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20 fixed paylines (left-to-right)
Lightning Box built Arthur and the Round Table for SG Digital back in August 2021, and it still holds up as one of the more layered Arthurian slots out there. The board sits at a familiar 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines, paying left to right only. Bets run from $0.20 to $50, the RTP lands at 96.41%, and the math leans medium-high volatility with a 12,500x max win ceiling. Standard shape, but the inside is anything but.
The art does a lot of heavy lifting here. You get a crowned king brooding on his throne, Merlin with a glowing orb in the corner, a red dragon shield, and Camelot's turrets perched on the hills behind the reels. It feels like a storybook page, not a checklist of fantasy tropes. Speaking of Merlin, he triggers a base-game feature where wilds get randomly scattered across reels, and yes, those wilds can land directly on top of Sword Scatters. The good news? The Round Table still fires anyway.
Land three Swords on reels 1, 3 and 5 and the wheel spins to one of seven outcomes: either an Excalibur pick or a batch of 5 to 20 free spins. The Excalibur branch lets you pull the stone up to three times for prizes climbing toward 5,000x, after which you can gamble across up to seven rounds. Here's the catch though. The auto-award quirk pays your top prize only if it's currently highlighted, otherwise it gets stripped off entirely, and each surviving gamble round shrinks the ceiling further. Is that fair? Technically yes. Does it sting when your 5,000x evaporates because the wheel paused on the wrong slice? Absolutely.
Free spins run on an armour collection system that I genuinely enjoy. Bronze scatters drop from reels 1, 3 and 5 for 3x. Silver comes from reels 3 and 5 for 5x. Gold appears only on reel 5 for a fat 10x. Every armour scatter leaves a Wild sitting in its old slot, which keeps the reels alive. Stack a full bronze, silver and gold band on a single line and you're looking at 150x from one payline. Re-collecting armour you already grabbed just extends the spin count, not the multiplier, which keeps things honest.