AINSWORTH’S NEW ANCIENT TREASURES GAMES
Ainsworth’s new SAP game family Ancient Treasures includes three unique games offering a common hold and spin style feature, but with a 5th reel that holds multipliers designed to boost credit and bonus prizes in each full row of scatters. With the potential to unlock the Golden Scroll in the top box for additional multipliers, jackpots and credit prizes, or landing a Hidden Treasure or Jackpot Treasure blue scatter in the feature, players will find riches stored in secret places in these new games.
The new Ancient Treasures game range includes three different maths models with popular themes, Pyramid Riches, Persian Nights and Mayan Gold. All have very appealing and clean art with symbols that standout and are easy to track as the reels spin.
As mid-high volatility games, these games will have a wide appeal among your regular players with a tweaked hold and spin base and can be confidently placed in any area of your gaming floor.
Hidden Treasures Hold & Spin feature
While continuing the successful hold and spin mechanic in these games Ainsworth have added some points of difference for players who visit regularly:
- Players only need 5 Ancient Treasure symbols to trigger the hold and spin feature instead of the traditional 6.
- As the 5th reel holds prize multipliers, players only need to land cash on reel scatter symbols in 12 positions to win the Golden Scroll prizes in the top box, instead of filling the full screen with the traditional 15.
- Players will quickly understand the importance of the 5th reel as the multiplier can increase each time they land a scatter in that row, building up to x5. Players simply need to fill the row with four scatters and the 5th reel multiplier will be applied to all prizes, including bonuses.
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Uncovering the Golden Scroll
The top box displays a golden scroll, covered in stone. Each scatter landed in the hold and spin feature breaks one of twelve pieces of stone off the scroll to uncover an additional major prize. By landing all 12 scatters on the screen and uncovering the scroll, players may win the Grand, Major or Maxi Jackpot, or a large credit prize, or a x2, x3 or x4 multiplier, which will apply to every prize on screen. This appears more frequently than players will expect.
The Hidden Treasures or Jackpot Treasures Blue Scatter
As yet another boost for players, if they land a special blue Hidden Treasures scatter, or a blue Jackpot Treasures scatter they can win an instant prize. If they land a blue Hidden Treasures symbol players are guaranteed a large credit prize of between x50 to x250 bet, and a blue Jackpots Treasures symbol instantly wins a jackpot. These blue scatters are rare but are more frequent with higher bets.
Free games
To add further opportunities for players, each game in the Ancient Treasures family has a thematically related, but slightly different, free game feature:
- Pyramid Riches: 3 or more pyramids awards 7 spins plus 1 bonus spin. During the free games, players need to collect two gems during their spins in each reel to lock it in for the final spin. In the 8th and final spin every reel that has been locked gives the players a stacked wild which increases their win opportunity.
- Persian Nights: 3 or more temples gains 7 free games plus 1 bonus spin. In this game every time the player lands a coin a gold frame locks on to that position. Each golden frame awards locked wilds on the last spin.
- Mayan Gold: 3 pyramids award 8 free games. During free games two additional pyramids adds another 3 respins. The player needs to land a stack of 3 gems on a reel to gain a respin. Each additional gem keeps the respin going and at the end reveals either wilds, or the Hidden Treasures hold and spin scatter.
In these Ancient Treasures games, Ainsworth have loaded lots of winning opportunities for players, but managed to maintain their simplicity through a series of interesting tweaks to a traditional hold and spin mechanic. Despite the mix of complex features, players will intuitively follow what is happening in these games with ease, and enjoy the opportunities to boost their wins. Ancient Treasures is a game family that your regular players will find loaded with interesting game play.
For more information contact your Ainsworth representative or visit the Ainsworth stand at AGE 2024.
Written by: Justine Channing – Gaming Specialist