How to play Jewel Scarabs

Fans of Red Tiger Gaming slots will be familiar with the set-up here. You adjust your stake by clicking on the ‘Stake’ button on the bottom-left and scroll up and down until you find the one you want, which will be somewhere between €0.10 and €150 a spin.
Using the Auto function, just to the right of the Stake button, allows you to tell the game to play whatever number of spins you wish automatically. Well, as long as it’s a number between 10 and 2000.
You can also set some limits rather than missing out on any action by establishing that the Auto spins stop when you win or lose a certain value, or when the bonus feature kicks in.
Use the Turbo button to speed up proceedings and check the Pay Table to see what you’re playing for.
Jewel Scarabs is a 5×3 reel slot with just 9 active pay lines; they can’t be adjusted

How to get started with Jewel Scarabs slot

Key features of Scarab Jewels

The backdrop to the slot is not terribly original: yes, it’s pyramids.
The symbols are pretty much what you’d expect from a slot with the Egyptian theme so we’re talking A-10 playing cards as the low-value symbols with the Eye of Ra, the Falcon, the cat and the bust of Anubis completing the set, in that order of lowest to highest value.
Wins are paid from left to right, you’ll need at least three in a row and they can either be in a horizontal or a diagonal line.
Interestingly, five in a row of the bust of Anubis is worth the same (180x your bet) as five in a row of our slot’s hero, the scarab beetle. More on the beetle follows now….

Scarab Jewels Wild symbol

There are lots of little interesting facts of information about the scarab beetle. Most important in this context is that they were sacred in Ancient Egypt. Which explains their starring role in this particular slot.
They’re very much in their element when acting as the Wild symbol in this game. They’ll substitute for any other regular symbol and as stated already, are the joint most valuable symbol in the game alongside the bust of Anubis when getting five of them in a row.
Their work doesn’t just end when helping secure a win, though. If they form part of a winning row, they’ll remain on the reels but move to another part of the grid mid-spin and will continue to do that as long as you keep winning. If two of them form part of the combination, so much the better. It means you’re just one scarab beetle away from entering the Golden Spins round.

Bonus features in Jewel Scarabs

If you were after plenty of random features, numerous bonus features and perhaps the choice of picking your own free spins round, you’re going to be disappointed. This is a one-bonus-feature-slot (well, there’s sort of another one, which we’ll come to soon) and this consists of Golden Spins.

Golden Spins
Spin 3 scarab beetles and 7 Golden Spins are heading your way. The beetles that activated the round will remain on the grid for the duration of the spins and each one will be given a multiplier. With each win they help form, the multiplier goes up by 1, with no limit on how high the multiplier can go. Wins during the Golden Spins round multiply when you have two or more Wilds helping form a winning line. So, if one of them has a 2x multiplier and the other a 4x one, your win will be paid out at 8x its original value. Any Wilds on the reels stay there till the Golden Spins come to an end but they do fly around to different positions in between spins. New Wilds are more than welcome to join the party and they too can move around in between spins.

Gamble Feature
Red Tiger Gaming have a cool feature whereby any win can be gambled. But not in the traditional way of just doubling or quadrupling up by picking a card.
You can decide how ambitious or conservative you want to be by deciding how much of a wheel you want to be a safe zone (green) and how much you want it to be a danger zone (red). The more green there is, the safer you are in terms of adding to your initial win, but the less you actually add.
It pays to stop while you’re ahead, in other words, to bank your money when you’ve nailed a couple of gambles.

Mechanics

Time to go through the nuts and bolts of the slot in terms of numbers.

Max Win (€): –

Max Win (coins): 5,245x

Min Bet (€): 0.10

Max Bet (€): 150

Return to player: 95,77%

Volatility: High

Free Play available: Yes

Conclusion

This won’t be the first Egyptian-themed slot you’ll see at Mr Green, nor will it be the last. It is a game that will appeal to those players who do like the theme, prefer the one-feature slots to the bonus-packed ones and those players who like slots of a volatile nature. There are some decent wins up for grabs in the base game thanks to the Wild staying on the grid for as long as the wins keep coming, but it’s the free spins which will have the final say on the entertainment value of your session. If you can take the rough with the smooth, this could be a slot for you.