Fountain of Fortune

Fountain of Fortune is an Edict slot set inside a royal palace, with coins, crowns, thrones and chariots on five reels and 243 ways to win. An expanding queen wild covers whole reels, a prince scatter awards 5, 10 or 15 free games played with sticky wilds, and a stacked bonus symbol on the centre reel can trigger a random multiplier of the total bet. The RTP is 96.07 % with medium volatility. The minimum bet is 0.1 €, and the maximum bet is listed as a range from 1 € to 100 €. It suits players who like elegant themes and a free spins round where wilds stay put.

The game has a luxury theme, with a palace interior as its backdrop and a rich colour scheme that suits the royal setting. The command bar sits at the bottom of the display, making the game easy to control, and a soundtrack plays throughout.

Fountain of Fortune runs in the browser without a download. Medium volatility means regular payouts between spins, with patience rewarded by the bigger wins from the free games. The palace setting and royal symbols give it a classic, upmarket look that fits well in a premium slot row. Edict's portfolio includes the Merkur slot range, and every Edict game is offered in both real-money and fun modes.

The symbols fall into two groups:

• Royal symbols: a coin, a crown, a throne, a chariot and an ornament, paying from 40 coins for three up to 2,000 coins for five.
• Card ranks: A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9, the low-paying icons, worth from 12 coins for three up to 200 coins for five.

Payouts depend on the symbol and how many matching icons land on adjacent reels. Players set their stake with the command bar; the minimum bet is 0.1 €. Autoplay is available for hands-free play.

Fountain of Fortune uses 243 ways to win rather than fixed paylines. Any three or more matching symbols on consecutive reels, starting from the left, form a winning combination.

The coin is the best symbol in the game: five of them on adjacent reels award up to 2,000 coins. Combined with the expanding queen wild, the ways-to-win format makes full five-reel combinations reachable on any spin.

The bonus features combine wilds, free games and multipliers:

• Expanding queen wild: appears on reels 2, 3 and 4, expands to cover the entire reel and substitutes for all symbols except the scatter.
• Prince scatter: three, four or five scatters award 5, 10 or 15 free games.
• Sticky wilds: during the free games, wilds stick in place, building up the chance of big wins with each spin.
• Bonus symbol multiplier: a stacked bonus symbol appears on reel 3. When it covers all three positions of the centre reel, it awards a random multiplier of the total bet.

Sticky wilds in the free games are the highlight. Each wild that lands stays for the rest of the round, so the later spins of a long free games session tend to be the most valuable, especially with five scatters and 15 free games.