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In short: Book of Dead is the third Rich Wilde slot, not the first. Play'n GO released Aztec Idols in 2012 and Pearls of India in 2014, and neither prequel carries the Rich Wilde prefix in its own title.
Almost every list of this series opens with Book of Dead. Play'n GO's own story text names two earlier games first, and both slip past most lists because the explorer's name is missing from their titles.
Its rules document prints all five return builds, from 96.21% down to 84.18%, and we recorded 250 paid spins on it across two sessions.
Released on for the title's tenth year, and the only other build we could confirm in an Italian lobby.
The 2012 slot that introduced the explorer, filed under a title that omits his name, which is how it disappears from lists.
Play'n GO's own story text places it before Book of Dead, in 2014. That single sentence is why calling Book of Dead the first game is wrong.
| Title | Released | Rich Wilde prefix | What we can confirm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aztec Idols | **2012** | no | Studio catalogue only, no session recorded |
| Pearls of India | **2014** | no | Studio catalogue only, no session recorded |
| Rich Wilde and the Book of Dead | **** | yes | **Two sessions, 250 paid spins** |
| Rich Wilde and the Tome of Madness | not checked by us | yes | Studio catalogue only |
| Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena | not checked by us | yes | Studio catalogue only |
| Rich Wilde and the Amulet of Dead | not checked by us | yes | Studio catalogue only |
| Book of Dead GO Collect | **** | no | Confirmed in **one** Italian lobby |
Play'n GO says so in its own story text for the game, which has Rich Wilde arriving in Egypt after the Pearls of India and after the Aztec Idols. The first landed in 2012, the second two years later. Book of Dead followed on , and it is the one that made the character famous.
Neither title carries the explorer's name. Search for the series and you get the games with the prefix, which starts at Book of Dead and runs forward. The two earlier slots sit outside that pattern, so most write-ups quietly begin in 2016 and call it the first.
Book of Oz sits outside the Play'n GO catalogue altogether. Its makers are a different studio and a different publisher, and it turns up inside Play'n GO lists more often than any other title in this niche. If a page files it here, check what else on that page was copied rather than checked.
One idea, repeated. A book symbol doing duty as both wild and scatter at once, ten free spins on three of them, and one ordinary symbol drawn at random to expand across its reel for the whole round. Book of Dead inherited that shape rather than inventing it, and the later entries mostly rearrange it.
If you want the game with the most public maths behind it, open Book of Dead: the rules document is downloadable, the five return builds are printed in it, and our own sessions on it are written up in full. If you already know that round and want something newer, GO Collect is the one we could confirm in Italy. If neither fits, stay on the original rather than picking a title nobody has published numbers for.
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More on this game, from the same section first:
96.21% default, four lower versions certified
Drew the 10 in both sessions
250,000 coins, 5,000x at max bet
0 buy-bonus titles in Play'n GO catalogue
Rated 10 in 2022, 7 in 2026
UKGC account 55949, zero regulatory actions
Rich Wilde pays 5,000 per line
The questions here are mostly about order and ownership: which game came first, and which slots people wrongly file under this studio. Both are settled by Play'n GO's own catalogue rather than by us.
Aztec Idols, in 2012. Pearls of India followed in 2014, and Book of Dead arrived third on .
Because the two earlier games carry no Rich Wilde prefix, a search for the series skips straight past them.
No. Book of Oz comes from Triple Edge Studios and Games Global instead, and mis-filing it here is the most repeated error in the niche.
No. The studio released Book of Dead GO Collect on instead, and it is a separate game rather than a sequel.
Yes, broadly. One book icon covering the wild and the scatter, ten spins off three of them, and a single ordinary symbol promoted to expand for the round.
On what Play'n GO documents and on what we recorded ourselves. A played title always outranks an unplayed one here.
