Olympia Slot Machine
When gaming companies create Greek games, they tend to focus on the gods and their awesome powers, with Mount Olympus being the most obvious choice of setting. Spade Gaming however, have decided to take a fresh and more original approach, choosing to highlight one of the best events to come out of Greece: the Olympics.
Olympia was the main site for the ancient games, and so it’s steeped in a lot of history. Now but a shell of what it was, it can be brought to life by the 3 reels of the same named slot machine.
Inside the game, everything has been returned to its former glory, meaning you get a perfect and unhindered view of what spectators might have seen when they attended the games. The only exception to this is that they wouldn’t have been playing inside a 1x3 grid. Having returned to their infamous format of a traditional slot machine casing, Olympia is a great way for old school gamers to get their fix, and for more modern players to dip their toe into the unknown.
Just as the games would have tested your worth and skills, so too will this slot, giving you a total of three different outcomes, much like the three medals of Bronze, Silver and Gold. We’re going for gold, but it’s the taking part that counts, right?
How to Play
Gaining access to Olympia is a lot easier than you might think; users need only have a starting punt worth €0.10 and they can be through the main gates and seated within minutes. This is all well and good, but if you’re hoping to walk away with the most amount of gold possible, you’ll need to think a little bigger and stake a larger sum of cash.
This is done in more than one way: you need to alter the value of your bet, but also decide which tier of coins you play with, whether it’s one, two or three. The third option is the most expensive, but with it comes the highest returns with the final base payout being €5,000. This is a very tempting amount of money, but even the lowly bet of just one coin will have you in with a chance of winning up to 1,000 credits, which is just as pleasing if you ask us. Money is money at the end of the day.
To set the level of your bet, users have to select the Coins widget beside the Coin Value option. This may sound very tedious for those of you who want to play with the largest stake, and so the Max Bet button is on hand to simplify the process no end. Merely tap it and it’ll start the game spinning for you, ah the convenience.
Paytable
Seeing as the rest of the game is so minute, it’s not going to surprise anyone that the paytable is as well, offering up no more than several icons for you to find and win. Some of these icons generate a win even with just one of them on the payline, and so don’t be fooled into thinking there’s greater variation than there is.
The lightning bolts are the low and middling symbols, able to be found in either a one, pair or trio, with the group of three paying between 10 and 30 credits (depending on your bet level). The only formation of tiles that can be seen as lower in value is the set of any medals, a payout that doesn’t increase above the sum of 12 coins.
As this is based in Olympia, you’d expect the medals to be the most valuable of the game, but in fact they’re not, for it’s the laurel crown that delivers the most cash. The gold medal obviously is the most desirable out of all the Olympic Game awards, gifting players from 50 to 150 credits.
Olympia doesn’t have any bonus games, which a lot of you will have anticipated if you’re familiar with the brand; they tend not to add extras unless it’s vital to the gameplay. And in this case it’s not; Olympia functions just fine without any additional support, which is why we praise it so highly.
