Mayan Adventure

Lots of different games in the online slots sector have been built around the idea of different ancient civilizations. The Mayan Adventure online slot is one of those. It's a title available at Capecod Gaming casinos, and it has some pretty top-notch graphics that would be able to compete with just about anything out there in the market. The gameplay style is based heavily around a set of three different features, but the pay table is pretty balanced at the same time with lots of mid-level wins that help to keep your account balance up while you shoot for the top payouts and bonus rounds.

Game Format

The layout for this slot is balanced with 15 paylines across five reels and three rows, but there's a catch: All of those paylines will pay both left-to-right and right-to-left. That means you have twice the normal ways to win, which smooths out the volatility a great deal. Picking the bet size you want is really easy because you just have to pick from coin sizes that go from $0.01 to $1 apiece. This corresponds to total wagers of $0.15 to $15 each, and that's a good enough range that just about everyone will find a bet size they're comfortable with.

Wild Symbols

Players will find two different types of wild symbols on the reels. As is usual in online slots, these will substitute for everything but the scatter symbols, and they do appear on all reels, so they give you tons of extra chances to win. However, they do not have their own specific payouts, so if you get winning combinations that consist only of wilds, then you'll just get the highest-paying regular symbol's win amounts for it.

There are two wild symbols because one of them is stacked three symbols high. This means more wilds on the reels and easier chances for multi-line payouts, which further smooths out the volatility since you can win on these wilds in both directions as well.

Magicspin Bonus Feature

There are two scatters on the reels: the totem and the pyramid. If you get five total in combination of the two, then you'll get the Magicspin bonus round. You'll get three Magicspins, which are free spins with some extras attached. You'll get random payouts and instant wins during these spins that add to your account balance right away, so you actually get paid in multiple ways with this feature.

Temple Bonus Round

Five of the totem scatter anywhere on the game board activates the Temple Bonus Round. You'll have a second screen come up with five columns, and you get three attempts to pick from those five. A green flame means you get a payout at random, and a red one means you lose your attempt. After all three attempts are over, your wins are added up and put towards your balance.

Pyramid Feature

The final feature is the Pyramid Feature, and it's activated with five of the pyramid symbols. You start with three lives, and you get to pick one of the bottom five doors. If you pick right, you move up a level and get to keep picking to try to make it to the top. The higher you make it in the pyramid, the better the reward you get when the round is finished.

Key Payouts

There are two main characters in this game. The man on the orange background pays 1,000x for five of a kind. The lady with the red background gets you 500x. You can win 250x for five of the mask symbol, and the palm tree pays 250x as well.

For the card rank symbols, there are just two tiers of wins. The red A is worth 150x, and the blue K is worth 150x. You can get 150x for five of the cyan Q symbol, which is a lighter blue than the K. The purple J, green 10 and yellow 9 all pay 100x for the final set of payouts on the table.

Our Thoughts

The Mayan Adventure video slot by Capecod Gaming shows a number of things. First, it shows how great their graphics can be in a game, even if it's based on a theme that's been used a lot. Second, it shows that they can develop several bonus features in the same title to give players a variety of ways to get some serious payouts. Finally, it shows that they know how to balance out a pay table so that you can have a reasonable volatility without sacrificing the chances for some pretty serious wins.