Book of Dead
- RTP
- 96.21%
- Volatility
- high
- Max win
- 5,000×
- Reels × rows
- 5 × 3
- Paylines
- 10
- Released
- 2016
What Book of Dead actually is
Rich Wilde walks into an Egyptian tomb on a five-reel, three-row grid with ten paylines, and the whole game turns on one free-spins round. Land three books and a single symbol is picked at random to expand across the reels for the duration — pay it on any position rather than on a payline, and one middling spin becomes the session's whole return.
That single mechanic is why the game is still on every operator's front page a decade after release, and it is also why the ordinary spin is so thin. The figure worth carrying to the cashier is not the headline 96.21% but the fact that Play'n GO ships this game in five configurations — 96.21%, 94.25%, 91.25%, 87.25% and 84.18% — and the operator picks one. The bottom setting keeps nearly four times as much of your stake as the top one on the same spins, the game looks identical either way, and nothing on the reels tells you which you are playing. Check the paytable at the casino before you deposit rather than trusting any RTP printed on a review, ours included. High volatility on top of that means long stretches with nothing, and the expanding symbol is the reason to accept it — or the reason not to.
Play the demo
The recorded configuration of Book of Dead has an RTP of 96.21%, a house edge of 3.79%, at high volatility volatility. The version in an operator’s lobby may use a different RTP; check its help screen.
What this spec means for a session
The 5,000× ceiling is the largest return a single stake is designed to be able to produce: on a £1 spin that is £5,000 (what a ceiling costs).
The grid is 5 × 3 across 10 paylines — more lines is not better odds (paylines).
The mechanics this title actually ships, and what each one does to the spread of results:
- Free spins a run of spins at no further stake, usually under modified maths, where most of the return sits.
- Gamble a double-or-nothing on a win; it changes variance and nothing else.
Where you could play it
Operators that have integrated Play'n GO, with the licence we verified. We track studio integrations, not lobbies — confirm Book of Dead is in the operator’s own game list first.
- Rizk— · 12h payoutTrusted8.8
- DuelzMGA, UKGC · 12h payoutTrusted8.6
- bet365 CasinoUKGC · 24h payoutTrusted8.3
- PartyCasinoMGA, UKGC · 24h payoutTrusted8.5
- LeoVegasMGA, UKGC · 24h payoutTrusted8.3
- PokerStars CasinoMGA, UKGC · 24h payoutTrusted8.4
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How this RTP compares
- This game
- 96.21%
- Play'n GO median
- 96.50%
- Register median
- 96.50%
- Rank by RTP
- 21 of 30
Book of Dead publishes 96.21%, which is 0.29 points below the median of the 30 games on the register that publish one — 21th highest of them. Across the 4 Play'n GO titles we hold, the median is 96.50%. Among the 14 other high games here, the median is 96.51%.
Against this register only, on filed RTP.
