On our max-buy round, a Power Frame carrying 24 slid onto a 20x coin, and the coin was suddenly worth 44x. That is the Power Frames bonus in the Pots of Power Mummy’s Treasure slot, an Egyptian Hold and Win where the frames are the reason to play. They do not sit still like the coins they collect. Every respin they move, and when two touch, their values add together, each frame then carrying the total, so the numbers snowball across the reels as the round runs.
The wild is the mummy pharaoh himself, substituting for any symbol except the Bonus to complete a line. He does not pay on his own, but is more of a gap-filler, and on the flat paytable, a pair of wilds landing together can be enough to turn a dead spin into a small win.
One gold Bonus symbol is all it takes. When it lands, it can trigger the Hold and Win at random, with no need to line up 3 or more first. That is unusual, and it makes any spin with a Bonus symbol feel like it could be the one. It also explains why the game pushes you toward the feature so quickly, with an ante bet and two buy options covered lower down.
Before the round begins, a wheel of 3 discs decides its shape. One disc sets the grid, anywhere from 5×4 to the full 5×6, another the number of Power Frames from 2 to 4, and a third the respins from 3 to 5. That makes 27 possible arrangements, pyramids on the horizon behind it and a mummified cat dangling from the pointer to land on one. Once the discs settle, the setup is locked for the round, with no way to improve it.
The Power Frames are what set this apart from an ordinary hold and win. In most, a value sits and waits. Here, the frames drift to fresh cells every respin, and a frame arriving on a coin adds its own value to that coin. Put two side by side, and their values combine, each one then holding the combined total, so a single frame can build from spin to spin. No fresh frames appear once the round starts, which keeps the whole bonus about the few you were dealt.
The coins are the pieces that stick. Each shows its own cash value and stays locked in place. Every new coin refreshes the respins, so a lively spread can keep the round going well beyond its starting count.
Fill every cell, and the reward multiplies the entire pot by up to x4, though at 30 spaces on the biggest layout, that is a tall order.
The Xpress menu lets you buy the bonus outright.
The 25 paylines are read from reel 1 across the 5×3 grid, though they are almost a formality next to the bonus. The 23 stake steps run from €0.10 and top out at €500, with free play covering the lot.
The standard-play call is the ante. Flick it on, and the stake rises to 1.5x while a Bonus symbol grows twice as likely, the spin button glowing blue and the Xpress label giving way to blue ante text.
Autoplay is on hand too, a plain sort, offering spin counts of 20 up to 100 or an endless run and no more, with none of the stop-on-win or loss caps many slots now build in.
The paytable is quick to read. The 5 premium symbols all pay alike, and so do the 5 cards beneath them, which leaves just two prices to read down 10 symbols.
| Symbols | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pyramid, Scarab, Ring, Scroll, Crook and Flail | 0.5x | 1x | 2x |
| A, K, Q, J, 10 | 0.3x | 0.6x | 1.2x |
Figures show a multiple of the stake, taken from our €1 spin.
The Power Frames are the making of Pots of Power Mummy's Treasure, a Hold and Win that grows its own values rather than only holding them, fusing as they slide until a couple of them carry more than the coins they land on. Against that sits a base game whose symbols nearly all pay alike, so the reels only mark time until a gold Bonus symbol drops, and a 500x buy that buys the best setup, not a sure profit. The one we took came back just under its cost.
Standard play holds almost all its value back. Premium symbols top out at just 2x a line for five, while the card symbols reach 1.2x, so a line win rarely covers the spin. The real goal is landing that one Bonus symbol.
That is where the held-back value starts to make sense. In the bonus, the frames shift on every respin. Where a normal Hold and Win would leave a 2x coin at 2x, a 5x frame can settle over it and lift the value to 7x. Stack enough of those boosts together, and a few small coins can climb into the hundreds. The reward is not really about filling the grid. It is about watching a handful of frames grow.
We reached the round twice during this review. The natural trigger gave us a middling setup, with 3 respins and 3 frames on the largest 5×6 grid, and finished at €34.00 from 4 covered cells on our €1 stake.
Later, we bought the 500x Bonus Max for its locked best setup of 5 respins and 4 frames. That round ran much longer, with fresh coins resetting the respins 4 separate times and the frames climbing to 24x each. It ended at €479.90 from 8 cells, which made for a good watch but still came back just under the €500 buy-in.
The headline return is 96.10%, the two buys a touch higher at 96.24% and 96.27% and the ante at 96.12%, though operators can run the return lower, at 94.09% and 90.56%, so the paytable is one to check before you play. Volatility is Very High, which the flat pays and the bonus-or-nothing shape both bear out. The top win is 10,000x the stake, far past our best result, and the round shuts off the instant it is hit.
Between wins, the mummy is the reason to keep watching. He jigs beside the reels, curls into a bandaged ball with darting eyes when the spin misses, and throws his arms wide to celebrate a win as the symbols crackle electric yellow.
The tomb behind him is fits perfectly too. Hieroglyphs cut across the walls, treasure is piled around the sarcophagus framing the reels, black Anubis heads stand guard, and the queen waits in her coffin above. It is a warm, jaunty take on the Egyptian theme, helped along by an upbeat score that keeps a skip in its step and makes the waits for a Bonus symbol easier to sit through.
The mummy throws an arm toward the reels as a wild lights up at €1.50, rarely letting a spin pass without a flourish.
