Beat The Beast: Mighty Sphinx

Travel to ancient Egypt for an encounter with the mythical guardians on the slot from Thunderkick. Beat The Beast: Mighty Sphinx is the second creation in the developer’s “High Danger” game series. You will be leaving the Kraken’s Lair to face the mighty creature that played an important role in Egyptian and Greek mythology. A random Mystery feature and a Bonus Game with free spins, unlimited retriggers and wild symbol upgrades will reward the bravest spinners with wins of up to 4,444 times their bet.

Slot Details

Beat The Beast: Mighty Sphinx is a video slot with five reels, three rows and 9 fixed pay lines. Wins are awarded for two to five matching symbols on a line from left to right only. Before travelling to ancient Egypt on your desktop or mobile, you will need to select a bet size between 0.10 to 100 credits per spin. The game is highly volatile (square root of variance is 143.7) with an RTP of 96.14%.

Loading the game will take you into the midst of the Egyptian desert with sun-filled ancient pyramids in the background. The entire design appears with a purple hue that acts as a creative bridge to our modern times. Naturally, typical items from Egyptian mythology such as Ankh crosses and sphinx statuettes dominate on the reels while an oriental soundtrack complements the win count and teaser noises.

On the paytable, you will find card royals from 10 through to A at the low end, awarding 10x to 15x your stake for a single five of a kind. They are followed by a curved Khopesh Sword, the fabled Ankh cross, a gem-ornamented scarab, a golden sphinx statuette and the mighty sphinx itself. Hit five on a line to win 25x to 250x your stake.

A golden sphinx emblem is the wild and scatter symbol, substituting for all other pay symbols and triggering the bonus game when minimum three land on a spin. Three, four or five scatters will pay 2x, 20x and 200x your bet respectively. During the feature, a second wild will appear on the reels in the form of the character ‘W’.

Beat The Beast: Mighty Sphinx Slot Features

Announcing a series of, well, anything, creates always a suspenseful expectation as to what comes next. That applies to virtually all items in our lives be it the sequel to a video game, mobile phone, movie franchise and in this case online slot. Thunderkick dubbed it the “high danger” series, indicating that the slots will deliver intense gameplay with maximum volatility and mega win potential. The first in the series, Beat The Beast: Kraken’s Lair, lived up to that description by being a super tough slot to play but capable of churning out wins of up to 7,777 times the bet. Reason enough to take a closer look whether the second in series surpasses its sibling or whether it is just a lukewarm follow-up game.

Thunderkick included again a few reel mechanics and modifiers that will be at the core of the action. The first and probably very helpful modifier is the Mystery feature. It can trigger randomly at the start of any spin in the base game, placing 1-3 golden scatters in random positions on the grid. Three would be a bonus game trigger.

Hitting three or more scatters anywhere on the reels in one spin, will award 10 Free Spins which you can further expand with +5 free spins by landing again minimum three in a free spin, no limits. The retriggers will have a major impact on your potential winnings as they will activate the Symbol Transformation feature.

For each retrigger, one of the medium-paying symbols in the order Khopesh Sword, Ankh cross, scarab, sphinx statuette will be transformed into a wild symbol for the remainder of the bonus round. With up to four extra wilds, you could end up having just the top-paying Sphinx, the golden wild/scatter emblem, the extra wilds and royals on the reels, providing the potential to hit mega wins. Overall, up to 4,444x your bet are up for grabs.

Final Verdict

For those expecting an even more volatile rollercoaster ride than on the first title in the “High Danger” series, Beat the Beast: Mighty Sphinx might be slightly disappointing. While the variance is not that different, the win potential has been vastly reduced which is rather unexpected. Still, the game is entertaining to play and the suspense level reaches boiling point once you manage to transform most or all medium-paying symbols into wilds in the bonus round.

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