Ancient Egypt

Lots of Egyptian-themed slots are available in the industry, and it can be tough for any particular game to stand out if it doesn't have something special to offer. The Ancient Egypt slot, available at Pragmatic Play casinos, has plenty to offer players in the form of interesting gameplay elements, and the graphics are decent as well. These combine to help this game stand out from the Egyptian sub-genre of slots that's filled with a ton of games as this is one of the most popular types of themes used in the whole industry when it comes to online and land-based slots.

Format and Layout

You'll find that this game has five reels, three rows and 10 paylines, and they pay from left to right only. You can bet up to 10 coins on each payline for a maximum wager of 100 coins per spin, and those coins can range from $0.01 to $0.50 apiece. This makes the minimum price per spin just $0.10, and the available bet sizes goes up to the $50 level, so you're covered no matter if you're a penny player or if you're wanting to play for pretty high stakes. The available options for customizing your total wager also gives you a very serious number of options in between those extremes as well.

Scattered Wild Golden Scarab

The golden scarab symbol, which looks like a beetle with wings, is the wild symbol in this game. It substitutes for everything, but it also gives you scattered payouts. Five of a kind anywhere on the reels, no matter the position, gives you a payout of 50 times your total wager. You can also earn 10x for four of a kind or 1x for three of this wild, no matter where it appears.

These are separate from any line bet wins you would get from combinations of wilds. For example, five of the wild on the same payline would also award a 500x line bet win, which is the same as the top regular pay table win. Likewise, you can also win for just two of this scatter if they appear from left to right on the same payline because there are two of a kind wins on the regular pay table as well.

Activating the Bonus Feature

With the wild scarab, three of a kind anywhere on the game board will also activate the bonus feature. You'll randomly get one of three different bonuses. The low award gives you a payout of just one times your bet, and it's definitely not the one you want to pick up. The high award can give you an instant win as well, but this time it's worth between 10x and 500x your total wager, determined at random. The third option is a free spins feature.

Free Spins Bonus Feature

If you get the free spins feature, you'll be given 10 free turns. Before they start, however, a regular-paying symbol will be selected at random to become a mystery scatter symbol. When this happens, it becomes an expanding scatter that will pay no matter where it's located on the reels during these free turns. This only happens after all of the other winning combinations have been paid out on each given spin, so you won't miss out on wins because of this feature. If you get three or more of the scarab during this mode, you'll add another 10 free spins to the feature using the same mystery scatter.

Payouts and Symbol Set

Cleopatra wearing a golden headdress is the best-paying symbol in this game, and it'll give you 500x for five of a kind. You can also earn 200x for five of Anubus, the purple jackal. A win of 50x can be yours if you line up five of the ankh (the cross symbol with a loop at the top) or the eye of Ra. All four of these symbols give you wins for just two of a kind as well.

For the card rank symbols, you can earn 15x for five of the red A or orange K. The yellow Q, the blue J and the green 10 all pay out 10x for five of a kind as well. Keep in mind that all of these pays are multiplied by the total size of your wager, so the 10x wins for the bottom end of the pay table are like 100x payouts in games with regular line bet wins.

Overview

The Ancient Egypt slot by Pragmatic Play centers around a different approach to free spins with the mystery scatter symbol feature, and we think that's a pretty solid innovation. The graphics aren't perfect, but the gameplay is very strong in this Egyptian-themed game.