Golden Phoenix Slot by IGT

The reels here don't sit in a rectangle. They stack into a diamond that swells toward the middle, narrow at the edges and six symbols deep in the centre column, all set against blue temple rooftops with a blazing red-and-gold phoenix perched on a money pot above the board. That phoenix is the whole engine. It's a collector, and where it lands decides how much of the screen it sweeps.

Gold coins across the grid carry printed cash values, and the phoenix pays them out. Land it on reel 1 and it collects every coin value plus any Grand, Major, Minor or Mini prize sitting on the adjacent reels, starting from reel 2 and working across. Land it on reel 5 and it grabs everything, every coin and every jackpot marker anywhere on the board. Reel 5 is the one you want. This is a money-collect game at heart, so those coin values matter more than the 40 paylines the base symbols pay on, and the lucky cats, ingots, gold toads and red packets filling the grid are mostly there to set the scene.

The four jackpots are collected, not dropped at random. At the smallest bet the Mini pays around 6x your stake, the Minor about 27x, the Major roughly 385x, and the Grand lands near 1,538x total bet, which is the headline prize. The phoenix has to reach them, so a reel 5 landing with a Grand marker sitting out on reel 2 is the dream sequence.

Two things turn the collection loud. Fever Mode fires at random in the base game and starts a 120-second clock. Every coin gets a value while it runs, and a multiplier from x1 up to x5 sits above reels 1 and 5, hitting everything the phoenix collects until the timer hits zero. The Bonus Spins work on the same idea. Three or more Bonus symbols open the round, coins now carry values of 10 to 500 each, an x1 to x5 multiplier rides above the outer reels, and one or more of reels 2, 3 and 4 can fill entirely with coins to hand the phoenix a fat haul. Extra Bonus symbols keep retriggering it, stretching all the way to 354 spins, though four and five-of-a-kind line wins switch off for the duration. There's no buy option in this IGT build, so Fever Mode and a live bonus are both things you wait on.