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A While on the Nile Slot by Light & Wonder

by Light & WonderReleased Jun 3, 2014

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A cartoon trip down the Nile where the grinning Pharaoh Wild stacks across the three middle reels and the optional SuperBet wager lifts every substitution win up to x10. Three Jewels turn whole symbol stacks wild for 5 free games. The "Free Play" button below loads the A While on the Nile demo instantly in your browser.

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Specifications

Game TypeSlots
RTP95.63%
RTP Range95.076-95.631
VolatilityMedium
Grid5x3
Paylines50 fixed lines
Min Bet$0.01
Max Bet$875
Themes
Features
A While on the Nile slot gameplay showing 5x3 Egyptian grid with stacked Pharaoh Wilds across reels 2-4 and active paylines

About A While on the Nile Slot

The setting is the friendly end of ancient Egypt. Sandstone pillars and a single pyramid sit under a bright blue sky, palm trees lean in from the sides, and the reels are bolted into a heavy gold border with the 50 line numbers stamped down both edges. Symbols are drawn as broad cartoons: a goofy blue-and-gold Pharaoh, a smiling Cleopatra, the Eye of Horus, a stone treasure tablet, a curved sceptre dripping coins, then the usual A-K-Q-J-10 royals in chunky carved lettering. Nothing here is trying to be mystical. It plays for laughs more than for atmosphere.

The Pharaoh is the Wild, and he only lands stacked on reels two, three and four, so a good hit usually means one of those middle columns filling top to bottom with the same grinning face. He covers everything except the two scatters and pays nothing on his own, working purely as a substitute. That's where SuperBet comes in. It's a separate wager you dial up beside the reels, and each tier multiplies any Pharaoh substitution win: 50x your line bet doubles it, and the top setting at 300x per line pushes every wild win to x10. The trade-off is plain enough, you pay more per spin for a bigger swing on the wilds.

Two scatters run the bonuses. The green Jewel lands on the same middle three reels and three of them pay double your stake plus open the Free Game Feature: 5 spins where reel symbols start turning wild, often whole stacks at once, with the SuperBet multipliers still live. It retriggers if more Jewels drop. The blue Scarab is the other one, landing on reels one, three and five, and three of those fire a pick round where you keep choosing scarabs for cash prizes until COLLECT shows up. The Scarab pick can also surface inside the free games.

It's a 2014 NextGen build now flying the Egyptian banner for Light & Wonder, and the math is on the gentler side, no buy bonus, no jackpot, just the SuperBet lever and two scatter triggers. If the cartoon Cleopatra look appeals, Cleo's Wish from the same studio sits very close to it.

Reviewed by Arina, Slots Editor at Spinoxy Media Ltd.