Starlight Princess in South Africa: Pay Anywhere and 2x to 500x Multipliers
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Hollywoodbets
Licensed in 5 provinces
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Betway SA
From R0.60 a spin
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Luckyfish
Licensed in 3 provinces
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Lowest bet we saw: R0.20 a spin at World Sports Betting
Starlight Princess is a Pragmatic Play pay-anywhere slot. Eight or more matching symbols pay wherever they land on the six-by-five grid, wins tumble, and winged hearts carrying multipliers from 2x to 500x can land in any spin. In free spins, multipliers from winning spins add up to a total that lasts the whole round. Pragmatic rates it medium volatility, and a win is capped at 5,000 times the bet.
RTP (return to player): the share of bets the game pays back over time, as Pragmatic Play publishes it.
RTP as the studio publishes it.
On this page
In short
Starlight Princess is a slot by Pragmatic Play, released in 2021. Studio figures: RTP 96.50%; max win 5000x. Found at 23 casinos we cover, from R0.20 a spin at World Sports Betting. No. 51 in our South African top 100.
What Starlight Princess looks like
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Images: Pragmatic Play, official game page (pragmaticplay.com); Our screenshot of Pragmatic Play's official free demo (pragmaticplay.com), September 2026.
Where Starlight Princess comes from
Pragmatic Play launched Starlight Princess in September 2021 and called it its first anime-inspired videoslot. Editions followed as separate games: Starlight Christmas (2022), Starlight Princess 1000 (2023), Starlight Princess Pachi (2024) and Starlight Princess Super Scatter (2025). This page covers the 2021 original, whose hearts go up to 500x.
How Starlight Princess pays
Starlight Princess pays by count, not by line. Six reels of five symbols make 30 positions, and the number of matching symbols on the screen at the end of a spin decides the win, wherever they sit. Pays start at eight of a kind and rise in three steps: 8 or 9, 10 or 11, and 12 to 30.
A win triggers a tumble: the paying symbols vanish, the others slide down, and fresh symbols fill the gaps from the top. Tumbles go on until one brings no new win, and only then do the wins reach the balance.
Wins on different symbols add up, and the scatter, the princess's portrait, pays in any position on a scale of its own.
What each Starlight Princess symbol pays, in multiples of the bet
Pays as multiples of the total bet, by how many symbols land.
| Symbol | 12 to 30 | 10 or 11 | 8 or 9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun badge | 50x | 25x | 10x |
| Pink heart badge | 25x | 10x | 2.5x |
| Moon badge | 15x | 5x | 2x |
| Star badge | 12x | 2x | 1.5x |
| Red heart gem | 10x | 1.5x | 1x |
| Blue gem | 8x | 1.2x | 0.8x |
| Green gem | 5x | 1x | 0.5x |
| Teal gem | 4x | 0.9x | 0.4x |
| Yellow gem | 2x | 0.75x | 0.25x |
What the table adds up to
- Eight is the threshold. Seven of any symbol pay nothing. The smallest pay, eight or nine yellow gems, is 0.25x the total bet: 50 cents on a R2 spin.
- Twelve is the big step. Every symbol pays more from twelve. For the star badge, the red heart gem and the blue gem it is at least six times what ten or eleven pay, while the sun badge only doubles, from 25x to 50x.
- The scatter pays as well as triggers. Four, five or six scatters pay 3x, 5x or 100x the total bet: R6, R10 or R200 on a R2 spin. Four or more also start the free spins.
Multiplier hearts: added together, not multiplied
The multipliers are winged hearts in green, blue, pink or orange, separate from the paytable's pink heart badge. They land at random on any reel, in the base game and in free spins, with one of fifteen values: 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x or 500x.
When a tumble sequence ends, the hearts on the screen are added together and multiply its total win. A 5x and a 10x make 15x, not 50x, so a sequence that won R4 on a R2 spin pays R60. A heart in a sequence with no win has nothing to multiply.
Free spins: a total multiplier that lasts the round
Four or more scatters anywhere open the round with 15 free spins, on special reels. Three or more during it add 5 more.
Here a heart that lands in a winning spin adds its value to a total multiplier that stays until the round ends. Each time a new heart lands in a winning spin, the total multiplies that win. Hearts of 10x, 5x and 25x in three winning spins make a 40x total, and the third spin's R4 win pays R160.
Pragmatic's page speaks of the total 'boosting wins for the rest of free spins'. The rules name it only for a winning spin with a new heart, and say nothing about a win with no heart on the screen.
Should the round's total win hit 5,000 times the bet, the round stops on the spot: the win is paid up to that cap and any features left are forfeited.
The ante and the buy, in rand
The ante, a button that reads DOUBLE CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE, raises a R2 spin to R2.50. It doubles the chance to win free spins naturally, with more scatters on the reels, while pays stay those of a R2 spin. With the ante on, the win limit reads 4,000x the bet, and 4,000 x R2.50 is the same R10,000 as 5,000 x R2.
The buy opens the round from the base game at 100 times the total bet, R200 at R2, and is disabled while the ante is on. The RTP is 96.50% for normal play, the ante and the buy alike: the options change what you pay, not the return.
Starlight Princess RTP and volatility
Pragmatic Play gives Starlight Princess's return to player as 96.50%.
Volatility is medium: small wins mixed with occasional bigger ones.
Top payout: 5000x.
Paying for Starlight Princess in rand
We found Starlight Princess at 23 casinos. All take cards, 22 take Ozow, 16 take Capitec Pay and 21 take cash vouchers.
The lowest minimum deposit among them is R1, at Luckyfish, World Sports Betting and Hollywoodbets.
Winnings are paid to a bank account in your own name, after the FICA check.
Get FICA done first (the ID and address check every licensed site runs) · How to deposit in rand · Every payment method
Is Starlight Princess legal in South Africa?
Starlight Princess is a slot. In South Africa you find it at licensed bookmakers, next to their sports markets.
All 23 operators we list for Starlight Princess hold a South African provincial licence.
Before you play with real money
Set a budget and a deposit limit before your first round. If it stops being fun, the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation helpline is free on 0800 006 008.
Pros, cons and verdict
- Eight of a symbol pay in any position
- Hearts of 2x to 500x can land in the base game too
- In free spins the total multiplier lasts the whole round
- 96.50% for normal play, the ante and the buy alike
- The nine symbols in the table pay nothing below eight
- The rules tie the free spins total to a new heart in a winning spin
- At 5,000x the round stops and unplayed features are lost
- The buy costs 100x the bet, R200 at R2
A medium-volatility pay-anywhere slot built around its winged hearts: they add up within one tumble sequence in the base game and build a lasting total in free spins. Below twelve of a kind the gems pay 0.25x to 1.5x the bet, so play it for the way the multipliers add up rather than for the small wins.
Starlight Princess FAQ
Is Starlight Princess high or medium volatility?
Medium, by Pragmatic's own rating in the game, which it explains as paying out steadily with pays from low to very high. The 2021 launch post called it 'a highly-volatile experience', but the game itself says medium.
What is the maximum win in Starlight Princess?
5,000 times the bet, R10,000 on a R2 spin. Reaching it stops the round, and features still to come are forfeited. With the ante on the cap reads 4,000x, the same R10,000 on a R2.50 ante spin.
Do the multipliers carry over from spin to spin?
Not in the base game, where the hearts' sum applies to one tumble sequence. Only free spins keep a total, to which a heart in a winning spin adds its value for the rest of the round.
Is this the same game as the later Starlight Princess editions?
No. Starlight Christmas, Starlight Princess 1000, Starlight Princess Pachi and Starlight Princess Super Scatter are separate Pragmatic games with their own pages and demos. This page covers the 2021 original.
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Where to play Starlight Princess in South Africa
Licensed South African operators where we have found Starlight Princess, with each one's licence and our score. Ordered by that score. How we score Offers checked September 2026.
Hollywoodbets
4.9
Betway SA
4.9
Luckyfish
4.9
SuperSportBet
4.9
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