Provider:
Blueprint Gaming
Five free spins with at least 10,000 ways looked like the stingy pick, until a multiplier climbing by 1 on every cascade win turned them into 804 times the stake. That one round carried 71% of what Temple of Treasures Megaways paid me over 330 spins, and Blueprint Gaming made me wait 288 of them…
Temple of Treasures Megaways is a Megaways slot from the crew at Blueprint Gaming, and it is a cleverly plain looking slot that conceals an intricate mix of mechanics and hefty payouts. Other Megaways slots from Blueprint Gaming include Legacy of Ra Megaways and Eternal Phoenix Megaways. It is hard to communicate everything that Temple of Treasures Megaways has to provide. My session ran to 330 spins at a stake of 2.00, starting from a balance of 1,000.00. But it is thoroughly worth plunging in deep, so I’ll tackle it. It ended with the balance at 2,592.60, a session return of 341.3%.
At first look, Temple of Treasures Megaways seems quite straight forward with 6 reels and up to 7 symbols per reel. The number of symbols on each reel changes from one spin to the next. But appearances can be misleading. After every win the winning symbols are removed and new ones drop in from above, repeating until no new winning combination forms.
Up to 117,649 ways come into action during the base game. Wins pay for matching symbols on adjacent reels. Free Spins can ensure a minimum count of them, though. On spin 5 a small base-game win of 7.60 left my balance at 998.40.
A visit to the paytable shows the Male Totem as the most lucrative base game symbol. It is also the one symbol that pays from 2 of a kind. It is worth 50 times the stake for six of a kind. The Bird Totem pays 5 times the stake for six, while the A, K and Q pay 1.5 times and the J, 10 and 9 pay 1 times. But heap on the mechanics, and the slot becomes a lot busier. The Wild substitutes for all common symbols.
You know those write-ups where they claim that the slot in question is crammed with mechanics that need to be witnessed first-hand to grasp? Mystery symbols that land all turn into the same common symbol. Well, buckle your seatbelt. If Mystery symbols land on all 6 reels, at least one 6-of-a-kind win is guaranteed. It's going to be one of those temple runs.
Some folks prefer to coast through the last stretch of a drive. Each Scatter above 4 adds extra spins to the round. Others want to floor the throttle, and Temple of Treasures Megaways opts for the latter choice by equipping the Free Spins mode with an unlimited multiplier. That multiplier does not reset at any point during the round. With a selection of 15 spins with at least 324 ways, 10 with at least 2,340 ways, or 5 with at least 10,000 ways, this bonus game begins when 4 or more Scatters land. A fourth option, Mystery Choice, awards up to 15 free spins with up to 10,000 ways guaranteed. The multiplier begins at x1, and climbs by 1 on every cascade win. My only trigger came on spin 288 with 4 Scatters, and I took the 5 spins with at least 10,000 ways. 3 Scatters landing in the round grant 5 extra spins, 4 Scatters grant 10, and the spins are fit to retrigger infinitely. That round did not retrigger, yet it paid 1,608.00, which is 804 times the stake.
Sorry if your head is spinning right now, as it's a lot to digest and best viewed in the flesh to completely grasp everything. Across 330 spins, 60 paid something, and 23 of those paid less than the stake. In fact, it can appear misleadingly basic when it first opens. My longest stretch without any win lasted 29 spins, ending on spin 132. Temple of Treasures Megaways is very volatile, or so it appears to me at least. The balance dipped as low as 803.20 before the bonus arrived. So the bonus round needed 288 spins to land in my testing. Free Spins accounted for 71% of everything I won in the session.
Minty’s Closing Thought: The main attraction is the mechanics though. My biggest win away from Free Spins was 202.00 on spin 273, or 101 times the stake. The tempo, and the suspense that they are capable of generating can become really intense, and in particular, the Free Spins with its unlimited multiplier and infinite retrigger capacity is a good idea.