Da Vincis Treasure Slot Review
A brass telescope pokes in from the top-left, a compass sits in the corner, and an old sepia map runs edge to edge behind the reels. Da Vincis Treasure dresses itself as an explorer’s study, but the disguise is thin: this is a slot where the base game barely matters and everything rides on a single trigger in the middle of the board.
Pragmatic Play runs it on 96.53% RTP, high volatility, a 48,000x max win ceiling and bets from 0.25 to 100 per spin, across a 5×3 grid with 25 paylines. It shares expedition territory with John Hunter and the Book of Tut and John Hunter and the Mayan Gods. The map on the wall is the honest part: the whole game is a hunt for three golden cylinders.
The Reels and the Map
Wins pay left to right across 25 selected paylines, with only the highest combination counting on each line. When several lines win at once, the amounts add together into the total. All wins are multiplied by the bet per line, and bonus and free spins wins are added to the payline win. It’s a conventional setup, and the game doesn’t disguise it.
The Wild is Da Vinci’s portrait, substituting for everything except the BONUS symbol and landing only on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Because it never appears on the first reel, every wild-assisted win still needs a symbol landing to its left – the wild completes lines, it can’t start them.
The BONUS symbol is a golden cylinder that appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, and three of it across those reels fires one of the three bonus games. Neither symbol carries a pay value of its own.
The paytable pays as multiples of the total bet:
- Hunter (man in red hat) – 0.4x for two, 2x for three, 8x for four, 32x for five
- Green card/map item – 0.2x for two, 1.2x for three, 6x for four, 20x for five
- Golden chest – 0.2x for two, 1.2x for three, 6x for four, 20x for five
- Flying machine (spiral rotor) – 0.8x for three, 4x for four, 12x for five
- Crossbow – 0.8x for three, 4x for four, 12x for five
- A, K, Q – 0.2x for three, 0.6x for four, 6x for five
- J, 10, 9 – 0.2x for three, 0.4x for four, 4x for five
Two symbols pay from as few as two of a kind, which is where most of the small, frequent base game wins come from. Five Hunters at 32x the total bet is the best line the paytable offers on its own.
Three Random Bonus Games
Landing three BONUS symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4 awards one of three bonus games, picked at random. Which one you get isn’t yours to choose, and that’s the whole design: every trigger carries a small roll of its own before the round even begins.
Each of the three rounds pays out differently, too. One builds, one runs, and one is over in a click, so the same trigger can mean entirely different sessions depending on what the draw gives you.
Map Quest
Map Quest lays out 23 points on a map, each holding a money award, and a wheel of fortune with six slices:
- 1 step – advance one point, spin again
- 2 steps – advance two points, spin again
- 3 steps – advance three points, spin again
- 4 steps – advance four points, spin again
- 5 steps – advance five points, spin again
- GAME OVER – the round ends immediately
You start at the first point and spin. Hitting a number advances you that many points and awards another spin. The round ends on GAME OVER or on reaching point 23, and you’re paid the award of the last point you reached. Every extra step is pressure: the further you walk, the more a single GAME OVER slice costs you.
With five of the six slices keeping the round alive, the wheel is generous on average. The distance matters, though – landing point 23 outright takes a run of good spins, and the biggest awards sit at the far end of the map.
Progressive Multiplier Free Spins
This is the round the game sells itself on. You start with 12 free spins and a 1x multiplier, and the multiplier climbs by 1x after every free spin. Each spin’s win is multiplied by the current value, so the maths gets better the longer the round runs.
Unextended, the round runs through multipliers of 1x up to 12x on the final spin, which means the last few spins carry the most weight. A blank run of early spins costs little; a big win landing on spin ten is worth ten times the same win on spin one.
Three BONUS symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4 during the round award 12 additional free spins, up to a cap of 60. The feature can be retriggered, and a full-length round with late multipliers applied to every win is where the game’s biggest results live.
Prize Picker
The simplest of the three. You pick one of three items and the award underneath it is yours. No map, no multipliers, no decisions beyond the first. It’s a quick hit rather than a round you build, and it’s over in a single click.
Gambling a Feature Win
The total win from any feature can be collected as it stands or gambled at 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x. That applies to all three bonus games, so a thin Prize Picker award can be pushed, and so can a big Map Quest haul. Each level is a single pick, and the structure is the same at every rung:
- 2x gamble – pick one of 2 objects; 1 wins 2x the gambled amount, 1 loses it all
- 3x gamble – pick one of 3 objects; 1 wins 3x, 2 lose the full amount
- 4x gamble – pick one of 4 objects; 1 wins 4x, 3 lose the full amount
- 5x gamble – pick one of 5 objects; 1 wins 5x, 4 lose the full amount
The odds follow the multiplier. A 2x gamble is a coin flip on your feature win; a 5x gamble is one correct pick out of five. There’s no partial loss – you either multiply the whole win or lose it all, and collecting is always on the table.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
The base game is a corridor, not a destination. You spin, the map sits there, and you wait for three golden cylinders to line up across the middle reels – which is the one reason anybody loads this up: that trigger is a lucky dip with three very different prizes in it.
The draw itself is the strength. A trigger never plays the same way twice, and the free spins round rewards patience properly, because a late win is worth many times an early one. Map Quest is the best of the three to actually sit through – one more step, one more spin, one slice of the wheel away from losing the lot.
The weakness is the Prize Picker: drawing it after a long dry run feels like being handed the booby prize, one click and it’s gone. That and the waiting will wear thin on anyone who wants the reels themselves to do the entertaining. It suits players who like variety in their bonuses and can hold their nerve between them – the treasure here is real, but it’s buried deep.
Da Vincis Treasure FAQs
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What is the RTP of Da Vincis Treasure?
The RTP is 96.53%. -
Is Da Vincis Treasure high volatility?
Yes. It’s a high volatility game, so payouts land less often on average, but the potential for big wins in a short session is higher. -
How do you trigger the bonus games in Da Vincis Treasure?
Hit three BONUS symbols on reels 2, 3 and 4. That awards one of three bonus games at random: Map Quest, Progressive Multiplier Free Spins or Prize Picker. -
How does the Progressive Multiplier Free Spins round work?
You get 12 free spins with a 1x starting multiplier that increases by 1x after every spin. Three BONUS symbols during the round award 12 extra spins, up to a total of 60, and the feature can be retriggered. -
What is the Map Quest bonus game?
It’s a map of 23 points, each with a money award, and a wheel of fortune with slices of 1 to 5 steps plus GAME OVER. Number hits advance you along the map and award another spin, and you’re paid the prize of the last point reached. -
How does the gamble feature work in Da Vincis Treasure?
Any feature win can be gambled at 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x. You pick one object out of two, three, four or five respectively; the single winning object multiplies your stake by the chosen factor, while the others lose the full amount. -
What is the highest-paying symbol in Da Vincis Treasure?
The Hunter, the man in the red hat. He pays from two of a kind and returns 32x the total bet for five, with the green map card and the golden chest next at 20x for five. -
How many paylines does Da Vincis Treasure have?
There are 25 paylines, with all symbols paying left to right on selected paylines and only the highest win paid per line. -
What is the maximum win on Da Vincis Treasure?
The maximum win is 48,000x your bet.
