Sphinx slot machine review and bonus to play online

Playing slot games carries us away to faraway lands in different times in history. One of those is Ancient Egypt, a popular slots theme, as any casino visitor will agree. While many of these Egyptian slots share similar symbols like pharaohs, pyramids, lucky scarab beetles, and Cleopatra, they all have distinctly different gameplay.

The Sphinx slot machine from IGT is a fine example of the genre, with a cool bonus round that sees you entering an Egyptian burial chamber to pick from the burial baskets and reveal your prize.

Sphinx Slot Machine Play Online

Sphinx at TwinSpires Casino is a simple game compared to some modern slots, and that suits most players just fine. Sometimes you just want to spin and win.

There are only nine paylines in play across five reels and three rows and no complicated mechanics to distract you from the task of making a winning line matching up the symbols.

Symbols include pyramids, scarab beetles, Tutankhamen, palm trees, and hieroglyphics. You land these to win small prizes regularly. With an RTP of 97.01%, this slot is on the more generous side and will make your money last much longer than many other games.

The wild symbol is Tutankhamun, so landing this increases your chances of success further.

Sphinx Slot Machine Bonus Feature

The Sphinx slot machine's popularity is its simplicity, and with just one bonus round to aim for, you know what you are doing at any stage. If you land at least three of the bonus, Ancient Egyptian coin symbols on a payline, you trigger the bonus feature.

You are taken deep into a pyramid into an ancient burial chamber, where five sarcophagi (stone coffins that contained mummified remains of the rich and powerful), are lined up. This is a straightforward "pick" game, where you must select one of the five caskets to reveal your prize. You get one pick for each of the paylines that the bonus coins are on – up to a maximum of five.

The prizes you can reveal are:

• 11 x stake
• 22 x stake
• 55 x stake
• 77 x stake
• The Sphinx statue

If you manage to unearth the Sphinx statue, you head straight to the Sphinx chamber, where you pick again but with a better chance of a larger prize. Remember, the more bonus coins you land, the more picks you get, and the higher your win:

• 11 x stake
• 11 x stake
• 22 x stake
• 77 x stake
• 77 x stake

Wild About King Tut

While the bonus game is fine with decent prizes, if you want to really win big on the Sphinx slot machine, you must land lots of wild symbols in regular play. The Tutankhamun symbol, representing King Tut the pharaoh, is the wild symbol that substitutes for all others except the scatter.

It is the highest value symbol, and landing two, three, four, or five wins you 0.55, 11.11, 111.11, or 1,111.11 x your stake. If you fill all the reels with Tutankhamun wild symbols, you’ll win an amazing 10,000 x your stake!

Sphinx Slot Machine Spin-offs

Such is the success of the Sphinx slot machine that various spin-off games have been launched. Chief among these is Sphinx Wild, where Tutankhamun expands and turns all neighboring symbols to wilds as well, triggering huge wins.

Other variations of Sphinx you may find include:

• Return of the Sphinx
• Return of the Sphinx 2
• Sphinx 3D
• Sphinx 4D
• Volcano Island - Sphinx Wild

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