Book of Ra Slot

People who know a lot about Egyptology won't recognise the 'Book of Ra' as one of the sacred items in that Ancient Culture. The more mysteriously titled 'Book of The Dead' was a true Egyptian artefact, being a book of spells buried with the dead for their journey into the underworld. After the dead were buried, their spirit could transcend into another world where they would have to pass a test to enter the world of the dead. The heart of the dead person was weighed by the Osiris against the 'Feather of Truth'; if their heart was lighter than the feather, eternal life in the world of the dead, but if their heart was heavier, then it was eternal death in the jaws of a nasty beast called Amenti. Why have we bothered to mention this? Because if any developers out there are reading this, we think this would make an excellent double or nothing game for one of your million Egyptian themed slots. However, this isn't a seminar on slot design; it's a review of the 'Book of Ra' online slot.

So after that sandstorm let's see if we can dig up a few facts on this slot game. Five reels with nine pay-lines. This may seem a little stingy on the gamble front as many players like twenty lines on five, but the game can't be overgenerous as you'll see from the bonus round. The graphics are chunky and the reel spin times are spot on. You'll want to lose the audio track after around fifteen minutes of play, as it's straight out of a 1991 Wigan pier fruity, but the machine is good enough to play without the sound. Classic poker symbols and some Egyptian themed symbols make up the reels, with the Book of Ra being both a wild symbol and the bonus game activation symbol.

Any win on this slot game can be doubled by hitting the gamble button in a fair game of all or nothing. You get to choose a colour, and should the ace drawn from the deck match that colour, then you double your winnings. You can have up to five doubles before you're delivered back to the reel game considerably richer.

The reel riches of this game lie in the expanding symbol feature game. At first, to the eye of the untrained archaeologist it might look like this is your average free spin excavation, but there's more to it than meets the Eye of Horus. At the beginning of the ten free spin round, one symbol is allocated to be the expanding symbol. After the reel spin wins are counted normally, the expanding symbols in view will all flip to fill up the reel they rolled in on. This is why the game only has the line lines, as payouts would become astronomical with this feature on twenty pay-lines. With free spin reactivation from within the bonus game, you can keep building that pyramid of prizes. The bonus feature is the shining sunlight of the Book of Ra slot game, as prizes can jump pretty quickly to the larger amounts and apparently games of forty plus spins are not uncommon.

The real treasure, however, at the end of the tunnel with the Book of Ra themed slot game is the payout percentage which sits at a golden 96.9%. This is one of the most generous rates available on the online slot circuit, and it could go on to create wealth in your balance equal to the riches of the Pharaohs.