Banquet of Dead Slot Overview
Banquet of Dead is a high-volatility Ancient Egypt slot from Play'n GO, played on 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines. It is very much in the book-style family, but the main hook is that free spins can remove low-paying symbols as you go. I like the idea, though the theme feels proper familiar.
Symbols and Payouts
Symbols start with the usual glossy card ranks, 10, J, Q, K and A. They need at least 3-of-a-kind from the left to pay, with five matching cards worth about 10x to 20x the bet. Nothing wild there, mate, but it keeps the paytable simple enough for a chilled session.
Premiums are the hand fan, bowl of fruit, crocodile statue and Queen Nitocris, and these can pay from 2-of-a-kind. Five premiums pay from around 60x up to 150x the bet. The Golden Tomb is the good one, acting as wild and scatter, with 2, 3, 4 or 5 scatters paying 0.5x, 2.5x, 25x or 150x.
Symbol Payouts
Scatter
Acts as both wild and scatter, substituting for paying symbols and triggering free spins with 3 or more scatters.
Banquet of Dead Slot Bonus Features
Land 3 or more Golden Tomb scatters and Banquet of Dead gives you 7 Free Spins. Before they start, one paying symbol is picked as the special expanding symbol. Low pays need 3 to expand, while high pays only need 2, and expanded symbols can pay across paylines even with gaps.
After a spin where the special symbol expands, the current lowest low-paying symbol is removed for the rest of the bonus. That is the bit I enjoyed most, because the round can slowly clear out the weaker stuff. If the removed icon was your special symbol, the game picks a new one from what is left.
Retriggers add 3 extra spins when 3 or more scatters land in the bonus, with the cap given as 30 free spins in most sources. The Gamble Feature is the classic card guess: colour doubles, suit quadruples, and you can try up to 5 times, up to 2,500 coins.
Bonus Buy Options
Triggered by 3 or more scatter symbols and starts with 7 free spins. One paying symbol becomes the special expanding symbol, and the lowest low-paying symbol can be removed after expansions.
Volatility: High
Available after a win, letting players guess card colour for 2x or card suit for 4x. It can be used up to 5 times in a row, capped at 2,500 coins.
Volatility: High
Banquet of Dead Slot RTP & Volatility
Numbers are the main reason this slot gets attention. The top RTP version is listed at 96.2%, though some versions can drop as low as 84.20%, so I would check the game rules before playing for cash. Stakes run from 0.10 to 100, and the volatility is high, so dry spells are part of the deal.
Max win is 35,000x the bet, which is massive for this style of 5x3 book slot. Fair enough, that sounds tasty, but the chance of landing it is described as less than once in 100 million spins. I would treat it as a headline number, not something to build a night around.
