Midas Squares Demo & review

A $500 Mystery Bonus spin took the Golden Square in Midas Squares to x1,024 and paid $1,600. A $1,000 Midas Spin that starts at x128 returned $96.95. That gap is the game in two lines: Paperclip Gaming's 7x7 cluster slot lives on how many cascades chain through one doubling square. It suits bonus buyers and players who will wait through dead spins, and you can try it free on Paperclip's own game page.

How Midas Squares works

A win needs 5 or more matching symbols connected across or down. Winning symbols explode, the ones above fall, fresh symbols fill the gaps, and the spin carries on until no cluster remains. Those cascades matter more than the pay values, because each one is a chance to double the square.

How the features connect:

1. Every spin stamps a 2x2 Golden Square carrying a multiplier.
2. A winning cluster with at least one symbol inside the square is multiplied by its value, the whole cluster included.
3. Each cascade that pays through the square doubles the multiplier and adds a row or column.
4. King Midas's Touch can complete a cluster inside the square when the board stops with no win.
5. Three to six Bonus symbols start free spins, where the square stops resetting.

The square carries the game. King Midas's Touch keeps it fed, and the free spins let it keep what it has grown.

How the Golden Square works

One symbol inside the square is enough to multiply an entire cluster, while clusters that miss it pay their ordinary value. In the base game a fresh square lands every spin at x8, x16 or x32. By the paytable, a five-symbol blue diamond cluster touching a x16 square pays 4x the bet before any cascade has doubled anything.

The doubling has no upper limit. The multiplier runs x2, x4, x8, x16 and onward, and the square grows towards the side where most of the paying symbols sat outside it, or on a random side if they were all inside. It keeps growing until it covers the board.

King Midas's Touch comes in whenever the board rests with no winning cluster, on a spin that has not won yet or after a cascade. It turns 1 or 2 symbols inside the square into the symbol that completes a win, and it can repeat within a spin. It works in the base game and free spins, but not on the Midas Spin.

A base-game spin with a fresh 2x2 Golden Square at x16. FluxPlays demo test, 10 November 2026.

Free spins: how the four bonuses trigger

The number of Bonus symbols decides the round, and each gives 10 free spins. The square is stamped once and persists, keeping every row, column and doubling until the round ends. Every Bonus symbol that lands during free spins adds one more spin.

Square size is the difference that counts. A 3x3 or 4x4 square covers more of the board from the first spin, which gives clusters more chances to touch it.

The Golden Bonus from spin 44, with the square grown wider and five free spins left. FluxPlays demo test, 10 November 2026.

Bonus buy and ante modes: prices and what you get

Six options sit on the buy screen. The three antes raise the bet on every spin, Super Bonus buys one round, and Mystery Bonus and Midas Spin are single paid spins.

Mystery Bonus is the gamble on the menu: about half of its spins give no feature at all, and the rest split between the three bigger bonuses. Midas Spin skips free spins entirely and gives one spin with a 4x4 square from x128, and the screen puts its chance of the maximum win at 1 in 1.5k. The odds shown are for the Normal level.

The six buy options at a $1.00 bet, with the volatility selector above them. FluxPlays demo test, 10 November 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

The in-game rules give 96.70% for every mode and every volatility level, while Paperclip's game page lists 96.00%, so we follow the rules. Volatility here is your choice: five levels from Very Low to Extreme sit on the buy screen, Normal is the default and the only one we played. A win comes 1 in 5.1 spins on Normal, 1 in 2 on Very Low and 1 in 29 on Extreme. The maximum win is 25,000x the bet, and reaching it stops the round immediately.

The game's volatility table for base spins, with Normal marked as the default. FluxPlays demo test, 10 November 2026.

Our Midas Squares demo test

The base game paid almost entirely through one round. Most of our spins were empty and 13 of the 18 winners paid less than the stake, then the Golden Bonus on spin 44 supplied $192.35. Take that round away and the rest of the base game made $22.90.

The paid options swung both ways. Super Bonus came back at a little over half its price, while the same round type from Mystery Bonus built a full-board square. On Super Ante the third spin started a bonus that paid $327.35, and then the demo stopped with an error, so that mode ran 3 of its planned 10. Epic Ante started no bonus at all.

Epic Bonus, King Midas Bonus and the other four volatility levels were not part of this session, so what we say about them comes from the game's own rules. These are one-off rounds and a short base run, which show how the game moves and nothing about its long-run return.

The Super Bonus from the Mystery Bonus spin, with the square at x1,024 and three free spins left. FluxPlays demo test, 10 November 2026.

The final amount of the Mystery Bonus spin, 1,600.00. FluxPlays demo test, 10 November 2026.

Which route to the Golden Square we would take

Not the base game alone, but yes for what the square does once it persists. Free spins are where a multiplier with no ceiling can run, so the question is how to reach them. If we were buying, we would take Super Bonus: it is the cheapest guaranteed round with a 3x3 square, while Mystery Bonus gives no feature about half the time. Midas Spin costs more for one spin and leaves out King Midas's Touch.

Pick Sugar Rush if you want multiplier spots spread over a 7x7 board, each stopping at x128, under a 5,000x cap. Pick Midas Squares if you prefer one square with no multiplier limit and a much higher ceiling.

In the demo, try Ante first. It costs least of the six and brings the bonus round closer, so you can watch the square persist sooner.