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Mystic Lake Casino Hotel

Mystic Lake's High Limit room and its Progressive Slots lineup -- Lightning Link, Buffalo Cash, Dancing Drums -- are the usual suspects when someone can't place what they photographed. 766 rooms deep, this is one of the bigger properties in the Twin Cities.

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel opened May 12, 1992, and is owned and operated by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, a federally recognized sovereign tribe that first ran gaming here as Little Six Bingo back in 1982. Today the property runs a 125,000-square-foot gaming floor -- the largest in Minnesota -- with more than 4,000 slot machines, and its official slots page names dozens of specific titles across a handful of major game families. Here's what's actually on the machines, grouped by theme, how the floor is laid out, and what to know before you play.

Link and Progressive Families

Mystic Lake's official slots page organizes much of its floor around a handful of major franchises with multiple named entries each. The Fire Link family alone runs at least three variants: the base Ultimate Fire Link, FireLink, and the Route 66 - Ultimate Fire Link theme. Lightning Link and Lock It Link both appear as their own named titles, alongside Double Money Link. The Buffalo franchise runs particularly deep here -- Buffalo Cash, Buffalo Cash Express Luxury Line, and Dragon Bucks (a Buffalo-adjacent themed cabinet) all show up separately, on top of Dragon Link and Bao Zhu Zhao Fu rounding out the link-style games. If you're trying to place a machine, checking which of these families it belongs to first will usually narrow things down fast, since Mystic Lake runs an unusually wide spread of named variants within each one.

Progressive Slots and Recent Winners

Beyond the link families, the official page names a long run of individual progressive and feature titles: 88 Fortunes, 5 Treasures, Zeus Unleashed, Panda Magic, Sphinx, Great Guardians, Mayan Chief, Dragons Wealth, Ocean Winnings Diamond Trail, Golden Blessings, Jinse Dao, Endless Treasure, Eureka Treasure Train, Jackpot Carnival, Wonder 4 - Boost Gold, Pirate Plunder, The Green Machine Deluxe, Mammoth Power, and Lion Carnival. A separate section highlighting recent jackpot winners' games adds Piggy Bankin', Devil's Lock, Dancing Drums, and Game King Keno to the confirmed list. Classic reel-style games round things out with Super 8 Line, White Ice, Wild Cherry, Red White & Blue, 5X Pay, Blazing 7's, Mo' Mummy, and Sizzling Wild -- a mix that skews toward straightforward three-reel and five-reel play rather than elaborate bonus features.

Table Games and the High Limit Room

The floor spreads 88 live table games plus 12 dedicated baccarat tables, with bets ranging from $1 minimums to $1,000 maximums. Notably, craps and roulette are prohibited under Minnesota's tribal gaming compact, so the floor runs video roulette in place of a live wheel -- a restriction that shapes the table-game mix in a way that's specific to Minnesota's tribal casinos rather than a choice Mystic Lake made on its own. A dedicated High Limit slot room sits apart from the main floor for bigger-stakes slot play, and the most extensive penny-slot selection in the state covers the other end of the spectrum.

Layout, Decor, and Atmosphere

Reviewers describe the gaming floor as carrying the energy expected of a property this size -- Minnesota's largest casino floor, at 125,000 square feet. The layout is organized across a single sprawling level, with slots dominating the main space, table games set apart in their own defined area, baccarat set further apart in a dedicated room, and the bingo hall tucked into a separate wing entirely. That zoning is worth knowing before you arrive: if you're looking for a specific type of game, you're not wandering one undifferentiated room to find it.

Club M and the Resort

The Club M loyalty program earns points on slot play, table games, bingo, dining, hotel stays, golf, and gift shop purchases, and new members receive $50 in free slot play plus $25 in blackjack play to start. Beyond the casino floor, the resort has grown into one of the region's largest hotels, with 766 rooms and suites -- making it one of the largest hotel properties in the Twin Cities area -- and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, which owns and operates the property, employs roughly 4,100 people here, making it Scott County's biggest employer.

History and Location

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community first opened Little Six Bingo in 1982, which became Little Six Casino in 1990 following federal gaming legislation; Mystic Lake Casino Hotel itself opened May 12, 1992, and takes its name from the nearby lake. The SMSC and other Minnesota tribes were pioneers in tribal gaming more broadly -- they were the first in the United States to negotiate and sign tribal-state gaming compacts with a state government, the same compact framework that today prohibits craps and roulette on this floor. The property has continued to expand well past its original footprint: Mystic Lake Center, a major expansion, opened in 2018, and the SMSC has since secured naming rights for the new Mystic Lake Amphitheater, a 19,000-seat venue.

What to Know Before You Play

With dozens of named titles spread across Fire Link, Buffalo, and other franchise families, the fastest way to identify a machine from a photo is to check which family it belongs to first, then narrow down the specific themed variant. If you're looking for craps or roulette, you won't find a live version of either here -- Minnesota's tribal gaming compact rules them out, though video roulette fills the gap. The floor is organized by game type across one large level, so budget time to walk from the slots area to the separate baccarat room or bingo wing if that's what you're after. And if a machine still doesn't match anything on this list, a photo and a question to 6-lab's Advisor is faster than guessing from memory.

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Good to know

  • The resort has 766 hotel rooms and suites, making it one of the largest hotel properties in the Twin Cities area.
  • Features a dedicated High Limit slot room on the casino floor.
  • The 125,000-square-foot gaming floor is the largest in Minnesota, with over 4,000 slot machines including the most extensive penny-slot selection in the state.
  • The floor spreads 88 live table games plus 12 dedicated baccarat tables, with bets ranging from $1 minimums to $1,000 maximums.
  • Craps and roulette are prohibited under Minnesota's tribal gaming compact, so the floor offers video roulette rather than a live wheel.
  • The Club M loyalty program earns points on slot play, table games, bingo, dining, hotel stays, golf, and gift shop purchases; new members receive $50 in free slot play plus $25 in blackjack play.
  • Reviewers describe the gaming floor as carrying the energy expected of a property of this scale, as Minnesota's largest casino floor.
  • The floor layout is organized across a single sprawling level, with slots dominating the main space, table games in their own defined area, baccarat set apart in a dedicated room, and the bingo hall in a separate wing.
  • The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community first opened Little Six Bingo in 1982, which became Little Six Casino in 1990; Mystic Lake Casino Hotel itself opened May 12, 1992, and is named after the nearby lake.
  • The SMSC and other Minnesota tribes were the first in the United States to negotiate and sign tribal-state gaming compacts with a state government, the same compact framework that prohibits craps and roulette at Minnesota tribal casinos today.
  • Mystic Lake Center, a major property expansion, opened in 2018, and the SMSC has since secured naming rights for the new Mystic Lake Amphitheater, a 19,000-seat venue; the SMSC employs roughly 4,100 people, making it Scott County's biggest employer.

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