Grid
6 reels Megaways + top reel
Paylines
Up to 117,649 ways
Most Megaways slots hand you wilds on the standard reels. Montezuma Megaways doesn't, and that single design choice changes how the whole base game feels. Light & Wonder rebuilt the classic WMS Montezuma on the BTG Megaways engine in 2021, kept the Aztec temple frame with its jungle vines and weathered totems, then stripped wilds out of the spinning grid entirely. The only way a wild appears is through the Montezuma Respin Wheel, a random trigger that fires after a non-winning base spin and hands you a second shot. Once you spot it, the rhythm of the game makes sense. Wild combos exist only as a respin reward.
The grid is standard Megaways territory: 6 reels, the 4-cell horizontal top reel sitting above reels 2-5, variable heights stretching to 117,649 ways at peak. RTP is 96.17%, volatility runs high, and the published cap sits at 25,000x your stake. Bet range is narrow at $0.20 to $20, which feels tight for a high-vol Megaways. High rollers will notice. Casual spinners won't.
Free Spins arrive on 3+ scatters, and a wheel decides how many you get. Three scatters spin out 12-30 spins, six can land you 50-100. Inside the bonus, the win multiplier starts at x1 and climbs by +1 after every winning cascade. No cap. Two or more scatters mid-bonus spin the Multipliers Wheel and bump the running multiplier higher, so the whole feature works like a runway you keep extending.
And then there's the Mega Win Multiplier, which is either the most thrilling twist here or the most frustrating, depending on your luck. If you land 2+ scatters on the very last spin of Free Spins, the wheel becomes a Mega Win Multiplier paying 2x to 100x. It multiplies your entire bonus total. That's the chase. The catch? You can't aim for it. The trigger lives on one specific spin, the final one, so winning the big finale is pure variance. Some players will love that pressure. Others will curse it.
The Bonus Bank is a quieter feature worth knowing about. Toggle Bank All Wins or Bank Small Wins during base play and those amounts feed a separate pot that reduces the 85x Buy Pass cost. Unused funds return to your balance on exit, so nothing is trapped. Smart system, easy to ignore, genuinely useful if you Buy Pass often.