Ultimate Guide

Book of Dead Free Spins: How the Round Runs

In short: Book of Dead free spins are a ten-spin round that three or more tomb scatters start from anywhere on the reels. Three more scatters inside the round add another ten, and the standard build sets no cap on the total.

Three tomb scatters buy ten free spins, and three more during the round buy ten again. Both features we recorded re-triggered, then paid 13.5 and 65 times the bet that started them.

The book opening across the reels of Book of Dead as free
The book opens, and that is the whole ceremony. Three tomb scatters anywhere on the reels are all it takes, and ten free spins follow. Source: our own screenshot.

Three Scatters Start the Free Spins

Three tomb scatters anywhere on the reels start it, and ten free spins follow. Paylines are irrelevant here, and so is adjacency.

The book opens across the middle of the screen, picks a symbol, and the round begins.

The trigger is cheap by the standards of this genre, and that is the point of a book slot. Play'n GO's own wording is plain: "3 or more Scatter symbols trigger Free Spins. An initial 10 free spins are awarded."

What the Round Is, in the Studio's Own Numbers

Part of the roundWhat Play'n GO states
Scatters needed to start3 or more, anywhere on the reels
Spins awarded10
Scatters needed to re-trigger3 or more, during the round
Spins added by a re-trigger10
Cap on total spinsNone in the standard build
Bet during the roundLocked to the bet that triggered it

Figures current as of ; the operator's live terms prevail.

How a Free-Spins Re-Trigger Works

It uses the same three-scatter rule as the trigger, and it can happen more than once. Land three tomb scatters while the free spins are running and another ten are added on the spot.

Book of Dead scroll announcing ten additional free spins
Three scatters landed inside the feature and doubled it to twenty spins. Re-triggers use the same three-scatter rule as the trigger. Source: our own screenshot.

How far that can go stays unpublished.

The standard build states no maximum. The single "maximum 50 free spins" line we found anywhere belongs to a separate NWC build of this title rather than to the game an Italian lobby serves, and attributing that cap to the ordinary game would be wrong.

Both Features, and What They Paid

Both of our recorded sessions produced exactly one feature, and both re-triggered to twenty spins.

Book of Dead closing scroll of the free spins reading a
Twenty free spins closed at 3,250 coins, which is 65 times the bet that triggered them. Our first session's feature paid 13.5 times, off the same trigger. Source: our own screenshot.

What they paid diverged sharply.

The first closed at 675 coins, which was 13.5 times the bet that triggered it. The second closed at 3,250 coins, or 65 times the same bet. Same trigger, same number of spins, same randomly drawn symbol, and almost a fivefold gap between them. If you want one sentence for what high volatility means in this game, that gap is it.

Our Two Recorded Features

SessionPaid spins before it hitSpins after re-triggerFeature paid
First run4620675 coins, 13.5x the bet
Second run204203,250 coins, 65x the bet

One Free-Spins Round Is Not a Sample

Two events measure nothing, and we would rather say so than dress them up. Across 250 paid spins we saw the round twice, which tells you it is not common and tells you nothing reliable about how often it arrives.

Book of Dead free spins running with the counter reading
Ten free spins, triggered on our seventeenth press. The icon next to the counter is the symbol drawn to expand for the whole sequence. Source: our own screenshot.

The honest shape of the result is more useful than the percentage. In the second session that single feature carried 65.00 of the 176.00 that came back, so roughly a third of the whole return arrived in one burst while the other 203 spins ground the balance down. Plan a bankroll around that pattern rather than around an average.

Where This Guide Stops

How the expanding symbol is chosen, when it actually stretches, and why the gaps rule inside the round differs from the base game are covered separately. They deserve their own numbers rather than a paragraph here.

Our ranked opinion, which a rival could reasonably dispute: the re-trigger matters more than the trigger. Ten spins on a cheap symbol is usually a rounding error, and both of our paying features only became interesting once the round doubled in length.

Key Terms Used on This Page

Trigger
Three or more tomb scatters anywhere on the reels, which award 10 free spins.
Re-trigger
Three more scatters during the round, worth another 10 spins. Both our sessions took one.
Expanding symbol
One ordinary symbol drawn at random before the round and held for all 10 spins.
NWC build
A separate version of this title capped at 50 free spins; the standard build states no cap.

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