Solar Eclipse: Desert Treasure Slot by Playtech

The reels split their duties down the middle. A glowing full Moon coin, each one stamped with its own cash value, only ever lands on reels 1 and 2. The golden Suns and black-disc Solar Eclipses only land on reels 3, 4 and 5. Getting a Moon on both of the first two reels while a Sun or Eclipse fills each of the last three is what kicks off the Solar Respin, and every Moon on screen banks its printed prize when the round finishes.

That respin runs for 7 spins, but only the Wild Sun positions keep spinning. Each one resolves into something: an Eclipse that locks in place and stops, a Sun carrying +1, +2, +3, +5 or +10 extra respins, a Sun holding a cash amount, a Sun stamping a x2, x3 or x4 multiplier onto its own spot, or nothing at all. It runs until the spins dry up or the grid packs full, then it all gets collected together with the Moons.

Those locked Eclipses do double work. Land one and you take the Mini at 10x. Two pays the Minor at 20x. Three of them hands over the progressive Solar Eclipse Jackpot, the one whose ticker climbs across the top of the screen. There's no buy button anywhere, so every one of these has to arrive on its own.

Free Games work off the pink-domed temple Scatters, and their numbers matter. Three of them award 5 spins, and the value printed on the triggering Scatters, 1, 2 or 3, sets how many Wild Suns ride along for the whole round, reshuffling to fresh spots on reels 3 to 5 every spin. Any Scatter that drops during the round adds another spin and turns into one more Wild Sun.

It all sits under a burning red-orange sky, domes and minarets silhouetted behind a deep-blue starfield of Persian loot: a red-and-gold amphora, a lion-headed drinking horn, a winged-bull guardian, a jewelled star tile. Base and feature wins top out around 427x before the progressive gets counted on top.