Caravan of Riches Slot Review

Caravan of Riches Slot Overview

Caravan of Riches is a new casino slot from Fantasma Games where we go back in time to do business with five traders in a market somewhere along the famous trade route Silk Road. The trade route was a network for trades between Asia and Europe from the second century BCE until the 1450s, named after the valuable silk products mainly produced in China. The Silk Road is also a feature in this game, and it’s being activated when one of the traders connects on all reels from left to right. While in the free spins feature, you’ll experience a game with 5 levels, excluding one of the traders every time you level up. Leveling up also brings you extra free spins. Let’s take a stroll along this enormous cross-continental trade route and see what riches it can bring.

Caravan of Riches is a video slot from Fantasma Games with 5 reels and a varying number of rows going 3-4-5-4-3. The number of paylines is 20, and the RTP is 96.03%. You can place bets between the Min.bet of 0.20 and the Max.bet of 200 in this highly volatile game. A little less than every fourth spin is a win with the hit frequency 23.04%, and the average win in the free spins is 53.7X the bet.

The five traders have some really helpful features in their search for riches. The features are Wild Symbol, Silk Road, and Symbol Upgrade Free Spins.

Caravan of Riches Slot Information

Here we are, in the middle of a marketplace in what looks like a town somewhere in the Middle East. Bright-colored brick houses are standing close to each other, and brown clay pots containing different goods are placed on the ground. The graphics look a lot like the Disney movie Aladdin from 1992, and it feels like the young thief Aladdin or Princess Jasmine will turn up around the corner at any time. The music also has a Middle Eastern touch with flutes and drums. The grid is designed with a changing number of rows, going 3-4-5-4-3 from left to right. To create a win, you’ll need to land at least 3 symbols of the same type on any of the 20 paylines going from left to right, starting with the first reel to the left. You can play the game on any device: desktop, notepad, and mobile phone.

The lower paying symbols are a bottle, a roll of silk fabric, a dagger, and a purple jewel. They pay between 0.35X-0.50X the bet for landing 5 of them. The higher paying symbols are two male and three female traders. Every trader symbol has its own color: blue, green, purple, red, and gold. They pay between 0.75X-5X the bet for landing 5. A Wild Symbol, depicted by a W, substitutes all mentioned symbols, but not the Scatter Symbol, represented by a wooden sign. You’ll need 3 Scatter Symbols to open the free spins feature. There are also a coin symbol and a blank symbol that you’ll get to know in the Silk Road feature.  

Caravan of Riches Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Caravan of Riches?

N/A

What features are available in the slot Caravan of Riches?

The features are Wild Symbol, Silk Road, and Symbol Upgrade Free Spins.

Wild Symbol

The Wild Symbol can become your best friend, substituting for all paying symbols. It can land anywhere on reels 2, 3, and 4 in the main game and the Symbol Upgrade Free Spins.

Silk Road

This feature is activated when any of the five traders make a connected cluster across the 5 reels. The symbols don’t need to follow a payline, but they must be connected horizontally or vertically. The wild symbol substitutes all traders and helps secure a Silk Road trade way. All symbols involved in the cluster are respun with three possible outcomes:

Blank = Sorry, this gives you nothing.

Coin = All the coins have a cash prize that is added and paid together with line wins when the feature is over.

Scatter = This symbol works just like in the regular spins: 3 of them anywhere on the grid will open the free spins feature. Scatter symbols that land on the reels when the Silk Road is activated will stay in their positions during the respin, meaning that 1 Scatter symbol may be enough in the respin if you already have 2 on the grid.

Symbol Upgrade Free Spins

This free spins feature has a little twist with 5 different levels. First of all, you’ll end up here by landing 3 scatter symbols anywhere on the grid. You start with 10 free spins on level 0, and for every 4 scatter symbols collected, you’ll level up and receive 3 additional free spins. There’s a meter to the left of the reels, telling you how many scatter symbols you have collected at the moment. If you reach the highest level, you have collected 16 scatter symbols that have given you 12 extra free spins on the way. The free spins feature has all the symbols from the main game when it starts, but for every level up 1 trader is excluded from appearing. Only the best-paying trader will appear in the highest level of the free spins. This will, of course, increase your chances of big wins.    

Caravan of Riches Slot Conclusion

Fantasma Games has made a pretty simple but still entertaining video slot with a couple of interesting features on a row-changing grid. If you don’t grasp more innovative games with a thousand ways to win, this is just what you’re looking for. The 20 paylines are straightforward and easy to understand. You might be a little confused about the activation of the Silk Road feature, which can happen even outside the paylines as long as the symbols are connected, but you’ll get the hang of it quickly. The graphics aren’t anything to brag about, but they look good enough. The symbols look like they were drawn a long time ago, but that feels okay considering we have traveled several hundreds of years back in time to meet these traders.

The wins in Caravan of Riches are pretty frequent, with a hit frequency of 23.04%. We didn’t experience any period with a lot of dead spins, although it is a highly volatile game. Be aware, though, that the wins in the main game are usually low, many times less than the bet. The Silk Road feature is a nice touch that pops up more often than expected, but the wins aren’t huge there either. Your priority for scoring big wins should be to aim for the Symbol Upgrade Free Spins. It is on average activated 1 time in 213 spins and pays back 53.7X the bet. Those numbers aren’t anything to brag about either, but Caravan of Riches has in total a pretty averaged sized RTP of 96.03%. Another nice detail is the variety in bet size from 0.20 to 200.

Caravan of Riches takes us to a lively ancient market with businesspeople trying to fill their pockets with big sums along the famous trade route Silk Road.