Kings and Queens is a game from Microgaming, a slot machine that is themed around Medieval rulers, with all the beautiful decorations and riches that they enjoyed surrounding themselves with. The game doesn’t show you the ugly aspect of life in medieval castles, only the glittering part, the one that would be most interesting to a slot player in search for riches.
20 lines are used in Kings and Queens, a 5 reel slot machine from Microgaming. As features, they’ve used scatter symbols, two types of wilds, up to 8x multipliers and free spins. The top prize is only worth up to $7,500.
Features of Kings and Queens
The list of features looks quite interesting, especially once you enter the free spins and you discover multipliers of up to 8x and the second wild symbol. The base game has scatters and regular wilds, enough to make the game more interesting even without the free games triggering.
The base game wild is the one that has the King and Queens Logo on it. This is the symbol you see arranged on all five positions of a line when the top jackpot is awarded, in which case you take home 6,000 times the line bet. The rest of the time, when you get them without forming combinations of their own, these wilds substitute for others and help them create their own prizes. The only symbol that doesn’t take advantage of the wild’s power is the Shield scatter.
The Shield is the scatter symbol in Kings and Queens. It can appear in whatever position on the reels, and you can still get paid by it. You only need two to get its smallest rewards of 1x, but get up to five and those go up to 50x the bet.
Free Games Feature
The free spins are triggered by the same Shield scatter. The requirement is identical as in many other slots, 3+ being needed to start it. You win from it 10 spins for free, with the multipliers going up to 8x.
You have two wild symbols for the duration of these free spins, one of which is offered only for the duration of this feature, the other being the wild from the base game. The Treasure Chest wild is the one that only the free spins offer, capable of substituting for other regular icons and offering its own prizes as well (2,000x the line bet).
Betting options and jackpots
You can cover all 20 lines with the maximum line bet, and you still spend only up to $25. There are 20 lines, and each one gets up to 5 coins when the bets are made. With coins worth up to $0.25, the line bet is $1.25 or less.
A 6,000x top jackpot awaits you inside, courtesy of the wild symbol. It will give you up to $7,500 cash.
Design and symbols
The game has a certain story book quality to its design, with beautiful playing card letters that are placed on flags, plus the King, the Queen and the various treasure related images that will make you envious of the riches that they possessed. Beautifully crafted decorations are placed all around the game area and in most symbols, with the kind of craftsmanship that you would see in an old French castle like the one from Versailles.
Symbols: Game Logo (wild, 6,000x), Treasure Chest (wild, 2,000x), Shield (50x total bet, scatter), King (1,000x), Queen (500x), Crown (400x), Ace (200x), King (150x), Queen (120x), Jack (100x), 10 (75x) and 9 (50x).
Is It Worth Playing?
There are plenty of things that recommend this game, like the very pretty graphics or the features with their multipliers of up to 8x. All in all, it’s a game I’m not sorry I played, and I’d have no problem recommending it to you as well.
You will find Kings and Queens at any online casino which chooses to use software from Microgaming, playable either for free or for real money.
