Crown of Egypt Slot – Free Demo

Crown of Egypt at 0.80 a Spin

Here arrives Crown of Egypt from IGT, and for punters who may have been anticipating more of a 'traditional' IGT release to roll along, it will probably be a welcome appearance. Over 320 spins at 0.80 a spin I wagered 256.00 and won 296.75, a session return of 115.9%.

By choosing stakes from 0.01 to 800, punters can get their kicks at almost any level. My 0.80 stake was 40 lines at a coin value of 0.01 with MultiWay Xtra on, giving 1,024 ways. It's all about activating free spins. In my session the round arrived three times, on spins 130, 144 and 252. That is far from being a breeze, though. My balance went from 200.00 to 240.75, with a low of 132.40 and a peak of 265.28 on spin 264.

Forty Lines or 1,024 Ways

Combos are feasible left to right from the first reel onwards, and in its most basic form, there are 40 paylines. When MultiWay Xtra is in action, that number can climb as high as 1,024 win ways. In that mode, matching symbols in any position on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel, form a win. It does so without raising the count of rows or reels. Switching it on doubles the stake. It might seem like a fantasy at first, but stay with me through the mechanics for it all to grow evident. When a symbol lands more than once on a reel, each extra instance is added to the combination and the payout is multiplied accordingly.

Crown of Egypt's paytable is built up of pay symbols, a wild and a scatter, and foremost up are the card royals. Four high-value symbols ensue. They are Cleopatra, Tutankhamun, Anubis and Ra, and high-value wins stretch up to 5,000x the line bet for five Cleopatras on a payline. My biggest hit outside the bonus was 16.80, which is 21.0x the stake, on spin 264. Features can juice the payouts up, and one route is via the wild, which is the Crown of Egypt logo, showing on reels 2-5 to substitute any symbol except the Pyramid.

Pyramids on the Middle Reel

Crown of Egypt's features are the very core of efficient simplicity, though they might not seem amazing on paper. Across my three rounds, free spins paid 174.40 in total, 59% of everything I won. Nor are they excessively notable in small quantities. The first round, on spin 130, gave 10 free spins and paid 58.40, or 73.0x the stake. But they pile up rapidly. The second, on spin 144, gave 20 free spins and returned 24.00, which is 30.0x the stake. They can generate the sort of outcomes to flip a session around. The third, on spin 252, paid 92.00, which is 115.0x the stake, and took my balance from 164.88 to 256.08.

The feature is triggered by the Pyramid scatter. Free spins are played on a different reel set. 2, 3 or 4 on the central reel grant 10, 15 or 20 free spins, and if 2 or more Pyramids drop during free spins, additional spins are appended on the same scale, up to 130 in total. My round on spin 252 started with 20 free spins and was retriggered for 10 more, 30 in all.

Our Minty Verdict: The base game might appear dull. Only 93 of my 320 spins paid anything, and 54 of those paid less than the stake. Cleopatra is the secret to winning large here. My longest run without a win lasted 15 spins, ending on spin 199. Crown of Egypt should fill the bill for some plain slots activity.