Bookie of Odds slot review (MicroGaming)

With the Bookie of Odds slot, Microgaming takes you to the excitement of the horseraces

And what happens exactly at a horse race? Putting money down on the winning horse.

And where do you put the money down? At the bookmaker, of course, commonly known as the bookie. He determines the odds for your bet: the payout you will receive if your horse wins.

The name of this slot is indeed very original. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the gameplay. This is a Book of Ra clone with an extra respin function, whereby you can pay extra to respin one reel while the rest is held in place.

Microgaming has done this same thing once before, with the Book of Oz slot.

Microgaming didn’t get nicknamed Microcloning for no reason: time and again, they release revised versions of their games. Stick another theme on it, design some new symbols and add a fun name to the whole thing. There you go, another brand-new slot for the market.

How does the Bookie of Odds slot work?

Bookie of Odds has 10 fixed paylines and is played on 5 reels with 3 rows of symbols.

Bets start at $€ 0.10 and go up to the maximum of $€ 25 per spin.

The maximum payout per spin is 5,000 x the total bet. With the maximum bet, that translates into $€ 125,000. Not bad for a slot without a progressive jackpot.

This slot’s variance is clearly high: you can win enormous amounts of money, but not without risk!

Respin Option

After every spin, you have the opportunity to respin 1 of the 5 reels. However, this is going to cost you extra money: the better the chances are for a nice prize (or the bonus feature), the more you will be out of pocket.

This is a fun option, but it is perilous.  By the time you have bought a respin 4 x for the same reel in an attempt to trigger the bonus feature, you have invested so much of your money that it is almost impossible to mitigate your losses and start over.

Think this through carefully before you travel down this path.

Symbols and payouts

The bookie-gone-crazy symbol is the highest paying one, and it will hand you 500 x the total bet. A screen full of bookies gets you the main prize, which is 5,000 x the total bet.

The premium symbols are 3 racehorses that will pay out between 75 x and 200 x the total bet with 5-of-a-kind.

If you manage to spin 5 of the card symbols, 10, J, Q, K or A, your winnings will be between 10 x and 15 x the total bet.

The golden book with red inlay doubles as a wild and scatter symbol. 5 wilds on an active payline get you the free spin bonus and a payout of a hefty 200 x the bet.

Free spin bonus with special expanding symbols

The free spin bonus is the very well-known Book of RA bonus. You win it by spinning 3 or more scatters.

The higher the number of scatters, the bigger the prize

• 3 scatters: 10 free spins + 2 x the bet
• 4 scatters: 12 free spins + 20 x the bet
• 5 scatters: 25 free spins + 200 x the bet

During the free spin, a special expanding symbol is active. This can be any symbol, except the wild/scatter.

It does not matter where this special symbol is located on the reels: all 10 paylines are active everywhere.

If you spin 3 or more scatters during the free spins, you win a retrigger.

Our verdict on the Bookie of Odds video slot?

If you like the Book of Ra, then you will have fun playing Bookie of Odds.

Not really anything new under the sun, but that does not negate the fact that this is an excellent rendition of this famous slot.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

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