Provider:
Pragmatic Play
Lightning Scatters stacked down reel three, four or five win whatever prize hangs above that reel in Greek Gods, from cash up to 50x the bet to a Wheel of Fortune worth as much as 1,000x. My 430 spins never saw the wheel, and two free spins rounds still left them at a 54.1% return.
Greek Gods is the name of a Greek mythology styled slot from supplier Pragmatic Play. It employs 5 reels and 243 payways and a bar of Random Awards. A win forms from matching symbols on consecutive reels, regardless of which row they land on. Players can profit from Random Awards with a Wheel of Fortune as well as Free Spins with retriggers of up to 40 spins at a time, and, arriving at medium-high volatility, the variance is high but fortunately not as fierce as the fury of Zeus. Over 430 spins, this session returned 54.1% of the total wagered, with 91 paying spins and a longest run of 16 spins without a win.
Greek Gods has a strip of Random Awards sitting above the reels. In the base game an award shows above each of reels 3, 4 and 5, during free spins one shows above all five reels, and the awards change on every spin. It is available from 0.25 to 125.
Not wholly unforeseen, the low-paying symbols are depicted by 5 card royals from A to 10, and you won't be too surprised to find some of mythology's most celebrated characters on the face of the premiums either. They are Zeus, Hera, the Lyre and the Goblet. The former is the most lucrative of all symbols, handing you 6x times your stake for 5 of a kind, and on top of it all is the wild, naturally, thus substituting all other symbols bar the scatter. For five of a kind, Hera pays 5x the stake, the Lyre 4x, the Goblet 3x and each of the royals 2x.
The Random Awards feature enters into play in the base game if a complete stack of Scatters lands on reels 3 to 5, and the reel covered with Scatters will then win the prize displayed above it. If several awards are won on the same spin, they are paid one after another. It is a cash prize of up to 50x the bet, the Wheel of Fortune or 8 free spins. On spin 187 of this session, a cash award over a reel of stacked Scatters paid 6x the stake. Ideally, you wish the Wheel of Fortune to show. It will grant you with a random 10x to 1,000x the bet. When the free spins award is won during the bonus round itself, it is worth 5 spins.
What you truly wish to do when spinning Greek Gods is to activate the free spins round. In this session it arrived on spin 110 with 8 Scatters for 11 free spins paying 32x the stake, and again on spin 409 with 7 Scatters for 10 free spins paying 70x. 5 or more lightning Scatter symbols on the reels launch the free spins game and 3 free spins plus 1 per Scatter are granted, and furthermore, Scatters and Random Awards during the bonus grant additional spins for up to 40 free spins per spin.
Our Minty Verdict: The two free spins rounds brought in 44% of everything my 430 spins won, and even the 70x round on spin 409 left the balance well short of where it started.
There is a max win of 1000 times your stake. In this session the balance never climbed above its starting level, and the biggest win was the 70x free spins round on spin 409. The variance is medium-high, and not gentle by any means.