Paylines
Cluster pays (3+ adjacent left-to-right)
Relax Gaming dropped Templar Tumble in September 2021 as the fifth chapter in their Tumble family, and it's the one where the studio finally said “what if we bolted Money Train coins onto the blocker mechanic?” The answer turned out to be pretty good. Six reels, seven rows, a stone castle frame with red-cross banners draped over the towers, and a moonlit landscape that looks suspiciously like every crusader movie poster from the 90s.
Wins form in clusters. You need at least three matching symbols starting on the leftmost reel and running across adjacent reels, no traditional paylines involved. When a cluster pays it tumbles, fresh symbols drop, and the cascade keeps going until nothing new connects. Standard Relax stuff so far. The wrinkle is the Blocker: a stubborn stone tile that squats on grid positions, killing combinations and shrinking the playable area. Each adjacent win chips away at the blockers it touches. Clear all of them and Free Spins open up.
Then there's the Mystery Symbol mechanic, which is really the headline act. Whenever a Wild lands, mystery icons drop into random positions and lock there until the spin resolves. At the end they all flip together, either revealing one matching paying symbol (cue chunky cluster) or a coin prize with an instant bet-multiplier value stamped on it. Is it derivative of Money Train? Sure. Does it work? Also yes.
The numbers: RTP sits at 96.26%, volatility is high (Relax rates it 5/5 internally), hit frequency lands around 20%, and the maximum win is capped at 17,280x your stake. Bet range runs 0.20 to 100 EUR. Free Spins drop the blockers entirely, leaving a clean 6×7 canvas, and Mystery Symbols still trigger from Wilds throughout. There's a Buy Bonus if you don't fancy grinding blockers.
One mild gripe. The blocker grind in the base game can feel tedious during cold streaks, especially when a single stubborn tile sits in a corner and refuses to clear for ten spins. That said, when the cascades chain and Mystery coins start adding up, the math justifies the wait. Templar Tumble isn't reinventing anything but it stitches two proven Relax ideas together cleanly, and 17,280x is a respectable ceiling.