Egypt's Book of Mystery lets you choose your free spins: 15 at x1, 10 at x5, 5 at x10, or a mystery pick. I never got to choose. In 100 demo spins at 12.00 the four Scatter books the round needs did not show up together, and every coin I won came from cascades in the base game. PG Soft opened this tomb in April 2020. The balance ended at 100,526.20, mostly thanks to spins 59, 76 and 87.
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A tomb of 32,400 ways
Six reels stand under a pyramid. Each has five rows, and reels two to five carry an extra horizontal reel above them, which is the only place the Scatter book can land. Symbols on the middle reels often fill two to four cells as one tile, so the ways count shifts between 2,025 and 32,400. Ways count from reel one, and every win explodes to make room for a cascade. A golden pharaoh mask is the wild, kept off the two outer reels.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horus | 30 | 40 | 50 | 80 |
| Anubis | 20 | 25 | 30 | 50 |
| Cobra | 10 | 25 | 30 | 40 |
| Eye of Horus | 8 | 15 | 20 | 30 |
| Ankh, crook and flail | 6 | 10 | 12 | 15 |
| A, K | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Q, J, 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
At 12.00 a spin a point was worth 0.60, so even six Horus on one way pay only 48.00. Big results need many ways at once.
Two ways to get wilds
Like other PG Soft games of that spring, it uses frames. The frames sit on tall tiles of the middle reels. A tile with a silver border that wins comes back as another symbol in gold, and a winning gold tile breaks into two to four wilds. Gem Saviour Conquest, released two days later, follows the same steps. This game adds a second trick: before a spin is paid, one random symbol may take over three or more positions on the reels.
Three spins that paid for the rest
Thirty-five spins won. Eighteen of them returned less than the stake, and three gave back the 12.00 and no more. Of the 1,726.20 returned for 1,200.00 staked, 893.40 belongs to spins 59, 76 and 87 alone.
| Spin | Cascade rounds | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | 28.80, 0.60, 10.80, 28.80, 14.40, 28.80, 229.20, 7.20, 19.20 | 367.80 |
| 59 | 110.40, 42.00, 134.40, 2.40 | 289.20 |
| 87 | 72.00, 2.40, 162.00 | 236.40 |
The balance bottomed out at 99,688.00 after spin 58, at the end of thirteen losing spins in a row. Spin 59 broke the run, and from spin 76 on the balance stayed above 100,000.00.
Spin 87: a gold tile on reel two
The first round paid 72.00. When the winners fell away, a gold-framed queen three cells tall was left on reel two, under a gold-framed Horus two cells tall.
Both tiles won a small 2.40 in the next round and broke into wilds, three and two, so reel two was five pharaohs deep. Reel one and reel three each showed three crooks, so the crook and flail had forty-five ways to pay.
At 6 points a way, that round was worth 162.00, and the spin stopped at 236.40.
Spin 76: nine rounds
My longest cascade started with 28.80 from kings and went through six rounds worth 112.20 together. Along the way the ways count kept climbing. By the seventh the counter read 21,600 ways, wilds stood on reels two and four, and kings, eyes, cobras and ankhs all paid through them.
Kings ran across five reels on 24 ways and eyes on 6, and that round paid 229.20. Two more rounds added 26.40, and the board ended at the full 32,400 ways.
The free spins menu
Four Scatters start the round, and the player picks one of four options:
- 15 free spins starting at x1;
- 10 free spins starting at x5;
- 5 free spins starting at x10;
- a Mystery Choice with a random number of spins and starting multiplier.
Each Scatter beyond four adds 4, 2 or 1 spins to the first three options. From there every winning cascade lifts the multiplier one step. Inside the round, three books are worth 5 more spins and four books 10.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | April 2020 |
| Board | 6 reels x 5 rows + top reel over reels 2-5; 2,025 to 32,400 ways; cascades |
| Bet | 0.60 to 180.00, base bet 20 |
| Wilds | Reels 2-5; silver frames turn gold, gold frames split into 2-4 wilds |
| Symbol transformation | One random symbol replaces 3+ positions |
| Free spins | 4 Scatters; choose 15 at x1, 10 at x5, 5 at x10 or Mystery Choice |
| RTP | 96.74% (PG Soft) |
| Max win | 100,000x the bet |
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