Grand Monarch Combines an Unusual Theme with Great Standalone Prizes
No doubt when Canadian players first encounter Grand Monarch, they will be expecting an online slot based around famous kings and queens from history. However, IGT sprung a surprise on players by basing this original gaming creation not on royal families, but on the Grand Monarch butterfly. Naturally, this revelation will not surprise fans of the company, who are known from drawing on all manner of subjects for use as themes in their online slot games.
Admittedly, there is unlikely to be a huge number of players that are fans of both nature and online slots, but fortunately the game itself is robust and solid regardless of the theme. The reels are set against a background of a meadow, and the reels feature the commonly seen playing card symbols together with Sunflowers and other relevant graphics.
It would not be unfair to say that Grand Monarch treats the theme as secondary, with the gameplay coming first. 
Indeed, it is one of the most satisfying online slots available to players in Canada, thanks to the simple but lucrative gaming model used. Of all of the basic features, the most obvious is the capability to select up to fifty win lines. While other games in the IGT online casino range offer similar numbers of win lines, it is unusual for fifty lines to be found on one of the simpler slots. This means that Grand Monarch is an excellent introduction to large numbers of win lines for players more familiar with ten or twenty lines.
The Grand Monarch symbol itself is the wild card and appears in stacked form across all reels. The second, third and fourth reels also feature the Caterpillar scatter, with all three at once awarding the Super-Rich round. This continues the simplistic theme, with a number of free spins on offer. Players begin with five, but can quickly add more to their cumulative total by spinning in further Caterpillars during the round, up to a maximum of an impressive 255 free spins.
