Lara Croft Temples and Tombs Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Triple Edge Studios
Winning symbols drop out of the grid here and new ones fall into the gap, and every consecutive roll steps a multiplier trail: 1x to 5x in the base game, 3x to 15x once Tomb of Osiris starts. The 5,000x the studio prints belongs to the Grand tier of the scarab Special Prize, not to the game as a…
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Where the 243 ways actually pay from
Lara Croft Temples and Tombs is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 243 ways to win. Wins are formed by matching symbols on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, not along fixed paylines. It is staked from 0.20 to 20 a spin, and the RTP is 96.05%. The session behind this review ran 490 spins at the top of that range, 20 a spin. Its a fairly basic and straightforward slot that doesn't demand too much mental effort to grasp. The studio calls the volatility Medium, several review sources call it high, and no volatility index was found either way.
The scarab is doing two jobs
The wild is the scarab beetle, standing in for other symbols. The scarab is also the symbol the Special Prize is built around.
Rolling Reels and a trail that stops at 5x
The game employs Rolling Reels instead of paylines. Triple Edge Studios has a second Lara Croft slot, Tomb of the Sun. Winning symbols are cleared and new ones fall in, a further win keeps the roll going until a roll pays nothing, and each successive winning roll ascends a multiplier trail that begins at 1x and runs 2x, 3x, 5x in the base game, though the trail resets on a non-winning roll. Rugby Star is another Rolling Reels game played over 243 ways.
Tomb of Osiris, from trigger to last spin
The Tomb of Osiris free spins are triggered by landing 3 or more Free Spins symbols. Four rounds triggered across the 490 spins of the test session. These grant between 8 and 32 free spins, and each retrigger of 3 or more symbols contributes 8 more, up to 80 spins in total. None of the four rounds retriggered. The multiplier trail runs throughout:
- beginning at 3x
- ascending to 6x
- ascending to 9x
- ascending to 15x
The three scarab prize tiers
There is also a Wild Collect feature to the game. Collecting wilds raises the chance of a fixed Special Prize:
- Minor, 15x wager
- Major, 100x wager
- Grand, 5,000x wager
5,000x is the prize, not the cap
The studio's 5,000x Special Prize and the reviewers' 7,343x can't both be the ceiling, and the studio number is the verifiable one. The 5,000x belongs to the Grand tier of the Special Prize rather than to the game as a whole, and the studio publishes no overall maximum.
Our Minty Verdict: The base game handed over 4,703 of the 25,183 credits this session won; everything else came out of four Tomb of Osiris rounds, and one of those did two thirds of the work on its own. That is a game whose trail only matters once it starts at 3x, and the three scarab tiers sat out all 490 spins.
Four rounds carried 490 spins
4 rounds across 490 spins, at a 20-credit stake each, and when I tested it, the rounds carried the session, paying 20,480 of the 25,183 credits won in total. Each of those rounds ran the free spins trail of 3x, 6x, 9x and 15x rather than the base game's 1x to 5x. One of them, on spin 455, climbed to 841x the stake on a lengthy roll that hit 15x. Reaching 15x takes a chain of four consecutive winning rolls inside a single free spin. 93 of the 490 spins paid anything at all. Rolling Reels means any one of those can settle several times before it finishes. No Wild Collect prize arrived, neither the Minor, the Major nor the Grand, and I ended at 115,383 credits from 100,000, a session return of 257%.