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Origins Review

The question of how it all started is usually answered by referring to some kind of primordial soup, or at least that’s the scientific explanation. StakeLogic is hardly going that deep in their cartoonish release simply called Origins, and it revolves around a neanderthal family consisting of a medicine man grandfather, a hunter father, a gatherer mother, and what looks like a somewhat naughty boy.

The 5x3 grid is framed by massive stones carved with primitive decorations, and according to the splash screen humans and T-Rex’ get along just fine. The dinosaur is even wearing Elton John sunglasses while clutching onto a coconut cocktail, and the family mammoth plays a central part in the Super Hold feature. You also get a Big Bass Bonanza inspired bonus round, and the overall max win is 10,000x your stake.

Origins Slot - Reels Screen

Origins Slot Features

The Super Stake ante bet doubles both your bonus round and super hold chances, but you also need to pay twice as much per spin if you turn it on. The premium symbols pay between 5 and 50 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and you can land Wild symbols on reels 2 to 5 only. Wilds step in for pay symbols to help complete wins, and wilds hold no value of their own.

The Super Hold mammoth symbol triggers the Super Hold feature when you land a stack of 3 on the leftmost reel in the base game. This gives you 3 respins, and only blanks or new mammoth symbols will land during the feature. The respins tally is topped up by the number of new mammoth symbols you land. The mammoth symbols can be split in two or three as they land, increasing the win ways accordingly, but they still count as one symbol for the respins tally.

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You need 3, 4, or 5 scatters in view to trigger the Bonus Round, and this awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. A pay symbol is chosen randomly up front, and the chosen symbol will land with a cash prize attached as the feature plays out. They still serve as regular pay symbols, and the cash prizes are collected if you also land a Collector symbol at the same time.

The Collector symbol is itself collected in the meter/trail above the grid, and you get +10 extra spins and an x2 multiplier after 4 collectors have been collected. Collect 4 more to get +8 extra spins and an x3 multiplier, and 4 on top of that to get +6 extra spins and an x5 multiplier. The Collector symbol can appear on reels 1 and 5 during the feature.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the bonus round via the Bonus Buy feature. You can pay 100x, 200x, or 300x your stake for 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively, or try your luck with the 150x randomized option.

The 200 Spins Origins Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we trigger the Super Hold feature at 0:36 into the 3:27-minute highlights video. We purchase the bonus round right after, or at 1:46 to be precise, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We were pretty sure Origins was a branded slot based on some cartoon we didn’t know about when we first laid eyes on it, but that’s actually not the case. The visual quality is solid though, and you get to meet a charming prehistoric family and their cute wooly mammoth. The pace of the game is satisfying, and the Super Stake option seems reasonably priced since it doubles your chances of both features.

The Super Hold feature stuck out as a highlight for us, as it was kind of fun to close in on a full grid payout. The double and triple symbols extra is also a nice touch, but it’s a downer when you have 7-10 respins racked up and 2 positions left that you can sense will never be filled. The Big Bass Bonanza inspired bonus round is decent as well, but extra points would’ve been scored if it was more originally done.

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Blazing Mammoth - is a popular prehistoric release from Pear Fiction, and it comes with instant scatter jackpots up to 2,000x your stake. You get an x2 or x3 win multiplier in the bonus round, but it only applies to regular line wins. The overall max win is also 2,000x your stake.

Rock Vegas - is a volatile Reel Kingdom installment in the prehistoric genre, and it comes with a fairly barebones base game. However, the Mega Hold & Spin bonus round plays out on a 10x10 grid, and you get merging cash stones and a key collect multiplier trail that ends with a mystery multiplier. The max win is a solid 10,000x your stake.

Wild Tundra - is a more visually realistic release in the prehistoric genre, and this Red Tiger installment comes with a chain reaction mechanic grid and super symbol versions of regular symbols. The multiplier increases with the size of the super symbols, and you get symbol transformation in the progressive multiplier bonus round. The max win is 10,000x your stake.