Egypt Fire 2 Hold and Win Slot Review & Free Play

Egypt Fire 2 Hold and Win: Stack Fireballs to the Top for a 10,000x Royal Jackpot

When you open Egypt Fire 2 Hold and Win by Booongo, you’ll be looking at an ancient Egypt-inspired slot running on a 5x4 grid, which can grow during the Hold and Win bonus, carrying jackpots up to 10,000x. This one holds a mini-game as well, and there’s a way to trigger 8 retriggerable free spins. Let’s see how my trip down the history line played out.

My base game was self-sustaining, with wins ranging between 1x and 2.5x my bet every two to five spins.

Luckily, it didn’t take me long to break that mediocre circle, as five fireballs and one scarab transported me to the bonus game. The other way in is to land six fireballs clean. In the beginning, the Hold and Win grid has four rows, with four more locked above. Fireballs stick, your three respins reset whenever a new one lands, and collecting 10, 15, 20 and 25 symbols opens rows five to eight.

Inside, there’s also a way to trigger another game, which I did mid-round by landing a scarab. It waits until the bonus ends, then opens a wheel with six slots and three respins of its own. Fill all six, and a 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x multiplier lands in the middle, and the wheel’s total moves to the scarab’s spot.

The value of fireballs landing in the Hold and Win goes up to 5x, and filling all 40 spots means the Royal Jackpot, the game’s top 10,000x prize. After unlocking all four extra rows, and with the help of a 40x Midi in the mini-game and a 10x Mini jackpot, my round totaled 91x my bet.

I gave it another 80 spins or so to try to trigger the free games, but it never happened. It takes three scatters, the golden temple gates on reels 1, 3 and 5, to trigger 8 free spins, where only the high-paying symbols show up, and two more gates inside add at least three spins.

Overall, this one never let me sleep, and even if I hadn’t triggered the bonus, I’d still be ok with how my session went down. I’ll be back to hunt down free spins for sure