Book Of Gold: Symbol Choice

Explore an ancient Egyptian temple and unearth forgotten treasures in Book of Gold: Symbol Choice slot from Playson. Well, I have had a dabble on Book of Loki, I have had a spin on Book of Dead, so why not a Book with a bit of the yellow stuff I ask you?

This game is a follow up to the hugely successful Book of Gold and comes with a max win of 5,000x your bet and it’s quite a volatile little number.

The Graphics

Your reels are set on an eerie backdrop of a long-forgotten temple. Tombs of the ancient Pharaohs and Gods keep watch over your gameplay holding torches that flicker in the purple darkness. Playson aren’t known for mind-blowing graphics but this looks pretty good, and the soundtrack is an atmospheric piece of music that adds mystery to your spins.

Book of Gold: Symbol Choice Slot Game Play

The action in Book of Gold: Symbol Choice slot takes place on 5 reels, 3 rows and with 10 fixed win lines. It’s all very traditional compared to game like the Win A Beest slot from Play’n GO, but sometimes it pays to go back to the basics.

Bets start from 0.10 coins and go up to a maximum of 100.00 coins per spin.

Your revered reel icons include the Pharaoh with a golden headdress, the eye of Horus, Osiris and an Ankh, while the lower paying symbols are represented by the standard playing cards A, K, Q, J, and 10. The Pharaoh is most lucrative icon, and will award you an enormous 500x your stake for landing 5 on a pay line! I say!

The actual Book of Gold has multiple jobs; first of all, it will act as a wild symbol, substituting for all others to give you winning combinations – but it is also this game’s Scatter symbol and key to the Bonus. Are you enjoying the Egyptian theme? Well, you could also give the Queen of Alexandria slot a spin – that’s by Neon Valley Studios and Games Global.

The Bonuses

The highlight of the game is the bonus feature and you can set it off by landing 3x or more Book Of Gold scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. You’ll start with 10 Free Spins, but before they begin you must choose one symbol to become ‘special’ that will expand to fill an entire reel every time it lands.

So, the question is – do you want smaller consistent wins or chunky ones more less often? The choice is yours. But if you’re feeling indecisive, you also have the option to choose the Random symbol, which will leave it in the hands of fate!

Choose the high paying symbols and you’ll be less likely to land 4x or more on a pay-line compared with the lesser mortals on the pay table.

During the bonus, the scatter symbol is also a wild and will substitute for everything except for the special expanding symbol. And last but most certainly not least, the bonus can be re-triggered up to a maximum of 50 times by landing 3x or more of the Book Of Gold logo scatter icons.

Book Of Gold: Multi Chance Slot

Just when you’d just about mastered this release games makers Playson release yet another version to make things more complicated!

But fear not my fine friends, not all is lost. In fact very little lost at all because the main difference here is the introduction of Special Expanding Symbols.

These handy chaps can be triggered whenever 3x or more Scatter symbols hit the reels during in Free Spins mode.

Before your spins play out, you must select a Special Expanding symbol – this can be any icon at all form the Pay Table (except for the Scatter of course). Up to 9 of these rather excellent icons can land on the reels on one spin – and  they will fill up an entire reel which means better chances of bigger wins. They will also remain sticky. Thus, it’s even possible for all icons to transform in Special Expanding Symbols. As you can imagine this nudges the slot’s volatility right up

The Monkey Verdict

Book Of Gold: Symbol Choice slot is an all-round good egg!  And I love that Playson gives us players the chance to select our own special symbol in that bonus.

But – a quick word on the volatility; the max win in the base game is 500x your stake for 5x golden Pharaohs – but in the Free Spins you could bag €500,000 for landing x5, all thanks to that expanding special symbol.

Something tells me this game will be very popular indeed…

4.5 out of 5 bananas