Another online slot taking its punters back in time to visit the lost Mayan civilization and admire their ancient carvings on stone blocks, this time coming from the Playtech's slot list!
Mayan Blocks is a 6-reeled Cluster pays-style online game with colorful visuals, simple gameplay, and a set of several familiar but rewarding bonus features!
Increase the unlimited win multiplier as much as you can, use Mega Symbols and Mystery Wilds and earn up to 10000x the total bet!
Theme and Symbols
The first thing you may notice upon loading the game is how easy it is to distinguish the symbols from each other on the smallest possible screen since the game boasts pretty high-quality graphics and beautiful brightly-colored visuals.
The theme focuses on the Mayan civilization, boasting a group of symbols that look like drawings on stone showing birds, turtles, jaguars, and crystal bonus symbols and Wilds.
Overall, the design is bright and very colorful, with a blurred background behind the grid showing colorful tropical plants and stone statues on both sides.
The action is followed by a traditional soundtrack playing as you spin the reels, complemented by the occasional blast of panpipe and a jungle hum.
Betting Options and Other Functions
Before you head over to the Mayan temples back in time, you need to set your bets that range between 0.1$ to 500$ per spin, which will appeal to all kinds of risk-takers!
Expect to get a not-so-decent shot at a return on your money, with the calculated RTP being 95.36% combined with a medium/high volatility.
Played across 6 reels and 7 rows, this title boasts relies on its Cluster Pays system (read here) taken from the devs' previous online release from 2018 called Pixel Samurai.
Every time you land a winning cluster, the winning symbols will be removed from the grid, and new ones fall into their places. But, we'll come to that later!
When it comes to symbols, the least rewarding ones are the purple and blue symbols across the stone blocks, while the most paying symbol is the gold Mayan head totem which rewards up to 500x your stake if you form a cluster of 30+ of them.
The Wild 'W' sign substitutes for all other regular symbols of the game, while the crystal bonus triggers the Free Spins feature!
Special Features
As we have already mentioned, this online title uses a Cluster Pays grid with the Collapsing Reels Feature that removes the winning symbols with new ones, but...
...it also increases the progressive win multiplier by x1 for every consecutive cascade!
Besides, to form the cascades easier, you will also get to see 2x2 or 3x3 Mega symbols landing across the reels and taking up 4 to 9 positions!
But, there's more!
At random, you can trigger the Mystery Wild feature coming at the end of a cascading sequence and spreading the Wilds onto the reels after the reels stop collapsing.
Now, to trigger the Bonus Round, you need to land at least four Scatters that will award 8 extra spins, with each new Scatter landing increasing the number of spins by +1!
The best part during these bonus rounds is that the increasing win multiplier does not reset after a losing spin, and it keeps increasing with each winning cascade!
Lastly, at the end of this bonus round, you will have the Multiplier Boost Spin feature triggered. When this occurs, you can get a total winnings multiplier boost up to x20!
Verdict
This Mayan-themed online release from the creative Playtech team surely manages to deliver all the right features and payouts, although the RTP percentage could have been better!
Nevertheless, with its increasing multipliers, Cluster Pays, and free spins, Mayan Blocks promises a perfect player experience to all kinds of punters, complemented by impressive visuals, nice sounds, and huge maximum potential of 10000x the stake!
Slot data and features
- 6Reels
- $250,000.00Max cash jackpot
- 95.36Payout Percent
- YesWild Symbol
- NoMultiplier
- $0.1 - $500Betting Range
- 0.01 - 50.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 5000Max coins jackpot
- NoScatter Symbol
- YesFree spins available
- YesBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Mayan Game theme