King Arthur’s Riches Slots
It’s that magnificent legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the Sword in the Stone brought to you as a 5 by 3 reel layout, 20 pay line slot with the flair that is often provided by Parlay Games. You can play this online slot from as little as 0.20 for all active paylines or go up to a massive 100.00 coin size bringing in each spin of the reels up to 10,000 credits.
When it comes to features, with King Arthur’s Riches, you don’t even have to trigger any bonuses before you start increasing your coin collection with a multiplier which is attached to any winning combinations in the base game. If you want to pay to play, then you can certainly go for gold, but if you want to play King Arthur’s Riches for free then try it as a demo online.
A Super Design
A nice twist on the design of this game is the transparent background to the reels revealing the interior of a mediaeval castle and which blends beautifully with the stone and silver colours contained within many of the symbols. The icons themselves range from the standard poker cards from 10 through to ace for the highest value icons, through to the lower values which include a Flail, Helmet armour, a Golden Crown, a Brown Corded Sack, A Horse and a beautifully engraved Silver Shield. Reel spins are accompanied by sound effects of a group of cheering men which gets even louder if you pull in a winning combination.
Built in Bonuses
The Bonus Feature in this game is triggered by symbols denoting Excalibur embedded in the stone. When 3 arrive on the reels then the game opens in a new window and you are faced with a castle on which are 5 shuttered windows. You get to select 3 of these windows and, as each opens in turn, they reveal the cash prize you have won. When all selections have been made your winnings are then accumulated and you are returned, with your cash, to the base game.
The base game multiplier is a big attraction in many of the Parlay games. It starts off as 1x and, providing you get consecutive winning combinations, can rise up to 5x. If, at any point, the reels fail to make up a winning combination, then your multiplier is automatically returned to 1x. You can’t though, change your stake as the multiplier increases.
What you also get as little extras and direct from the base game are a randomly awarded jackpot and an expanding wild. The expanding wild in this game is the Horse Head symbol and, when it appears, it not only substitutes for any symbol in the game with the exception of the Bonus icon but it also expands to fill the entire reel it lands in on giving you more chances to make up those winning combinations.
Randon Jackpot Accumulating
The random jackpot total in this game is situated in the centre below the reels. It accumulates every 5 spins and the amount depends on your stake. The jackpot requires no particular combinations to win and it can be triggered after any random spin of the reels. The pay line wins in this game, meanwhile, start with 3 of a kind and, at the lowest coin and symbol value, will return 0.04.
This increases to a maximum of 50.00 for 5 of a kind of the highest value symbol which is the Ace. These are the lowest amounts you can play for and the pay table is automatically adjusted depending on your stake and will be multiplied depending on how many coins you play per line.
An RTP for Real Gamblers
There are many positive aspects to playing King Arthur’s Riches online video slot, however there is a potential drawback. As with many of the Parlay Games recent releases, the RTP is highly variable and it ranges from a pitiful 71.9% to a marvellous 98.1%. The variance too only comes in at low to medium. Therefore online gamblers might assume that the big wins aren’t going to arrive too frequently and the smaller wins might be sometimes few and far between and, at others, may pop into play with a thrilling regularity.
If, though, you like the idea of expanding wilds in the base game but would like a more stable RTP and higher variance then Wild Safari by Rival gives you not only 25 paylines but also expanding wilds in the base game and feature, although they only appear on reels 1 and 5, but also a medium rate variance and a stable RTP of 95.30%. It might not be the best in the world but it is certainly more comforting than a possible 71.9% although some might argue that the 98.1% potentially provided by King Arthur’s Riches, is worth hanging on in for!
Beautiful Design and Bonuses
King Arthur’s Riches is a very nicely designed game with lots of features from the primary play and which are so good they actually make you forget there is no free spins feature! The expanding Wilds are great to have around and the multiplier is even better. This is, of course, without giving consideration to the fact that there is a random jackpot on offer.
The Bonus Game too, although a simple pick-to-win, is not only generous with the coin credits on offer but it also has great entertainment value. Yet the sticking point for some might well be the RTP which is very important to many online gamblers. Here you might have to decide if your nerves are strong enough to withstand the glut and famine situation.
