You will get 100 times you total spin amount for 5, 10x that amount for 4 and 2x for 3. Scatter prizes pay for the number of symbols, regardless of where they appear on the reels. This has a double-role, both paying a scatter prize and triggering the free spins bonus game. The final symbol is the scatter symbol, which is represented by an Afrian sunset. The paw print and playing card symbols are worth 100 for 5, and make up a lot of the smaller wins for this game. Other regular symbols are the animals (zebra, ostrich and gazelle) which pay out 300, 200 and 200 respectively. If you get 5 lions, this matches the highest pay-out of 1000 coins (the equivalent of 5 Africa symbols). There is no separate payment for lions these simply match up with the regular symbols to complete wins. Lions are wild in this game, and you can get a lot of them covering the reels for some spins – creating multiple wins. If you prefer not to do this, then you simply spin again instead. Each time you win you will be given the opportunity to gamble on the flip of a playing card. Spins range from 1c per line up to $12.50c, making the range 50c to $625 for all 50 lines. With stacked wilds able to cover all 3 rows of a reel at once, I recommend playing all 50 lines and adjusting your coin size downwards to match. You can choose 1, 10, 25, 40 or 50 win lines to play this game. There is nothing particularly unusual going on in the free spins round – this can be retriggered to give you a longer bonus round, and does have a special pay-out for paw-print symbols too. When you trigger the feature you will get a background soundtrack which does add some intensity to the overall game. Sounds are mostly the classic Ainsworth clicks and winning tunes. The animation of the lion (complete with roar) when involved in a win is very impressive. There are many nice touches, for example the horns of the gazelle overlapping the reels, adding some depth to the visuals. The lions in particular (which look at you right out of the screen) are very impressive. I have not seen many slots with the level of detail and overall high quality drawings in the graphics compared to this one. There is a free spins game and stacked wilds to make this stand out from other games.

The production is high quality and the game itself solid and simple. Like most online titles from Ainsworth, this game has the feel of a live slot which has made the transition to the internet.

The symbols include lions, zebras and gazelles. As it turns out I was completely wrong – this slot is based on the roaming on African plains. Based on the title I was half expecting some innovative game-play, perhaps where symbols shifted between the reels to complete more wins.

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