John Hunter and the Tomb of the Scarab Queen Slot

This exciting game is played on 5 reels with 3 rows, 25 fixed paylines and an incredible number of symbols. There are 16 of them including 8 feature symbols and 8 regular icons and this number is a promise of extraordinary gaming experience. And the game delivers on the promise as it is packed with features and tricks making the gameplay grasping and rewarding. To set the slot machine in motion and reveal its hidden capabilities, players are asked to place a bet. The slot accepts stakes starting from $0.01 to $5 per line so a spin may cost between $0.25 and $125. Regular icons are 4 playing cards from J to A, a well-worn leather bag, a short gun in a leather holster, an image of Anubis and John Hunter himself. To make these icons pay, players have to land 3, 4 or 5 matching icons on any payline starting from the leftmost reel. If this happens, cards reward a player within the range between x5 and x100 the line bet and other icons pay x5 to x800.

Her Majesty the Scarab Queen is a wild symbol. She assists regular icons in building up combinations by substituting for any of them on any line combo they try to create but she never does anything of this sort with scatters and other feature symbols. Wilds have their own way: they never land on reel 1 and always pop up on reels 2–5. Wilds pay no award. A tomb of the Queen, which is in fact her treasury, is a scatter. Scatters may be detected on reels 2, 3 and 4; when the reels host a threesome of scatters they pay the award of x1 the total stake and grant 8 free spins. A scarab designed like a coat of arms is a money symbol. His habitat is restricted to reels 1–4, while reel 5 hosts Collect symbols. Scarabs and Collect symbols do not produce any effect separately but when the Scarab Queen gives them order, they obey and create a junction producing the most beneficial effects for players who dare to follow John and play the slot for real money. They activate jointly and trigger a Money Collect bonus designed to let online casino players collect as much cash as the Scarab Queen may allow. In fact, the 5 Collect symbols are so different in functions and effects that it would be correct to say that the scarab and any given Collect symbols is an independent extra bonus feature. Free Spins and Money Collect are designed in an interesting way: they may run sort of simultaneously. The Money Collect feature operates in the background of free spins, keeping a low profile till the moment free spins are over and then it grants an extra chance to earn some more cash.

Landing at least 3 Scarab Queens in any positions on reels 2–5 awards 8 free spins. This is a starting set and hitting 3+ Scatters on the same reels during the feature adds 8 extra free spins. There is no limit on winning a bonus supplement of free spins and players are allowed to retrigger the feature as many times as they can. When the feature unlocks, players may notice that a new detail appears above the reels. It is a bonus pot meant for collecting cash prizes brought by money symbols (scarabs) when they hit the reels in the course of free spins. This pot collects prizes till the end of free spins and then comes an interesting final, a variance of the Money Collect feature. The slot machine grants an extra spin during which reels 1–4 transform into a super huge money symbol having the total value of cash prizes collected in the bonus pot. If one of Collect symbols hits reel 5 during this extra spin, the prize on display on the super huge money symbol is paid out as an extra award to the total win in the Free Spins feature. As soon as FS are retriggerable and the final Money Collect spin is a normal part of free spins, the Money Collect feature will appear after every extra set of 8 FS.

Scarabs always appear with some value attached to their magnificent wings. These values are taken from a predefined set of cash prizes, the scale of which depends on the effective bet. The higher the bet the bigger the prizes, as simple as that. Scarabs do not produce any effect in the slot machine, unless accompanied by a Collect symbol. As soon as any Collect symbol hits reel 5 while the scarab lands on reels 1¬–4, the Money Collect feature starts and awards one out of five possible benefits depending on the kind of the triggering Collect symbol:

1. “Collect” icon adds values shown on all money symbols on the reels and pays the total. This amount may be quite impressive as scarabs come in flocks and each scarab displays a cash prize attached
2. “Extra Collect” does the same trick as the above icon plus it has its own instant cash award. Added to the values shown on all scarabs, it further increases the total payout
3. “Multiplier Collect” appears on reel 5 with a random multiplier (possible values are not revealed in video slot rules). This random multiplier applies to the value of every money symbol in the triggering spin, then these values are tallied and paid out
4. “Expanding Collect” icon makes real wonders. When it hits reel 5, it makes all money symbols expand, so every reel featuring at least 1 scarab will be occupied by scarabs entirely. The newly spawn scarabs take random values from the predefined set, all values of the triggering scarabs and extra ones are then added and paid out
5. “Respin Collect” icon makes all money symbols sticky, while all other cells will respin to bring new randomly selected icons including extra money symbols. Then the values of all money symbols on the reels are tallied and awarded to the player.

As soon as money symbols always come with a value payable in one way or another depending on the type of Collect symbols, this feature cannot end up with no win and always brings some cash for a player. All in all, the Money Collect feature is so variable and unfailingly lucrative that it makes the slot a recommended game to play when visiting an online casino.

John Hunter and the Tomb of the Scarab Queen is a 5-reel 25-line video slot by Pragmatic Play accepting bets between $0.01 and $5 per line and awarding wins up to x800 the line bet and offering endlessly retriggerable free spins and the Money Collect feature with five different ways to hit instant cash prizes.