How do you trigger free spins in Legacy of Dead?

Land three or more Scatter symbols (the golden shrine). You get 8 free spins and one regular symbol is chosen at random to be the special Expanding Symbol.

Can free spins be retriggered?

Yes. Three or more Scatters during free spins award 8 more spins and add another random Expanding Symbol, up to 9 Expanding Symbols in total.

What is the max win in Legacy of Dead?

The paytable says you can win up to 250,000 coins. At the maximum 50 coins per spin (5 coins on 10 lines) that is 5,000x the bet.

Does Legacy of Dead have a bonus buy?

No. The demo has no buy feature, so free spins only come from landing Scatters.

How does the gamble work?

After a win you can guess a card's colour to double it (1 in 2) or its suit to quadruple it (1 in 4), up to five times and up to 2,500 coins. It is off during Auto Play.

Do the expanding symbols need to be on adjacent reels?

No. The rules say expanding symbols in free spins pay for any winning combination with gaps allowed, starting on any reel.

Legacy of Dead Guide: Rules, Expanding Symbols, Free Spins and Gamble

By the CasinoDemo editorial team · Updated 2026-11-09 · How we review

Legacy of Dead is Play'n GO's take on the classic Egyptian book format: 5 reels, 3 rows, up to 10 paylines and one symbol that does two jobs. The golden shrine is both the wild and the scatter, and three of them start free spins where a randomly chosen symbol expands to cover whole reels.

We loaded the free demo, read every paytable and rules page, and played it at the default bet of 1.00 (50 coins). There is no bonus buy in this game, so everything below about the free spins comes from the official rules screens, not from a round we triggered ourselves.

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Legacy of Dead at a glance

Provider: Play'n GO
Demo: Free, no sign-up

How Legacy of Dead works

The rules call it a 5-reel game where up to 10 lines can be activated, always in numerical order (1, 2, 3 and so on). Wins pay left to right, starting on the leftmost reel, and only the highest win is paid on each selected line. Scatter wins are the exception: they pay anywhere.

Your bet is built from three settings: coin value, coins per line and number of lines. The demo opened at a coin value of 0.02, 5 coins and 10 lines, which is 50 coins or 1.00 per spin. In the settings we could move the coin value from 0.01 up to 2.00, and coins per line top out at 5, so a full 10-line spin ran from 0.50 to 100.00 in this demo. You can also drop lines and coins to go lower.

The paytable values are per coin on a line. We checked this against a real result: on our first spin five Kings (four plus a Wild Scatter) landed on one line and paid 600 coins. The King pays 120 for five, times our 5 coins per line, so the maths matches the table. At a 1.00 bet that win was 12.00, or 12x the bet.

Legacy of Dead base game reels with Explorer, Pharaoh and card symbols at a 50 coin bet — The base game at the default 50-coin bet.

Legacy of Dead five Kings line win with a Wild Scatter paying 600 coins — Five Kings with the help of a Wild Scatter: 600 coins on one line.

Symbols and paytable

The top symbols are the Wild (the golden shrine) and the Explorer, both paying 10, 100, 1,000 and 5,000 coins for two, three, four and five of a kind. Anubis pays 5, 30, 300 and 1,600. The Pharaoh and the blue scarab bird each pay 5, 20, 80 and 600. These five premiums all pay from just two in a row.

The card ranks need three. A and K pay 5, 30 and 120 for three, four and five. Q, J and 10 pay 5, 20 and 80.

The shrine also has its own scatter payout as the Wild Scatter: 2 for three, 20 for four and 200 for five, landed anywhere. The rules say all wins are multiplied by the bet per line except scatters, so this one works differently from the line pays. The shrine substitutes for every other symbol.

Legacy of Dead paytable showing Wild, Explorer, Anubis, Pharaoh and scarab payouts and the 10 paylines — Premium symbol pays and the 10 line patterns.

Free Spins with expanding symbols

Three or more Scatter symbols trigger Free Spins, and an initial 8 free spins are awarded. Before they start, one regular symbol (never the Scatter) is chosen at random to be the special Expanding Symbol.

During the free spins, when enough of that symbol lands, it expands to cover every position on its reels. The expanded symbols do not need to sit next to each other to pay. The help file puts it plainly: in free spins, special expanding symbols pay for any winning combination with gaps allowed, starting on any reel where a win is possible.

Landing three or more Scatters again during the feature retriggers it for another 8 free spins and picks an additional Expanding Symbol at random. The paytable screen says you can build up to 9 Expanding Symbols this way, which lines up with the nine regular symbols in the game.

The choice of symbol matters a lot. An expanded Explorer filling the screen is where the big numbers come from, while an expanded 10 or J pays far less. The paytable headline is "Win up to 250000 coins", which at a full 50-coin bet is 5,000x the stake.

We played 25 base spins plus a few more and did not land three Scatters, so we did not see the feature live.

Legacy of Dead free spins rules screen with Wild Scatter pays and expanding symbol example — The in-game rules for Free Spins and the expanding symbol.

The Gamble feature

After a base game win the demo offers Gamble or Collect. The rules describe two choices. Guess the colour of a face-down card (a 1 in 2 chance) to double your win, or guess its suit (1 in 4) to quadruple it. You can gamble up to five times in a row, up to a limit of 2,500 coins. Gamble is disabled during Auto Play, and the rules state it does not change the overall RTP. A wrong guess loses the win, so Collect is the sensible default unless you want the extra swing.

RTP, max win and volatility

The maximum is shown in the game itself: up to 250,000 coins, or 5,000x a full 50-coin bet. Our demo did not display an RTP figure on any rules page, so we are not quoting one here. Play'n GO runs this game at different RTP settings for different casinos, so check the help file in the version you play.

The game does not list a volatility rating either. What the paytable does show is a top-heavy structure: card wins are small, and most of the potential sits in free spins with a premium expanding symbol. Expect long quiet stretches in the base game.

Our verdict

Legacy of Dead does one thing and does it cleanly. The base game is a plain 10-line slot with small card wins, and the whole point is chasing three Scatters for expanding symbol free spins, where retriggers can stack up to nine expanding symbols. There is no bonus buy, so you have to earn the feature, and our session never got there. If you like the book-style formula and can live with dry spells, the free demo is a good way to feel how rare the trigger is before you play for real.

How to play Legacy of Dead free in Canada

Press Play demo for free on the game page and the Play'n GO demo loads with virtual credits. There is nothing to download, no account to create and no deposit to make, and it works in your browser on desktop and mobile.

Use the demo to see how the bonus round plays out and whether the game's pace suits you.

Playing Legacy of Dead for real money in Canada

Real-money online gambling in Canada is regulated province by province. Ontario runs a regulated market where licensed operators are overseen by iGaming Ontario and the AGCO; other provinces offer play through their own provincial sites, such as PlayNow (British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), Loto-Québec, PlayAlberta and ALC in Atlantic Canada.

The legal age is 19 in most provinces and 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. Only play at sites licensed where you live, set limits before you start, and treat gambling as entertainment, never as a way to make money.

Legacy of Dead FAQ

How do you trigger free spins in Legacy of Dead?: Land three or more Scatter symbols (the golden shrine). You get 8 free spins and one regular symbol is chosen at random to be the special Expanding Symbol.
Can free spins be retriggered?: Yes. Three or more Scatters during free spins award 8 more spins and add another random Expanding Symbol, up to 9 Expanding Symbols in total.
What is the max win in Legacy of Dead?: The paytable says you can win up to 250,000 coins. At the maximum 50 coins per spin (5 coins on 10 lines) that is 5,000x the bet.
Does Legacy of Dead have a bonus buy?: No. The demo has no buy feature, so free spins only come from landing Scatters.
How does the gamble work?: After a win you can guess a card's colour to double it (1 in 2) or its suit to quadruple it (1 in 4), up to five times and up to 2,500 coins. It is off during Auto Play.
Do the expanding symbols need to be on adjacent reels?: No. The rules say expanding symbols in free spins pay for any winning combination with gaps allowed, starting on any reel.

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