Monopoly Money

Monopoly Money: Slot Overview

'Imagine, right, if all this money was real?' - said just about everyone who has ever played Monopoly, including, it seems, software provider Big Time Gaming. The studio has released Monopoly Money, a Megaways slot that swaps property auctions for prize collecting in a hold 'n' win round, with free spins on the side. Fans of innovation might want to beware, though. There are a lot of Monopoly slots and live casino games on the market, many of them released by Evolution studios, meaning the theme itself is not the most original. Neither are Monopoly Money's features, which largely come from BTG's 2026 release Monster Quest, though new additions have been made around the edges.

Big Time Gaming has injected an impressive level of swank into Monopoly Money both visually and aurally. For the eyes, a backdrop of stylised skyscrapers reaches towards sparkling skies, an apt metaphor for progress, capitalism, getting rich, and all that. On the sound side, a swinging soundtrack cranks into life when the reels are rolling, combining with the graphics to nicely reproduce the spirit of an old-timey Monopoly game, taking on the business world amidst 1930s Art Deco vibes, that sparkle even brighter when free spins are strutting, or the Hold and Spin is rolling along.

Each of the 6 reels can land up to 7 symbols, producing up to 117,649 ways to win, though Monopoly Money does not use a reaction mechanic. It has a very highly volatile math model with a max RTP of 96.51%. Players may stake $/€0.10 to $/€20 per spin, while Power Play and feature buys are optional extras.

Four golden tokens from the game are the higher-paying symbols - the doggy, car, boat, and top hat, while 9-A card ranks are the low pays. A 6 OAK royal win pays 0.4x to 0.6x, rising to 1x to 20x when landing 6 matching premium symbols. Wilds land on all reels except the leftmost reel, where they substitute for all paying symbols.

Monopoly Money: Slot Features

Monopoly Money's main features are a Hold and Spin round and free spins. It also has Power Play and feature buys.

Hold and Spin

Title Deed Cards, Community Chest Cards, and Chance Cards are bonus symbols. Landing 6 or more Cards triggers the Hold and Spin feature. During the round, each symbol position is a reel that can land Cards. Mr Monopoly starts with a random value of 5x-14x the bet, and stays on screen throughout the round, collecting and gaining the value of Title Deeds with a lower or equal value. Title Deed cards can have a value of 1x to 2,500x the bet.

Mr Monopoly starts with 3 Money Bags. A bag is lost each time the reels spin without a new Card landing or being collected. Each collected Card restores the bag count back to 3. The round ends when all bags are lost, Title Deeds fill all spaces, or the Monopoly Bonus is awarded. Mr Monopoly's value is awarded.

The Community Chest card awards a prize of 25x-2,500x at the end of the Hold and Spin. Chance cards are stored until the Hold and Spin ends. It awards a prize of 15x-25x to Mr Monopoly, meaning he may be able to collect more Title Deeds to resume the round, or it awards a restart, which clears the screen and restarts the round. Mr Monopoly keeps its value.

Monopoly Bonus

The Monopoly Bonus is awarded when Mr Monopoly collects Title Deeds of all colours in the Hold and Spin. The Monopoly Bonus Prize awards 1,000x to 2,500x the bet.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatters awards 12 free spins, plus 2 free spins for each extra scatter. Mr Monopoly starts with a value of up to 15x. He collects the value of any Title Deed of lower or equal value. A Megaways Win Multiplier for regular symbol wins starts at x1 and increases by 1 for each collected Title Deed. If 5 or more Cards occur at once, they trigger the Hold and Spin. Mr Monopoly's value is awarded at the end of free spins. During the round, landing 3 scatters awards +4 free spins, plus 2 free spins for each extra scatter.

Power Play & Feature Buys

Activating the Power Play costs 8x to guarantee at least 10,000 Megaways. Max Megaways, Hold and Spins, and free spins occur more often in Power Play. The two buy options are the Hold and Spin for 60x or free spins for 90x the stake.

Monopoly Money: Slot Verdict

These Evolution studios do seem to love Monopoly. That or their paymasters are demanding they make the most out of the Hasbro license, but that's speculation for another day. For a while there, the ball was being tossed between Red Tiger, BTG, and NetEnt with releases like Monopoly Rent Rush, Monopoly Cash is King, Monopoly Rush Hour, Monopoly Money Line, and Monopoly Money Magnate vying for player attention in a short space of time. Interest had cooled for a while, but Big Time Gaming is back on the property development wagon with Monopoly Money, which certainly looks the part, yet remains questionable in the gaming department.

This is because Monopoly Money has been made off of Monster Quest, a slot which was not a stunner when it crawled out of its cave several months before this one. All of the cons that made the monster game so frustrating (at times) reappear in Monopoly Money. Here, the gameplay does tie to the theme quite well, as Mr Monopoly attempts to scoop up Title Deeds and whatnot, but brace for teasing if you choose to play Monopoly Money. This is mostly due to the way massive Title Deed values can stack on the reels during the Hold and Spin, yet simply cannot be collected by lower-value Mr Monopoly, who can only get deeds of equal or lesser value. This does mean that if he can get rolling, inch his way to higher collection totals, a snowball effect can occur and the game is very volatile. But, for a lot of the time, if not most, be prepared to stare longingly at massive prizes, while Mr Monopoly collects the tiddlers.

Monopoly Money does inject some welcome interesting theme-based extras, though, in the form of Community Chest and Chance cards, which bring positive benefits, as does the Monopoly Bonus, so there are potentially more ways to keep things going. Interestingly, winning potential is more down-to-earth than in Monster Quest, where 29,700x is the ultimate outcome. Monopoly Money pulls off the Monopoly attitude to a tee, while integrating elements of the board game well, and there is more going on here than in Monster Quest, though many of the same frustrations remain.