The prize depends on how many of the scatters that trigger free spins are special. In Gates of Olympus at a $1 bet, one is worth $100 and two are worth $500. Everything else, from multipliers to the number of free spins, follows each game's usual rules.
How the symbol works
Each game needs a set number of scatters for the bonus: four in Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza and Starlight Princess, three in Sugar Rush and Mahjong Wins. The special scatter counts as one of them. If at least one of the scatters that trigger the bonus is special, an instant prize is added on top.
Say three regular scatters and one Super Scatter land in Gates of Olympus. The bonus triggers, the game pays 100x the bet straight away, and 15 free spins begin.
In every game except Mahjong Wins the symbol can land on any reel. In Mahjong Wins it only lands on reels 2, 3 and 4, and wilds don't substitute for scatters there.
The Sweet Bonanza rules have one unclear point: they describe the special scatter scale for combinations of three or more scatters, even though the bonus needs four.
What it pays in each game
The Super Scatter versions of Gates of Olympus, Sugar Rush, Sweet Bonanza and Starlight Princess base the prize on your bet per spin, not counting the extra cost of the ante. The scale is 100x for one symbol, 500x for two, 5,000x for three and 50,000x for four. The prize for four equals the max win of these games.
Mahjong Wins uses a wider ladder, also based on your bet per spin: 50x, 500x, 5,000x and 100,000x for one to four special scatters.
Here are the same prizes at a $1 bet:
| Special scatters when the bonus triggers | Gates of Olympus, Sugar Rush, Sweet Bonanza, Starlight Princess | Mahjong Wins |
|---|---|---|
| 1 symbol | 100x = $100 | 50x = $50 |
| 2 symbols | 500x = $500 | 500x = $500 |
| 3 symbols | 5,000x = $5,000 | 5,000x = $5,000 |
| 4 symbols | 50,000x = $50,000 | 100,000x = $100,000 |
Does it land during free spins?
Not in Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza, Starlight Princess or Mahjong Wins: the symbol doesn't appear during the bonus. Regular scatters still add spins.
Sugar Rush is the only game where it stays active in the bonus. If three or more scatters land during free spins (the special one counts), you get 10 to 30 extra spins: three scatters add 10, seven add 30. The rules tie the prize to any combination of three or more scatters that includes a special one, so they allow a prize on a retrigger, but we didn't see one. In the demo the symbol did land in the middle of a Super Free Spins round we bought, but on its own, without two regular scatters.
Can it land in a bought bonus?
When you buy the bonus, the rules state how many scatters you start with: four to six in Gates of Olympus and Starlight Princess, four or more in Sweet Bonanza, three to five in Mahjong Wins. The Sugar Rush rules give no number, but our first buys there started with 10 free spins, which means three scatters.
The buy description never mentions the special scatter, so a bought bonus doesn't promise its prize. It can still turn up among the scatters that trigger the bought round. That happened to us once in Gates of Olympus: a regular buy started with one Super Scatter, and the game paid 100x the bet.
Can you raise your chances?
Only with the ante bet, and only the Gates of Olympus rules promise it outright. There, the ante costs 1.5x the bet, adds more scatters to the reels, special ones included, and switches off the bonus buy while it's on. In Starlight Princess and Sweet Bonanza the ante doubles the chance of the bonus, and in Sugar Rush it makes the bonus 10 times more likely at 5x the bet per spin. Their rules say nothing specific about the special scatter. RTP barely moves; each spin simply costs more.
Despite the similar name, Super Free Spins have nothing to do with this symbol. They are a 500x bonus buy with a boosted start: multipliers of at least 10x in Gates of Olympus and Starlight Princess, bombs from 20x in Sweet Bonanza, and 2x on every grid spot at once in Sugar Rush.
How it differs from a regular scatter
A regular scatter triggers the bonus and in some games pays out on its own: in Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza and Starlight Princess, 3x for four, 5x for five and 100x for six. The special scatter counts toward the same trigger but pays far more.
Six regular scatters in Gates of Olympus pay 100x. One Super Scatter in a four-scatter trigger pays the same, and two of them pay 500x.
Similar symbols in other Pragmatic Play games
Pragmatic has also used the symbol in two one-off games outside the core five: Gates of Gatot Kaca (December 2025) and Sweet Fiesta (October 2026). We don't review them.
The Dog House Megaways 1000 has a similar symbol that works differently: one special scatter alongside three regular ones unlocks Super Free Spins, and three special ones unlock an even stronger mode with guaranteed wilds.
In Gates of Olympus POP, POP symbols play a similar role: together with scatters, one, two or three of them pay 50x, 500x or 25,000x the bet. That game came out in late August 2026, and Sweet Bonanza POP followed in the same format on October 20. Our release timeline shows when each of the five games came out.