Lil Sphinx Slot by Playtech

Almost everything here runs through one square. Reel 3, middle row. That's the Cat Zone, and it's the only spot where the Lil Sphinx Wild ever appears. When she lands there she collects the values sitting on every Coin and Special Prize symbol in view, then tosses gold into one or both of the blue Eye-of-Horus pots perched above the reels. The Wild subs for everything except the Cash Prize and Special Prize icons, so those two stay collectable instead of getting painted over.

The pots drive the free games. Each one fills as the cat throws coins, and the fuller a pot gets, the better its odds of triggering. When a pot pops it hands over 6 free games, and if both trigger you stack them. Inside the round the Sphinx stays locked in the Cat Zone and collects on every spin, the reels get enhanced so a fixed number of positions are guaranteed to show Coin or Special Prize symbols, and extra coins thrown into the pots can push the free game count higher.

Then the jackpots. Collecting a Special Prize symbol pays one of four set amounts: Mini at 5x, Minor at 10x, Major at 75x or Mega at 1000x. Fixed, not progressive, so the Mega stays 1000x whether you hit it today or next year.

Two Rewind touches keep the base game from stalling. Miss the Cat Zone and the reel can randomly rewind to drop the Sphinx back in. Land in it and a random rewind can flip a batch of royal-card positions into Special Prize symbols before she collects. Honest catch: without those rewinds firing, or the Extra Bet that adds a second Cat Zone, the base game is a lot of waiting for one cat to hit one square.

The setting is bright and sunny for Egypt, golden dunes with a sandstone temple avenue running back toward the pyramids and coins raining out of a clear blue sky. The Sphinx herself is a smug white-and-grey cat with blue eyes, a gold ankh on her forehead and a pharaoh collar, and a teal ball of yarn sits among the gold cash coins on the reels.