Banquet of Dead Slot Overview
Banquet of Dead is a 5x3, 10-payline slot from Play'n GO, built around that classic book-style setup but with a small twist in the bonus. It uses an Ancient Egypt theme, sticks to high volatility, and goes up to a 35,000x max win. I found it decent enough straight away, though the whole look does feel a bit familiar if you've played plenty of these before.
Played casually, it feels simple to get into. Bets run from 0.10 to 100, mobile play is supported, and the main thing to know is the free spins round. That's where a random expanding symbol can start clearing out the lowest low pays, which is the bit that gives the slot its own character.
Symbols and Payouts
9 regular symbols handle the paytable. Low pays are 10, J, Q, K and A, and they need 3 or more on a payline from the left. A full line of low symbols pays 10x to 20x the bet. Premiums are the hand fan, bowl of fruits, crocodile statue and Queen Nitocris, and they pay from 2 of a kind.
Across the reviews, the top premium line is listed as strong, with premiums ranging from 60x to 150x the bet for five, though one source phrases the values in coins and gives Queen Nitocris up to 1,500 coins. The hourglass, or tomb in some reviews, is the key symbol because it works as both Wild and Scatter, which is proper handy.
Symbol Payouts
Scatter
Acts as both scatter and wild, triggers free spins and substitutes for paying symbols.
Banquet of Dead Slot Bonus Features
3, 4 or 5 scatters award 2.5x, 25x or 150x the bet, and 3 or more also trigger 7 Free Spins. Before the round starts, one regular paying symbol is picked as the special expanding symbol. Low pays need 3 to trigger expansion, while premium symbols need only 2. Once they expand, they can pay across the paylines even with gaps, which is where things start to get tasty.
After a spin where the special symbol expands, the current lowest-value low-paying symbol is removed from the bonus from the next spin onward. If the removed one was also the expanding symbol, a new special symbol gets chosen at random. That bit is what makes the bonus more fun than the average book slot for me, because you can feel the setup getting stronger.
Scatters can also re-trigger +3 extra spins during the feature, with some reviews saying the round can reach 30 free spins, while one says 25. Outside the bonus, there is also a Gamble Feature after any win. You guess the colour of a face-down card for 2x, or the suit for 4x, up to 5 wins in a row and up to 2,500 coins.
Bonus Buy Options
Land 3 or more scatter symbols to get 7 free spins. A random expanding symbol is chosen, and after expansion wins the current lowest low-paying symbol is removed for the rest of the bonus.
After any win, guess the colour of a face-down card to double the win or the suit to quadruple it. You can win up to 5 gamble rounds in a row, with a cap of 2,500 coins.
How to Win at Banquet of Dead Slot
5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines keep things old-school. Wins land on adjacent reels from left to right, and the low and high symbols follow slightly different rules, low pays need 3+, premiums can pay from 2+. That means the bonus has clear potential when a premium gets picked as the expanding symbol.
For a relaxed session, I wouldn't expect loads from the base game because it can drag a bit. This is high-volatility stuff, fair enough, so the real aim is getting into free spins and hoping the symbol removal starts cutting out the dead weight. That's the point where Banquet of Dead gets properly interesting.
