GAMING1 - Fakir Dice Slot

Fakir Dice Slot is the reel version of Gaming1's fakir, one of the dice slots casino: five columns, three rows and 243 ways to win, in an Indian setting full of cobras, daggers and coloured dice. The base game stays simple. Things speed up when three puck symbols open the fakir's game and its bed of nails.

That board also turns up in two other titles from the studio, but here it sets up free spins, Wilds and a progressive jackpot. Below: how to read the paytable, what the pucks pay and what to expect at your stake.

The 243 ways to win of Fakir Dice Slot

No lines are drawn on the grid. All it takes is a symbol on the left-hand reel, then on the next one and so on, whatever the row. Each reel has three positions, and those options multiply from column to column up to 243 paths.

The direct result: a symbol that appears twice on the same reel doubles the number of winning paths running through it. The game adds up every path separately, which explains wins that are sometimes higher than a single line of three.

The symbol payouts on the Fakir Dice Slot machine

The rules screen shows wins in euros for the current stake. Read at a €1 stake, they rank like this:

• the fakir: €40 for five, €15 for four, €2.50 for three and €0.50 for two;
• his assistant: €20, €7.50, €2.50 and €0.50, also from two symbols;
• the cobra: €10, €5 and €2 for three to five symbols;
• the flute and the dagger: €5, €2 and €1 each;
• the dice: from €5 for five yellow or orange dice down to €0.20 for three blue-green or turquoise-purple double dice.

So the fakir and his assistant are the only symbols that pay from two. The dice land often but pay little, which gives the game its rhythm of small, regular wins.

Path by path: a Fakir Dice Slot win taken apart

Take a €1 spin: one fakir on the first reel, two fakirs on the second, a lotus flower on the third and nothing useful after that. The lotus acts as the Wild: it stands in for any symbol bar the puck and completes the run here.

The first reel gives one path, the second two, the third one: 1 × 2 × 1 = two runs of three fakirs. Each is worth €2.50, so €5 for the spin, five times the stake. The same sum applies to every symbol, and the game lists each winning run once the reels stop.

The pucks of the fakir's game in Fakir Dice Slot

The trigger symbol, on a red background, shows a die alongside a puck and a number from 1 to 3. You need three of them on the grid to open the fakir's game. Added together, those numbers set how many pucks drop onto the bed of nails.

Each puck bounces from nail to nail before landing in a slot. Depending on where it lands, it pays free spins, a multiplier, an instant win or passing Wilds. During the free spins, those Wilds can turn up to two whole reels into lotuses, linking at once every path that runs through them. Nothing you do guides the fall: the result is random, like the rest of the game.

The jackpot slot and the Fakir Dice Slot pot

One slot on the board is reserved for the pot. Pucks have to land in it three times during the fakir's game to win it. The meter starts at 100 times the stake, then 2% of every stake played adds to it until a player claims it.

This pot belongs to the game itself and comes on top of its usual wins. That places it among the games with a jackpot in the catalogue, with one key difference: the amount depends on your stake, since its starting point is a multiple of it.

Fakir Dice Slot next to Fakir Gridders and Fakir Dice

The same fakir appears in three titles. Fakir Dice Slot is the only one with reels. Fakir Gridders Jackpot Dice and Fakir Dice borrow the bed of nails, but on four grids of dice: there the pucks are worth points, jackpot stars or Mystery games, never free spins.

If you are after the fakir's classic slot machine, this is the one. To compare with the other Gaming1 games, dice, slots and wheels, the studio's whole catalogue sits in one place.

Fakir Dice Slot RTP: low volatility and a share for the pot

The return to player shown in the game is RTP. The 2% paid into the pot is part of it: a small share of the return goes to whoever lands the pot. The studio's sheet rates the volatility as low, and the paytable bears that out: plenty of small runs, few big hits outside the fakir's game.

Stakes run from €0.10 to maximum stake per spin. Leaving the jackpot aside, the stated maximum win is 525 times the stake. The game suits players who like to see their balance move often on modest stakes. It suits those expecting spectacular base-game wins less: most of the potential sits on the board.

From demo to real money: Fakir Dice Slot at Dragon Casino

The demo lets you see how often the pucks turn up before you stake anything. Nothing to download: the game opens in the browser, whether you play on a laptop or a phone.

For real money, Fakir Dice Slot is waiting at Dragon Casino, the Belgium online casino holding licence B+3817. You must be 21 to play. Set a deposit limit before you start, as the fakir's game can take its time to arrive.