Joan of Arc Slot by GameArt

The mechanic that sets this one apart is the glowing frame that drops onto random symbols. Land a framed symbol inside a winning combination and it triggers Expand & Split: that symbol expands and splits to fatten the win, and it fires separately for every framed symbol that's part of a win on the same spin. So two framed winners on one screen means two boosts stacked into the payout. It works the same way in the bonus as it does in the base game, which is what makes the free spins worth chasing rather than just a longer version of normal play.

Those free spins come from the red-haired Joan charging in on horseback, the Bonus symbol. Three or more of her anywhere on the reels opens the round, and once you're in, the framed expanding symbols keep doing their work on top of every win. The white fleur-de-lis banner is the Wild and it lands stacked, so a full column of banners can blanket a reel and fill out matches across all 243 ways at once. Pays run left to right on adjacent reels, the standard ways setup, with no payout numbers shown on the symbols themselves.

If you don't want to grind the Bonus symbols out, the feature can be bought for around 30x your stake, which drops you straight into the round. There's a card gamble on wins too, the usual red-or-black double-up, and no jackpots bolted on anywhere.

The board sits on a misty battlefield at dawn, grassy field flanked by upright spears and a fallen banner under a smoky orange sky. Symbols pull from the Hundred Years' War: a steel-armoured man-at-arms, a turreted castle, a crossed-swords helmet and a blue fleur-de-lis shield up top, jewelled K through 9 royals filling the low end. Steel greys, royal blues and gold against all that battle-smoke orange. It's a medieval build that puts its whole personality into the split-symbol trick rather than a pile of separate features.