Olympus Slots with Ways to Win
A ways game pays for the same symbol on neighbouring reels from the left, whatever row it sits in. Olympus Trueways reshapes its reels every spin, up to 262,144 ways.
The way
A ways game drops the drawn line and keeps one rule. The same symbol has to land on reels that sit side by side, and the run begins on the first reel. The row you find it in doesn’t matter. The rows multiply across the reels, so 5 reels of 3 rows give 243 ways and 6 reels of 4 rows give 4,096. The rules of Olympus 7s Dream Drop add the part people miss. Several copies of a symbol on one reel multiply the win, and only the longest run of each symbol pays. Land 2 copies on the first reel and 1 on each of the next 2, and that run counts twice.
How many reels a run needs depends on the game. Dream Drop asks for 3 neighbouring reels or more. Cats of Olympuss pays some symbols from 2, and its paytable has Zeus paying for 2 of a kind across its 243 ways. A run that skips a reel stops at the gap, however many copies you see further along.
The moving count
Now, 2 Olympus games change the number of ways while you play. Olympus Trueways from BGaming draws a fresh height for each of its 6 reels on every spin, anything from 2 to 8 symbols. The count of ways moves with it, as high as 262,144, and wilds land on reels 2 to 5. Goals of Olympus BoltLock from Yggdrasil starts with part of its 5 by 5 grid locked behind blocks. Wins chip the blocks away, and every square that opens adds ways until all 3,125 are live. Its intro screen promises a respin on every win. The count is the feature in both.
The gods on the reels
The theme reaches the reels in different ways. Relax Gaming gives each of the 6 reels in Olympus 7s Dream Drop a mini slot of its own. Athena has the first, then come Hades, Zeus, Hermes, Feud and Olympus. 3 mini-slot symbols set those small machines spinning. The intro screen shows them in a row under little temple roofs, with the gods above. The Zeus slot deals in wilds, and Hermes doubles a win each time his symbol lands again, up to 512x. Every reel carries a piece of Olympus.
Goals of Olympus BoltLock puts the gods on a football pitch in a stadium on the mountain. On its intro screen you’ll see Zeus in a red and gold kit. He spins a ball on one finger. Cats of Olympuss turns the gods into cats, and even the 1,000x coin on its intro screen has cat ears. In Olympus Trueways each scatter that lands goes into the bolt Zeus holds, and only a full bolt unlocks the Mega jackpot.
The numbers behind them
The ways change the shape of a win, and the figures still differ from game to game. Olympus Trueways prints 96.70% when its 3 jackpots are counted in and 96.23% when they’re left out. BGaming rates it Very High, the top of its scale, and caps a win at 5,000x. BoltLock tops out at 94.00%, with versions at 92.00% and 90.50%, a Medium-High label and a cap of 5,800x. Dream Drop runs at 94.00% in the rules inside its demo, publishes no volatility word and puts its top win at 13,000x the stake.
Cats of Olympuss carries 96.31% in its demo rules, with a 94.26% version on Push Gaming’s page, a medium label and a cap of 13,195x. Gates of Olympus Pachi uses the word its own way. It has 10 ways on a 3 by 3 grid, and every win is paid at the bet per way, so its count isn’t a product of rows at all. Its demo prints 96.04%, labels it high and caps a win at 5,000x. Olympus Wins pays on ways too, across 5 reels of 5 rows that tumble.
Every RTP on this page comes from a studio page or from the studio’s own demo, the 2 places How the Reviews Work names. A third-party list never stands alone.
The line next door
A payline is the mechanic people mistake for a way. A payline is a fixed path across the reels, and a symbol one row off that path pays nothing. On a ways game the row is free, and only the order of the reels counts. You’ll find both in the catalogue. Neither one sets the return.