Jewel Scarabs Slot – Free Demo

Scarabs, Anubis and 420 spins at 5.00

Jewel Scarabs does carry the marks. They are all the usual marks of a traditional Egyptian slot. I played 420 spins at a 5.00 stake from a starting balance of 1,000.00.

Jewel Scarabs is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 9 paylines, and it is wagerable from 0.10 to 10. The 9 paylines are fixed, and wins pay left to right for 3 to 5 matching symbols starting from the leftmost reel. Core to the slot is the roaming wild Scarab and the Golden Spins feature. Golden Spins came up three times in my session, on spins 67, 75 and 76. Both can join together to grant rather respectable wins as I found. Those three rounds paid 23.0x, 8.2x and 51.0x the stake, which came to 32% of everything I won.

Eye of Ra, Horus, Bastet and a jackal on top

There are no shocks to be discovered glancing at the standard symbols, and Red Tiger has picked the safe path by opting for the usual Egyptian symbols I've seen numerous times previously. Five matching royals pay between 2x and 4.5x the stake. The Eye of Ra, Horus, and Bastet make up the premiums. Five of a kind on the high-pay symbols returns between 8x and 20x the stake. Anubis is heading the pack, awarding a win of 20 times the stake for 5 across a payline, and the low-paying symbols are 5 in number and arrive in the shape of royals. Three Anubis on a line at a 5.00 stake pay 15.00, three times the stake.

The slot also contains a Golden Scarab symbol that is both wild and scatter. It substitutes for all pay symbols, and five Scarabs on a payline pay 20x the stake. I will be digging more into it below, as it holds a key part in the game. My longest run without a win lasted 26 spins and ended on spin 262.

A beetle that won't sit still after a win

The roaming wild feature is activated when the wild symbol is part of a win. Here the wild symbol is depicted by a Golden Scarab. The wild then moves to a random position on the following spin and, furthermore, it will carry on moving as long as it keeps winning. Across my session, 88 of the 420 spins paid something, and 47 of those paid less than the 5.00 stake.

Final Minty Score: The published RTP is 95.77%, and my 420 spins returned 60.6% of what I staked, even with a 52.0x base-game hit on spin 98 and three Golden Spins rounds in ten spins. The feature paid; the long dry middle took it all back.

Golden Spins multipliers with no ceiling

Keep a lookout for the Golden Scarab symbol. That's the one the game relies on for the genuinely big wins. The Scarabs that trigger Golden Spins can land anywhere on the reels in a single spin, with no need to sit on a payline. 3 or more Scarabs award 7 Golden Spins, and in Golden Spins each Scarab begins at x1 and earns +1 every time it is part of a win. The triggering Scarabs stay on the reels for all 7 spins, flying to new random positions between spins.

Every Scarab win is multiplied by the Scarab multipliers. A Scarab multiplier has no upper limit, so it keeps rising for as long as that Scarab stays part of wins. These multiply together when multiple Scarabs are in the same win. A Scarab at x2 and another at x4 in the same win give x8.

From 1,275.50 on spin 98 down to 172.00

The roaming wild and Scarab multipliers work well together in Jewel Scarabs and succeeds to keep me engaged throughout the session. The balance peaked at 1,275.50 on spin 98 and ended at 172.00, a session return of 60.6%.