Scarab Gold Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Inspired Gaming
Seven Pyramid bonuses and not one of them paid more than 22x. The real hit on Inspired Gaming's 6-reel cascade slot came from the base game, 54.00 on spin 183, and after 480 spins at 1.00 the balance still sank to 845.70.
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Stones, Scarabs and 15,625 Ways
Scarab Gold offers 6 reels and 15,625 ways. Wins pay for matching symbols on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. It is available from between 0.10 to 60 per spin and profits from Cascading wins mechanics that grants you an opportunity to win repeatedly from a single spin. The session behind this review ran 480 spins at a stake of 1.00. You'll also stumble across blank stone mystery symbols as well as golden Scarabs, and there's also a free spins feature where a progressive multiplier rises throughout the round. The balance went from 1,000.00 to 845.70 over those spins, a session return of 67.9%.
You will stumble across royal card low-paying symbols. Along with them, there are symbols depicted by Cleopatra, bulls, crocodiles, cats, pelicans and dogs. Those six are the high-paying symbols, while the golden Scarab, the blank stone mystery symbol and the golden Pyramid scatter make up the special symbols.
What the Blank Stones Are For
Scarab Gold is a slot that employs Cascading wins mechanics. Of the 480 spins played, 128 produced a win, and 75 of those paid less than the 1.00 stake. Winning symbols disappear to clear space for fresh symbols falling from above. The drops keep coming for as long as each one forms a new win. This grants you an opportunity to land successive wins. The longest stretch without any win in the session lasted 16 spins and ended on spin 457.
There's also a blank stone mystery symbol aside from the standard symbols, paying nothing on its own. This feature goes by the name Mystery Boost. When a golden Scarab lands with them, the mystery symbols all transform into the same reel symbol. The transformed symbols can form wins of their own and set off further cascades. This recurs on every cascade. In the free spins round, mystery symbols can also reveal bonus coins or retriggers instead of a reel symbol.
Minty’s Closing Thought: Seven Free Spins Bonus rounds in 480 spins sounds generous until you add them up: 132.00 in total, none above 22.00, against a 94.90% RTP that my 67.9% session return did nothing to confirm.
Pyramids and the Climbing Multiplier
The chief attraction in Scarab Gold is the Free Spins Bonus feature. It landed seven times in the 480 spins, with gaps between triggers ranging from 4 to 188 spins. It's activated by landing 3, 4 or 5 golden Pyramid scatter symbols and will grant you 10, 12 or 14 free spins respectively, and here you will profit from a progressive, unlimited multiplier. Special Scarabs appear during the bonus and can turn symbols into coins carrying prize values and extra free spins, and those coins also cascade and push the multiplier higher. The multiplier rises by +1 per cascade throughout, with the same Cascading wins mechanics employed. The seven rounds in the session paid between 13.00 and 22.00 each, 132.00 in total, which was 41% of everything won.
Where 480 Spins at 1.00 Left Me
There are loads of extras in the base game to keep you amused while waiting for the bonus to arrive. The session's biggest win, 54.00 or 54 times the stake on spin 183, came outside the bonus. Even outside of the bonus, the mystery symbols in conjunction with the cascades can culminate in quite respectable wins, and Scarab Gold can grant wins of 8,679 times your stake.