Play Cleopatra Gold demo
Twenty lines, three wilds and a Gold Ingot
This bad lad is run on a 5-reel slot, and that smacks of IGT. It belongs to the same IGT Cleopatra line as Cleopatra II and Cleopatra Plus. It can hold 20 paylines. I played 290 spins at a stake of 1.20, starting from a balance of 1,000.00.
It's moderate in terms of volatility and not nearly as harsh as some of the other releases. Of my 290 spins, 97 paid something, though 59 of those returned less than the stake. That is rendering it somewhat more wager accommodating as it appears. The longest run without a win lasted 10 spins and ended on spin 99.
On the reels you'll discover Gold Ingot, Scarab and Cups symbols. The Gold Ingot pays 3.33x the stake for 5, while the lower symbols A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9 pay between 1.66x and 3.33x for five of a kind. The Scarab and Cups are the most valuable, handing you 5 times the stake for 5 across a complete payline. The three wilds are the Cleopatra wild, the blue Cleopatra Gold logo wild and the gold Cleopatra Gold wild, and five of them in any mix pay 29.17x the stake.
When a blue logo stack turns gold
It is the Gold Spins feature that lends the game its distinctive framework. Gold Spins did not trigger once in my 290 spins. In the base game, a complete stack of blue Cleopatra Gold logo wilds becomes gold and occupies the reel. A fresh reel window appears above it. The other reels respin, with each fresh gold wild contributing a window and a respin, up to 3 windows. Wilds substitute for every symbol except the Sphinx scatter, and any base game win that includes one is doubled.
Sphinx scatters, tripled wilds and a 150-spin ceiling
Cleopatra Gold does contain a conventional scatter symbol, and punters need to land Sphinx scatters, since it requires 3 of them to activate the bonus feature. Scatter wins pay in any position, with 2 Sphinx symbols paying 2x the stake and 5 paying 20x.
10 free spins are awarded when you land 3 scatters, 12 for 4 and 14 for 5, and in the bonus round wild wins are tripled. My first round of Free Spins came on spin 152, retriggered, and paid 22.80, which is 19.0x the stake.
Retriggers award you 10 extra free spins plus 2 for every scatter beyond the third, up to a ceiling 150 spins in sum. My second round, on spin 205, came from 5 Sphinx scatters and ran its 14 free spins without a retrigger, paying 24.00. The the re-trigger is within grasp until the very final spin. Together the two rounds paid 46.80, which was 21% of everything won in the session.
57.80 on spin 244, no gold at all
The Gold Spins mechanism, is doubtlessly an intriguing idea. The biggest single win of my session was 57.80, 48.2x the stake, on spin 244 in the base game.
The Minty Take: Whether Cleopatra Gold will be a success or failure is of course up to the punters. I wagered 348.00 and won back 226.52, finishing on 878.52 for a session return of 65.1%. I had a lot of fun playing it.