Cleocatra slot

Cleocatra plays on five reels and four rows with 40 fixed paylines, so a R2 spin is R0.05 a line. Four rows matter here because the cat symbols come stacked, and a stacked reel is what feeds both of the game's features. Line wins pay from the left as usual. The wild is a scarab-style symbol that lands with a 2x or 3x multiplier printed on it, and if two wilds help the same line the figures are added, so 2x plus 3x pays that line at 5x.

The first feature is the respin. When reel one fills top to bottom with the same cat, every copy of that cat on the board locks and the other positions respin. They keep respinning until a win lands, at which point the locked set pays. It is a small, frequent feature that tends to turn a near miss into a modest line win rather than a big one, but it also means a stacked reel one is never a wasted spin.

The free spins are where the volatility comes from. Three, four or five scatters give 8, 12 or 16 spins. Inside the round any wild that lands on reels two to five sticks in place until the round ends, keeping its 2x or 3x. Over 16 spins a board can fill with four or five sticky wilds, and a cat stack on reel one during the round hands out more spins. Wilds stacked on the same line add their multipliers, which is how the 5,000x cap is reached.

Where the bonus buy is offered it costs 100x the stake, R200 at R2 a spin, and starts the free spins at once. The RTP holds at 96.2% either way. A bought round with no early wilds on reels two to five is the common bad outcome: eight spins of plain line hits that return a fraction of the R200, because without stuck wilds the round is just the base game at no charge.