Hotter Than Hot is an ancient Egyptian-oriented June 2013 video slot from Ainsworth. It is in the “King Strike” series, alongside Electric Nights (August 2017), Big Thunder (October 2013), and Jade Emperor (January 2017). Like many others, it also uses the four-jackpot “Quad Shot” mechanism.

The developer’s games Legends of Giza, Mega Choice Fortune, Queen’s Orchard, Wings of Egypt, Queen’s Legacy, King Ramses (July 2017) and Egyptian Wealth (May 2019) are also relatable. Themes: animal gods, gems, hieroglyphs, immortality, and mythology in dynastic Egypt.

The Hotter Than Hot’s notable features: four self-adjusting jackpots, bonus game, fourteen symbols, sticky and cloned pyramids, 41 coins, 30 pay lines (nine batches), 369 total bets, left-to-right wins, and prolonging free spins.

Regular mode: twelve symbols: (beetle, vulture, Usekh collar, plate, Eye of Horus, mushroom, A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9) pay from X5 to X300 for three/four/five combinations.
Free spins: twelve symbols: (beetle, vulture, Usekh collar, plate, Eye of Horus, mushroom, A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9) pay from X5 to X100 for either a three-of-a-kind or a five-of-a-kind.

Hotter Than Hot game characteristics

The Hotter Than Hot’s 5X3 grid has a crimson-and-golden frame for its translucent and partitioned reels. Featuring an ancient Egyptian palette-inspired fringe—desher red, irtyu blue, and khenet yellow stripes—the background comprises of gray-striped golden yellow sand dunes amid distantly pyramids and silhouetted camel caravans.

The Hotter Than Hot’s coins: $0.01, $0.02, $0.03, $0.04, $0.05, $0.06, $0.07, $0.08, $0.09, $0.10, $0.25, $0.50, $0.75, $1.00, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00, $9.00, $10.00, $15.00, $20.00, $25.00, $30.00, $35.00, $40.00, $45.00, $50.00, $55.00, $60.00, $65.00, $70.00, $75.00, $80.00, $85.00, $90.00, $95.00, and $100.00.

Hotter Than Hot’s pay lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30. Minimum bet: $0.01. Maximum bet: $3000.00.

Hotter Than Hot has three special and eleven ordinary symbols. Specials: substituting sun-lit “wild” pyramids; free spins-prompting ruby-embedded colorful scarab beetle (scatter); and a jackpot-associated gem-embedded golden crown.

Ordinaries: gem-embedded and colorful protector vulture goddess Nekhbet; colorful Usekh collar; ruby-cored colorful treasure plate; fancy red-and-golden Eye of Horus; immortalizing blue-and-golden mushroom; purple A; orange K; yellow Q; blue J; red 10; and green 9.

The Hotter Than Hot’s regular odds: beetles pay X5, X20 and X100; vultures pay X5, X100 and X300; Usekh collars pay X5, X100 and X200; plates/Eye of Horus pay X5, X75 and X150; mushrooms pay X5, X50 and X120; A pay X5, X40 and X80; K/Q pays X5, X20 and X80; and J/10/9 pays X5, X10 and X50.

In the crimson-reeled free games: beetles pay X5 and X20; vultures/Usekh collars/plates/Eye of Horus/mushrooms pay X5 and X100; and A/K/Q/J/10/9 pay X5 and X50.
3+ beetles offer ten free spins, where: 3+ re-landing beetles offering +5 free spins; the second and/or fourth reels may draw pyramids that then repopulate the entire reels; and sticky pyramid on the fifth reels.

The range of combinational payouts: $0.05 minimum win for a three-of-a-kind of any symbol; and a $300000.00 maximum win for a regular five-of-a-kind of beetles.

The “bonus A bet” golden scroll, embedded on the main grid’s right margin, is another one-cell reel that may exclusively draw a crown.

A simultaneous appearance of the crown and a five-of-a-kind of vultures/Usekh collars/plates/Eye of Horus/mushrooms in: an unsubstituted combination offers a betX10000 ($100.00 to $1000000.00) major jackpots; and a substituted combination offers a betX1000 ($10.00 to $100000.00) minor jackpots.

A simultaneous appearance of the crown and a five-of-a-kind of A/K/Q/J/10/9 in: an unsubstituted combination yields a betX2500 ($25.00 to $250000.00) maxi jackpots; and a substituted combination yields a betX500 ($5.00 to $50000.00) mini jackpots.

The HTML5 game Hotter Than Hot’s features; game history; desktop/mobile versions; and 10/25/50/75/100 auto games. Sound effects: ancient Egyptian instrumental, ringing, screeching, drumming, whooshing, jingling, clicking, and strumming.

The 3D animated graphics: blazing, sunburst, burning pyramids, dolly zooming, flipping vultures and crowns, crawling and flapping beetles, and fireworks.

Luck in Hotter Than Hot

Hotter Than Hot is a game of chance. RTP rate: 94.40%. House edge: 5.60%.