Ancient Troy Dice Slot Review
Two draped stone women stand like living pillars at either edge of the screen, holding up a cracked marble frame while ivy spills over it and a Greek sky shows through the gaps. Beneath them, Endorphina‘s Ancient Troy Dice makes an unusual promise: a legend of war told in dice, running at an RTP of 98.06%, comfortably the most generous figure this side of a typical 96% slot. That number is the whole argument for the game, and for a plain 5×3 grid with 25 paylines it’s an argument worth hearing. Dice-skinned siblings like Almighty Sparta Dice and Joker Ra Dice cover similar ground in the studio’s catalogue, though neither matches this return. Troy, it turns out, pays better than it looks.
Dice and Legends: How the Base Game Pays
Wins are for combinations of a kind across the 25 lines. The reels carry two families of symbols. One side is drawn from the Trojan legend: a red-helmeted warrior, a purple-robed elder, a green-robed woman, a crested helmet and a pair of crossed swords.
The other side is dice. Four of them, colour-coded by pip count – pink with six pips, orange with five, yellow with four, blue with three and red with one – and each one pays a little less than the one above it. It’s a tidy, readable ladder.
Prizes are multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet, which matters when you’re comparing rows. The ladder, from the top:
- Red-helmeted warrior: 3.2x for three, 10x for four, 32x for five
- Purple-robed elder and green-robed woman: 1.6x, 8x, 24x
- Red-crested helmet and crossed swords: 1.2x, 6x, 20x
- Pink six-pip dice: 0.4x, 2x, 8x
- Orange five-pip and yellow four-pip dice: 0.4x, 1.2x, 6x
- Blue three-pip and red one-pip dice: 0.4x, 0.8x, 4x
- Trojan horse wild: 4x, 20x, 40x
- Temple and chest scatter: 2x, 20x, 200x
The Trojan horse wild steps in for every symbol except the scatter, and it tops the ladder at the top end. There’s a pleasing neatness to a game whose best-paying icon is the one that also completes everyone else’s combinations.
No maximum win figure exists for this one, so the ceiling is whatever the paytable and the Jokers’ multipliers can build between them. A sextuple off a five-of-a-kind warrior line is the realistic peak, and it’s a long way from the numbers a modern high-volatility game dangles.
The scatter doesn’t need a line to pay. It lands anywhere and counts, and three or more of them do more than hand over a prize, as the next section covers.
Free Games with the Troyan Jokers
Three or more scatters trigger 10 free games, played with the same bets and lines as the spin that set them off. The round can be won again while it’s running, so a good trigger can snowball.
The twist is the Troyan Jokers. Each free spin drops two of them onto the reels, and each carries a multiplier of x1, x2 or x3. They substitute for everything except the scatter.
When both Jokers are substituting in a winning line, both multipliers apply to the win. A x2 and a x3 together on the right line is a sextuple. The Jokers wear the faces of the three portrait characters, colour-coded green, purple and red for their multiplier tiers.
One quiet detail shapes the whole round: if a Joker has no combination to complete, it stays concealed. You don’t see the multiplier unless it’s actually paying, so the feature never shows its hand for free.
It’s a small touch of craft in a round that could easily have been a plain free-spins clone. The multiplier pairing also gives every spin a second thing to watch: the symbols themselves, and which two faces have landed and what they’re worth together.
The Risk Game
After any win, the Risk Game offers a card duel. Four cards lie face down on the table; pick one and beat the Dealer’s card to double your winnings. Keep winning and you can keep going, up to 10 attempts in total.
The Joker beats everything, and the Dealer can never hold one. Matching the Dealer’s value is a draw: winnings unchanged, and another attempt can be taken. If the Dealer wins any round, the stake and the Risk Game are gone.
TAKE WIN quits and banks what’s on the table, and it’s there for a reason. Averaged across the whole deck, the round returns 84% if you take the risk regardless of what’s showing, which makes the gamble a slow leak on autopilot.
The leak isn’t evenly spread, though. The game maps the round’s return card by card against the Dealer’s, and the swing is wide: against the lowest Dealer cards the gamble leans your way, while against the court cards it’s steeply against you.
That spread is the whole skill of the round. The sensible habit is to gamble the small cards and bank everything the Dealer shows from a nine upwards. Closed cards can be higher or lower than the Dealer’s, cards may re-appear from round to round, and the probabilities aren’t evenly distributed, so the four options in front of you never follow a fixed pattern.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this one is a stroll through sunlit ruins: calm 25-line play, wins that arrive politely, and a gamble that turns every modest payout into a genuine decision. That decision is the reason to choose it, and Troy’s marble frame gives the whole thing more charm than a dice slot deserves.
Its biggest strength is honesty. The Risk Game shows its odds card by card, which almost no gamble does, and that openness rewards anyone willing to pay attention to what the Dealer is holding. The return on the reels is exceptional too.
Its biggest weakness is that the rest of the game is modest. Ten free games with paired Jokers is pleasant without being deep, and the base game leans on the wild for its best moments. It suits players who like a classic line slot with a gamble worth thinking about; anyone chasing elaborate modern features will find these walls rather quiet.
Ancient Troy Dice FAQs
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What is the RTP of Ancient Troy Dice?
Ancient Troy Dice runs at an RTP of 98.06%, well above the industry average. The Risk Game gamble round has its own separate return of 84% on average if you take the risk regardless of the Dealer’s card. -
How do you trigger the Free Games in Ancient Troy Dice?
Landing three or more SCATTER symbols triggers 10 Free Games. The round is played with the same bets and lines as the triggering spin and can be won again during the feature. -
What do the Troyan Jokers do?
Each free spin awards two Troyan Jokers, which substitute for all symbols except the scatter and carry multipliers of x1, x2 or x3. If both Jokers are substituting in a win, both multipliers are applied. If there’s no combination to complete, the Joker stays concealed. -
How does the Risk Game gamble work?
After any win you can pick one of four face-down cards. Beat the Dealer’s card and your win doubles, with up to 10 attempts available. The Joker beats all other cards, the Dealer can never get one, and matching the Dealer’s value is a draw that leaves your winnings unchanged. If the Dealer wins, your winnings are lost. -
Is the Risk Game gamble worth taking?
It depends entirely on the Dealer’s card. The average return is 84% if you gamble regardless, but the return is far better against low Dealer cards and much worse against high ones, so the decision changes with every card. Gambling the low cards and pressing TAKE WIN against the rest is the sound habit. -
How many paylines does Ancient Troy Dice have?
Ancient Troy Dice is a 5-reel, 3-row slot game with 25 paylines. -
What is the grid size of Ancient Troy Dice?
The game plays on a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with 25 fixed paylines. -
Who makes Ancient Troy Dice?
Ancient Troy Dice is made by Endorphina. Its release date is 12 June 2019.
