Magellan
Magellan is Amusnet’s 2017 high-seas adventure: a 5×4 grid, 50 paylines, 96.14% RTP and a genuinely well-documented bonus round. Three globe scatters — which land only on the middle three reels — award 7 free spins, and three more inside the round award another seven. Amusnet states that itself, which is rarer than it should be.
The ship is the wild and the top symbol, paying the official 1,000× per line for five. Across fifty lines that is about 20× your total bet, so the ceiling is modest. This is a low-volatility game about the bonus round, not the jackpot chase.
- Free Demo
- At a Glance
- How It Plays
- Paytable
- Features
- Compare
- RTP
- Bets & Bankroll
- Tips
- Where to Play
- FAQ
- Verdict
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The demo above runs the same 96.14% math as real play. Watch the middle three reels — the globe scatter cannot land anywhere else, so the whole bonus round hinges on reels two, three and four. A few spins will show you how often that happens far better than any number we could quote. This demo is part of our EGT demo games library.
Magellan at a Glance
How Magellan Plays
Magellan is Amusnet’s take on the age of exploration, and the studio’s own description is unusually informative: “Begin an exciting high-seas adventure for big wins! This quest offers all sorts of prizes and themed symbols such as maps, compasses, and ships. Spin the globe and win 7 retriggerable Free Spins that will bring you wonderful wins from all around the globe.”
It plays on a 5-reel, 4-row grid with 50 paylines, released on 24 January 2017 under game ID 502. The official RTP is 96.14% and the official volatility rating is 2 out of 5.
The ship is the wild, and it is also the top symbol on the paytable — five of them on a line pays the 1,000× line bet that Amusnet publishes as the game’s max win. That is a useful cross-check: an independent source reports the ship paying 1,000, 250 and 50 for five, four and three, and the first of those reconciles exactly with the studio’s own figure. Below it, the human characters pay best, then the compass and map, then the royals.
The globe is the scatter, and its restriction is the defining mechanic: it lands only on reels two, three and four. Three of them anywhere across those middle reels opens the free-spins round. Because the outer reels can never contribute, the trigger is narrower than a normal three-scatter game — there are only twelve positions in the whole grid where a globe can appear.
The Story Behind Magellan
Magellan is not a one-off design. It runs on what is best described as Amusnet’s standard 50-line chassis, and once you see it you cannot unsee it.
Three games in this catalogue share the identical published skeleton: a 5×4 grid, 50 paylines, a 2-out-of-5 volatility rating and a max win of 1,000× the bet per line. They are 50 Horses (February 2016), Magellan (January 2017) and 50 Amazons’ Battle (December 2019). Their RTPs sit inside a three-hundredths-of-a-point band: 96.11%, 96.14% and 96.12%. All three figures come from Amusnet’s own pages.
That is a platform being re-themed, not three separate machines. Horses, explorers, warriors — same maths, different art, spread across four years.
Where they genuinely differ is the bonus, and the studio tells you so in a single line. Amusnet writes a “Special Features” string for every game, and it is precise: 50 Horses gets “Free Spins with Stacked Wild Symbol”, 50 Amazons’ Battle gets “Free Spins with Stacked Wild and Scatter Symbol”, and Magellan gets “Free Spins” — nothing more. That distinction turns out to matter, and we come back to it below.
Symbols and Paytable
Amusnet publishes no symbol table for Magellan. Two independent sources describe one, and they agree on the order even where their units differ.
| The ship — wild and top symbol | It substitutes for the paying symbols and heads the paytable itself. An independent source reports it paying 1,000, 250 and 50 for five, four and three of a kind, and that 1,000 matches Amusnet’s published “1000 x bet per line” exactly. That reconciliation is the strongest single piece of evidence on this page. |
|---|---|
| The globe — scatter, middle reels only | Pays 100 for three of a kind and opens the free-spins round. It cannot land on reels one or five, which is confirmed by two independent sources and implied by the studio’s own “spin the globe” phrasing. |
| The explorers, then the instruments | The human characters are the best-paying regular symbols, reported at 500, 100 and 25 for five, four and three. The compass and the map sit in the middle tier. |
| The royals | A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 fill out the bottom of the table, as they do across most of this studio’s themed games. One source counts ten symbols in total. |
Two cautions. The pay figures above are quoted in coins on an unstated denomination, so use the order rather than the absolute numbers. And read the 1,000× as a line figure: across fifty lines your total stake is fifty times the line bet, so the top line win is worth roughly 20× your total bet.
Bonus Features
7 retriggerable free spins — and Amusnet says so itself
Three globe scatters award seven free spins, and landing three more inside the round awards another seven. What makes this unusual is the sourcing: the studio’s own description says “7 retriggerable Free Spins” in those words, and three independent sources describe the same 3-scatter, 7-spin, plus-7-retrigger structure. Four sources including the official page. For an Amusnet bonus round, that is about as well-established as it gets.
The scatter is locked to the middle three reels
The globe can only land on reels two, three and four — twelve positions in a twenty-position grid. Two independent sources state the restriction explicitly. It means the outer reels are irrelevant to your bonus chances, and it is the single most useful thing to know while you are playing: watch the middle, ignore the edges.
Is the wild stacked? Three sources, three answers
The ship is definitely the wild and definitely the top symbol. Its behaviour is genuinely disputed: one source says it “appears stacked”, SlotCatalog tags the game with “Sticky Wilds”, and chipy explicitly lists both stacked and sticky wilds among the game’s unavailable features. We are not going to pick a winner by preference — but see the next card, because the studio effectively answers it.
The tiebreaker: what Amusnet did not write
Amusnet’s “Special Features” string discriminates between games on this exact chassis. 50 Horses gets “Free Spins with Stacked Wild Symbol”. 50 Amazons’ Battle gets “Free Spins with Stacked Wild and Scatter Symbol”. Magellan gets “Free Spins”, with no wild mentioned at all. The studio flags a stacked wild when there is one, and it did not here. Combined with chipy listing stacked and sticky as unavailable, the weight of evidence is against a stacked or sticky wild — so expect an ordinary substituting wild.
96.14% — upper-middle, and tied with Circus Brilliant
Verified on Amusnet’s official page, matched exactly by SlotCatalog and chipy. It sits above every classic fruit machine in this catalogue and below the Bell Link cluster at 96.50%, and it ties to the decimal with Circus Brilliant — although that game carries a 3/5 volatility rating against this one’s 2/5.
Jackpot Cards — at participating casinos
One source names the four-level suit progressive outright for this title and SlotCatalog tags the game as having a progressive jackpot. Amusnet’s own page does not mention it, so treat it as the range-wide feature enabled per operator rather than a documented part of the game. Look for the four counters above the reels.
Jackpot Cards — described by the databases, not by the studio
The four-level Jackpot Cards progressive is named explicitly for Magellan by one independent review and tagged as a progressive jackpot by SlotCatalog. Its form is the one Amusnet uses across the range: it fires at random at the end of any paid spin, with no winning line required and nothing on the reels that brings it closer. Twelve face-down cards appear and you keep turning until three of a suit match; the suit you complete decides the level, Clubs at the bottom and Spades at the top.
The caveat is the same one we apply to every Amusnet game where the studio stays quiet. Amusnet’s official page for Magellan does not mention Jackpot Cards. On Dice & Roll, Extra Stars, Flaming Hot and Caramel Hot it names the progressive itself; here it does not. So the honest description is the network-wide feature offered at participating casinos, which means it may or may not be running on the machine in front of you.
It also sits outside the published 96.14%, which describes the reels only. Check the counters are above the reels before you assume it is live.
The Gamble Feature, Properly Explained
Amusnet lists Gamble among the game’s features without describing it, as it usually does. The form across the studio’s range is the red-or-black card guess: after a win you can risk it on the colour of a face-down card, doubling if you call correctly and losing it all if you do not.
One source adds that wins above 1,750 coins cannot be gambled. We would treat that cautiously for two reasons: no denomination is stated, so the figure does not convert into anything useful, and the same source gives the identical 1,750 ceiling for 50 Amazons’ Battle — which suggests it is a chassis-wide or house default rather than something specific to Magellan.
The maths of a colour call is neutral before the house edge and slightly negative after it. It does not raise your expected return; it widens the range of outcomes. On a 2-out-of-5 volatility game, that works against the reason most people chose it.
- A properly documented bonus round — the studio itself states 7 retriggerable free spins, and three independent sources agree on the structure
- 96.14% is verified officially and matched exactly by two databases, and sits above every classic fruit machine here
- The ship’s reported 1,000 for five reconciles exactly with Amusnet’s published max win, which is a rare clean cross-check
- Low-Medium volatility with a busy 50-line base game — it suits a longer session on a small stake
- The 1,000× per line is only about 20× your total bet across fifty lines — a low ceiling
- The globe scatter is locked to the middle three reels, which narrows the bonus trigger considerably
- Three sources give three different answers about whether the wild is stacked, sticky or neither
- Amusnet does not name Jackpot Cards for this title, so the progressive depends entirely on the casino
How Magellan Compares
The first three rows are the comparison that matters: the same chassis, re-themed across four years.
| Game | Released | RTP | Lines | Volatility (official) | Studio’s Special Features string |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magellan | Jan 2017 | 96.14% | 50 | 2 / 5 | “Free Spins” |
| 50 Horses | Feb 2016 | 96.11% | 50 | 2 / 5 | “Free Spins with Stacked Wild Symbol” |
| 50 Amazons’ Battle | Dec 2019 | 96.12% | 50 | 2 / 5 | “Free Spins with Stacked Wild and Scatter Symbol” |
| Circus Brilliant | — | 96.14% | 20 | 3 / 5 | “Free Spins with Multiplier” |
Three games, one skeleton: 5×4, fifty lines, 2/5 volatility, 1,000× per line, and RTPs spanning three hundredths of a point. Amusnet built a 50-line platform and dressed it as horses, then explorers, then warriors.
The last column is where they actually differ, and it is worth reading carefully. The studio writes that string precisely, and Magellan’s is the shortest of the three — no wild qualifier at all. That is the best available evidence on the question the databases cannot agree about. The fourth row is a different machine entirely, included because it ties Magellan to the decimal on RTP while carrying a higher official volatility.
RTP, Volatility and Win Potential
The RTP of Magellan is 96.14%. It is published on Amusnet’s official game page alongside the full spec sheet, and both SlotCatalog and chipy carry the same figure independently. Three sources, one number, no disagreement.
Against the roughly 96% online average it is marginally ahead. Against this catalogue it is upper-middle: comfortably above every classic fruit machine — Lucky Hot at 95.32%, Flaming Hot at 95.53%, Extra Stars at 95.78%, 40 Burning Hot at 95.93% — and below the Bell Link titles that cluster at 96.50%. It ties to the decimal with Circus Brilliant, though that game is rated 3/5 for volatility against Magellan’s 2/5, so the two feel quite different in play.
The chassis comparison is the interesting one. 50 Horses returns 96.11% and 50 Amazons’ Battle returns 96.12%, on identical published specifications. Magellan is the highest of the three by two or three hundredths of a point — a difference you will never feel in a session, but a neat illustration that Amusnet tunes these builds only very slightly.
On volatility there is one disagreement worth flagging. Amusnet rates the game 2 out of 5, and chipy independently calls it “low-medium”. SlotCatalog says “Med”. We are going with the studio and chipy, but you should know the third opinion exists rather than have us quietly drop it.
As for the ceiling: the published max win is 1,000× the bet per line, carried by the ship. Across fifty lines your total stake is fifty times the line bet, so that is roughly 20× your total bet. It is a low ceiling, and it is exactly the same arithmetic that makes 50 Amazons’ Battle a low-ceiling game too. If you see this figure quoted as 1,000× your total bet anywhere, the basis has been misread.
Bets, Bankroll and Session Planning
Amusnet publishes no bet range for Magellan, and the database figures are not trustworthy here. SlotCatalog lists 0.01 to 1000, which is the generic default it applies across most of its catalogue rather than a researched figure. chipy lists 0.1 to 100, and chipy is demonstrably unreliable on this game’s numbers elsewhere. We are not going to state a range as fact.
What is worth internalising is the structure. With 50 paylines, your total stake is fifty times the line bet, and every payout figure published for this game is quoted per line. A 1,000× line win on a 0.02 line bet returns 20.00 against a 1.00 spin cost. Do that conversion before you judge any headline number attached to this game.
Playing Magellan on Mobile
Amusnet lists the game as available for desktop and mobile, and SlotCatalog records it as JS/HTML5, so it runs in a phone browser without a download.
The practical note for a small screen is the scatter restriction. Because the globe only appears on reels two, three and four, the thing you are actually tracking sits in the centre of the grid — which is the easiest part to read on a phone. That is a genuine, if accidental, advantage over games that need you to scan all five reels at once.
Five Things to Know Before You Spin
- Watch the middle three reels and nothing else. The globe scatter cannot land on reels one or five, so the outer columns contribute nothing to your bonus chances.
- Read the 1,000× as a per-line figure. Across fifty lines it is roughly 20× your total bet. Anyone quoting 1,000× your total stake for this game has misread Amusnet’s basis.
- Do not expect a stacked wild. One database says stacked, another says sticky, a third says neither — but Amusnet names a stacked wild on both sibling games and pointedly does not here.
- Check the jackpot counters before you play. Amusnet does not name Jackpot Cards for this title, so whether the progressive is running is a per-casino question.
- If the theme is what you want, compare 50 Horses first. Same grid, same lines, same volatility rating, same max win, 0.03 points less RTP — and the studio does credit that one with a stacked wild.
Where to Play Magellan for Real Money
Magellan appears across the Amusnet network, and the casinos below carry the studio’s catalogue. Whether the Jackpot Cards progressive is running is a per-casino question — check for the four counters above the reels. Play the free demo first; it uses the same 96.14% math.
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Who Magellan Is For
Play it if you want a themed Amusnet game with a bonus round you can actually rely on the description of. The seven free spins and the retrigger are stated by the studio and corroborated three times over, which is unusual in this catalogue, and the low volatility rating means a small stake goes a reasonable distance.
Skip it if you want a big ceiling or a fast bonus. Roughly 20× your total bet is modest, and locking the scatter to twelve of the twenty grid positions makes the free-spins round meaningfully harder to reach than a standard three-scatter trigger.
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Our Verdict
A well-documented bonus round on a very familiar frame
Magellan is one of the better-evidenced games in this catalogue, which is not the same as being one of the most exciting. Amusnet states the free-spins structure itself — seven spins, retriggerable — and three independent sources agree on it. The ship’s reported top payout reconciles exactly with the official max win. The RTP is confirmed three times over. After a run of games where the published record was a mess, that is a pleasant change.
What it is not is original. This is Amusnet’s standard 50-line chassis, the same one underneath 50 Horses and 50 Amazons’ Battle: identical grid, identical line count, identical volatility rating, identical max-win basis, and RTPs three hundredths of a point apart. Magellan is the explorer-themed one.
We rate it 7.9. It earns that on documentation and on a base game that stays busy at low volatility. It loses ground on a modest ceiling — roughly 20× your total bet — and on a bonus trigger narrowed by the globe’s restriction to the middle three reels.
The one thing to take away while playing: watch reels two, three and four. The globe cannot appear anywhere else, so that is the only part of the screen that decides whether you get the round this game is built around.
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