The February 2019 video slot King Solomon Mines’ developer is 2by2 Gaming. Distributed by Skywind Group; it is a game adaptation of the English novelist Henry Rider Haggard’s 1885 book King Solomon’s Mines.

Themes: African culture, expedition, prospecting, adventure fiction, search-and-rescue, exploration, ecosystem, natural phenomenon, and rock art. There are four-option free games, mystery wins, and wild reels in King Solomon Mines whose thirteen symbols—excluding the vined frame—require a rightward three, four, or five-of-a-kind in the 25 nonadjustable winning ways offering X1 to X1000 regular wins.

King Solomon Mines Game Characteristics

The South African jungle section within the fictitious Suliman Berg mountain range—as imagined by author Haggard—amid a solar eclipse and rock art, form the background of the King Solomon Mines’ 5X3 grid. The blue-reeled grid’s partitions and frame are made of shale slates.

The King Solomon Mines game/book/movie’s brief plot: the Durban-based hunter-and-adventurer Allan Quatermain organizes a search-and-rescue suicide mission for George Neville whose aristocratic brother Sir Henry Curtis is the funder. Neville—alongside companion Jim—went missing while finding the alleged treasure-filled mines.

Their native guide Umbopa/Ignosi—an unacknowledged king of Kukuanaland kingdom—helps Quatermain and his Englishwoman companion Kathy O’Brien find the deadly mines whose trap system claimed and entombed pioneer Jose Silverestre whose blood-written map helps locate the rich mines before finding the immobilized Neville beside an oasis. A forecasted solar eclipse helped them bluff murderous native warriors, and, eventually, enthrone the rightly King Ignosi.

King Solomon Mines’ coins: $0.01, $0.02, $0.03, $0.04, $0.05, $0.06, $0.08, $0.10, $0.20, $0.30, $0.40, $0.50, $0.60, $0.80, $1.00, $2.00, $3.00, $5.00, $8.00, and $10.00.
Twenty total bets (X25 bet factor): $0.25 (minimum), $0.50, $0.75, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $5.00, $7.50, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $20.00, $25.00, $50.00, $75.00, $125.00, $200.00, and $250.00 (maximum).

King Solomon Mines has two special and eleven ordinary symbols. Special: substituting vined “wild” stony frame (inner reels only); and blood-marked golden “bonus” scroll map.
Ordinaries: rifle-carrying Quatermain (acted by Cedric Hardwicke) in safari clothes; Maasai-like ornamented guide/king Umbopa/Ignosi (actor Paul Robeson); kerchief-wearing blonde Englishwoman Kathy (actress Anna Lee); beaded cowhide Nguni shield and arrows; decorative pottery; and vined and stony A, K, Q, J, and 10.

Here are the King Solomon Mines’s payouts for three to five-of-a-kind: maps pay X1, X4, and X20; Q/J/10 pay X3, X15, and X50; A/K pay X10, X25, and X75; pottery pay X15, X40, and X125; shield/arrows pay X20, X50, and X150; Kathy pay X25, X75, and X250; Umbopa pay X30, X125, and X400; and Quatermain pay X40, X125, and X1000.

Thee maps offer eight free games. Four maps: twelve free games. Five maps: 16 free games. The free mode’s four-option pickable mine entryways guaranteed these special features—also activated at random in regular games.

Gold mine’s entrance: one or two wild-filled reels. Emerald mine’s entrance: ordinaries-turned-wilds by golden arrows, and a potentially wild-filled grid. Cyan mine’s entrance: eclipse’s shadow momentarily hiding symbols before prompting their mystery wins. Amethyst mine’s entrance: randomized wilds/arrows/eclipse-related wins.

King Solomon Mines’ non-progressive jackpot: X1681, or $420250.00. Software features: mobile device/desktop compatibility; 10/25/50/99/ till feature auto spins; and fast mode. Sounds: ambient tribal instrumental; and retro, jingling, and jangling effects.

The animated 3D graphics: glowing, roving light beams, glittering, dolly zooming, growing vines, symbol-spiking arrows, fireworks, symbol-overcasting eclipse phenomenon, and spinning cardinal points.

Luck in King Solomon Mines

King Solomon Mines—a game of chance—has a 96.04% RTP rate and a 3.96% house edge.