Scara-Bucks Slot Review

Scara-Bucks Slot Overview

Scara-Bucks is a casino slot from Yggdrasil that picks one of the favorite adventure destinations in online gambling, where more legendary riches await to be discovered. Given the somewhat clunky wordplay of the title, you may have already guessed that scarabs will appear as the main stars of this Ancient Egyptian show. A friendly pharaoh will lead you through endless sands of the desert to tombs that still overflow with golden coins and other valuables amassed by great rulers centuries ago. To take home a piece of them, you'll need to power up the mystical Golden Lotus with the energy of winning clusters. The mighty artifact will then release four different modifiers to help you carry on winning until it bursts and awards the Pharaoh Rush feature with colossal 2x2 and 3x3 Wilds. That's where our host may become even more generous and open up the way to the secret chamber with riches worth up to 3,100x the bet.

Scara-Bucks is a video slot from Yggdrasil with 7 reels, 7 rows, and a cluster-pays win evaluation, requiring 5 or more matching symbols to land vertically and/or horizontally adjacent. Players can choose their stake from a range of options, starting from a Min.bet of 0.2 up to a Max.bet of 70. The game offers a default RTP of 96.00%, although two lower variants of 94.00% and 90.50% are also available for operators. Players will experience high volatility, with a max win capped at 3,100x the bet. The expected base hit frequency comes at a rate of 57.14%.

The lands of Ancient Egypt still hold many undiscovered mysteries, but some of them have already been unearthed in the form of valuable features that will help players land big wins. The features of Scara-Bucks are Cascading, Golden Lotus Features, Pharaoh Rush, Divine Blessing, Wild Scarab, and Scarab Shift.

Scara-Bucks Slot Information

Ancient Egyptian landscapes are usually quite majestic, despite the majority of them being populated only by sand. There's something hypnotizingly beautiful in the way that those golden waves connect with the blue of the sky, with nothing else in sight. An occasional tomb built on massive stone columns adorned with golden decorations is quite a welcome view as well. One such structure sits in the background of our view here, boasting piles of shiny golden coins scattered on the ground all around. To the right, a muscular Egyptian wearing a pharaoh outfit awaits to lead us inside to the treasures once appropriate wins occur on the grid. Those must be formed out of at least 5 matching symbols forming a cluster by connecting with their sides. The ancient riches await all players who can join this African adventure from any modern device, whether it's a desktop, a smartphone, or a tablet.

Two sets of distinct paying symbols populate the paytable. The low-paying ones appear as a golden flower, a ring, the Eye of Ra, and a crook and flail, awarding from 3x to 10x the bet for clusters of 15 or more matching instances. Animal incarnations of Egyptian gods Sobek, Horus, Anubis, and Ra represent the high-paying symbols, paying from 75x to 750x the bet when matching 15+ in a cluster. In addition, there are Wilds represented by a golden scarab that substitutes for other regular icons during win evaluation.

Scara-Bucks Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Scara-Bucks?

You can win up to 3,100x the bet.

What features are available in the slot Scara-Bucks?

The features are Cascading, Golden Lotus Features, Pharaoh Rush, Divine Blessing, Wild Scarab, and Scarab Shift.

Cascading

Each successful cluster marks the beginning of a cascading sequence. All winning symbols disappear from view, making room for new ones to drop down and potentially award further combinations. Cascading continues until no more wins can be created.

Golden Lotus Features

Golden Lotus is a meter powered by winning combinations achieved during the same cascading sequence. Each symbol adds 1 point, and each segment requires 25 charges. It's possible to queue up to 4 parts, each responsible for releasing one random Golden Lotus Feature once no more wins can be produced.

Wild Blessing = transforms 3 to 6 symbols into Wilds while destroying all icons adjacent to them.

Wild Wrath = destroys all low-paying symbols on the grid.

Wild Surge = spawns a Wild in the central position and leads two diagonal lines through it, reaching all corners of the grid and transforming all affected positions into matching instances of one random symbol.

Wild Enchant = all instances of a randomly selected symbol are transformed into another type.

Pharaoh Rush

When the Golden Lotus feature reaches 125 charges during the same sequence, it triggers the Pharaoh Rush feature. It spawns a 3x3 Pharaoh Wild symbol, which moves down and splits itself with each successive cascade, first into two 2x2 Wilds, and, in the end, into nine singular Wilds.

Divine Blessing

Whenever 4 matching symbols form a 2x2 square shape, they combine into one big symbol with an x2 win multiplier.

Wild Scarab

At the beginning of each spin, all instances of a random low-paying symbol are marked with a purple portal underneath, signifying the Wild Scarab feature. Any wins including such symbols will leave behind 2 Wilds.

Scarab Shift

If a spin ends without any wins, there's a chance that between 4 and 8 Wilds will be placed in random positions of the grid to help achieve a successful cluster.

Scara-Bucks Slot Conclusion

Boy, did that one feel familiar from the get-go. First, it was hard to believe that a provider would copy another one's work down to the last detail so many years after the original release. But, here it is, an Ancient Egyptian rendition of Reactoonz by Play'n GO. To be fair, Play'n GO has made quite a lot of its early-days business by replicating Book of Ra Deluxe by Novomatic in their Book of Dead slot, so maybe they had it coming? Still, with so much time in between the two games (meaning Reactoonz and Scara-Bucks), it's not likely for the Ancient Egyptian variant by Yggdrasil to overshadow the fame of cute extraterrestrial creatures. Whatever the case and the intricacies of competition between studios, the game comes with a nice, polished design abounding in shiny golden elements. The imagery, like with many slots of the genre, involves some valuable artifacts and iconic animal incarnations of the culture's most prominent deities. It all works perfectly well, surrounded by pleasant and dynamic animations, although it's hard to consider it a standout design overall.

If by some miracle you haven't heard of or played Reactoonz, the gameplay centers around charging up the 5-segment meter to release four modifiers and reach the single-spin free round with colossal Wilds. The powers from the Golden Lotus will destroy and transform symbols, while adding Wilds on some occasions as well. Wilds can also be awarded on random non-winning spins, as well as by forming wins with symbols affected by the Wild Scarab feature. It's a like-for-like Reactoonz setup with altered names to fit the Ancient Egyptian theme, and a slightly lower advertised max win of 3,100x compared to 4,570x offered by the Toonz.

The unoriginal mechanical identity and a generic theme of Scara-Bucks make it an unimpressive clone of one of the industry cluster-pays hits.