Original Cleopatra Slots: Game Details
The original Cleopatra Slots is a 5-reel, 20-payline video
slot with several of the most popular features in gaming: a wild
symbol, a scatter symbol, and free spins.
MegaJackpots Fixed Jackpot
The game has a 10000x jackpot, meaning someone who makes the
5-coin bet wins 50,000 coins of whatever denomination they bet.
This game has a fixed jackpot, meaning it is not a progressive.
Many gamblers avoid the flat-top games, but those players often
don’t know the progressive jackpot machines have the worst odds.
Cleopatra Slots from IGT strikes a happy medium, because it
offers what IGT calls a “MegaJackpots” prize. All this means is
the prize is fixed, but higher than most of the flat-top prizes.
50,000 coins is really good.
Wild Symbol
The wild symbol on the game is the Cleopatra icon. This
symbol substitutes for any other icon on the game, except the
scatter symbol. Wilds increase your chances of completing lines.
If a wild symbol completes the win, you receive 2x the normal
jackpot prize.
Scatter Symbol
The scatter symbol is the Sphinx icon. These win anytime they
appear on the screen and do not need to be in a sequence. The
more scatters you receive, the bigger the payout. Two sphinxes
equal a 2-coin payout. Three sphinxes equal a 5-coin payout.
Four sphinxes equal a 20-coin prize, while five sphinxes pay out
100 coins.
Free Spins
Anytime you receive 3 or more sphinx symbols, this triggers a
free spin mode. The number of spins is a base 15, though this
can be re-triggered if another sphinx symbol appears during the
free spin mode. This triggers +3 free spins. The maximum number
of free spins in the bonus mode is 180.
When in the free spin mode, prizes are tripled from their
normal amount. This applies with all but the 5-Cleopatra wins
(the big jackpot).
Graphics and Sound
Especially with the original version of these slots, the
graphics are not cutting edge. I even read one reviewer who
called them “quaint”, which is a nice way of saying they’re
outdated. I tell young gamblers they should pay attention to the
machines the old-timers play, especially if their graphics are
not out-of-this-world. It’s a good rule of thumb for finding a
gaming machine which pays out nicely. Like the graphics, the
sound quality is nothing special.
Mobile Slots
Those with iPads, iPhones, Android smartphones, or Android
tablet computers have the option of playing Cleopatra mobile
slots. This is one advantage of the original version of the
game, as a Cleopatra II mobile slot machine does not yet exist,
to my knowledge. Blackberry, Windows Phone, and Symbian
cellphone users have their own casino apps.
Cleopatra II: Game Details
Like its predecessor, Cleopatra II is a 5-reel, 20-payline
slot machine. The second version offers wild symbols, scatters,
and free spins. If this sounds familiar, it’s because the game
is remarkably similar in several key aspects. That does not
apply to certain features, though.
Free Spin Multiplier
The free spin mode is much different on Cleopatra II. It has
its advantages and disadvantages. For instance, the original
game had a maximum 180 free spins, while the sequel has a
maximum of only 50 spins. On the other hand, the original
version of the game only had a 3x max multiplier. The free spin
version can reach a 50x multiplier, making the game highly
volatile. While it’s an exciting possibility to hit a 50 times
jackpot, this is a rare occurrence.
Instant Play Feature
One big advantage of Cleopatra 2 Slots is the option of
instant-play. This means players who use a Mac or Linux
operating system are able to play this IGT classic for the first
time online. It also means gamblers won’t have to download the
casino software to their computer, which causes privacy and
security concerns for many Internet game enthusiasts. Wherever
you go, you can play Cleopatra II slots on a computer.
Slot Machine’s Theme
Cleopatra is the most famous of all Egyptian rulers, more
famous than Tut, Ramses, Akhenaten, and Nefertiti. The reason
she’s so famous is she came late in the history of Ancient
Egypt. Over a 3,000-year period, the Egyptians had 31 different
dynasties. Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which
came after the 31st Dynasty. It’s not considered a fully
Egyptian family line, because her family was descended from
Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. They were Greek,
not Egyptian.
The Ptolemaic Dynasty reigned for 300 years and the famous
queen we know was the 7th ruler named Cleopatra.
What makes Cleopatra the most famous Ancient Egyptian is she
was made both famous and infamous by the Romans. By her time,
the Roman Republic dominated most of the lands on the banks of
the Mediterranean Sea. Egypt was wealthy and had a much more
ancient and glorious history than Rome at that point, but it had
been dominated by foreigners for three centuries. Julius Caesar
was the leading figure in the Roman Republic at this time, as
the general who had conquered Gaul (France) and Britannia
(England).
Senators feared that Julius Caesar would seek to make himself
the ruler of Rome, while they also feared Cleopatra would try to
rule at his side. When he visited her court, she is said to have
smuggled herself into the room in a carpet, then had the carpet
unrolled so she could appear as if by magic. Caesar was suitably
impressed, and they became a couple. When Caesar considered
moving Rome’s capital to Alexandria, the Roman senators grew
alarmed and spread all sorts of rumors about the queen–stories
which resound through history.
After Julius Caesar’s assassination, Caesar’s top general,
Marc Antony, joined forces with Caesar’s nephew, Octavian, to
gain revenge on Caesar’s assassins: Brutus, Crassus, and Pompey
the Great. Later, Antony and Cleopatra became a couple and
plotted to dominate the Roman Republic from their base in Egypt.
Octavian fought them and won, then abolished the Republic. He
renamed himself Augustus Caesar, founding the Roman Empire.
Antony and Cleopatra fled to Egypt, where they committed suicide
to avoid capture. He fell on his sword like a good Roman general
is supposed to. If you believe William Shakespeare, Cleopatra
died being bitten by an asp. In Shakespeare’s “Antony and
Cleopatra”, the two are portrayed as supreme egotists. Harold
Bloom likened Shakespeare’s Mark Antony to the “last of the
cowboys”.
Cleopatra Slots Review
This is a gambler’s favorite for a reason. The huge fixed
jackpot strikes a nice balance between worthwhile payouts and
worthwhile odds. Many players will play a lifetime of
progressives and never hit the big jackpot. Cleopatra and
Cleopatra II offer a better chance of the excitement of a big
jackpot. The sequel offers a max jackpot of 250,000 coins, which
makes it an even more exciting proposition for the
jackpot-chasers. We, along with several continents full of slots
players, give this game high marks.
More Egyptian-Themed Slots
Ancient Egypt is a favorite for slot machine designers.
Alongside present-day China, Egypt holds the record as the
longest-spanning civilization in human history, at about 3,000
years. With its colorful pantheon of gods and its notable
rulers, the pharaohs, Egypt evokes ancient mystery and wealth.
It helps that the hieroglyphs have been deciphered and we know
so much about the culture. The pyramids are also among the
greatest engineering feats in Earth’s civilization.
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Beware of impostors. Most other slot machine designers offer
their own Cleopatra title. This includes “Treasures of
Cleopatra”, “Queen of Egypt”, “Queen of the Nile”, Cleopatra’s
Coins, Cleopatra’s Pyramid, and both Cleopatra’s Gold and
Jackpot Cleopatra’s Gold from RTG. While some of these are
popular gaming machines in their own right, they are not the
Cleopatra Slots game we described above.
