The Monkey Prince Slot

Based on an old Chinese legend, The Monkey Prince is a 5 reel, 60 payline slot game from IGT. Collect special red, yellow and blue symbols to unleash a trio of wild modifier extras. Also on offer are up to 50 free spins complete with wild extras. Play on your desktop, tablet or mobile from between 60p and £1,800 per spin.



The design in The Monkey Prince has a strong Chinese flavour - the reels include lower value A to J symbols, each of which are embellished by a miniature jade statue. They’re joined by an assortment of jewellery, a golden lion and a golden dragon. The 2 creatures are the top standard symbols, paying 200 coins if you land 5 on a payline.

There’s also a wild that pays 50, 120 or 1,000 coins if you land 3, 4 or 5 in combination. Wilds are central to the first features we’ll look at. You’ll see special yellow, blue and red face masks spinning around the reels. Whenever 1 of these hits it is collected in a meter - collect 5 of a colour and you’ll trigger a feature. You can trigger more than 1 or all 3 at once – anyway, here are the details:

  • Scattered Wilds feature - fill the meter with Blue masks and 3 or 4 symbols are randomly turned wild on the current spin.
  • Random Wild Reels feature - fill the meter with Red masks and between 1 and 5 reels will turn totally wild for the current spin.
  • Surrounding Wilds feature - fill the meter with Yellow masks and 1 symbol and all the positions surrounding it will turn wild for the current spin.

You also have the Free Spins Bonus feature which is played when you land 3 or more of the red door scatter - the number of free spins on offer depends on how many scatters trigger the feature and which wild extra you opt to have in play:

  • 3 scatters: 25 free spins with 4 random added wilds, 10 free spins with 2 wild reels or 5 free spins 1 surrounding wild symbol.
  • 4 scatters: 30 free spins with 4 random added wilds, 15 free spins with 2 wild reels or 10 free spins 1 surrounding wild symbol.
  • 5 scatters: 50 free spins with 4 random added wilds, 25 free spins with 2 wild reels or 15 free spins 1 surrounding wild symbol.

As far as volatility goes, The Monkey Prince is in the middle, offering a balance of payouts – you can win up to 1,000 times your bet on each spin/free spin. I found the bigger wins came from the wild reels personally.

The Monkey Prince started life as a land-based casino slot game and this online version is a pretty good adaptation. The 3D visuals look nice and fresh and there’s a solid range of extras to get stuck into. The Free Spins Bonus feature offers the best winning opportunities courtesy of the wild extras.

This isn’t the first telling of this old Chinese folk tale but it’s a good enough version though and offers enough extras to make it a playable game whether or not you’re a fan of the Chinese theme. I also recommend you try Sun Wukong from Playtech and Legend of the Monkey King from Yggdrasil Gaming which draw inspiration from the same character.