Tessa Loubser worked her way up on the slot floors of South African casinos, from the cash desk to running a slot floor of her own. Night after night she watched players pick a machine by the picture on its glass, then stay or leave because of the way it played. On Olympus Slots she reviews both halves of every game with Olympus in its name.
How the reviews work
Each review starts with the god, the world around the reels and the job the god has in the game. Then it turns to the reels, the free round and any bought bonus, and to the studio's figures, each with its source and the day it was read. A score out of 10 closes the review, and the rules for it sit on How the Reviews Work.
The byline
Tessa Loubser is the name she writes under, and her own stays private. Every figure in her reviews comes from the studio or the demo, with its source written beside it.
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Mechanic
Tumbling Reels
A tumble clears a win off the grid and drops new symbols into the gaps, all on one stake. Zeus sends multipliers up to 500x into that chain in Gates of Olympus.
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Paylines
A payline is a set path from the first reel to the last, and only symbols on that path can win. Take Olympus draws 50 of them, with Zeus as the wild.
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Pay Anywhere
A pay anywhere slot counts each symbol on the grid and pays any that reach the number, wherever they landed. Beside Zeus in Gates of Olympus, the number is 8.
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Grid Slot
A grid slot pays for 3 or more matching symbols in a row, across or down a 5 by 5 square. In Rise of Olympus a cleared square opens the free spins.
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Cluster Pays
A cluster pays when 5 or more matching symbols touch across or down, anywhere on the grid. Fortune of Olympus and Power of Olympus both use a 7 by 7 grid.
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Wild Symbols
A wild stands in for the symbol a win is missing. On Olympus a god often supplies it, and in Take Olympus Zeus is the wild himself.
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Super Scatter
A super scatter helps open the free spins and pays a prize of its own on that spin. Olympus Wins pays 100,000x when 4 of them open the round together.
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Sticky Wilds
A sticky wild stays on the reels after the spin that brought it. In Vikings Go To Olympus a viking can come out of his fight as a wild that stays.
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Respins
A respin turns part of the grid again at no extra cost while the rest stays put. In Vikings Go To Olympus each respin is a fight with Poseidon.
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Multipliers
A multiplier makes a win bigger once it has formed. In Gates of Olympus Zeus hands them out himself, as winged orbs worth up to 500x.
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