Playson's Book of Gold Double Chance Slot Review 2020

Book of Gold Double Chance is another addition to the vast range of slots that use Ancient Egypt as a theme. Developed by Playson, it includes a generous free spins bonus and one or two other features that piqued our interest, such as expanding symbols.

If you want to take a trip to the sandy pyramids of long-dead Pharaohs, read our Book of Gold Double Chance slot review and discover all you need to know! There’s plenty to find out.

The Book of Gold Double Chance slot machine is played on a grid of 5 reels and 3 rows, with 10 fixed paylines. The minimum bet for UK players is usually 20p and the maximum is £75. As the game uses expanding reels, it is possible to win 4067x your stake, if you’re lucky. The game was released in October 2018, and it also features an autospin feature to help save you time, and you can change your bet levels very easily with the tabs underneath the reels.

As you would expect these days, the game is optimised for play on a range of mobile devices, as it uses HTML5 technology. You can access a paytable by clicking on the I tab at the bottom of the screen. This shows you how the paylines are structured as well as the worth of each symbol. You can also find a few details there about how the feature works.

Book of Gold Double Chance Slot RTP

The RTP of the Book of Gold Double Chance slot game is 95.04%. This figure is a little on the low side for a slot of this type. It is pretty typical of Playson’s slots, however. Other Playson games with a similar RTP include Merry Christmas (95.18%), Lucky Birds (95.13%) and Odysseus (95.64). There is a quite a range of RTP values, though, for Playson slot.

As well as the RTP, you might also be interested to know that the game is medium variance. So you should be in for a variety of wins with the feature triggered on a reasonably regular basis. It is also worth knowing that you can pick up prizes for just 2 symbols appearing on a payline, boosting your chances of winning.

The reels in the Book of Gold Double Chance fruit machine are framed with regal Ancient Egyptian adornments that look like the entrance to a temple. Behind the reels, you can see a temple or tomb setting that depicts statues of Egyptian gods holding flaming torches. Grains of sand twinkle like silvery diamonds on the temple’s sandy floor, while purple shadows fill the space above the heads of the statues. There are some nice details in the scene, such as the way the torch flames flicker, which helped to draw us into the eerie world of the game.

The music has the typical kind of characteristics that are used in almost every Ancient Egyptian-themed slot. There are some eerie flourishes that sound decent enough, but there is nothing in the music that will make you want to listen to it for long periods of time. The reels make a clicking sound as they spin, which is something that we have noticed features in most of Playson’s slots. Again, the sound effects do their job without striking us as being anything outstanding.

Standard Symbols that Seem a Little Plain

The design of the symbols on the reels is pretty understated in this slot. The usual range of numbers and letters associated with playing card values are used as lower value symbols. They are inscribed in varying colours and there is nothing especially Egyptian about their design. The higher value symbols are a little more interesting, though their design is, again, nothing above average in terms of quality.

You will see some of the usual symbols utilised in Egyptian-themed games in this slot too. You’ll see an Ankh, the Eye of Ra and some hieroglyphics serving time as the higher value symbols on the reels. Again, the design of these is solid enough without being especially visually impressive. There is not much in the visual design of this game that adds a ‘wow’ factor. The Book of Gold itself serves as the game’s wild and scatter symbol, and it offers you a prize as well as triggering the free spins bonus. We’ll look at just how much the symbol can help you in the next section of this Book of Gold Double Chance slot review.

There is only 1 real bonus feature in the Book of Gold Double Chance slot game. This is the free spins bonus. It is added to, though, by the presence of expanding symbols. We will take a closer look at both of these features here. To trigger the free spins feature, you need to spin in 3 or more of the scatter symbols anywhere on the reels.

Expanding Symbols

When the free spins feature begins, you are given the chance to pick 1 symbol that will be your special expanding symbol for the duration of the feature. You can pick any of the symbols that you normally see on the reels, apart from the scatter symbol. This special symbol will then fill an entire reel, and the wins it generates are paid independently of bet lines. You can pick 2 of these symbols, hence the game’s title.

Free Spins

Once 3 or more scatter symbols have appeared on a payline you will receive a cash prize. For 3 scatters, this is 2 coins, for 4 it’s 20 coins and for 5 it’s 200 coins. You are also given some 10 free spins when the feature starts. During the feature, you can receive more free spins if scatter symbols appear on the reels. The maximum number of free spins that you can receive is 50 in total.

While these features are not the most exciting that we have ever come across, they do offer some reasonably good chances to bring in some pretty lucrative prizes. There is no gaming skill required, and the features are a little basic. But that fits with the general feel of this slot – it’s a solid enough game but possesses few features that allow it to stand out from the crowd.

We found little that was remarkable in this game, so this Book of Gold Double Chance slot review concludes on a slightly ambivalent note. There was little that was actually wrong with this game, there was also little about it that really got us excited. The graphics and sound are unremarkable and pretty clichéd in their design. The expanding symbol feature is good, and there are plenty of free spins on offer, but the feature is nothing particularly special. There are certainly better Egyptian themed games out there.

If you enjoy slots that are set in Ancient Egypt, you might want to try Book of Dead from Play’N GO, IGT’s Cleopatra or Book of Ra from Novomatic.

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