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How Book of Dead works
Book of Dead is a Play'n GO slot with five reels and ten paylines, set in ancient Egypt and fronted by the explorer Rich Wilde. The Book symbol is both the wild and the scatter: it substitutes for other symbols in ordinary wins and, when three or more land anywhere on the reels, it starts the free spins round with ten spins. The base game is deliberately plain, with no cascades, multipliers or side features; the design puts all of the game's weight on the free spins.
The special expanding symbol
Before the ten free spins begin, the game randomly selects one ordinary paying symbol to be the special expanding symbol for that round. This is the mechanic Book of Dead is known for, and it is not an expanding wild. When the chosen symbol lands and expanding it would create an additional winning combination, it grows to cover its whole reel. Expanded special symbols also pay without needing to sit on adjacent reels, which is what allows a single free spin to pay on many lines at once.
Which symbol is selected largely decides the value of the round. A high-paying symbol such as Rich Wilde expanding across several reels produces the game's biggest results, while a low-paying card symbol produces far more modest ones. Retrigger rules and how the special symbol is handled on a retrigger are set out in the game's own rules screen, which is the authority for the version you open.
What to check before playing
Book of Dead is a high-variance design, as the volatility rating in the game details above shows. The RTP most commonly published for it is 96.21%, but operators can license lower RTP configurations of the same title, so the figure in the information panel of the game you open at a casino is the one that applies. RTP is a theoretical average over a very large number of spins; it says nothing about how a single session will go, and a game that concentrates its potential in one feature can run for a long time between bonuses. Bet limits are set by each operator.
You can see where Book of Dead is offered in the online casinos listed, or compare it with other Egyptian-themed slot games. Mechanics in this overview are taken from the publisher: Play'n GO, Book of Dead. This is a source-based summary, not a hands-on test.
