White King II Slot by Playtech

A single payline here can pay for ten matching symbols, not the five most five-reel games top out at. That comes from the combined symbols: icons land as two-high blocks that each count twice toward a line, so the paytable runs all the way up to ten of a kind. Line up a full column of the same white lion and it keeps counting past the fifth reel.

The White King himself, a crowned blue-eyed white lion also drawn as the ornate gold logo, is the wild and the top payer in one. He stands in for every paying symbol and lands stacked on all five reels in the base game, often filling a whole reel top to bottom. Ten combined wilds along a line is the ceiling, and it returns 5,000x your line bet. Getting there runs through the free games. Land the White King logo on reels two, three and four and the Majestic Night round hands over five spins, short but loaded with extra White Lion wilds and stacked double wilds, which is the only realistic route to that top figure. The golden jewelled crown is a plain display scatter, paying a little from anywhere without setting off anything.

The board sits on a deep royal-red panel edged in gold filigree, set against a dusky savanna at sunset with red mountains, broken columns and classical ruins behind it. Symbols are photographic white lions, a lioness and playful cubs, a bald eagle, then chiselled marble card royals down the low end. It's a handsome older Playtech build, but a stingy one. The payback runs low by modern standards, there's no buy option and no jackpot, so everything rides on catching those five free spins while the wilds are stacked double.