Ankh of Anubis Slot Review
Two pyramids flank a calm stretch of the Nile, sailboats drift across the water, and a pale planet hangs low over the sandstone haze. Plenty of Egyptian slots would fill that scene with a book symbol and call it a day; Play’n GO have instead handed the whole game to Anubis, whose wilds can arrive on any spin, unannounced, in the base game and the bonus alike.
Ankh of Anubis runs on five reels with 576 payways, paying left to right, at 96.2% RTP with high volatility. The ceiling is 15,000x your bet, a serious figure for a studio whose Egyptian titles, from Book of Dead to Legacy of Dead and Rise of Dead, usually top out lower.
The Base Game and Its 576 Payways
The reels sit in dark stone panels carved with hieroglyphs and trimmed with gold, framed by that river-and-pyramid scene. The grid is an uneven shape: reels 2, 3 and 4 carry four symbol positions each, while reels 1 and 5 carry three. Multiply the five reel counts together, 3 × 4 × 4 × 4 × 3, and that asymmetry is what produces the 576 ways.
Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and every way that lands in a round is added together, with feature and scatter wins folded in on top. Only the highest win counts for any one symbol combination. Bets can’t be changed mid-round, and free spins play at the stake that triggered them.
The shape of the grid does quiet work here. Because the middle three reels are the tall ones, a symbol stack in the centre of the screen connects to more positions than the same stack on the edges, and five-symbol runs across the full width are rarer than they’d be on a uniform grid. Each symbol on the grid has one job:
- Anubis (wild) – substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, and pays the most
- Pyramid (scatter) – three or more open the Free Spins round
- Ankh – collected during Free Spins, five at a time
- Treasures – the Ankh’s companions in the high-paying tier
- Royals – the low-paying tier
The wild is also the game’s richest payer, in multiples of the total bet:
- Anubis (wild), five on a way: 10x the total bet
- Anubis (wild), four on a way: 4x the total bet
- Anubis (wild), three on a way: 2x the total bet
Those are multiples of the total bet, not a line bet, which matters on a ways grid: whatever stake you set, the top wild combination pays against all of it rather than a slice. Anubis is the payer; the treasures and royals exist to fill the ways around him, and the wild substitutions are where most of the game’s bigger base-game connections come from.
Anubis Wilds
Anubis’ power activates at random on any base-game spin, dropping wild symbols onto the reels while they’re still turning. It doesn’t guarantee a win; the wilds land where they land, and the ways are counted afterwards like any other spin.
It’s a small feature, but it’s the one doing the work between bonuses. With 576 ways in play, extra wilds have plenty of connections to find, and a cluster of them across the middle reels can turn an unremarkable spin into one of the game’s better base-game pays. A wild in the right place on reels 2, 3 or 4 bridges more positions than one on the outer reels, simply because those reels carry more of them.
There’s no counter to watch and no trigger to aim for, which cuts both ways. You can’t play towards it, but you also can’t miss it: when it fires, the wilds arrive before the reels settle, so every spin carries a small chance of being upgraded from within.
Free Spins and the Ankh Collection
The Pyramid scatter opens the round, and the awards step up with the count:
- 3 scatters: 10 free spins
- 4 scatters: 15 free spins
- 5 scatters: 20 free spins
Inside the round, every Ankh symbol that lands is collected. Each time five have been gathered, Anubis adds wilds to the reels at the end of that spin, and the results are paid accordingly. The collection carries over between spins for as long as the feature runs, so the meter keeps building through the round rather than resetting with each spin. It empties when the feature ends.
A single round runs on four moving parts, in this order. Ankhs land and the meter climbs by one for each. When the fifth is collected, wilds drop onto the reels at the end of that same spin, the payways are recalculated with them in place, and the meter starts climbing again from zero. Nothing about the drop resets the spins themselves; it’s purely additive.
The loop inside a good round looks like this: Ankhs land, the meter climbs, wilds arrive at the end of the spin that completes the fifth one, and the extra connections feed the ways. Retriggers stretch the runway, and each fresh batch of spins is another chance to fill the meter again, because the collection doesn’t reset between drops.
Scatters still land during free spins, and 3, 4 or 5 of them award an extra 3, 4 or 5 spins respectively. Retriggers have no limit, and the round only closes early if the 15,000x cap is reached.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
This is a patient game in an impatient theme. You spin, Anubis occasionally lends a hand, and the real reason to sit down at this stretch of the Nile is the collecting: five Ankhs at a time, building towards the next drop of wilds. The free spins loop rewards a long round better than almost anything else Play’n GO have built around these pyramids, because the meter never resets mid-feature and unlimited retriggers let one good run stack drop after drop.
A short round, though, gives you nothing. A few spins with thin Ankh landings can pass without a single wild drop, and the base game’s random wilds won’t always bridge the gap. Everything here runs through Anubis, and when he keeps to himself, the reels are plain.
For players who enjoy a build that has to be earned rather than bought, that patience is the appeal. Anyone after constant action from every spin will find the calm before each bonus a long one. The river here moves slowly, but it’s moving somewhere.
Ankh of Anubis FAQs
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How do you trigger Free Spins in Ankh of Anubis?
Three or more Pyramid scatter symbols trigger Free Spins. 3 scatters award 10 free spins, 4 award 15 and 5 award 20. -
What does collecting five Ankh symbols do?
During Free Spins, every Ankh symbol that lands is collected. Each time five have been gathered, Anubis adds wild symbols to the reels at the end of that spin to help create winning combinations. The collection carries over between spins and resets when the feature ends. -
Can Free Spins be retriggered in Ankh of Anubis?
Yes. Landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters during the round awards an extra 3, 4 or 5 free spins respectively, and the number of retriggers is unlimited. -
What is the RTP of Ankh of Anubis?
Ankh of Anubis runs at an RTP of 96.2%. -
Is Ankh of Anubis high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be less frequent but with a higher ceiling when they arrive. -
How many paylines does Ankh of Anubis have?
It’s played with 576 payways, paying left to right across five reels. The middle reels carry four symbol positions each and the outer reels carry three, which is what produces the 576 ways. -
What is the maximum win on Ankh of Anubis?
The maximum win is 15,000x your bet, and the free spins round ends immediately if it’s reached. -
Who makes Ankh of Anubis?
Ankh of Anubis is made by Play’n GO.
