Minotaur Live 5 Gaming slot review with free demo

Minotaur video slot from the provider Endorphina. Released in 2021.
The slot has five reels, ten paylines, RTP 96%, maximum win x4000 of the bet. I’ve never seen the max win in this game. Bet range from 0.10 cents/euro cents/10 rubles; if you change the denomination you can spin for even one ruble or one cent. The maximum depends on the casino and can vary. Some may offer a 5-10k bet, for example I’ve seen 500k bets on the CryptoBoss network. A decent option for high rollers, although Endorphina hasn’t been impressing much lately.
Unlike Slotomoji, the card “breakthrough” here is a bit different – instead of cards you just need to choose red or black. I prefer the card version, although it’s basically the same thing, the same 50/50: either you guess and win, or you don’t and lose. But for some reason I trust the cards more, I don’t know why. Maybe someone else prefers the opposite.
There are no scatters in the slot and for the bonus game you need to catch our coveted Minotaur on the second, third, or fourth reel. The best bonus is when he lands specifically on the fourth; only then can you win big, and it comes up quite rarely. You can win in other bonus rounds too, but more often he doesn’t have time to build up the x and it plays out quickly. I’ve had it land on the second and third giving x200-300, but that’s very rare; mostly the cap is x80 and only if you’re lucky with good symbols and a closed line. More often I saw him play from the first spin with some ladies or aces for x2.
This is one of my favorite Endorphina slots along with Slotomoji; I play it often. If I play this provider, I always start with three slots: Mongol, Minotaur, Slotomoji. If they hit, I continue with the provider. I literally go in for 15-20 spins; if the slot wants to, that’s enough and one of the needed trio appears. Of course I’d like him to always appear on the fourth, but that doesn’t happen. There were times I caught the Minotaur, won for example x300-x500, refreshed the game and he appeared again – maybe a coincidence, but it happened quite often. I’ve caught more than x1000 maybe 10-15 times, mostly the biggest hits were x500-x800. Of course, the slot doesn’t always reliably deliver wins, it can give x20 as well.

Minotaur – I still haven’t fully figured out how to spell it correctly :))). Not even close to the oldest game from everyone’s favorite provider Endorphina. I found out about it not all that long ago, maybe a few years back, perhaps a bit more. And even after I found out about it, I went in, tested it for 5-10 minutes, left, and after some time did the same thing again! I usually don’t read the rules of games that are new to me 📖, so even while playing I didn’t understand what it was all about! I just thought: “where’s that bonus!” I always do that with new games – hit the bonus and I’ll figure it out there! I love surprises. And often you launch a new game and something big and weird pops out – joy! But when you know what to expect, it’s less interesting. Then. That’s how it was with this Minotaur too. I saw that a new game had come out and people liked it, a lot of people were playing, so the game must be OK – people wouldn’t play crap, and it wouldn’t have gotten that popular! Well, when I hit Minotaur for the first time, I got it, thought woo, bonus, but it was just one spin, unless you don’t bet a line. Later I found out that you have to hit it on the fourth reel. I thought maybe there were other bonuses, but no!!! And it’s even hard to call that a bonus, it’s just a spin with a wild symbol. I was a bit disappointed. And when I also realized that on the fourth reel it can really be hard to catch sometimes, I was completely disappointed.
Line bets are relatively cheap too! Of course, sometimes it stays in the game for a while, but that means nothing! In short – without Minotaur you’re nowhere!!!
There were days when I sat there and chased this Minotaur like crazy, sometimes it pays out often, and sometimes it doesn’t pay at all! I figured out for myself that it’s only worth going in for a short time, trying a couple dozen times and leaving, if so, then so, if not, then not! If you get “hooked” right away, then it’s worth playing a bit longer!
Of the line hits, most likely about 50% of all the beasts I caught were 4 women. With multipliers from x4 to x18, I even had x30, of course. I’m talking about Minotaur on the fourth reel. I don’t count the second and third. Although there were line hits with x6 and a beast on the second reel! It still surprises sometimes. Well, my record on 10 rubles is roughly x1100. So that’s about 11,000 rubles. With those same women I put the fifth, I don’t remember what the multiplier was there. And it almost always puts those women, and once maybe out of 40 it put the fifth! I caught this thing, strangely enough, in pin-up casino 🎰.
You can recommend this game, but don’t get carried away, it can pay a lot, in short play with the brakes on only!!! And ideally – go in, a couple of minutes and that’s it! If you catch it on the fourth, you can play a little longer, you even should! Yes, if you go in and immediately catch it on the second or third, then with a high probability it will pay again, maybe right away on the fourth, even several times in a row! If you don’t even bet lines, then you need to run away from it immediately!!!
In the end, I recommend it, but carefully!