Rise of the Genie is a video slot from iSoftBet with 3 reels, 3 rows, and 5 paylines. Players can choose to bet from the minimum bet of £0.20 to the maximum bet of £20. The RTP is 96.46% for players who never collect their money from the ladders and 95.08% if the wins are always collected. Rise of the Genie has medium volatility and a max win of 500x the bet. The hit frequency of 24.8% means that about every fourth spin is a win.
This game is all about avoiding the evil Genie from stealing your money. This mystical world offers some helpful tools in the features Wild Symbol, Prize Ladders, Cash Pot, Instant Pays, and Evil Genie.
This slot doesn’t look like the regular slot, and a big reason for that is the gamified win ladders that let the player choose to either collect the money and start over from the beginning or continue climbing the ladders risking that the Genie will turn up and steal it all. The 3x3 grid is placed to the left of the screen. It has a glimmering golden frame, and we can glimpse some ancient desert town in the background. Let’s just assume that we’re in Egypt; it is a common destination for casino slots.
To the right of the grid are the 3 prize ladders, displaying how much every step pays. The game has 3 different symbols in 3 different colors. To make a win, you’ll need to land 2 or 3 of the same symbols with the same color on any of the 5 paylines. Three of the paylines run horizontally from left to right, and the other two run diagonally, from the top left corner to the bottom right and from the bottom left corner to the upper right. Every win on any of the three prize ladders is added together in a cash pot that the player can choose to collect at any time. Climbing the ladders will result in bigger and bigger wins, but if the Genie turns up on a spin, he will steal all the money in the cash pot. All prize ladders will be reset whenever the player collects the cash pot.
The 3 ladders pay different amounts, with the left one being the least valuable, paying up to 50X the bet. The right ladder can pay up to 120X the bet, and the middle one can pay up to 500X the bet. The lower-paying symbol in Rise of the Genie is a flower that can give you 1-4 steps on the left ladder, depending on its color and if you landed 2 or 3. The medium-paying symbol is a book that can give you 1-4 steps on the right ladder, and the high-paying symbol is the Genie’s lamp, giving 1-4 steps on the middle ladder.
All the symbols come in green, blue, or red, with the green ones being least valuable and the red ones most valuable. This is how many steps on each ladder each winning combination will result in.
There’s also a wild symbol that can land on the middle reel.