Somewhere behind a locked mansion door, three ghosts are guarding a vault of loose change — and they’re not shy about spending it. That’s the pitch behind Great Ghosts, Pragmatic Play’s April 2026 entry into the crowded haunted-slot genre. It’s not trying to reinvent the wheel with a new grid mechanic or a Megaways licence. Instead, it leans entirely on one thing: a respin feature stacked with enough money symbols and modifiers to reach a genuinely eye-catching 40,000x ceiling.
The Short Version
Five reels, 50 paylines, a base grid of 5×4 that can stretch to 5×8 once the bonus kicks in. RTP sits at 96.5%, volatility is rated high to very high, and Pragmatic’s own math puts the bonus round landing roughly once every 81 spins. Stakes run from around 20p up to £5 a spin, though this shifts depending on where you play. None of that tells you what it’s actually like to sit in front of it for twenty minutes — so let’s get into that.
Three Ghosts, Three Personalities
The whole game hinges on a trio of scatter symbols, each one a different colour, each one unlocking a different modifier when the bonus triggers. Land four scatters in a single spin and you’re guaranteed entry, but it’s what colour they are — and how many of each — that actually shapes the round:
- Blue scatter → Upgrade: drops 2×2, 2×3, or 4×4 frames onto the grid. Any money symbol that lands inside one of those frames has its value boosted — effectively turning ordinary positions into premium ones.
- Pink scatter → Mystery: seeds the reels with pink money symbols carrying a random value of up to 5,750x your total stake. This is the modifier most directly responsible for the game’s headline win potential.
- Green scatter → Extra: simply floods the grid with more money symbols in more positions, raising the odds that something valuable lands before your respins run dry.
Collect 8, 12, 16, or 20 scatters and the mansion cracks open further still — up to four extra rows appear at the top of the grid, giving every remaining respin more real estate for money symbols to land on.
How the Respins Actually Pay Out
Here’s the mechanic that ties it together: every money symbol that lands during the feature sticks in place and holds a value of its own, anywhere up to 1,250x your bet. Landing a fresh money symbol resets your respin counter, so a hot run can stretch the feature out far longer than the standard allowance. Once you finally run out of respins, every symbol still sitting on the grid gets added up and paid out in one lump sum. There’s no wheel spin, no pick-a-box moment — just a slow accumulation that either fizzles out modestly or snowballs into something worth bragging about.
Should You Actually Play It?
Play it if: you like games where a single well-built feature does all the heavy lifting, you don’t mind a bonus round that takes a minute or two to fully resolve, and a 40,000x ceiling is enough to hold your attention without needing tumbling cascades or multiplier wilds layered on top.
Skip it if: you’d rather have consistent, frequent base-game wins over a single big feature moment, or you’re specifically chasing the cascading-reel adrenaline of something like Sweet Bonanza — Great Ghosts is built around a fundamentally different rhythm, closer in spirit to a “collect and cash out” style bonus than a rapid-fire tumble mechanic.
Pragmatic Play has also bundled in the now-standard Ante Bet and Bonus Buy options, so if you’d rather skip the wait and pay directly for entry into the feature, that door is open too.
Take It for a Spin
Great Ghosts is live in Meridianbet’s slots collection, funded the same way as everything else on the platform — M-Pesa, Mixx by Yas, Airtel Money, Halopesa, or Selcom Pesa, all processed in minutes. If ghost stories with a payout attached are your kind of evening, this is a fair place to start.
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