Pyramid King

Pyramid King Slot Review

Anubis stands at the top of this tomb’s paytable, and the game he rules is a soft touch by the standards of his genre. Pyramid King is low volatility, which is rare company for an Egyptian slot carrying a respin feature and three fixed jackpots. Pragmatic Play have taken a theme that usually runs brutal and built it for long, quiet sessions instead.

It runs on a 5×3 grid with 25 paylines, at 96.5% RTP, with a 2,500x ceiling on wins and stakes from 0.25 to 250 per spin. The rest of the Pragmatic Egypt shelf, including John Hunter & the Tomb of the Scarab Queen and Might of Ra, tends to run hotter than this.

Pyramid King is the patient one of the family. The question is whether patience pays in a tomb this well-travelled.

Base Game & Features

The setting is the inside of a tomb, with Anubis, a cobra, a ring and the ankh filling out the premium symbols alongside A, K, Q and J. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win per combination on each payline counts.

Wins on several paylines are added together, and free spins and bonus wins are added to the payline win. All wins are multiplied by the base bet, and the free spins win is awarded in full once the round completes.

The wild appears on all five reels and substitutes for everything except the Bonus and Money symbols, which keeps it out of the two trigger combinations. It’s also the joint-richest symbol on the grid, paying the same as Anubis, so a wild line is never a consolation prize.

All symbol values are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet:

• Anubis and the Wild: 1x for three, 10x for four, 20x for five
• Ring: 0.8x for three, 6x for four, 16x for five
• Snake: 0.8x for three, 4x for four, 12x for five
• Ankh: 0.4x for three, 2x for four, 8x for five
• Ace: 0.4x for three, 0.8x for four, 2x for five
• King, Queen and Jack: 0.2x for three, 0.8x for four, 2x for five

The drop from premium to royal is steep, and the low-tier symbols mostly exist to keep the balance trickling between the bigger hits. There’s no separate pay tier hiding in between either: the Ankh and the Ace are the middle of the ladder, and everything below them pays the same flat rate at the top end.

The Money Symbol and the Jackpot Ladder

The Money symbol sits on every reel and takes a random value from a predefined set on each spin, or one of the two mid-tier jackpot values. Land six or more in view and the Money Respin feature begins.

Three fixed jackpots ride on top of the symbol values, and they’re paid as multiples of the total bet rather than growing meters:

• GRAND Jackpot: 1000x the total bet
• MAJOR Jackpot: 100x the total bet
• MINOR Jackpot: 30x the total bet

The Bonus Symbol

The Bonus symbol lands only on reels 1, 3 and 5, so a trigger needs all three of those reels to cooperate at once. Three of them awards 1x the total bet and triggers the Free Spins feature.

That’s the base game’s whole job: line up the tomb’s premiums, watch for wilds, and wait on those three reels to agree. There’s no second route into either feature from the base game, no random trigger and no collection meter, so the three-reel scatter and the six-symbol Money count carry everything between them.

Pyramid King Money Respin and Free Spins

Money Respin Feature

The respin round begins once line wins have been paid. The regular symbols fade away and the triggering Money symbols lock in place, while the reels are swapped for special ones carrying only Money symbols and empty spaces.

You start with three respins. Every Money symbol that lands sticks until the round ends, and each time at least one lands, the respin count resets to three. The round runs until the respins run out or all fifteen positions fill with Money symbols.

When it ends, the values of every Money symbol on screen are added and paid as a total. Filling all fifteen positions also awards the GRAND Jackpot on top. The feature is available during the free spins round too, which is where the two halves of this game meet.

Free Spins Feature

Three Bonus symbols award 10 free spins. Before the round begins, one special expanding symbol is chosen at random from every symbol except the Bonus. During the round, after regular payouts, that symbol expands vertically to cover all three positions on its reel.

The expanded symbol pays on all five reels, even where the positions aren’t adjacent, and it only expands when enough symbols for a win are already there. If the special symbol turns out to be the Money symbol, expansion triggers a Money Respin round as well.

Bonus symbols landing three at a time again during the round add another 10 spins, and the chosen expanding symbol stays the same through the retrigger. There’s no limit on retriggers, so a lucky run can stack round after round on the same symbol.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

This is a tomb that likes company. Pyramid King feeds you small wins often enough that the balance barely notices the gaps, and the one reason to choose it over the louder Egyptian titles is exactly that: it’s the gentlest way into this theme going.

Its best trick is making the two features feed each other. Because a respin round can fire inside free spins, the bonus doesn’t feel like two separate games bolted together, and the reset-to-three respin count gives every round a genuine run-on sentence quality once the Money symbols start sticking. That’s the strength.

The weakness is the ceiling. A 2,500x maximum is modest for a modern Egyptian slot, and the expanding symbol paying on non-adjacent reels throws up wins that look grander on screen than they are in the balance. Anyone hunting five-figure multipliers will find this pyramid short on treasure.

It suits the long-session player who wants the Egypt fix without the swings, and the jackpot chaser content with a 1000x GRAND rather than a fortune. The rest of the desert is theirs.

Pyramid King FAQs

• What triggers the Money Respin feature in Pyramid King?

  Six or more Money symbols landing together trigger the Money Respin feature. You start with three respins, and every Money symbol that lands sticks in place and resets the count to three. Fill all fifteen positions and the GRAND Jackpot is paid on top of the collected values.
• How does the special expanding symbol work in free spins?

  Before the free spins round starts, one symbol is chosen at random from all symbols except the Bonus. During the round it expands to cover all three positions on its reel after regular payouts, and pays on all reels even on non-adjacent positions. If the Money symbol is chosen, expansion also triggers a Money Respin round.
• Can free spins retrigger in Pyramid King?

  Yes. Landing three or more Bonus symbols again during the round adds 10 more free spins, and the selected expanding symbol carries over unchanged. There’s no limit to the number of retriggers.
• What are the jackpots in Pyramid King worth?

  There are three fixed jackpots paid as multiples of the total bet: the GRAND at 1000x, the MAJOR at 100x and the MINOR at 30x. The GRAND is awarded for filling all fifteen positions in the Money Respin feature, while the MINOR and MAJOR values can be carried by individual Money symbols.
• What does the wild symbol substitute for in Pyramid King?

  The wild appears on all five reels and substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus and Money symbols, so it can’t help form either feature trigger. It matches Anubis as the richest symbol in the game.
• Is Pyramid King high volatility?

  No. Pyramid King is a low volatility game, paying out more often in smaller amounts while still offering the chance of larger wins through the Money Respin feature and its jackpots.
• What is the maximum win on Pyramid King?

  The maximum win is 2,500x the bet.
• Who makes Pyramid King?

  Pyramid King is made by Pragmatic Play, the studio behind the John Hunter series and the Sweet Bonanza line, among many others.