Mayan Ritual Online Pokie Game

Mayan Ritual is a video game from Wazdan with a Mayan Indian theme, a free spins bonus and mega symbols. There are also 40 paylines and the bonus is triggered by mystery symbols, which can consist of credits or free spins.

If all this looks a bit familiar to you, then that may very well be true: Mayan Ritual is a copy of the popular Netent pokie Spinata Grande. Better nicked good than badly thought out, they would have thought on the desks of Wazdan Gaming, there on sunny Malta.

It’s a very successful copy, with nice graphics and some unique features. With this pokie you can set your own variance (a real Wazdan find) and there is also a gamble feature built in. A kind of Spinata Grande plus, so.

How to Play the Mayan Ritual Pokie

Mayan Ritual has 5 reels with 4 rows of symbols and 40 fixed winlines. The minimum bet is $0.40 per spin and the maximum bet is $100 per spin.

Choose your own variance

A nice option with Wazdan’s pokies is that you can set your own desired variance:

• Low variance: for the real fun player who wants to spend his money for a long time.
• Medium variance: slightly more risk, with more chance of large prices
• High variance: for the player who really loves big risks in exchange for the chance to win big prizes.

Unknown Payout Rate

Unfortunately, Wazdan does not publish official payout percentages of their casino games. One big drawback: We like to know what a video pokie pays out on average before he starts playing it with real money. This costs Mayan Ritual points. Most online pokies pay out between 95% and 97%, so we keep it at an estimate of 96%.

Symbols

The symbols follow the Mayan Indian theme closely. So expect many warriors, priests, wild beasts and pyramids. The maya supreme god is worth the most: 5 of these golden symbols are worth 16.5 x the total stake.

All other symbols pay between 1 x and 11 x the total bet in case of a 5-of-a-kid on an active winline.

The pyramids are wild and replace all other symbols. All symbols are stacked and they can also appear as mega symbols of 2 x 2 or 3 x 3.

Free Spins Bonus

The bonus symbol only appears as 3 x 3 stack and can only appear on the middle reels. So you can see 3, 6 or 9 bonus symbols, each containing a credit or scatter. 3 scatters entitles you to 5 free spins and each additional scatter gives you +1 extra free spin. So you can win up to 11 free spins. The free spins can be retracted.

Gamble Feature

You can try to double your winnings up to 7 times in a row. For once, no head or tails or red or black, but left or right. The odds of getting it right are still exactly 50%.

Conclusion

Mayan Rituals is of course a bit of a shameless copy of Spinata Grande, but it is a very good copy. It really appeals to us that you can set your own variance and graphically it’s all very well. Less pleasing to us is the fact that the payout percentage is nowhere to be found.