Starlight Princess slot

Starlight Princess runs the exact maths that made Gates of Olympus famous, and Pragmatic Play does not hide it. The grid is 6x5, there are no paylines, and any 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on screen pay out. Winners clear, new symbols tumble into the gaps, and the spin keeps going until nothing new connects. The low symbols are coloured gems, the high ones are the princess's star, moon and sun charms, and the princess herself is the scatter.

Multiplier symbols appear in the base game and the feature with values from 2x to 500x. They do nothing on their own. When the tumbling stops, every multiplier on the board is added together and applied once to the total of that spin. Two 5x symbols and a 25x on a R40 spin that won R30 pays 35 times R30, which is R1,050. In the base game the count resets to zero on the next spin.

Four or more scatters trigger 15 free spins, and this is where the design changes. Every multiplier that lands on a winning spin is added to a running total that stays for the rest of the round, so by spin ten you may be applying a 120x total to every win. Three scatters during the feature add five spins. The 5,000x cap lives here. So does the pain: many rounds finish under 20x the stake because the multipliers landed on dead boards.

Scorebet runs the 96.5% version. The ante bet costs 25% more per spin, so R2 becomes R2.50, and doubles the number of scatters on the reels. The bonus buy, where offered, costs 100x the stake for one round, R200 on a R2 bet. Both are ways to reach the feature faster, neither improves the RTP, and the buy returns under its price more often than not.