Kathmandu (Slot Game) was released in January 2006 by Microgaming. The game has 5 reels and 9 paylines. The graphics of the game have vivid colors and are based on the theme of “Kathmandu”, the capital city of Nepal which is 1336 meters above sea level and is the gateway to Mount Everest. The symbols on the reels are theme oriented and include the temple, Nepalese city, spices, prayer bell, prayer wheel, map, Elephant and high value playing card letters and numbers. The game has standard background track that makes it sound like a busy and bustling casino. There are a variety of sound effects which play when key symbols or evens happen in the slots game. The highlight of the game is the free spin bonus round.
Kathmandu Features and Symbols
This Nepalese-themed slot game has 5 reels and 9 paylines. The coin varies in the denominations of 0.01 up to 0.50 per pay line, and wager 1 up to 20 coins per payline bet. The minimum bet amount is 0.01 and the maximum bet amount is 90.00 per spin. The maximum jackpot payout of the game is 6,000 coins per line bet.
Wild Symbol
The Prayer Wheel symbol in the game is the wild symbol. It acts as a substitute for all other symbols, except Bell scatter symbol, to complete the winning combination.
Extra Wild Symbols
The Temple symbol acts as a wild symbol during the Free Spins only and substitutes for other symbols to complete a winning combination offering more chances to win larger payouts.
Scatter Symbol
The Bell symbol in the game acts as a scatter symbol. The Bell scatter symbol can be scattered anywhere on the five reels to complete winning combinations, provided two or more Bell scatter symbols appear.
Three or more Bell scatter symbols scattered anywhere on the five reels activates the Free Spin Bonus Round game.
Free Spin Bonus Round
Three or more Bell scatter symbols scattered anywhere on the five reels activates the Free Spin Bonus Round game. 15 Free spins are awarded to the player and all the winnings scored in the free spin round are multiplied by the Mystery Multiplier Values which are 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x. The free spin round can be re-triggered during the free spin round.
The Temple symbol acts as a wild symbol during the Free Spins and substitutes for other symbols to complete winning combinations.
Gamble Feature
The Gamble Bonus Game is activated on every winning combination. You can choose to either collect the winning amount or gamble the amount and play the bonus game.
In the bonus game the player can either select colors or a suit. The correct color doubles the winning amount and the correct suit quadruples the winning amount. You can continue gambling until the gamble limit is reached. Choose to play the Gamble Bonus Game if you are on a winning streak.
Kathmandu Theme
The game’s theme is Kathmandu, the famous and mysterious capital of Nepal, the city that has almost 130 ancient monuments, and is one of the most popular tourist locations in all of Asia.
Kathmandu Pay Table
The following is the breakdown of the regular paytable :
prayer Wheel
- 5 – 6000
- 4 – 1000
- 3 – 200
- 2 – 12
Temple
- 5 – 750
- 4 – 100
- 3 – 25
- 2 - 4
City Scene
- 5 – 600
- 4 – 100
- 3 – 25
- 2 - 2
Elephant
- 5 – 400
- 4 – 100
- 3 – 15
Spice
- 5 – 250
- 4 – 75
- 3 – 10
Map
- 5 – 200
- 4 – 50
- 3 – 10
Ace
- 5 – 150
- 4 – 50
- 3 – 6
King
- 5 – 120
- 4 – 25
- 3 – 6
Queen
- 5 – 100
- 4 – 25
- 3 – 6
jack
- 5 - 75
- 4 - 25
- 3 - 5
Ten
- 5 - 75
- 4 - 25
- 3 - 5
- 2 - 3
Only highest win paid per selected line
All wins multiplied by coins bet per line except scatters.