Ramesses Riches Slot by Light & Wonder

The pharaoh symbol carries the whole game. Ramesses substitutes for everything except the scattered ANKH, and any winning line he completes pays double on the spot. That doubling is not a bonus you trigger, it happens every time a wild lands in a paying combo, base game or free games. He also pays in his own right as the top symbol, climbing to 5,000 times your line stake for five in a row, which is the single biggest hit on the board.

Where it gets interesting is the free round. Land three or more scattered ANKH anywhere and the feature awards four free games for each ANKH in the trigger, so three scatters give twelve spins, four give sixteen, five give the maximum twenty. Every prize during the round is tripled. Stack that 3x on top of the wild's 2x and a single line with Ramesses on it lands at six times its normal value. The feature re-triggers too, adding four more games per ANKH if the scatters keep showing up, and it always plays at the lines and bet you triggered it on.

The ANKH scatter is worth watching on its own. It pays from any position rather than along the lines, and those payouts use your total bet instead of the per-line stake, so a five-scatter hit pays 100x the full spin. Most of the value, though, comes from chaining wilds and scatters together while the triple is active.

The art keeps things warm and sunlit rather than going for the dusty tomb look. The reels sit on pale papyrus framed in wood, with a desert horizon, a pyramid silhouette and palm fronds drooping in from the edges. Cleopatra appears as a blue-haired queen in a cameo, there is a black Bastet cat with an ankh collar, a hieroglyph scroll and the golden Eye of Horus, with bright color-coded 9-through-A card values rounding out the low pays. The friendly, family-leaning style sits close to the studio's Cleo's Wish, and there is plenty more on the Egyptian shelf if the setting is your thing.