Fortunes Of Ali Baba

Say ‘Open Sesame’ and you might discover vast treasures on the slot from Play’n GO. Fortunes of Alibaba is bringing the century-old story from the One Thousand and One Nights collection of folk tales to a 5×3 reel set. The legend of a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret on how to enter a thieves’ den and ends up being the only one left alive to know the secret code will take you on a high-volatility reel adventure with wild substitutions and a Den of Thieves bonus feature where you can win bet multipliers or free spins that can lead to wins of up to 9.968 times your stake.

Slot Details

Fortunes Of Ali Baba is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 20 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for three to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. You can plunder the thieves’ lair on desktop or mobile from 0.20 t0 100 credits per spin. The game has high volatility (8/10) with a default RTP of 96.89%. Some operators might offer the game with lower RTP settings of 94.63% or even just 91.34%, always check the help files to find out which version you will be playing.

The open entrance to the thieves’ den is in the background of a floating game window that has only fine lines as reel separators. The scenery will change to the inside in the bonus game. Items related to the story as well as Ali Baba, Morgiana and a thief dominate the reels while an oriental soundtrack adds the final touch to the design.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the card royals from 10 through to A, awarding 1.75x to 3.5x your bet for a single five of a kind. The premiums are items associated with the folk tale – bowls with mystic healing herbs, a hoard of precious jewels, a magical amulet and Ali Baba’s curved dagger. Hit five on a line to win 7x to 14x your stake.

The game has two wilds, the first being Ali Baba himself appearing throughout the gameplay while the Thieves Wild turns up in the free spins only. Both perform the usual substitutions duties and yield a respectable 250x your bet when five land on a line. The beautiful Morgiana, the trusted servant and later wife of Ali Baba’s son acts as the scatter.

Fortunes Of Ali Baba Slot Features

It must have been quite a challenge for the creators to come up with ideas on how to integrate the folk tale into the gameplay while at the same time having features that are not just suspenseful but also have big win potential. They did a good job with the main characters as pay symbols which leads us to the features. Core to the entire action is the beautiful Morgiana as she will open the entrance to the cave where the treasures are hidden. Landing her scatter anywhere on reel one and five in one spin will trigger the Den of Thieves bonus game which is in essence a pick-and-click round but also the path to the free spins feature.

On each level of the Den of Thieves bonus game, you can make one pick to unveil your prize, which can be coin wins, free spins triggers or collect. The bonus game ends instantly once you uncover the skull and all prizes up that point are added and paid in one amount before the game returns to the main screen. Chose wisely as there is no second-chance pick available.

• Level 1 – six jars: Has no collect sign and prizes worth up to 10x your total bet.
• Levels 2 and 3 – five and four jars: Cash prizes of up to 10x your total bet, Free Spins trigger or collect.
• Level 4 – three jars: Cash prizes worth up to 100x your total bet, Free Spins trigger or collect.
• Level 5 – two jars: Free Spins trigger or collect.

If Free Spins are triggered, any instant prizes already collected will be added to total winnings at the end of the round. Initially, 8 Free Spins with an x1 win multiplier are awarded which cannot be retriggered as such but landing two Morgiana scatters again on reels one and five will add +2 free spins to the tally and increase the win multiplier by x1 on each retrigger.

On every free spin, one Ali Baba Wild is placed on a random reel position. If a Thieves Wild lands, it triggers one re-spin and turns into a walking wild (connoisseurs will know the mechanic from Banana Rock). The wild will move towards the Alibaba Wild, leaving a trail of wilds in its wake until it reaches Ali Baba. Should more than one Thieves Wild appear on a free spin then they will all move at the same time, potentially leading to a full screen of wilds.

Final Verdict

All of us have most probably listened at some point in our early life to someone reading the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Or maybe watched it in a theatre or on TV as a movie or cartoon, there is hardly any other story that has been immortalized more often than this classic folk tale. Play’n Go has done a pretty stellar job on the visuals and the features, giving Fortunes of Ali Baba an unusually high maximum win potential of 9,968 times the bet.

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