Lucky Scarbs (Booming): Slot Review & Theme:
Of all the wonderful themes in the online slot genre, Egyptian slots with an adventurous explorer are by far the most popular. While everyone loves a good tale of discovering treasure, facing booby traps, and often overcoming some sort of evil, there are so many similar Egyptian slots in the industry that it makes it difficult for developers to differentiate their titles from others. Sure, it has caused a sort of a monopoly, but it also means that developers are coming up with new and more exciting ways to separate their Egyptian titles from others. Often featuring immense rewards, exciting graphics, or exceptional gameplay.
Lucky Scarabs is Booming Games' entrance to the many Egyptian-themed titles, and luckily it holds all of the above-mentioned attributes, great graphics, gameplay, and rewards. The background of Lucky Scarabs is truly breathtaking, featuring all the popular landmarks Egypt is most known for, including the great Sphynx, the pyramids, and the magnificent Nile river with palm trees scattered about. Like most Egyptian slots, the trademark Shaabi music is also provided through the soundtrack.
Pay Table and Bet Sizes
Booming Games has undoubtedly taken notice of the immense popularity that Egyptian-themed video slots receive and, hence, developed this title with all player types in mind. The minimum betting amount is $0.09, while the maximum is a whopping $450, catering to high rollers and casual players.
Like almost all video slots, Lucky Scarabs utilizes royals as low-paying symbols, including a 10, a Jack, a Queen, a King, and an Ace, awarding 4x, 4x, 6.66x, 6.66x, and 9.33x payouts. The high-paying symbols consist of more intricate images of an urn, Anubis, a sarcophagus, and the explorer, offering 13.33x, 20x, 26.66x, and 33.33x payouts. These payouts are only achieved when landing 5 symbols of a kind within a payline while winning lines are formed from left to right.
About Lucky Scarab
Apart from the extremely popular theme, gameplay, and visuals, Lucky Scarabs is fairly similar to other Booming video slots. The RTP is just below the industry standard, with an RTP of 95.49%. The gameplay takes place on a commonly seen 5-reel by 3-row grid with only 9 fixed paylines.
For one of Booming Games’ more recent video slots, we would’ve hoped to see a more rewarding maximum payout potential, but this slot only has a payout potential of 1,000x the base bet. While the payout potential may be relatively low, Booming Games’ has done its utmost best to provide players with an adventurous experience by providing players with a different outcome at each turn of the reels, hence the high volatility rating.
Features of Lucky Scarabs
In the words of the Booming Games’ product Director, Lucky Scarabs promises a wild ride; as scarab beetle after scarab beetle land on the grid creating wild wins everywhere, and it gets even wilder during free spins. Our intuitive readers would’ve likely deciphered that this slot revolves around wild symbols.
There are 3 main bonus features within Lucky Scarab, all of which are centered around the wild scarab symbol. These features can include random wilds, sticky wilds, and
Wild Symbols
The wild symbol in this title is aptly designed as a golden scarab. During the base game, this symbol may appear on all reels within the grid while substituting for all regular pay symbols. Additionally, the wild symbol will award a 111.11x payout when landing 5 symbols of a kind in a payline.
Free Spins
To activate the free spin round, players must land at least 3 scatter symbols which only land on reels 1, 3, and 5, to achieve 8 free spins. The scatter symbol is designed as a golden chest. During free spins, 1 of 2 random features can occur, including sticky wilds and random wilds. If the sticky wilds feature activates, between 1 and 10 sticky wild symbols will appear in random positions in the grid while remaining in their respective positions for the duration of the free spin round. If the random wild feature activates, anywhere between 2 and 15 wild symbols will appear on random positions on the grid but will be removed on the following spin.
Summary
The graphics of Lucky Scarabs may be some of the most captivating out of all the Egyptian-themed video slots in the genre. However, when it comes to gameplay, the bonus features are rather scarce. The entirety of the gameplay revolves around wild symbols. Though this means players will likely experience the most excitement during the free spin round, once the feature is eventually triggered, the gameplay will become extremely rewarding. Both bonus features in the free spin round present an excellent opportunity to gain more than 5 wild symbols, which means the 111.11x payout provided by these symbols is just on the horizon.
