Free Book of Dead Demo

How Our Session Went

The book flicked past a green J and stopped on the pharaoh. On the third free spin, pharaohs filled the first, fourth and fifth reels, all ten lines lit up at once, and that single spin paid £40 at a £1 stake. The round closed on £59.50. We played Book of Dead in the free demo above until the tombs had opened three times, and the figures below come from those rounds and the rules screens.

Base spins are quick and unfussy. The reels stop one after another from left to right, and most spins have settled within about four seconds. Everything in the main panel is counted in coins, so a 25-coin win reads like a lot until you spot the 50p in the thin cash strip along the bottom of the screen.

Book of Dead RTP and Max Win

No return-to-player figure appears on any rules or help page in the demo. Play’n GO’s own product page doesn’t give it either, and neither does the game’s page at Heart Bingo. Open the help or game info on the site you’re playing and check there before you stake anything.

The first paytable page promises wins of up to 250,000 coins. A full bet is 50 coins, five on each of the ten lines, so that works out at 5,000 times the stake, or £5,000 on the £1 default. The game shows no volatility rating anywhere.

The grid is five reels and three rows, with up to ten lines. The demo opened at £1 a spin, made up of a 2p coin, five coins a line and all ten lines. Coin values run from 1p to £2, so with five coins on every line the bet goes from 50p up to £100, and you can cut the coins or the lines to go lower. British rules cap online slot bets at £5 per spin (£2 for players aged 18 to 24), so the top of that menu isn’t open to anyone playing here. Play’n GO dates the release to 14 January 2016.

Book of Dead Payout Table

The paytable quotes line pays against the line bet, 10p at the £1 default. We’ve shown each one as cash at that stake and as a multiple of the full bet. The tomb is the odd one out, because it pays a multiple of the total bet and it counts from anywhere in view.

The tomb is also the wild, and it stands in for every other symbol. One base spin showed how that works, with two jacks and a tomb on line 4 paying 25 coins, the same as 50p that three jacks would. The four premium symbols are the only ones that pay for two in a row. The names in our table are our own labels, since the game shows pictures only.

Any base-game win also brings up Gamble and Collect buttons. We tried it on a 125-coin line win. The card screen offered 250 coins for calling red or black and 500 for naming the suit, with a note that you can gamble up to five times in a row or until you reach 2,500 coins. The rules say it doesn’t change the RTP and switches off during autoplay. We left the card face down.

Free Spins and the Expanding Symbol

Three or more tombs anywhere start 10 free spins at the same stake. A golden tomb swells over the reels, a book opens, and its left-hand page flicks through the symbols before stopping on one. That symbol is the expanding symbol for the whole round, and its icon stays in the corner of the Free spin counter.

Normal wins are paid first, and then the chosen symbol can expand to fill its reel, but only when that adds another win on an active line. Expanded reels don’t need to sit next to each other, and they pay from left to right. Land three more tombs during the round, and you get another 10 spins.

The pharaoh round showed the gaps rule nicely. On free spin 3, pharaohs covered reels one, four and five with two mixed columns between them, and every line still paid as three pharaohs, 2,000 coins in all. Nothing else in that round came close, and the other nine spins added 625 coins. The Total Win scroll at the end read 2,975 coins. That’s £59.50 at a £1 stake, including the 350 coins the triggering spin paid on its own.

Our second round drew the 10, the lowest-paying symbol in the game. It didn’t matter. Three tombs landed on free spin 4, the counter went from 10 to 20, and two spins later 10s covered the first four reels.

By free spin 11 of 20 that round stood at 3,200 coins, £64 at £1. Our session ended before the last nine spins, so we never saw its final total.

The third round drew the J. Jacks spread across the first four reels on free spin 8, adding 1,250 coins in one go, and the scroll at the end read 3,400 coins. That came to £68, with 250 of those coins from the spin that opened the round.

The tombs took 73 spins at £1 to appear in our first session and 63 in the second. The third set needed 425 spins, and another sitting went past 480 without any. Treat the quick ones as luck. There’s no bonus buy in this demo, so every round starts the same way, with three tombs.

Legacy of Dead and the Other Book Games

Play’n GO keeps going back to this book. By its own pages, this is how the follow-ups most often differ.

• Legacy of Dead (January 2020) tells the story of a king’s spirit escaping the book. Tomb Scatters still act as wilds, and the free spins still pick an expanding symbol, and Play’n GO says retriggers make the free spins unlimited. The top win is again 250,000 coins.
• Book of Dead GO Collect (February 2026) keeps the expanding-symbol free spins, capped at 80 spins with retriggers, and adds Gold Staters in the base game that fill a meter towards a Treasure Vault hold-and-spin round with Mini to Grand jackpot tags.
• Rich Wilde and the Tome of Dead (April 2025) drops lines altogether for a 5×5 cascading grid with cluster pays, multiplier wilds worth up to 10x in the bonus, and a charge meter that adds wilds as you win.

Playing at UK Bingo Sites

We checked the lobbies at 16 of our partner bingo and casino brands, and four had Book of Dead in a popular-games row. They were 888 Casino, Gala Bingo, Heart Bingo and MrQ, which is a fair showing for a slot released in 2016.

Heart Bingo lists it in The Classics row on its homepage. You’ll find the rest of what the site offers in our Heart Bingo review. As that page doesn’t quote an RTP, check the in-game help there before you play for money.

For somewhere newer, see our pick of freshly opened slot sites, or head back to more free slot demos for another game to try.