | 5 Reels / 30 Paylines |
| House Edge / RTP | 3.8% / 96.2% |
| Slot Volatility | Medium/High |
| Min/Max Bet | 0.10 / 50 |
| Max Win | 5,000x your bet |
| Free Spins | 10 Free Spins | Growing Wilds + More Paylines |
| Bonus Rounds | Multipliers, Wild, Instant Win, Scatter, Free Spins |
| Slot Themes | Animals |
Piranha Pays Bonus Features
Random Win Multipliers: Triggered randomly, this can help create bigger wins by giving you a multiplier on all line wins of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x.
Wild: The Piranha is the wild symbol and shows up exclusively on reel 1.
Mystery Instant Win: After a near-free spin trigger, there's a chance you'll win a mystery instant cash prize.
Scatters and Free Spins: The Piranha and two fish food cans trigger 10 free spins. The piranha symbol is a roaming wild that moves from spin to spin. As you play, you collect fish cans. For every three you collect, you go up a level, increasing the size of the wild and the reels and adding +5 spins.
- Level 1: Piranha 1x1 - 5x5 reel slot with 35 win lines
- Level 2: Piranha 2x2 - 5x6 reel slot with 40 win lines
- Level 3: Piranha 3x3 - 5x7 reel slot with 45 win lines
- Level 4: Piranha 4x4 - 5x7 reel slot with 50 win lines
Pros
- Decent 5,000x stake maximum win
- High value paytable
- Free spins with trial offering bigger wandering wilds & more paylines
- Mystery instant wins add extra wins on occasion
- Fun fishy slot theme
Cons
- Hard to go up the free spins levels
- RTP can be as low as 84.2% at some slot sites
