Kathmandu

Prayer and spirituality don't come up often in the world of slots. Microgaming's Kathmandu slot machine won't change that much, but it does offer a unique gaming experience.

Kathmandu Slots

Kathmandu is a 5-reel / 9-line video slot machine game. The multiple paylines increase your chances of winning. This means there are five spinning reels from which to form your winning combinations.

Kathmandu video slot machine game from Microgaming can be played for free or for real money in denominations of $0.01 up to $0.25 per line bet and wager up to 20 coins per pay-line; the maximum payout is 6,000 coins. This is a decent payout from what could be a small investment -- low rollers pay attention.

Kathmandu slots has a Wild symbol, Scatter symbol and has a Gamble Bonus Feature as well as a Free Spin Bonus Round game. Where other software developers limit the bonus opportunities on lower-end games (I'm looking at you Rival Gaming), this machine has plenty of chances for you to win.

The Prayer Wheel symbol is a wild symbol. This means that the Prayer Wheel wild symbol substitutes for other symbols to complete a winning combination. The Prayer Wheel wild symbol does not substitute for the Bell scatter symbol to complete a scatter winning combination, or to activate the Free Spin Bonus Round game. Multiple Prayer Wheel wild symbols on an enabled payline create winning combinations as shown in the "Regular Payout Schedule" on the game's screen.

The Bell symbol is the scatter symbol. The Bell scatter symbol does not need to appear in a line on an enabled payline to win. The Bell scatter symbol can be scattered anywhere on the five reels, provided two or more Bell scatter symbols appear. Winnings are calculated by multiplying the Bell scatter symbols combination payout as shown in the "Regular Payout Schedule", by the total number of coins bet.

Three or more Bell scatter symbols scattered anywhere on the five reels activates the Free Spin Bonus Round game.

Three or more Bell scatter symbols scattered anywhere on the five reels activates the Free Spin Bonus Round game; and you are awarded 15 Free Spins. All the bets and paylines played in the Free Spins are the same as the spin that triggered the Free Spin Bonus Round game. All wins during the 15 Free Spins are multiplied by a Random Multiplier value. The Random Multipliers are: 2x, 3x, 4x and 5x.

If three or more Bell scatter symbols are scattered on the reels during the Free Spin Bonus Feature game, you are awarded another 15 Free Spins. The extra Free Spins are added to the remaining number of Free Spins.

Two or more Bell scatter symbols create a winning scatter combination as shown in the "Regular Payout Schedule". Scatter wins are added to your Free Spin Bonus Round game wins.

The Temple symbol is an extra wild symbol only in the Free Spin Bonus Round game. Take advantage of this opportunity if you get it -- this extra wild symbol can lead to large winning combinations.

Any win on an enabled payline activates the Gamble Bonus Feature game. In this game, a "Correct" guess for the "Card Color" doubles your win. A "Correct" guess for the "Card Suit" quadruples your win. If you have a win on any combination, you can choose to play the Gamble Bonus Feature game, or you can continue to play the regular Kathmandu video slot machine game.

Not many online slots have this, from my experience, but in Kathmandu the player can use the Autoplay option if you want the slot machine to play automatically for a number of spins. The Autoplay option is available by clicking on the expert button at the bottom of the slot machine game. Select the coin you want to play with, select the number of paylines you want to bet on and click on the Autoplay button to launch the Autoplay menu. From this menu, you can select the number of spins you want to play automatically, time delay between each spin and various stop settings. Once you are done selecting the Autoplay Features, click on the Start button in this menu and game will begin to play automatically.

Kathmandu is a bit weak on the theme -- symbols alone do not a theme make. But for lower-end players, this machine offers plenty of gambling side games, wilds, scatters, and bonuses to get you to pass up the other lower-end games which do not offer us budget players much more than an occasionaly Free Spin feature.

We've all heard the song about Goin' to Kathmandu -- get to your favorite Microgaming casino and do just that.