The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra

The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra Overview

Created by the wonderful studio at Playtech, this newest release The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra is a 5-reel, ten pay line slot themed around the classic Mummy film series. If you remember, this brilliant range of three movies was about an ancient Egyptian priest, accidentally resurrected, bringing with him a powerful curse that threatened the world's safety. Brendan Frasier's character was the main protagonist, an archaeologist sent to investigate the strange site where this priest was awakened. This slot is a fun Mummy-inspired thrill ride with plenty of features and some great top payouts.

The features in this slot are a range of bonuses named after the characters in the movie. For example, the Rick O'Connell feature is a free games bonus that gives you several free spins with expanding symbols at play. There is also the Scorpian King, Imhotep, Anck-Su-Namun, and Evelyn O'Connell features, each of which offers players free spins with slightly different modifying factors at play. All features will be explained in greater detail later on in the review.

Theme and Symbols

As we have already mentioned, the theme for this slot is the 1999 classic film, The Mummy. Starring Brendon Frazier, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah. As you may or may not remember, the film follows the story of the famous archaeologist and adventurer Rick O'Connell as he explores the City of the Dead in Egypt. During these explorations, they accidentally awaken a long-dead Egyptian priest who rises from the dead and causes havoc with his supernatural powers. This means the slot is full of golden temples, mysterious artefacts, and the titular characters' close-ups.

The background for this slot is an interior shot of one of the temples that the adventurers enter in the film. The background pictures several columns, each with delicate hieroglyphs inscribed upon them. To the left and right of the reels are flaming torches illuminating the scene in a golden light that you can imagine flickering dramatically as Rick and his accomplices move tentatively through the ancient and possibly cursed structure.

The board for this game has been designed to look like the entrance to the fabled temple. It is constructed from gleaming gold and has an elaborate scarab and scorpion logo in the centre of the reels.

The symbols for this game are split into low-paying, high-paying and special icons. The low-paying symbols are the J, Q, K, and A in golden lettering. On the other hand, the higher value icons are the Scrab Beetle, Canopic jars, the Bracelet of Annubis, and Rick and Evelyn O'Connell. Rick is the most valuable of these symbols, paying out at a maximum of 500x the stake for the top combination. The specials finally relate to the various special spin rounds in this game. These include the Book of Amun Ra Wild, which in addition to substituting for other symbols, triggers the free spins round. Then there is the Scorpion King icon who triggers the Scorpian King Free spins, Imhotep, who triggers the Imhotep free spins and Anck-Su-Namun, who triggers her free spins round. Each of these specials also pays out at 200x the stake for the top combination.

Game Play

The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra is played on a 5-reel, 3-row board with ten fixed pay lines. To score wins in this game, players must land three or more matching symbols or two or more high-value symbols in paying combinations starting from the leftmost reel.

The betting range for The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra is 10p to £100 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can toggle their stake up and down using the tool located at the bottom left-hand side of the screen. Further information, including a short tutorial and a display of the paytable, can be found via the menu button in the right-hand corner of the screen. The spin and auto spin buttons are located in the centre of the screen.

Volatility for this slot is rated to be around the highly volatile range. The return to player percentage for The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra is 95.97%, which is just under average.

The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 10,000x your current stake.

The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra Features

The Mummy: Books of Amun Ra's features are more or less a collection of different free spin bonuses with different modifiers. To trigger the free spins, you must land three or more of the Book of Amun wild scatters on the reels simultaneously in the base game. Once triggered, you will be given a choice of five different free spin rounds.

The first in the selection is called the Rick O'Connell free games pick. This set of free spins begins with ten free spins. However, one symbol will be randomly chosen to become the expanding symbol for the round before starting. This special symbol, when it appears, will always expand to cover the entire reel that it lands on. You can retrigger these spins by landing another three wild scatters on the reels, giving you an additional ten free spins.

The second selection in the free spins matrix is the Scorpion King free games pick. This pick gives you eight free spins and yet again selects a random symbol to become expendable. The difference in this game, as opposed to the Rick spins, is that every time you retrigger the spins, an additional expanding symbol is added to the gameplay and eight more spins.

Next up are the Imhotep free spins. This type of free spins gives you 12 free spins with the Imhotep symbol replacing the Evelyn O'Connell icon. In these spins, the J is consistently picked as the expanding symbol. However, when you win with this symbol, it transforms into the next highest paying symbol and the previous symbol being removed from the reels.– e.g., the J becomes the Q, and the J disappears. This can result in all of the lower-paying symbols being removed from the reels. Landing an additional three will provide you with three more spins.

The Anck-Su-Namun spin, on the other hand, provides you with eight free spins. In these spins, the Anck-Su-Namun symbol replaces the Evelyn O'Connell symbol. Like the other rounds, an expanding symbol is randomly selected. However, one full stack of this special expanding symbol is guaranteed to land on a random reel with every spin in this round. You cannot win additional spins in this type of free spin.

Finally, we have the Evelyn O'Connell Free Games feature, giving you four free spins with a random expanding symbol. If two Book of Amun Ra scatters land on the reels in this particular round, the playing window grows by 1 row, and an extra free spin is awarded. However, if 3 scatters land, the grid will grow by 1 row, and four extra spins will be awarded. The reels can grow up to 6 rows, providing players with a maximum of 16 pay lines.

Conclusion

This game is all about the free spins. If you can activate these reasonably regularly, you will be in with a chance of scoring those larger payouts. The Mummy theme is also a good laugh and provides a sense of mystery and excitement to the gameplay. RTP and volatility are a touch worrying, however, so do bear these statistics in mind.