Paylines
20 paylines (player-selectable 1-20)
Genii's Royal Banquet is a cartoon medieval feast that doesn't take itself seriously for even a second. The 5×3 grid floats inside a rustic wooden frame, stone arches on either side, cobblestone floor at the bottom, and a parchment scroll banner stretched across the top with the game's name in curved red calligraphy. Behind all that, red banners hang on castle walls and distant turrets peek through. It's basically Disney's Robin Hood crossed with a slot machine.
The cast does the heavy lifting. King Eric Eat-A-Lot is the Wild, a fat bald cartoon king clutching a turkey leg, who subs for everything except the two scatters. He doesn't pay on his own, which feels stingy given how loud his branding is. Claude the Jesteer (yes, the paytable misspells “Jester” and nobody fixed it) handles the Free Spins trigger. The Chicken, a yellow bird looking like it just realised what banquet means, fires off the bonus game. Beyond them you get a knight with a sword, a chef in a tall white hat, a bard, a jeweled chalice, roast turkey, roast pig with an apple in its mouth, a fruit bowl, bread, and a wine tankard. No card-value symbols. None at all, which I appreciate.
Here's where it gets interesting. The top five line symbols all pay two-of-a-kind, which is unusually generous for a 20-payline slot. Queen pays 5 coins for two, knight and chef pay 3, the next two pay 2 each. That front-loads small wins almost every spin, and over a session it feels chatty rather than dry. Five-of-a-kind on the Queen tops out at 5,000 coins per line, which is the headline combo.
Land 3, 4, or 5 Claude scatters anywhere and you get 10, 15, or 30 free spins respectively. The jump from 15 to 30 at five scatters is a nice surprise, and retriggers stack. Three or more chickens kick off the Test the Broth bonus, a tasting pick screen that's about as kitsch as the rest of the game.
Volatility sits medium-high, RTP is operator-configurable (so check before you play), and bets run from one cent to fifty. It's a goofy little machine and that's the whole point.