Jewel Scarabs

Delve into Egyptian mythology on the slot from Red Tiger Gaming for an encounter with mighty ancient gods. Jewel Scarabs will take on a caravan treck through the hot desert with scarab wilds and a Golden Spins round with roaming scarab wilds and progressive multipliers that can lead to wins of up to 5,245x your bet.

Slot Details

Jewel Scarabs is a video slot with five reels, three rows and nine fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. You can journey to ancient Egypt on desktop or mobile from 0.10 to 40 credits per spin. The game has maximum volatility (5/5) with a default RTP of 95.77% including the jackpot contributions. However, Red Tiger Gaming is offering its games with a range of RTPs, based on whether they are part of the jackpot network and which setting casino operators are selecting. The RTP can be as low as 92.12% including the jackpots. Always read the help files to find out which version you will be playing.

A desert scene at dusk with pyramids and a camel caravan serves as the backdrop to a heavily ornamented game window. The golden frame is engraved with ancient hieroglyphs with the slot logo majestically towering at the top. As expected, an oriental soundtrack keeps things lively while the usual reel noises chime in on winning spins.

Red Tiger Gaming is one of the last providers who keeps a really confusing paytable with a rather complicated formula to get to the actual win amount. As a general rule, it is your stake divided by the number of pay lines and multiplied by the shown win value in coins. For Jewel Scarabs that would be for example: 1 credit bet ./. 9 lines x 18 coins for a 5OAK 10s would be calculated 1/9×18 = 2 times your stake. Got it, right? I can only hope that one day they will change their paytables to real win values.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the card royals from 10 through to A, each ornamented with a typical ancient Egyptian icon and awarding 2x to 4.5x your stake for a single five of a kind. They are followed by the Eye of Horus, the falcon god Horus himself, the cat goddess Bastet and Anubis. Hit five on a line to win 8x to 20 your bet.

As the slot title indicates, a bejewelled scarab is the wild and acts at the same time as a scatter. It will substitute for all other pay symbols and also pay 20x your stake when five land on a spin.

Jewel Scarabs Slot Features

While most Egyptian-themed slots have mighty gods at the core of the gameplay, that role falls to the humble scarab on this Red Tiger creation. It not only serves in a dual function as wild and scatter but will be triggering the only base game feature as well as turning in to a roaming multiplier wild in the free spins.

Any time a Scarab Wild lands in a winning combo in the base game, it turn into a roaming wild, moving to a random reel position for the next spin. It will stay on the screen and keep roaming as long as it is part of a winning combo. The wild will become more powerful during the main feature.

Hitting three Scarab Wilds anywhere on the reels in one spin will trigger the Golden Spins feature, awarding a random number of free spins. The triggering Scarab Wilds will now stay as roaming wilds on the screen until the end of the bonus round. More can randomly fly onto the screen on every free spin. Every time a wild is part of a winning combo it will increase its multiplier by x1, no limits. Should you have more than one wild in a combo, then the values are multiplied by each other, potentially leading to huge win multipliers. Worth noting is that only combos with a wild will benefit from the multiplier. At the end of the feature, the game will randomly award one extra free spin.

Final Verdict

Jewel Scarabs is visually pleasing to the eyes as most games from Red Tiger. They seem to put a lot of thought and effort into creating the authentic graphics and stunning animations. Pretty looks should not deceive you though as the main reason for playing a slot is whether you can bag a decent win. Jewel Scarabs is somewhere in the middle as it appeared mightily tough at times to get more than one multiplier wild in a winning combo. For some reason the scarabs seem to retreat to the back reels on most spins, rendering them useless if you do not hit a four of a kind that connects then to them. But catch it in a good moment and it can deliver mega wins of up to 5,245 times your bet.

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