Cludeo Mightyways

Cluedo Mighty Ways: Slot Overview

Software provider Light & Wonder (formerly SG Digital) bust out the magnifying glass for a bit of sleuthing around a mansion in an online slot called Cluedo Mighty Ways. Cluedo might not have hit the same stratospheric heights as its competitor Monopoly has in the gambling realm, but a few iterations of it are kicking around. Cluedo Mighty Ways looks set to be the most highly strung of them all, delivering masses of winning potential via a system called Mighty Ways and a bundle of extra features. If you want to try solving the case, let's sleuth up and take a look-see.

At first peep, Cluedo Mighty Ways has clear connections to Cluedo Cash Mystery, the previous Cluedo themed slot to come our way from SG Digital. Both have an elegant Art Deco style and spend the base game in the driveway of a dark mansion towering away in the background like the Addams Family crib. The vibe's pretty neat; a gumshoe-y soundtrack beats away while the moon does its best to peer through the thickly clouded night. Light & Wonder has made a handsome looking slot which captures the spirit of the board game, with a hint of menace lurking underneath.

The game grid begins each paid spin with 6 reels holding 4 symbols each, providing 4,096 ways to win. However, by stoking the Mighty Ways engine, reels can grow to 8 positions high, where there are 262,144 ways to win in play at the most. Mathematically, RTP comes in two forms, a 96% version and a 94.24% one, so that's something to be on the lookout for. Stakes vary from 20 p/c on the lower side up to $/€10, whilst allowing the crime-busting takes place on any device.

On inspecting the symbols used in Cluedo Mighty Ways, we come across 9-A bejewelled card royals, worth 0.5-0.9x the bet for six of a kind, before uncovering dusters, vases, pipes, jewellery boxes, and logos, paying 1.5-10 times the stake for a six of a kind win. A bit more Art Deco seeps in on the fabulous wild symbol, which lands on all but the first reel to substitute for all paying symbols.

Cluedo Mighty Ways: Slot Features

From here, Cluedo Mighty Ways starts to divert from the previous Cluedo Cash Mystery game, packing a different set of features. Let's deal with the Mighty Ways part of the deal first. If you're familiar with AvatarUX's PopWins mechanic, you'll have a good handle on what's coming up. When a winning way lands, the symbols are removed, and new ones take their place. In addition, the specific reels increase by one position – up to a maximum height of 8. If new wins are created by the new symbols, the process triggers again. When no more wins appear, the reels reset.

The Trail

Next to the reels in the base game is a trail with 9 segments. Each winning cascade moves the trail along by one step. When reaching segment 5, a random modifier is awarded. Also, making it to segment 7, 8, or 9 activates the Bonus, Super Bonus, or Mega Bonus, respectively. The trail resets at the start of each base game spin. When reaching segment five, one of these modifiers is randomly awarded:

• Secret Passage – gives direct access to any one of the three bonus rounds.
• Mystery Symbols – up to 8 symbols on the reels are randomly selected and transformed into the same symbol type.
• Multiplier – a multiplier of x2, x3, x5, or x10 is applied to any wins on the following cascades.
• Random Wilds – 2 to 5 wilds are added to reels 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
• Wild Reel – reel 2, 3, 4, or 5 is turned wild.
• Symbol Removal – 9s, 10, Js, and Qs are removed from the reels, and new symbols take their place. New symbols cannot be 9s, 10s, Js, or Qs.
• Board Reset – all symbols are removed from the reels, and a new spin takes place.

Free Games

The number of free spins awarded is 5, 6, or 7 free spins when the Bonus, Super Bonus, or Mega Bonus is triggered, respectively. Next, players click one suspect, one murder weapon, and one location card from the Card Picker part of the feature to reveal the following modifiers for use in free spins:

• Extra Spins – awards +1, +2, +3, +5, +8, or +10 free spins.
• Multipliers – awards an x2 multiplier for all wins.
• Cash Prizes – awards an instant cash prize of 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 25x, 50x, or 100x the bet.
• Remove Ten & Nine – 9 and 10 symbols do not appear on the reels.
• Expanding Wilds – any wild in view expands to cover the entire reel.
• Extra Ways – the starting number of ways is 14,000.
• Reset Wins – when a Time Watch symbol land on reel 6 when this is awarded, the free spin count is reset.

During the bonus round, between 1-3 Cluedo cards may appear on the reels. The cards flip to reveal a random suspect, location, or weapon. If these cards match the cards picked in the Card Picker, players win a cash prize of 5x, 50x, or 2,000x if 1, 2, or 3 cards match, respectively. If the cards do not match, +1 free spin per incorrect match is awarded.

Buy Pass

Opening up the bonus buy menu presents four choices – 33.5x the bet buys a Trail 5 Modifier, 76x gets Segment 7, 90x buys Segment 8, and 104x goes straight to Segment 9.

Cluedo Mighty Ways: Slot Verdict

Phew, yeah, there is a lot to cover features-wise, but Cluedo Mighty Ways is not a complicated game, but rather one padded out with a lot of cards, characters, icons, and modifiers. It is a bit like opening up a board game and having the fun of punching out all the bits you need to start playing. Fans of the game should naturally find this release every bit as compelling as the previous Cluedo slot, if not more. Actually, probably a lot more since there is so much in Cluedo Mighty Ways to discover.

The bonus buy is a quick way of experiencing all of the extra bits (if it's there) since you can buy instant access to level 5 (or higher) to see how they function. Most are pretty standard modifiers, though appreciated all the same when they trigger. Getting to the bonus round takes quite a lot of consecutive cascades, so there is a chance of building a solid win from the Mighty Ways feature before free spins even begin. Once there, most of the Card Picker picks are capable of making a positive contribution to free spins, though some might find the cash prizes a bit naff.

As to Mighty Ways, it is pretty mighty, but AvatarUX did beat Light & Wonder to the punch on this one. Not only has the rival studio got like a dozen of these sorts of games under its belt already, but their games tend to pop with more pizzazz. Cluedo Mighty Ways flows okay, but it feels more restrained, more mannered if that makes sense. While we're critiquing, it's worth pointing out that most of the features and the way they are awarded are very close to what was on offer in Stargate Megaways, losing it a few originality points. On a bright note, Cluedo Mighty Ways comes with an almighty max win figure of 50,000x the stake should the case be well and truly cracked.

To sum up, blend Cluedo Cash Mystery with PopWins, Stargate Megaways, and a pinch of Wild Heist At Peacock Manor, and you've got a close approximation of Cluedo Mighty Ways. It should be irresistible for players partial to a bit of Cluedo on the reels; alternatively, players who appreciate a hefty swag bag of features get plenty to work their way through.