Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries

Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries: Slot Overview

Anyone out there who likes a good mystery would do well to join us as we delve into the enigmatic online slot Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries from developer Slotmill. This is Lucy's second quest, which follows on from Lucy Luck and the Crimson Diamond and sees the brave adventurer heading to a much higher altitude than before. As well as the theme change, where Crimson Diamond was an offshoot of Lost Relic style slots, Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries focuses instead on mystery symbols and a myriad of interweaving features.

Lucy's in Nepal this time around, as suggested by the mountain in the game's logo and the newspaper animation at the end of bonus rounds. The background imagery neatly lays a Nepalese scene, displaying a harmonious mountainous spot of snowy crags and pleasant buildings. Like the previous game, Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries has something of a B-movie adventure flick feel to it (in a good way), hinting at Indiana Jones while also striking a tone of wonder, like, imagine what if, just imagine, what if there are hidden places left on earth full of treasure, mystery, and intrigue, that hold secrets which would upturn everything we thought we knew about history and the laws of nature. It's fun to dream.

Back on solid ground, players may wager 20 c to $/€60 per spin while having access to a suite of options from the Fast Track feature buy menu. This is a highly volatile slot with an RTP of 96.05%, though the return to player value may change when buying features. Its gaming area is a 6x6 space, which uses a scatter paying win mechanism. How this works is when 8 or more identical pay symbols are in view in any position on the grid a win is created. The winning symbols are removed by the Avalanche feature, and symbols avalanche down to fill any gaps, a process that repeats as long as new wins are created after a drop.

On the pay symbol side, clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts are the regular lows, while blue gems, green gems, purple gems, red gems, and Lucy are the regular high pays. Scatter wins formed of 8-9 identical symbols pay 0.3 to 1 times the bet, rising in value to 110-1,000x the bet for a 24+ sized hit. Unmysteriously, Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries does not make use of wild symbols.

Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries: Slot Features

So no wilds, but plenty of other stuff to tackle, such as mystery symbols, feature symbols, mystery coin symbols, the Mystery Coin Feature, Mystery Spins, free spins, super free spins, Fast Track, and Burst Mode.

Mystery Symbols

Mystery symbols land on the grid in the base game and in free spins. Any scatter win places 1 to 5 mystery symbols in empty spaces before symbols avalanche down. When 8 or more mystery symbols are in view, they activate to reveal pay symbols, a combination of pay symbols and feature symbols, or Mystery Coin symbols. These here are the feature symbols, which transform to the same as other mystery symbols after activating:

• Upgrade – upgrades mystery symbols to a higher paying symbol.
• Transform – picks a symbol on the grid and transforms all identical symbols to the symbol revealed by the mystery symbols.
• Multiplier – multiplies all wins on the grid by its value. If there are 2 multiplier symbols, they multiply each other first before any wins.
• Extra Spins – in the free spin rounds, this symbol adds 2 extra free spins.

Mystery Coin Feature

If Mystery symbols reveal mystery coin symbols, the Coin Feature is triggered. Each position showing a Coin spins to reveal a bet multiplier of 1x to 1,000x or one of the following:

• Coin Transform – picks a symbol in view and transforms them into mystery coin symbols. After this, it transforms into a mystery coin.
• Coin Multiplier – has a value of x2 to x10, which is applied to all coins, then transforms into a mystery coin.
• Extra Spins – available in the 2 free spins rounds only; +2 free spins are awarded.

Mystery Spin

At the start of each game round, there is a chance the Mystery Spin feature triggers, generating 8 or more mystery symbols in random grid positions before the other symbols fall in.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatters triggers 8 free spins. During free spins and super free spins, if there are less than 8 mystery symbols on the grid and no other winning combinations, the mystery symbols drop to the bottom of the reels before other symbols fall in. There, they remain until at least 8 mystery symbols appear - then they activate - or the round ends.

Super Free Spins

Landing 2 scatters plus 1 super scatter awards 8 super free spins. During this round, the Mystery Spin feature triggers at the start of each super free spin.

Fast Track

The Fast Track grants direct access to Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries' features for a cost:

• Bonus Boost – 3x the bet for a game round guaranteed to land 1+ scatter, making it 6 times more likely to trigger a free spins round. RTP 96.12%.
• Mystery Spin – 50x the bet for a spin guaranteed to trigger the Mystery Spin feature. RTP 96.2%.
• Bonus – 100x the bet to trigger free spins. RTP 96.29%
• Super Bonus – 250x the bet to trigger super free spins. RTP 96.38%.

Burst Mode

Burst mode is a faster way of playing that removes most of the audiovisuals and mainly just displays spin results on the screen as the math model does its thing.

Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries: Slot Verdict

One cool thing about Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries is that it might have a similar grid set-up, win mechanic, and main character as Lucy Luck and the Crimson Diamond, yet from there, the two slots diverge completely. Crimson Diamond was an excellent deep dive into the reveal chest action available in games like Lost Relics 2 but with scatter pays and cascades thrown in for good measure. Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries veers away with a focus on mystery symbols instead, and the new angle makes an ideal accompaniment to the core mechanics kept over from the previous game.

What's nifty is that mystery symbols don't just reveal plain old pay symbols and leave things there. They're able to trigger further goodies like upgrades, transforms, multipliers and, of course, the Coin Feature when revealing Coin symbols. Similar in a fashion to the sorts of tricks Push Gaming has been pulling off in slots like Razor Shark or Big Bamboo, with a bit of Relax Gaming's Net Gains in the mix. However, name-dropping other slots wasn't done to make it seem like Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries was out to copy anyone. On the contrary, the second Lucy Luck was every bit as good as the first, where it feels like Slotmill drew up a list of things they liked about mystery symbols, then added new things it felt were lacking.

Or things they just thought would be cool. Either way, the result is a mystery symbol scatter wins tour de force, and one major attraction is having Mystery Spins trigger at the start of each super free spin for sure. As for the max win, 10,000x the bet is the figure, achievable by symbol wins and Coin wins. To conclude, Lucy Luck and the Temple of Mysteries' vibrant personality is matched with the conjunction of excellently interweaved features to create a highly playable scatter paying mystery slot.