Legacy of Dead slot: a new expanding symbol on every retrigger

The tomb does two jobs at once

The explorer stayed behind in the original, and that is the first thing regulars notice. The top of the paytable belongs to the golden mask, then the pharaoh, the jackal headed Anubis and the falcon, with card values from Ten to Ace underneath. The base game behaves like its predecessor almost symbol for symbol: short wins, long gaps, and a paytable you can read in half a minute.

• The tomb never needs a line to pay, and it stands in for whatever a line is missing: one symbol doing the work of two, which is why a grid with nothing lined up on it can still owe you money.
• The grid is 5x3 with 10 fixed lines, counted left to right, one bet across all of them.
• Three tombs anywhere open 10 free spins, and the game names the symbol that will open across a full reel before the round starts.
• Three more tombs inside the round add 10 spins and one more expanding symbol, up to all 9 ordinary symbols in a long enough run.
• After a base game win the card gamble is available: colour doubles the amount, suit multiplies it fourfold.

Every retrigger adds a symbol, and the old ones stay lit

The first draw names one symbol, and for ten spins the round is a single-symbol affair: enough copies of it on the grid and the reels holding them turn into solid columns of that symbol. What the sequel adds starts with the second set of three tombs. Each retrigger keeps the symbol you already have and lights another one beside it, so the first one carries on paying while the second joins in, and a round that keeps producing tombs finishes with three different symbols standing open at the same time and every line counting all of them together.

The session that keeps this game in my bookmarks started badly. Three tombs on the sixth spin, the draw stopped on the Ten, and I had already reached for autoplay to get the round over with. Four spins later another three tombs, and the second draw gave me the mask. The next two minutes went like this: the mask opened on three reels, and the Ten that I had written off filled the lines on the other two.

250000 coins: a coin figure, and coins are not bet multiples

That figure needs a paragraph of its own, because it caught me out the first time as well. Play'n GO states the ceiling of this game in coins, and the neighbouring cards in the tab state theirs as a multiple of the bet. A coin is the game's internal unit: you choose its denomination and a bet level, and the two together decide what a spin costs in the currency of your account. The 250000 coins figure belongs to the maximum bet level, so to read it in your own money you multiply by the denomination, and at a low level the same combination pays proportionally less. The practical part: the total of a round here is built from the number of symbols opening at once, and a long round pays with the whole paytable.

High volatility at RTP 94.51%: the arithmetic of waiting

Whatever 94.51% means across a lifetime of spins, this game hands it back in very few pieces, and the retrigger is the reason. A round that stops after the first ten spins returns small change. A round that collects a second symbol, then a third, returns most of what the silence before it took. So the percentage is not a rhythm you can feel here; it is a lump sum that either lands or does not, which is high volatility with the label peeled off. Size the bet for the waiting: the bankroll that survives long enough to see a second draw is the one that was never large per spin. Which exact setting of that figure is running belongs to the casino, and the i button in the lobby game answers it in a second.

Legacy of Dead demo: a retrigger you can watch for free

A retrigger is hard to picture from a paytable, and that is the job of the window above: the Play'n GO practice build, play money on the balance, the same generator the paid game uses, and no account in the way. The single variable is the RTP configuration: the practice server carries one build, the casino orders another, and the setting live at Vavada appears only inside the lobby game, behind the i button. I spend the free spins there counting how long a dead stretch runs and how a second draw changes the round; percentages I check in the account.

For money, the first deposit bonus is the thing to think about before you spin. Vavada matches that deposit 100%, the match is wagered x35, and slots are the only place the wagering counts, and this card counts towards it unless the lobby marks the game as closed to bonus money. Two limits belong in the same thought. A payout from bets made with bonus money is capped at ten times the bonus, and a withdrawal request filed before the wagering is closed removes the bonus along with what it won. High volatility and a wagering requirement are an awkward pair, so I take the bonus here when the plan is several evenings, and play on my own money when the plan is one. The full terms sit on the bonuses page, and what the account asks for at the first withdrawal is on the registration page.

Original, sequel, or a quieter night from the same studio

Take Book of Dead when you want the same book with nothing built on top: one draw, ten spins, Rich Wilde at the top of the table. Take this one when you are willing to wait longer for a round that can grow while it runs. And if the dry tomb has stopped being fun and you want a bonus that turns up more often, Super Flip from the same studio runs at medium volatility with a simpler table and no Egypt in sight. All three stand together in the Hit tab, each with a demo on its review page.

Waiting for the retrigger, or walking away

I like this game and I resent it for the same reason, and I am going to leave that unresolved: the retrigger is genuinely clever, everything leading up to it is waiting, and the high volatility line in the passport warns you about that honestly. If you need the balance to move every few spins, the tab keeps plenty of cards that do exactly that. But the second expanding symbol is what people sit down here for, and on the evening the mask opens over a Ten that has already filled two reels, one round pays for the whole session.