Secret of Dead

Secret of Dead is Play'n GO's February 2022 entry in its Dead series: a 6x3 slot with 10 lines, set in a torchlit temple of gold. The Ankh is both wild and scatter, and three or more start up to 15 free spins with a randomly chosen expanding symbol, plus another for every retrigger, up to nine. We put the Secret of Dead slot demo through 100 spins at $1.

What is Secret of Dead?

The reels stand between blue stone pillars with flames on their capitals and coins heaped at their feet, under a gold Secret of Dead crest. The help text describes a plain 6-reel, 3-row game with 10 lines and no locked reel, and the paytable pays up to six of a kind.

Wins run left to right from the first reel, and only the best combination on each line is paid. Shai, a queen in a gold headdress, tops the table with the Ankh; a black cat, a blue scarab and a golden cobra follow, then the card ranks A to 10.

The paytable counts in coins at the current bet. At our $1, 50 coins of 0.02, six Shai or six Ankhs on a line pay 25,000 coins, $500, and two of them pay $2. The cat pays $200 for six, the scarab and cobra $100. The card ranks need three: the A pays $25 for six and the others $20, with 40 cents for three K, Q, J or 10.

Coin values run from 0.01 to 2.00, and coins per line and lines can be set with minus and plus; at five coins on 10 lines a spin costs $0.50 to $100. After a base-game win you can collect or gamble.

Base spin 100 of 100 at $1, after the last collect: six reels in the temple hall with two Ankhs, 0.02 a coin, five coins, 10 lines. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Secret of Dead bonus features

The Ankh, wild and scatter

The Ankh substitutes for every other symbol and pays on lines in its own right, as much as Shai. It is also the scatter: it pays anywhere on the reels, its scatter wins are multiplied by the total bet and added to the line wins, and three or more start the free spins.

Free spins and the expanding symbol

Three, four, five or six Ankhs award 8, 10, 12 or 15 free spins, played at the triggering bet and lines. Before they start, one regular symbol is drawn at random as the special expanding symbol; the Ankh is never drawn. A bar above the reels shows all nine candidates and lights the ones in play.

When enough of that symbol lands to pay, it expands to cover every position on its reels and pays on all lines without needing adjacent reels. If Shai is drawn, it pays double when expanded.

The expanding symbols page of the paytable in our demo session: the bar of nine candidates, up to 9 in play and Shai paying x2. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Retriggers and up to nine expanders

Three or more Ankhs during the round add 5 free spins and draw another expanding symbol, and the earlier ones keep working. Retriggers can stack up to nine, every regular symbol in the game.

The gamble

Any main-game win can go on a face-down card: the colour, a 1 in 2 chance, doubles it, and the suit, a 1 in 4 chance, quadruples it. You can play it up to five times in a row, up to a limit of 2,500 coins. The rules say it does not change the overall RTP, and it is off during Auto Play.

Base spin 3 of 100 at $1, before collect: three K on line 9 for 20 coins, $0.40, with GAMBLE and COLLECT offered. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

Max win, RTP and volatility

The paytable states the cap in coins: up to 500,000, which at 0.02 a coin is $10,000, or 10,000x a $1 bet. Six expanded Shai on all 10 lines would pay 250,000 coins by the paytable, doubled to that cap exactly.

The help text and paytable state no RTP, and neither does the official page. Review sites list 96.20% as the top version, with 94.20%, 91.20%, 87.20% and 84.20% versions casinos can run, and rate the game high volatility; the demo does not show which version it uses. There is no bonus buy and no ante.

Our Secret of Dead demo test

The demo carries no currency label, so we count each credit as one dollar. It opened at 25,000.00 on exactly 1.00 a spin: 0.02 a coin, five coins, 10 lines. A script started each spin in turn, and the free spins with one click, without Auto Play. We declined the gamble every time; the next spin collected each win.

The server log closes to the cent: $100.00 staked, $236.90 returned, 25,136.90 at the end on the server and on screen. The base game was quiet. Of 35 winning spins, 26 paid under $1, 17 of them the 40 cents for three card ranks, and 91 spins returned less than their cost. The longest dry run was 7 spins, 90 to 96.

After 74 spins the balance stood at its low of 24,948.80. Then spin 75 landed four Ankhs: 10 free spins, with the 10, the lowest symbol, drawn as the expander, and 950 coins already won on the trigger spin.

Base spin 75 of 100 at $1: the scroll awards 10 free spins with the 10 as the special expanding symbol, 950 coins won so far. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

The 10 kept landing. On free spin 5 it expanded over five of the six reels while the win counter was still running.

Free spin 5 of 10 after base spin 75 at $1: the expanded 10 fills five of the six reels while the win counter is still running. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

The round closed at 10,540 coins, $210.80 or 210.8x the bet, trigger spin included, with no retrigger. The game collected it by itself and offered no gamble, taking the balance to 25,158.60.

The end of the free spins from base spin 75 at $1: TOTAL WIN 10540 coins, $210.80, with expanded 10s on the right-hand reels. FluxPlays demo test, 19 October 2026.

That is a single result. Without it the other 99 spins returned $26.10 from 34 wins, the best $4.00 on spin 60, with an Ankh and Shai opening line 3. The last 25 spins returned $3.30.

We never saw a retrigger, so only one expanding symbol was in play, and Shai's double pay never came up. One hundred spins and one bonus round say nothing reliable about the RTP or the volatility.

Is Secret of Dead worth trying?

The sixth reel is what changes the feel. An expanded symbol now has six reels to cover, six-of-a-kind lines pay up to $500 at $1, and a full screen of a doubled Shai is worth 10,000x, twice the 5,000x cap of Book of Dead and Legacy of Dead. Bigger Ankh counts also buy longer rounds, from 8 spins for three up to 15 for six.

The draw still decides most rounds. A card rank as the expander needs three reels to pay and a premium only two, and outside free spins the base game is lines, Ankh pays and a card gamble. Retriggers bring 5 spins each, fewer than the opening set.

By both games' rules, Legacy of Dead is the closest model: one random expander at the start, another per retrigger, up to nine, and a Tomb that pays on lines. It runs on 5x3, opens with 8 spins whatever the Tomb count, adds 8 per retrigger and caps at 5,000x. Book of Dead keeps one expander for the whole round and pays its Tomb only as a scatter.

Our sessions of the three each turned on one round: $210.80 here, $54.50 in Legacy of Dead and $35.00 in Book of Dead, single results that show the spread, not a ranking.