Brave Mongoose Slots
The Arabian Nights have captured the imagination of children for centuries. The tales of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves and the genie in the lamp have been adapted into numerous cartoons and movies.
But adapting classic Arabic folktales isn't just for big Hollywood execs. Many online slot developers have taken the old tales of magic lamps, hidden treasure, and evil bad guys and turned them into slick gambling games.
The latest developer to take inspiration from the Arabian Nights is Russian firm, Fugaso. Brave Mongoose is loosely based on the Arabian Sindibad tale of a mongoose doing battle with a deadly cobra. With respins galore and 25 paylines, is there enough action in this slot to give players the stomach for a fight? Let's take a journey to Arabia to find out.
Play up to 250.00 per Spin
Eastern Europe has become a hotbed for online casino game developers in recent years. Hailing from Russia, Fugaso (Future Gaming Solutions) has been busy making online slots since 2001. Mainly programmed in Flash or HTML5, Fugaso's gambling slots are designed with tablet and mobile phone players in mind. You can find plenty of the Russian provider's slots in English at good online casinos right now.
The free Brave Mongoose slot machine is one of the Russians' better offerings but it does suffer from familiar Fugaso problems: namely, the graphics are very basic and there's little in the gameplay to get excited about. However, the sticky wilds and free games could just about save it from obscurity.
Brave Mongoose can be played for real cash from as little as 0.01 a win line. The top coin is 1.00 and there are 10 betting levels in the game. Over the game's 25 fixed paylines that means a pretty tasty max bet of 250.00 per spin.
Find the Brave Mongoose for a 500x Top Prize
There are nearly a dozen regular symbols to land in Brave Mongoose. Most of the low limit symbols pay pretty poor prizes, but the overall spread of payouts is fairly even. The royal symbols pay the least. The 10 and J pay 5-50x your line bet, while the Q, K, and A all pay 10-75x when you land three to five of a kind.
The grand elephant pays 20-100x the line bet, as does the snake charmer. The peacock pays 20-100x too. The snake's jar pays 50, 100, or 200x for three, four, or five of a kind, and then we are on to the big-paying symbols.
The boy - bearing a close resemblance to Aladdin in Disney's Oscar-winning animated film - pays 2x for two of a kind, up to 500x for five of a kind. The innocent-looking mongoose pays the same prizes. These two will also act wild, substituting for all regular symbols other than the scatters.
Land Free Games with Sticky Wilds and Win Both Ways
As well as acting wild, the boy and mongoose can turn into sticky bonus wild symbols. If the mongoose appears together with a snake on the reels, the mongoose will turn sticky and award a random multiplier worth 3x to 9x your stake. This happens in the base game only.
Similarly, the boy will turn into a sticky wild if he appears on the reels with a snake. The wild stays in place and the gambler can enjoy a win-both-ways spin on the re-spin. Again, this wild feature only takes place during the main game. In both cases, a cool little animation kicks into life on the reels as the mongoose and boy attack the snake.
It's possible to trigger free spins with the snake only. This evil-looking cobra acts as the scatter in this Arabian-themed slot and will pay 1x line bet when two appear anywhere, 5x for three scatters, 25x for four, and 100x for five. You will also earn 15 free spins with sticky wilds and win-both-ways included.
Go Hunting for Aladdin's Treasure
If you are drawn to the Aladdin legend or Arabian Nights in your online slots, there is plenty of choice out there. Most games feature some decent bonus games and the opportunity to win some real cash.
If you like wild symbols, check out Octopus Gaming's Aladdin's Treasure slot. The game has a regular wild symbol that will substitute for all normal symbols. However, the wild can also appear stacked on the reels for added big wins. Players can trigger up to 50 free spins with a 2x multiplier via the bonus feature too.
Finally, three or more bonus symbols hit anywhere will trigger a cool treasure bonus round where it's possible to win a few thousand coins.
Sticking with sticky wilds for our second recommendation, try Aristocrat's fun and funky Miss Kitty slot. The game has a regular wild symbol - Miss Kitty herself - which appears on four of the game's five reels. If you land the right symbols on reels 1, 2, and 3, you will trigger 10 free spins. During the feature, however, Miss Kitty appears as a special sticky wild and will remain in place for the duration of the spins.
While different in theme, these games both offer the player the chance to earn some big scores using a combination of free spins and wild symbols.
Take a Trip to Arabia and Hunt the Snake
You won't find many Fugaso games in the list of the best online slots to play. But what you get with the Russian developer is simple, honest video slots that are easy to play and easy to make a profit on.
Why not test out the free Brave Mongoose slot today? At 96% it has an RTP comparable with a lot of newer online slots and it works well on a variety of portable devices through a web browser. We found that most of our decent wins came by matching the mongoose or boy with the snake and hitting a free respin. But persevere and the free spins bonus feature can be even more lucrative.
