Banquet of Dead Slot by Play'n GO

Queen Nitocris drowned her brother's murderers by flooding a banquet hall - and the "of Dead" franchise built an entire slot around that story. The hourglass acts as both scatter and wild, same dual role Book of Dead gave its book symbol back in 2016. Three hourglasses trigger 7 free spins with a 2.5x total bet payout attached. Four pay 25x. Five pay 150x. Retriggering adds more spins, capped at 25 total.

Before free spins start, the game picks one symbol at random as the expanding symbol. When it fills an entire reel, it expands to cover all positions on that reel. Standard stuff for the series. But here's where the math shifts: each time the expanding symbol triggers, the lowest-paying regular symbol on the reels is permanently removed for the rest of the bonus. Gone from the strip entirely. If the expanding symbol itself gets removed (which happens if it was a low-pay card), a new expanding symbol is randomly assigned. Every removal concentrates the symbol pool further, pushing the odds toward premium hits with each passing spin.

Nitocris pays 150x for five of a kind. Sobek pays 120x. Both high-pay symbols pay starting from just two on a line, which matters on a 10-payline game where coverage is tight. The theoretical ceiling sits at 35,000x - roughly 7 times higher than most "of Dead" entries, which tend to cap around 5,000x. Getting there requires five Nitocris symbols across every reel on all 10 lines simultaneously, something that lands less than once in 100 million spins. The symbol removal mechanic is the engine behind that number, since a fully stripped reel set late in the bonus can produce multi-line premium fills that a standard Egyptian book game never could.

Marble columns, torch sconces, fruit platters draped in grapevines, and ornate card symbols styled after carved stone - the banquet hall setting pulls away from the usual sandy tombs. A gamble feature offers red/black or suit guesses after base game wins. No buy bonus, no ante bet.