Times Of Egypt

Times Of Egypt Slot Review

Carved columns crowd both edges of the screen, their hieroglyphs lit the same warm amber as the stone wall behind them, and a dark passage glows sandy-gold beneath the reels. Times Of Egypt makes one decision matter more than any other: before its bonus begins, you choose its shape, and everything else in the game exists to carry you to that choice. It’s the original behind Times Of Egypt Egyptian Darkness and Times Of Egypt Pharaoh’s Reign, both of which inherit it, and it comes from Spinomenal.

It runs a 5×4 grid across 30 fixed lines, at an RTP of 93.34%, which sits well below where the modern market idles. The pull is the free spins round, where you pick between more spins and taller stacks, and for a game called Times Of Egypt, that choice is where the sand shifts.

Reels, Symbols and What They Pay

All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, only the highest win on each line is paid, and wins are multiplied by the bet per line. The wild, a woman’s head, counts as any symbol except the free spins scatter. Five wilds on a winning line pay the line bet x1,000.

That makes the wild the top prize on the reels by some distance. Even so, it’s a line-based prize rather than a scatter one, so it has to land in the right places on consecutive reels to count.

You set your stake with the plus and minus buttons, which choose the bet per line across the 30 lines, and every win in a round shows in the WIN field. During a spin the Help and Settings buttons are disabled, and during free spins the bet buttons lock too, so the stake you carry into a round is the stake you keep.

The Paytable

Values are as printed on the game’s paytable screens.

• Ankh – 3 pays 40, 4 pays 200, 5 pays 1,000
• Hourglass – 3 pays 30, 4 pays 80, 5 pays 400
• Scarab – 3 pays 25, 4 pays 50, 5 pays 200
• Eye/orb amulet – 3 pays 20, 4 pays 40, 5 pays 120
• A – 3 pays 15, 4 pays 25, 5 pays 50
• K and Q – 3 pays 10, 4 pays 20, 5 pays 40
• J and 10 – 3 pays 5, 4 pays 10, 5 pays 30

The gap between the ankh and the royals is steep. Five ankhs pay 1,000 against 30 for five Js or 10s, roughly thirty times more, so the mid-tier symbols carry most of the table’s weight.

The card run mostly fills out the smaller wins between them. Five Js or 10s returns 30 times the line bet, which on its own won’t move a session; the interest sits in how often those symbols stack together with the mid-tier above them.

Stacked Medium Symbols

The four medium symbols, the ankh, hourglass, scarab and eye amulet, can land as 1×2 or 1×3 stacked symbols, filling two or three positions on a reel. A stack always pays exactly what the same symbols would pay singly, so the stacking changes how much of the grid a symbol can cover rather than what it’s worth.

On a 5×4 grid with 30 lines, a full-height 1×3 stack can feed several lines at once, which is where the mid-tier symbols do their best work. A reel fully dressed in ankhs, with the ankh worth 1,000 at five-of-a-kind, is the sort of spin the stacking exists to set up.

Stacks in the base game arrive as they please. It’s inside the free spins round that the game commits to them, and that commitment is what the bonus options are built around.

Free Spins and the Two Options

The pyramid scatter triggers the free spins game, and it doesn’t need a payline to do it: three or more landing anywhere on the reels will start the round, with only the count mattering rather than the position.

Before the round starts, you choose between two versions of it, and the choice is the whole character of this slot.

• 20 free spins, with every medium symbol appearing as a 1×2 stack, two positions tall
• 10 free spins, with every medium symbol appearing as a 1×3 stack, filling a full reel position top to bottom

Half the spins, taller stacks. The 1×3 option can dress an entire reel in one symbol, which across 30 lines can complete several winning combinations on a single spin, while the 20-spin version spreads the same idea across more chances and gentler coverage.

Either way, the bet per line you had when you triggered the round is the bet the round runs on, so set your stake with the bonus in mind before the scatters land.

The round can also extend itself. Landing the scatters again during free spins awards 5 more spins, keeping the option and bet you originally selected, so the choice you make at the start holds for the whole round, however long it runs.

Buying the Round

There’s a buy feature button in the interface as well, for jumping straight to the round rather than waiting on the scatters. It sits beside the spin controls, and it opens the same two-option choice when used.

Since the buy skips the base game entirely, the two options are effectively the whole product when you use it. The stake rules carry over unchanged, and the retrigger behaves the same way it does on a landed round.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.4/10

Sitting here is like spinning in a lamplit tomb: warm stone, gold trim, and not a great deal happening. That’s the honest shape of it. The one reason to settle in is the decision the scatters bring, and it’s a real one, because the tall-stack round plays nothing like the twenty-spin version.

That choice is the strength, and it runs deeper than cosmetics: a full 1×3 stack can close several of the 30 lines on one spin, so the option you pick genuinely changes the round. The weakness is everything either side of it. The base game offers a wild and stacks and waits, and the returns it’s set to hand back trail the follow-ups Spinomenal built on this same structure, which both run richer.

So it’s for the patient end of the Egyptian audience, the players who like a classic 30-line layout and one well-made decision per bonus. Anyone chasing busier reels will find the sequels already dug this tomb out. The lamplit chamber still glows, and it’s a comfortable place to wait.

Times Of Egypt FAQs

• What is the RTP of Times Of Egypt?

  Times Of Egypt runs at an RTP of 93.34%, which is below the level most modern slots offer.
• How many paylines does Times Of Egypt have?

  The game is set to 30 fixed lines, so every spin covers all 30.
• What is the grid size of Times Of Egypt?

  It plays on a 5×4 grid, five reels and four rows.
• How do you trigger the free spins in Times Of Egypt?

  Land three or more scattered free spins symbols, the pyramid icons, anywhere on the reels. They don’t need to sit on a payline.
• Can you choose your free spins round in Times Of Egypt?

  Yes. You pick between 20 free spins where all medium symbols appear as 1×2 stacked symbols, or 10 free spins where they appear as 1×3 stacked symbols.
• Can free spins retrigger in Times Of Egypt?

  Yes. Landing three or more scattered free spins symbols during the round awards 5 more spins, keeping the same option and bet you originally selected.
• What do stacked symbols do in Times Of Egypt?

  The four medium symbols, the ankh, hourglass, scarab and eye amulet, can land as 1×2 or 1×3 stacks. A stack pays exactly what the same symbols pay singly, so stacking covers more of the grid without changing the value.
• Can you buy the bonus on Times Of Egypt?

  Yes, there’s a buy feature button in the interface that jumps straight to the free spins round, where you make the usual choice between the two options.
• What does the wild do in Times Of Egypt?

  The wild substitutes for every symbol apart from the free spins scatter, and a full line of five wilds is the game’s biggest prize at 1,000 times the line bet.
• Who makes Times Of Egypt?

  Times Of Egypt is made by Spinomenal.