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Book Of Ba'al Review

As far as we can tell, Iron Dog has only released one Book of ... mechanic slot before the game at hand, namely the medieval-themed Crown of Avalon that came with expanding wilds in the base game. Book Of Ba'al however, gives you a full-blown Mini Feature taste of the ‘Book mechanic’ bonus round in the base game, which boils down to a single free expanding symbol respin.

The symbol expands already before the free respin though, giving you a chance to improve the win. This ‘Mini Feature Round’ is the only thing that separates this installment from the herd, although the ancient Egypt theme comes with a refreshing blue sky view this time. Ba’al is the Egyptian god of fertility and weather, so this installment is not about the Biblical evil demon creature that goes by the same name.

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Book Of Ba'al Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 75 and 500 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, which is pretty standard and ‘by the book’ for this genre. The Book symbol serves double duty as both the wild and the scatter symbol, which is also according to the ‘book of’ blueprint, and as a wild the book steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete wins.

The Bonus Round triggers when you land 3, 4 or 5 Book scatters at the same time, and this gives you an upfront scatter payout of 2x, 20x or 200x your stake, respectively. You win 10 free spins no matter how many triggering scatters you land, and the Book then opens up for the special expanding symbol selection “ritual”, as usual.

Landing enough instances of the chosen special symbol on different reels to win triggers the Expanding Symbol ‘scatter win’ feature. All instances of the special symbol then expands to cover the entire reel, and this awards a full payline win no matter if the expanded symbols are on adjacent reels or not. Landing 3+ scatters anywhere awards extra spins during the feature.

So far, everything is familiar, but the Mini Feature Round is what makes this installment stick out, at least to a certain degree. Book symbols that don’t trigger the bonus round are collected in a meter up to the left, and the Mini Feature triggers each time you’ve collected 25 book scatters.

A random pay symbol type is then chosen to expand, and you get 1 free respin of the remaining reels. If more of the symbol type lands, it expands to cover the reel as well, awarding a possible full grid payout. You thus get a mini taste of the bonus round on a regular basis during base game play.

The 200 Spins Book Of Ba'al Slot Experience

Our 5-minutes highlights video starts with a Mini Feature trigger, and we got ‘10’ as the chosen expanding symbol. After that we grinded along for a good while, and the bonus round is triggered around the 3-minute mark. Once again we got ‘10’ as the special expanding symbol, which was kind of a downer, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The explorer dude in Book Of Ba'al looks a bit too much like an Instagram hipster for our liking, but we do appreciate the change of scenery. If this was yet another deep dive into a dusty ancient Egypt tomb we would be tempted to never return from it, so having an open blue sky in the background does lighten the mood a bit. Ba’al was the god of fertility after all, and this depiction of ancient Egypt looks fertile enough.

The Ra clone gameplay is pretty standard stuff for the most part though, with the exception of the bolted on base game Mini Feature Round. You can expect plenty of dead spins and/or minuscule wins between Mini Round triggers, but at least you get something to look forward to on a regular basis, compared to the dry desert walk most ‘Book slots’ offer. Landing 5,000x from a single lucky expanding symbol spin is still the magic attraction, and here it can also happen in the base game.

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Secret of Dead - is a recent installment in Play’n Go’s popular ‘Book of’ range, and it comes with 6x3 reels and 10 betlines. The top-tier Shai symbol is worth twice as much if it’s chosen to expand in the bonus round, which means that you can win up to 10,000x your stake. A new chosen symbol is awarded per bonus retrigger.

Gonzo's Gold - is something as rare as cluster pays grid slot with ‘Book of’ mechanic inspired features, and this NetEnt release plays out on a 5x5 grid. The chosen special symbol can expand to fill reels or rows, and you can win up to 6,500x your stake (while 5,000x is the single spin max win).

Book of Destiny - is the first ever ‘Book slot’ from Print Studios, and it’s been a quite successful effort so far. The big twist is that you can choose your preferred special expanding symbol freely when the bonus round triggers, and you can even gamble for up to 3 special symbols. Each retrigger awards a new special symbol as well, and the max win is 5,000x your stake.