Play Eye of Horus Slot

You might recognise the temple columns and Egyptian symbols in Eye of Horus, but the part worth understanding is what happens when Horus himself turns up. He fills a reel as a Wild, then takes on a couple of extra jobs inside Free Spins. This guide to the Eye of Horus slot, part of our online slots selection at Heart Bingo, follows those changes from an ordinary spin through to the bonus.

Reel Time Gaming created the game, which Blueprint Gaming brought online. There are ten fixed lines running through a grid of five reels and three rows; the symbols on them range from card letters to scarabs and Anubis.

The layout stays the same throughout. What changes during the bonus is the set of higher-paying symbols, as Horus appearances move the upgrade feature forward. This is the original game, rather than a Megaways, Fortune Play or jackpot edition.

Search the Heart Bingo catalogue for Eye of Horus and look at the full name on the tile. It is easy to open a sequel by mistake when the artwork features the same character.

Playing requires an account, the necessary verification and a minimum age of 18. Decide how much you can afford to spend before you deposit, leaving the money needed for bills and other essentials untouched.

Once you have opened the game:

1. Find the information menu and read through the symbol awards.
2. Look at the diagram showing where the ten lines run.
3. Use the stake controls to select the amount for your spin.
4. Check that amount on screen before pressing Spin.
5. Let the round finish, including any bonus it has triggered.

There is no separate decision about which lines to activate here: all ten are in play at the stake you have selected.

To read a line result, begin at reel one and follow its marked path towards the right. Matching symbols have to occupy neighbouring reels along that route, so finding three scarabs somewhere on the grid is not the same as finding a winning scarab combination.

Start with the Eye when comparing the regular symbols, as it has the largest awards. Working down the paytable takes you past Anubis, the falcon and scarab, then the ankhs and fans, with the card letters at the bottom.

The Eye symbol and the Horus character have different jobs. The Eye forms ordinary paying combinations; the falcon-headed Horus character acts as the expanding Wild.

Check the game’s paytable for the cash award at your selected stake. Where values are expressed against the line stake, multiplying them by the total spin stake would overstate the payout.

Suppose, purely as an example, you spend £1 across the ten lines. That works out at 10p per line. If an award is listed as twenty times the line stake, you would calculate twenty lots of 10p, giving £2. Using twenty lots of £1 would give the wrong answer.

Eye of Horus

Look for the stylised eye when you want to identify the top ordinary paying symbol; it is a different picture from the standing Horus character.

It does not expand or substitute for another symbol. Its role is to form matching combinations along the paylines, with the award depending on the number of matching reels.

Anubis, Falcon and Scarab

These Egyptian symbols form the middle and upper part of the regular paytable. Anubis pays more than the falcon, which sits above the scarab.

Together with the fans and ankhs, they belong to the higher-paying symbol group affected by the Free Spins upgrade feature.

Playing-Card Symbols

Jack, Queen, King and Ace fill the lower-paying positions.

They remain ordinary paying symbols during the bonus. The tablets track the Egyptian symbol upgrades. You can still see card letters during the feature, even after progress has been made above the reels.

Horus Wild

The middle three reels are where you can find Horus. Expansion turns the whole of his reel Wild, allowing him to take the place of a regular symbol on any applicable line. His substitution has one important boundary: it cannot supply a missing temple Scatter.

Temple Scatter

The temple doorway is counted anywhere on the grid, independently of the paylines.

With at least three temples showing together, the bonus opens. Their rows can differ because the Scatter count is made across the screen.

There are two parts to follow here. First comes the reel expansion that you can see in the base game; inside Free Spins, watch the tablet display and remaining-spin counter as well.

Expanding Horus Wilds

A Horus symbol on a middle reel expands vertically to cover its three positions. This allows the reel to contribute Wild substitutions to several different line paths.

Imagine an ankh on the first reel and another on the third, both on the same line path. An expanded Horus between them can supply the middle ankh needed for that combination.

More than one middle reel can expand on the same spin. The game then evaluates the resulting combinations, adding qualifying wins across different lines together.

Expansion does not guarantee an award. The surrounding symbols still need to form a combination that meets the paytable rules.

Eye of Horus Free Spins

The starting allocation is twelve spins when at least three temples appear. There is no new stake to select for them, as the round uses the amount you played when it triggered. The grid looks familiar, but now a Horus appearance can move the tablets forward and increase the number of spins left.

That gives the bonus a sense of progression without changing the reel size. Early and later spins can use different Egyptian symbol sets, depending on how many upgrades have occurred.

Symbol Upgrades

During Free Spins, Horus advances the Egyptian tablet upgrades shown above the reels. Lower-paying Egyptian symbols are promoted through the sequence towards the higher-paying Eye of Horus.

An upgrade earned early in the feature is still there when you play its later spins, including any extras. Once that round ends, the progress is finished too; the next bonus starts afresh. You can follow the sequence on the tablets above the grid without trying to remember every previous Horus appearance.

Reaching a stronger symbol set does not guarantee a winning combination. Those symbols must still occupy qualifying positions across neighbouring reels.

Additional Free Spins

Horus also extends the feature according to how many Wilds appear on a spin:

Count the Horus symbols before expansion. One Horus filling three positions is still one Wild appearance for this award, rather than three separate Horus symbols.

Any upgrades already earned stay active during the extra spins. The feature finishes when the remaining allocation has been used.

Blueprint supplies more than one RTP configuration for Eye of Horus. Check the information panel inside the Heart Bingo game for the percentage that applies.

RTP describes a theoretical return over a very large number of rounds. It does not predict the amount returned during your session.

Use the same information panel for maximum payout details. A search for a top payout can return figures from several different Eye of Horus games. Check which release a number belongs to before comparing it with the original.

You can open the game on a supported phone or tablet as well as a desktop. Moving to a smaller screen changes where you look for the controls, rather than giving you a new set of bonus rules. Take a moment to find the stake display and information menu if you have been used to playing on a computer.

• Eye of Horus Megaways will look familiar, although its changing reels use ways to win in place of the original ten line paths. Read its combination rules before treating it as the same game on a larger grid.
• Eye of Horus Fortune Play has a mode that puts four grids in front of you at once. The combined cost deserves attention when selecting that mode, because you are no longer playing just one reel set.
• Eye of Horus Rise of Egypt keeps ten paylines and brings a collection meter into the bonus. It is a separate release, so the original’s upgrade guide does not explain everything happening there.