Genius

Capecod Gaming, the young design company proudly based in Italy, turns its attention to the natural sciences in Genius. This five-by-three slot prominently features the person of Albert Einstein, along with three separate bonus features.

Theme

A charming, space-age animated sequence welcomes players to this game, where Albert Einstein shoots lightning bolts from his fingers like a benevolent Emperor Palpatine. Players are then transported to a cluttered laboratory, where science is being done with a hint of steampunk, while dancehall music plays in the background. Gaming symbols include a massive electrode wild symbol (which pays a handsome 5000x for five of a kind), an Einstein scatter symbol, and a radiation mystery multiplier, as well as a scientist, a beaker filled with green liquid, a chalkboard bearing the famous equation e=mc2 (attributed to Einstein and nicknamed ‘mass-energy equivalence’), a dissected atom, as well as a lucky number seven, a bar symbol, and the playing card values ace through jack. The overall gameplay feel is miles away from the cluttered laboratory – classic Italian smoothness and elegance is on offer here.

Betting Options and Functions

The natural sciences are notoriously more detail-oriented than many other disciplines, and the design team keeps games specifics up to the same high standards here. There are 25 fixed paylines, with bet per line adjustable from 0.01–1.00 for an overall per-spin bet range of 0.25–25.00 times the betting currency. Autospin is available for up to 1000 spins at a time. Paytable information and game rules in detail are viewable via pop-up menus. The overall theoretical return to player ratio is somewhat lower than Capecod Gaming’s other titles, but is still decent at 95.04%.

Features

Capecod Gaming is known in the industry for their consistently fresh take on slot gaming, which is evident in the structure of this slot’s bonus features. When three scatter symbols appear on the reels, one of three bonus games will be triggered: chose one of the three scatters to reveal which.

The Freespin Bonus will be most familiar to veteran slot players. A variable number of free spins will be awarded. This bonus features an expanded wild, which stays in place on the center column throughout the feature. There is also a potion bonus round, led by Einstein himself (although he was, of course, a physicist, not a chemist). Players select one of the four colorful beakers on offer, which will then be detonated in a chemical reaction, awarding a random win. Finally, in the Gears bonus feature, a new mini-set of reels will appear with three reels and one column. All symbols will pay out as if they were scatters, but a new ‘lose’ symbol will also appear. Play continues without limit until three ‘lose’ symbols appear across the mini-set of reels, returning players to base play along with their winnings.

Our Take

Intelligence is often undervalued in today’s world. Genius allows players the unique chance to (literally) value science more highly while adding to their bankrolls at the same time. Capecod Gaming has once again created a game with a personality all its own, without sacrificing any elements of gameplay.