The Mummy Slot Machine. Based on the movie franchise of the same name, The Mummy slot from Playtech stays true to its source material, whilst incorporating a whole host of special bonus features.
This game has 25 win lines which cannot be adjusted – though you’ll have a wide choice of options for bet sizes from 5c per line ($1.25 per spin) and up. This game is available for real money as well as free. Auto play can be set at 10, 25, 50, 99 or to run until you hit the feature.
The single biggest pay-out in the regular game comes from lining up the symbols of the hero (Brendan Fraser). 5 in a row are worth 10,000 coins, with 1000 coins for 4, 250 for 3 and a consolation prize of 5 coins for just 5. Rachael Weisz is next, worth 2000 coins for 5 (again paying down to 2, though the remaining symbols require at least 3). The other characters from the film are worth 500 and 250 coins for 5 – with the scarab, guns and statues making up the smaller wins.
Mummies (which look more like corpses or zombies) are the wild symbol – and will substitute for anything except the scatters and special bonus symbols. This only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 – and so cannot make a winning combination all of its own. Instead it creates multiple wins with the other symbols – particularly useful when you get the expanding mummy feature, where any wilds grow to cover all 3 rows on a reel.
The Mummy logo is the scatter, paying up to 150 times your total bet for 5 anywhere on the reels. This scatter does not trigger the bonus games like on many other slots – instead these are triggered at random.
There are a lot of features – all of which start with the ‘lost city’ game. Here you will see people in a desert at sunrise, before being taken to a room with 6 caskets. You choose caskets, revealing a cash prize or the word ‘collect’. When you hit collect you will see the book of the dead, which opens to reveal either an on-reel feature (there are 6 of these) or one of the two special symbols which can trigger the bigger features.
Here are the on-reel features:
Scorpion Scatter – A new scatter symbol, along with extra pay-outs appears on the reels.
Expanding Mummy – The wild symbols now expand (with excellent animation) to cover all 3 rows on a reel.
Collapsing Reels – Wins explode, with symbols falling down to fill the gaps (new ones at the top) often creating new wins.
Scarab Attack – Hitting a scarab beetle in the middle reel gets you 2 extra wild scarabs, one on reel 2 and one on reel 4.
Mummy Respin – When you hit a mummy it expands, freezes and the reels respin until you get a win.
There is more than this. You can also get the free games bonus symbol or the ‘Mummy Hunt’ bonus symbol assigned from the Lost City bonus game. When you hit the free spins on reels 1, 3 and 5 you go to a new set of reels with the blue sky behind and 9 slots to the left. The reels will spin 5 times, and each time a mummy appears, one of the slots will be filled. On the 6th spin, these (wild) symbols are randomly distributed to the reels for what can be a very profitable spin.
The last bonus is a break out game, where you will hunt the mummies in a catacomb. You choose left or right, either finding a mummy (you kill it and win cash) or a dead end (where the mummies ambush you). You can kill up to 10 mummies in this game.
This is an amazing slot machine, with very slick animations and enough games and features to keep even the most demanding slots fans entertained. I loved this game, and will certainly be spinning the reels again at some point soon – check it out for yourself soon!