Attic Treasure Slot
Most of us have a Christmas tree, boxes of old clothes, and perhaps a couple of long-forgotten and never-completed jigsaw puzzles stored in the spaces under our roofs. But the lucky owners of the house featured in the Attic Treasure video slot have valuable antiques stashed away. Take a look at this review to read all about the game’s bonus round – where you get to sell the treasures at a car boot sale or auction, plus its wild substitutions and unique Windfall bonus feature.
The world of antiques isn’t the most popular subject for online casino slot games to follow, but it’s going to appeal to a niche group of punters. Don’t pass this game by just yet, as the bonus rounds are far more exciting than you would first think. Get set to see the bids rising on your treasures, with the choice to accept or reject them as you please.
Attic Treasure is a five-reel slot game with 20 paylines running from the left side. It has realistic images of old gramophones, statues and pocket watches, all set against a slightly out-of-focus attic background. The provider, Sigma Gaming, is based in Huddersfield, England – hardly a well-known center for casino games development. But the fact that Sigma Gaming is UK-based assures players that they’re enjoying a slot range that’s licensed by the UKGC. This means that all results are guaranteed to be determined fairly and that the games come with high returns.
Dusting Down the Reels
All of the symbols are connected to the topic of old stuff in the roof space, and you collect prizes in the suitably old-fashioned way of landing three, four, or five matching symbols across a payline without a break in the sequence. The amount won is calculated as the stake per line, or 1/20th of the total bet. The pocket watch returns the smallest prizes, with 5x, 15x, or 50x the line bet paid out, while the rocking horse is worth up to 80x. Finally, there’s a high limit of 100x when the gramophone lands across a payline.
The middle-value symbols include an antique typewriter, a box camera and a bust which we think is of President Thomas Jefferson – but don’t take our word for it. It’s worth up to 200x your line bet when it stops on a payline, so most players won’t mind who it is as long as they can collect some big rewards. At the top of the pay table is a treasure chest worth 40x, 100x, or 250x the line stake, while the Attic Treasures logo and the house are each valued at 50x, 150x and 500x when landing on three, four, or five reels across a line.
Although you usually need to land symbols across a payline to win anything, the special Windfall bonus feature pays out at random when matching symbols land in any position on three or more reels from the left side. This doesn’t happen often, but wins are given a considerable boost when it does. The pocket watch is then worth 20x, 60x, or 200x the line stake for example, while at the other end the house pays out 200x, 600x, or 2,000x.
Safe as Houses
The house is an important symbol in a couple of other ways. It’s a wild symbol, able to act as any other if it’s needed to plug the gaps in a continuous run to complete a combination. It can even stretch wins across more reels to the right side for higher payouts.
Any time it’s seen in three or more places at once, without even needing to be on a payline or adjacent reels, the main Attic Bonus round is triggered. This exciting feature starts with players picking a highlighted object from the attic and then choosing to go to an auction or a car boot sale. At the car boot sale, you’ll find four customers interested in buying the item. The first one will make an offer you can either accept or reject, and this carries on until either all four offers are made or you accept one of them. The fourth offer is automatically accepted if you haven’t sold the item already.
The auction round is a little less engaging, as bids rise on the item until the highest offer is reached and it’s sold. But with the chance of selling your old stuff for up to 1528x the total stake, it’s still a round worth playing. Both the car boot and auction are highly original features that make Attic Treasure stand out.
Betting Options
Playable from just 0.20 per spin right up to 200.00, there’s a bet level for everyone in this game. Free Attic Treasure video slots can be played, but to win any real cash you’ll need to place actual bets. With a return to player of 95.5% on this slot, on average most of what you stake comes back to you as winnings. As wins are either multiples of the line bet or the total stake in the bonus rounds, it could be worth wagering more per spin, as you will then qualify for higher prizes.
When you click the autoplay button, you get the reels spinning on their own for up to 100 times. Keep an eye on the games, though, as there’s no option to automatically set win or loss limits beforehand. Attic Treasure has been developed in HTML5, meaning it’s mobile optimized and works on Apple, Android and Windows-powered devices.
Other Antique Options
The Antique Riches video slot from Genesis Gaming is one of the very few that follows the same theme. It's a five-reel, 25-line game that’s filled with bits of old junk, or valuable heirlooms, depending on your point of view. There are china plates, silver flagons and clocks on display in a wooden cabinet. During the games, players collect items to stash above the shelves. Collect just five antiques, and you head to a side game where the aim is to pick from the 15 treasures on show. An antiques expert gives you cash for each item, but if you find a forgery, the round ends. Once ten objects have been collected, 10 free spins will begin, during which random items will be auctioned off for cash.
Despite the antique nature of the tables, telescope, globes and rings on show, the Auction Day video slot from Magnet Gaming is bang up to date with advanced 3D graphics and some fantastic bonus rounds. The 3x3 grid of symbols gives you eight paylines, and among the many extra ways to win coins, there’s a pick-an-item feature, wild substitutions, as well as the Auction Day bonus. This is where your collected items are sold off to the highest bidder. When the hammer comes down, you could be ending the day with some huge prizes.
Lofty Ambitions
The medium-volatility Attic Treasure slot game is an unusual one, but we quite liked it. The subject matter is almost unique and comes with some basic animations, but the bonus features are potentially very lucrative. You don’t have to be an antiques aficionado to appreciate the car boot and auction features, plus the boosted payouts in the Windfall spins can really add up. There's no free spins round, but with so many other ways to win in this game, few punters are going to worry about that.
