Nile Queen is a five-reel, three-row Egyptian video slot with 20 paylines, built to play like the classic casino cabinets. Choose how many lines to play (1 to 20) and your bet per line (1, 2, 5, 10 or 25 coins), then tap SPIN or press Space. Your total bet is lines times bet per line. MAX BET plays all 20 lines at the highest bet per line you can cover and spins at once.
Wins pay left to right from the first reel on lines you are playing. Each line pays its best combination; all line wins and the scatter win add together.
The Queen is wild. She stands in for every symbol except the Sphinx and doubles any win she completes. Five Queens on a line pay 10,000 coins per coin bet on that line.
The Sphinx is the scatter. Three, four or five anywhere on the reels pay 2x, 20x or 100x your total bet and start 15 free spins.
Free spins play at the bet that won them, and every free-spin win is tripled. Land three more Sphinxes to add 15 spins, up to 180 in one feature. Leave mid-feature and your spins wait for you.
Scarab Coin Drop: on any paid spin there is a 1 in 25 chance that a golden scarab drops 1x, 2x, 5x or 10x your total bet, on top of whatever the reels pay.
Treasure Vault: every paid spin fills one notch of the vault meter. At 40 notches it opens: pick one of three jars to win 1x to 10x your average bet over those 40 spins. Every jar has the same odds, and the meter keeps its place if you leave.
AUTO plays 25 spins in a row (tap STOP to end it), and TURBO speeds up the reels and win counts.
Paytable
Coins paid per coin bet on a line. A Queen in the win doubles it; free spins triple it.
Symbol
2
3
4
5
Queen (wild)
10
100
1,000
10,000
Scarab
2
20
80
500
Eye of Horus
–
15
75
400
Golden Cobra
–
10
60
200
Lotus
–
8
40
150
A, K
–
4
30
125
Q, J, 10, 9
–
4
20
75
Sphinx (scatter, x total bet)
–
2x
20x
100x
Bonus
How often
Prize odds
Scarab Coin Drop
1 in 25 paid spins
1x bet 75% · 2x 17% · 5x 6% · 10x 2%
Treasure Vault
every 40 paid spins
1x average bet 45% · 2x 33% · 3x 13% · 5x 7% · 10x 2%
Odds, honestly
Every spin is random: each reel stops on one of 34 to 36 positions with equal chance, and nothing you did before changes the next spin. The coin drop is its own independent draw on every paid spin, and the vault simply counts paid spins. We worked the math out exactly from the reel strips and bonus tables, then checked it with a 3,000,000-spin simulation that played out every free spin, coin drop and vault.
Return: about 95 coins back for every 100 bet over the long run (95.3% exact, 95.5% in the simulation). Reel line wins give 55.4 of that, Sphinx scatter pays 2.6, free spins 25.9, Scarab Coin Drops 6.4 and the Treasure Vault 5.1.
Hit rate: roughly 1 spin in 4 (26.6%) pays on the reels with 20 lines, and about 1 in 3 (31.3%) brings some reward once coin drops and the vault are counted. Many of those wins are smaller than the bet.
Free spins: about 1 spin in 116. An average feature pays around 30 times the total bet, but some pay far less.
Scarab Coin Drop: 1 paid spin in 25, averaging 1.6 times the bet. Treasure Vault: every 40 paid spins, averaging about 2 times your average bet.
Big wins (15x the bet or more from the reels or a feature) come about once every 96 spins.
Over time the coins drift down, which is exactly how a real slot works. That is why this one uses play coins only.
Free play only
Nile Queen uses the same play coins as every casino-style game on Play in Phone. Coins are play money with no cash value, and every coin is free. When you run low, the Refill coins button tops you back up for free, and there is a free Daily bonus once a day. Read our not a casino house rules.