3 Oaks is one of many developers that keep churning out new Hold and Win slots on a regular basis, and Sun of Egypt 3 is, as the title indicates, the third installment in this particular range. The most notable thing that varies between the 3 installments is the jackpots and max win potential, which keeps increasing each time. It’s going to be hard to top at some point if Booongo keeps this ancient Egypt series going, and10,000xis admittedly a decent potential.
You get the same bonus round as always in the Sun of Egypt series, where the low-paying royal symbols are removed. This feature is more of a sideshow though, as the big attraction will always be the Hold & Win feature. It comes with a mystery symbol this time, as well as the possibility to upgrade to a Super version, and you still need to fill the grid to win the Royal Jackpot.
The premium symbols pay between 4 and 10 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and theWild symbolpays 12x your stake for the same. The Wild also steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations, like wilds usually do.
You trigger the Free Spins round by landing3 scattersanywhere in view, and this awards8 free spins. You win +8 extra spins if you land3 scatters on the same free spin, and only premium symbols, wilds and bonus symbols are present on the reels during the feature.
You need6+ sun bonus symbolsto trigger theHold and Win feature, and the triggering symbols become sticky on an otherwise cleared grid. You start with3 respins, and the tally resets for each new sticky bonus cash symbol you land. The bonus cash symbols land withrandom values between 1x and 15x your stake, and you can also land the following jackpot symbols:
The jackpot symbols are also sticky and resets the respin tally, and you can win more than one jackpot per feature. Fill all 15 positions to win theRoyal Jackpotworth10,000x your stake. This, or running out of respins, ends the Hold & Win feature.
You can land Super Bonus symbols (darker orange sun) on reel 5 in the base game and during the free spins round, or on any reel during the bonus game.5+ Super Bonus symbolstrigger theSuper Bonus Game, which gives you higher value bonus cash symbols. You can also landMystery Symbols, and these transform into one of the 4 jackpot symbols or the Super Bonus symbol.
You get a brief taste of the base game, before we trigger the Hold and Win bonus game at 0:21 into the 2:26-minute highlights video. We trigger the feature once more right after it has played out, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.
We’re counting 27 installments in Booongo’s Hold and Win series at this time, and only15 Dragon Pearlscomes with a higher potential than Sun of Egypt 3. You could call this the saving grace of this installment, as there is very little here we haven’t seen plenty of times before (it’s the third installment after all). The visual presentation is nothing special either, and you get a generic ancient Egypt soundtrack to boot.
The free spins round comes with no low-value symbols, but the most you can win from a single spin is still only 300x your stake. You’ll most likely need the Hold and Win feature to truly make a dent, but very little damage can be done via the regular cash symbols. The feature did seem to trigger quite frequently though, but without one of the top-tier jackpots you’re looking at a decent top-up win at best.
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Sun of Egypt- is Booongo’s original release from 2019, and it comes with a similar bonus round where all low-value royal symbols are removed. Of course, the main attraction is the Hold & Win bonus, and it comes with a full-screen Royal Jackpot of 1,000x your stake.
Sun of Egypt 2- is Booongo’s follow-up release from 2020, and it comes with the same bonus round void of royal low-value symbols. You can win jackpots up to 5,000x your stake in the Hold & Win bonus feature, so it seems the potential is massively increased per new installment in this series.
Ganesha Boost Hold and Win- comes with a mix of asian-style visuals and Hindu mythology, and the bonus round comes with x2 multiplier wilds. The Hold & Win bonus game is the big attraction as usual, and you can win jackpots up to 5,000x your stake.
