About Aristocrat
In 2000, Aristocrat began to offer its slot machines to casinos in Las Vegas, and they are now found in over 240 jurisdictions around the world. The company was founded in 1953 and started trading on the Australian stock exchange in 1997.
Some of the innovations the company is responsible for over
the years include:
- The Clubmaster debuted in 1956.
- Rephrasing request received.
- Payments that are not given all at once.
- Electronic slot machines;
- Slot games that display visual images on a monitor or screen.
- 5-reel slots;
- Slots with pseudo-random outcomes; Random Number Generator (RNG)-based slot machines; Slot machines with a side bet feature; Progressive jackpot slot machines; Mechanical reel slots.
- Microstar;
- MK Gaming Platform;
- Hyperlink Gaming System
- Jubilee:
Gameplay Features and Mechanics
As the name implies, 50 Lions is a five-reel, 50 pay line video slot machine that offers players a low to mid-range variance. In this game, the lion is the wild symbol that substitutes for all other symbols in the game except for the scatter. In this machine, the scatter symbol is represented by the game's logo.
To transition to 50 pay lines—a novel idea first brought to the gaming floor by Aristocrat, with the 50 Lions slot—this game increases the number of symbols on each reel from three to four. Thus, with 20 symbols in play at all times, the number of possible winning combinations exceeds 2,000 total.
Classified as a penny slot, 50 Lions starts with a cost per credit of only $0.01, but players with sufficient bankrolls can crank this up to $4.00 per pay line. Moreover, as a 50 pay line game, the full functionality of 50 Lions is best enjoyed by activating all of the available pay lines during a particular spin.
For players on a penny basis, this has the average spin costing about 50 cents. But obviously, this could increase massively depending on how many credits you want to bet at once. And quite frankly, the maximum bet you can place in this game is 200 dollars. So the range from the bottom to the top of the scale is pretty substantial.
As with several other games created by Aristocrat, 50 Lions contains wild symbols, free spins, bonus games, and multipliers. Nevertheless, this game seems to be missing the now-ubiquitous progressive jackpot feature. That raises the question of whether or not Aristocrat has any plans to outfit 50 Lions (or its players) with an enticing and potentially lucrative part of the experience.
The foundational game for 50 Lions dish out payouts that most players are not too crazy about since they are on the lower end of the industry spectrum. The very best payout, or jackpot, that can hit in this game is worth 1,000 credits. You land this payout by hitting five of the lion face symbols on an activated pay line. For four lion face symbols, you earn a payout of 200 credits. Hit three lion faces, and you win 40 credits. And if you have only two lion face symbols, you'll win 10 credits.
Players can earn a variety of payouts during the 50 Lions base game, depending on the arrangement of symbols on their activated pay lines. For instance, five giraffes or a zebra pays out 500 credits, while four of either pays out 150 credits. Landing five of the tribal member or sun silhouette symbols nets you 400 credits. When it comes to the card rank symbols, five As or Ks pays out 400 credits, while five Qs or Js pays out 200 credits, and five 10s or 9s pays out 200 credits.
As with other Aristocrat slots, the title symbol for 50 Lions acts as the main wild symbol in the base game. When the lion face symbol shows up somewhere on the screen, it will always substitute for any other symbol to create winning combinations (with the exception of the scatter symbol). The lion face is also a stacked wild in the free spins bonus game.
In 50 Lions, the scatter symbol is identified by a red flower blossom. This symbol will only show up on the first, second, and third reels.
When the flower blossom scatter symbol lands anywhere on screen, it creates winning combinations across all activated pay lines. Any time you earn a win thanks to a scatter symbol in 50 Lions, that win is multiplied by the number of credits you’ve chosen to wager per line.
Triggering the Bonus Round
The free spins bonus round on 50 Lions occurs any time you see three flower blossom scatter symbols pop up on screen. When this happens, players get a nice message congratulating them and saying they have earned 10 free spins.
In the free spin bonus round, players have the chance to earn further free spins by getting three of the same flower blossom scatter symbols to appear on screen. When this happens, you are given five extra free spins. After that, no more free spins can be earned, even if you manage to make the same flower scatter symbol combination, until the current bonus round is over.
Another feature of the bonus round worth noting is that 50 Lions pushes the wild concept even further by including a second wild symbol, which just happens to be a polished diamond. This symbol shows up on the second, third, fourth, and fifth reels as a stacked wild that takes up an entire reel of its own. And just like the original wild, this second wild symbol connects with multiple pay lines to create even more winning combinations.
After each free spin during the bonus round, 50 Lions
adds another wild diamond symbol to the reels.
Thus, when the bonus round consists of 10 spins, each spin has a chance to place 40 wild diamonds on the reels. If the player can achieve five more free spins by landing three flower blossom scatters during the bonus round, the sheer number of wild diamond symbols on the screen means the player is likely to hit some significant jackpots.
One possible scenario occurring during a slot session on 50 Lions that offers one of the biggest potential rewards happens when three diamond symbol stacks appear on the screen during the bonus round. This rare event happens when lucky players see a rare event. Then they get rewarded with a payout of 400 credits for each pay line that is in play. If you have all 50 pay lines activated when it appears, that reward jumps to a 20,000 credit payout.
Summary
Enthralling players for over a decade now, 50 Lions by Aristocrat proves once again that it is possible to satisfy a diverse audience—with a game that unites lovers of both low-stakes and mid-range, high-action slot gaming.
Blessed with a relaxing yet visually striking interface, 50 Lions is programmed to invoke the jackpot payback as it rapidly climbs the upper end of the software-generated virtual step ladder.
To sum it all up: 50 Lions welcomes players from all walks of life—and promises to keep on doing so for years to come.
