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The theme of Ancient Egypt is one of the slot machine industry's most tried and tested designs. With a touch of history, a dollop of mystical allure and a whole load of luxurious artefacts, the genre just keeps on bringing in the punters.

And this slot machine keeps things relatively conventional when it comes to the symbols, with a few simple pendants depicting different aspects of old Egyptian religion and beliefs; there is a green symbol of the Eye of Horus, a blue scarab beetle and a red image of the winged sun god, Ra. Other than that, there are some standard playing card icons (9, 10, J, Q, K and A) and an image representing a pyramid. All fairly normal as far as the visuals are concerned... but just wait until you hear about how this game works.

The Ancient Egyptian theme is has been done time and time again for a good reason – because, quite simply, it is popular with the punters. However, it was about time that someone came to shake it up a bit from a gameplay perspective. That is exactly what Big Time Gaming have managed to do with Queen of Riches.

To begin with, all of the wins in the game are created whenever two or more identical symbols appear on adjacent reels from left to right, regardless of their size. Now, that isn't exactly a newfangled concept, because there are plenty of 5 reel games out there with 243-ways to win. There are sometimes even games with 1,024 ways to win. However, this video slot boosts those numbers exponentially for the fact that it has 6 reels filled with spinning symbols. Plus, each of these reels has no set number of reel positions, meaning that anywhere between 3 and 7 icons could potentially appear on each reel with every spin.

This Megaways feature – as the game studio have dubbed it – means that each spin offers a different number of potential winning possibilities, the maximum of which could be 117, 649 if the reels happen to settle on a 6 x 7 grid.

There are no paylines involved in this game (well technically there are, but it would take less time to build a pyramid single handedly than it would take to count each one and map it out on the reels!). Therefore, players simply have to place a single wager per spin that will count as the total bet. Those stakes are as follows: 0.20, 0.40, 1.00, 2.00, 4.00, 5.00, 10.00, 20.00 and 40.00 credits.

With so many potential ways to win, players can reasonably expect that the prizes in this game are somewhat low in value. In fact, the jackpot of this game is limited at 1,200 credits, which is a 30x total bet multiplier from a 40 credit bet when 6 pyramid symbols appear on each reel. You can see all of the other wins as total bet multipliers in the following paytable:

Just in case 117,649 ways to win wasn't quite enough, this slot machine will give spinners a bit of a bonus boost with some full reel wild symbols. These icons which depict the beautiful Queen of Riches herself will appear to cover all 7 reel positions while substituting for all icons to complete winning combinations. What's more, these wilds come with random multipliers from 1x to 7x, which will be applied to all wild wins that are created. These full reel wilds can even multiply each other, meaning that you could find two wilds with a 7x multiplier for an overall win multiplier of 49x.

This is especially pertinent since the game features a random Reel Clone feature which can replicate up to 6 identical reels on any spin in the main game. This also applies to wild symbols, meaning that up to 6 multiplying wilds could combine together for some absolutely colossal wins.

Just when we thought that we would never find an Ancient Egyptian slot machine that makes us giddy with excitement, along comes this audaciously unique game from Big Time Gaming. With 6 reels and a ridiculously large amount of ways to win, this game certainly puts a bold twist on the overdone theme of pyramids and pharaohs.