Temple of Dead Slot by Evoplay

The scatter is also the wild. That single dual-role symbol drives the entire game - it substitutes for everything on regular spins, and three of them anywhere on the reels trigger 10 free spins with a scatter payout on top. Before the bonus begins, one regular symbol gets randomly selected as the expanding special. When that symbol lands enough times for a win, prizes calculate first on the normal layout, then the special stretches to fill all three rows on every reel where it appeared, and a second payout evaluation runs. Both amounts add up.

The expansion rule that matters most: the special symbol connects across non-adjacent reels. Land it on reels 1, 3, and 5 with nothing in between, and those three still count as a valid combination after expansion. On a 10-payline grid, that rule is what separates a modest bonus from a 10,000x run. Retriggering adds another 10 spins each time three scatters show up during the bonus, and since the scatter keeps its wild function throughout free spins, it fills gaps in regular payline wins between expansions. The explorer character sits at the top of the paytable at 500x per line for five - the next symbol drops to 200x, then straight down to 75x. Getting the explorer selected as the expanding special is where the ceiling lives.

Ornate stone columns topped with Anubis-styled spearheads border the reels, torchlight flickering at their bases. Three Egyptian priestess figures in green, crimson, and gold headdresses make up the mid-tier premiums, painted in warm amber tones against deep blue reel panels. Card royals from A through 10 fill out the bottom in a metallic ornamental font. Evoplay's other book-style game, Book of the Priestess, uses a mask counter that adds a second expanding symbol mid-bonus - this one keeps it to a single selection per round, so the random pick at the start carries all the weight.