Book of Pharao

A Beautiful thing is never perfect.
- Egyptian proverb.


The 'Book Of Pharao' is a beautiful video slot, developed by Amatic Software with an Egyptian Book theme, upon 5 Reels/10 Paylines/Enhanced in details graphics/2 Bonus features/Up to 20 Free Spins.

The exploration starts inside Pharaoh's Temple where ancient symbols cover those egyptian reels, such as: Book with the Eye of Horus/Pharaoh’s Statue/Isis Goddess/Ankh Cross/Scarab. Also the common playcard symbols, from 10-A. The highest-paying symbol is, the Pharaoh’s Statue which rewards 5.000x bet, on Bonuspins feature. This slot offers 2 Bonus features on offer:

The first is the classic feature, which is triggered by landing 3/4/5/Scattered Books in view, players will get 10/15/20 Free spins respectively. One symbol will be selected at random to become an Expanding symbol.

The second, called 'Power Spins' which is triggered randomly, by powering the reels with the engraved Light, rewarding 5 Power Spins with the same Expansion process. This feature might save your Balance sometimes, because even with only 1 selectable symbol on your reels the 'Power Spins' feature, could add up to 3 symbols helping for a full screen win.

In overall, despite the lower Paytable, regarding the mid range - value symbols, the 'Power Spins' feature, seems to balanced the basic gameplay, also the total potential. Theoretically, more number of Spins - more Potential.

You’ve probably seen and read a lot on ‘Book’ games, but this Book Of Pharao from Amatic is a fairly new game and it is one of the best ‘Book’ games around. The game is almost identical to any other ‘Book’ games, but the paytable shows a few variations, especially in the win values of the lower regular symbols. Instead of starting from 200x downwards, it starts from 100x, and down to 5x, half of what the other games would have. The top symbol still maintains a 500x win value, so it is still an excellent paytable nonetheless.

During base game play, a special feature called ‘Powerspins’ can be randomly activated at any time, awarding 5 Power Free Spins. During these spins, one symbol would be randomly selected to be the Power symbol, and all it needs is to land one Power symbol on the reels and it automatically adds +1 or +2 more same symbols. These symbols then would expand on the reels and pay as scatters, just as in the normal free spins game play. Yes, getting 3 symbols could end up getting 5 same symbols for the best win, depending on which Power symbol is in play of course.

Here’s one more interesting feature in this Book Of Pharao game – it is possible to retrigger the free spins both in the normal free spins game as well as in the Powerspins game. What you would get with each retrigger is +10 more free spins for the normal feature game and +5 more Power spins in the Powerspins feature game. Yes, I have gotten those Powerspins feature a few times already and gotten all 15 symbols wins too. I even got 4 retriggers in one of the Powerspins games but most of the spins were dead ones unfortunately, but I ended up with a nice 271x win nonetheless. A great additional feature game from the usual, if I may say so, and I do love it, hehehe.

The game itself may not have great graphics as expected of a newer game, but as I’ve said before, great graphics isn’t everything, and it certainly doesn’t define a good game from a bad one. Book Of Pharao is a super game from Amatic, much better than almost all other ‘Book’ games in my opinion, and I certainly would be playing this game more often and more regularly in the future. My only limitation would be my small wallet! Hahaha.