Secrets of India Slots
See India like you've never seen it before with this exotic 3D animated slot machine by Merkur Gaming. With 5 reels and the option to play with up to 50 pay lines, this game is certainly up there as one of the most exciting games in the Merkur software repertoire, giving players every chance to win a 1,000x line bet multiplier with every spin of the main game.
What's more, the video slot boasts some conventional, yet potentially rewarding bonus gameplay elements such as free spins with extra wild symbols.
The jewel of south Asia
The great south Asian country of India boasts one of the most vibrant and colourful cultures in the world. The nation is renowned for its bold and flavoursome food, extravagant religious festivals and magnificent celebrations of song and dance. And all of this takes place in one of the richest natural environments on the planet, with vivacious jungles and beautiful beaches that are teeming with all sorts of exotic wildlife specimens.
Capturing all of the Secrets of India is almost an impossible task, but this slot machine certainly gives it a good go. That is because the 5x4 reel grid is jam-packed with many iconic sights from the country with symbols that depict beach huts, palm trees, a richly adorned maharajah's turban, and one of the nation's most prized architectural jewels, the Taj Mahal. The game also features a fearsome icon which represents a white Bengal tiger, one of India's rarest and most captivating natural sights.
Festival of colour
If you're after some captivating sights, then you won't be let down by this slot machine. The game's designers have put in a lot of effort to ensure that no corner of the screen is left without some sort of colour or visual adornment. In fact, the reels themselves are shown to be propped up within the sandy floor of an Indian tropical rainforest. Moreover, the game uses some nifty 3D animations to ensure that every winning spin is met with plenty of motion and movement.
Bollywood bonus
There is perhaps no better symbol in Secrets of India to exemplify the movement of the game than the wild symbol. This icon is depicted by a beautiful Bollywood dancer, who will begin to twist and turn in all sorts of alluring ways whenever she is brought into play to substitute for other game symbols.
The only symbol that cannot be replaced by the Bollywood dancer wild is the lotus flower icon, which acts as the slot machine's scatter symbol. This pink flower will award total award total bet multipliers of 4x whenever three or more appear on the reels, regardless of their positioning in relation to the paylines. Plus, three scatters will trigger a round of 10 free spins, during which one extra wild symbol will be added to reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Players can also win 5 extra free games during the bonus round but this can retrigger can only occur once.
Plentiful riches?
With 50 paylines, players can expect to be in for plenty of winning spins. However, this does mean that the overall scale of prizes are somewhat lower in relation to other slot machines with fewer paylines. You can see all of the line bet multiplier payouts in relation to their triggering symbol combinations in the table below:
The range of wagers available to place per active payline are as follows: 0.01, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, 0.08, 0.10, 0.20, and 0.40. Players are also given the option to limit their total bet values by spinning with fewer paylines such as 40, 30, 20, 10 and even 1 single payline.
Risk it on a gamble
The truth is that this game doesn't have the biggest payout potential in the world of slot machines. Even with a maximum line bet of 0.40 credits, punters can only hope to claim 400 credits as a jackpot prize. So there are going to be plenty of smaller wins as more common symbols align in the base game. However, the game does feature a couple of gamble games – one double or nothing card game and a special prize ladder game – meaning that players can boost their lower wins up to the maximum gamble win limit of 140 credits.
The spins of India
Despite boasting some decent 3D graphics and plentiful winning opportunities, Secrets of India is far from being the most extravagant of slot machines when it comes to unique bonus features and big jackpot payouts. However, spinners who are after a vibrantly designed video slot that reveals some of India's most magnificent sights will not be disappointed with what this game has to offer.
