Cleopatra Gold is IGT’s follow-up to the Cleopatra slot, built for its CrystalCurve cabinet and online since 2020. It keeps the 5×3 grid and 20 lines at 60 credits a spin, adds three kinds of wild and Gold Spins, where a reel of wilds turns gold, locks and opens up to two more reel windows. It returns 95.97%. The free demo below is a similar Egyptian pokie, no download.
Cleopatra Gold runs on five reels and three rows with 20 fixed lines that pay left to right. It is a 60-credit game, 3 credits a line, and the coin value runs from 1 cent to $30, so the default stake range is $0.60 to $1,800 a spin, though most operators cap the top end around $50. The return to player is 95.97% at the top setting, the figure operator pages quote, but the game ships with settings down to 93.05%, and one tracker lists 94.96% as typical, so the information screen is worth a look. Volatility is medium, deliberately lower than the original Cleopatra, and IGT does not publish a hit frequency. The most the game can pay is 1,750 times the total bet, from five wilds on every line during the free spins; the 5,250x figure on some sites is not supported by the paytable.
Cleopatra Gold Pokies Characteristics
Wins need three matching symbols on a line from reel 1, and only the highest win on each line is paid. There are three wilds: Cleopatra’s face, a Cleopatra Gold logo on a blue background and the same logo on gold. All three stand in for every regular symbol, and any line win that uses a wild is doubled in the base game and tripled in the free spins, which the game does not announce on screen. The blue logo wild lands stacked, and a full reel of it starts Gold Spins; the Cleopatra face does not count toward filling a reel. The golden Sphinx is the scatter: it pays from two anywhere, and three or more start the free spins.
There is no built-in jackpot, no gamble button and no bonus buy. Autoplay runs 10 to 50 spins and there is no turbo mode.
Figures below are credits per winning line at the standard 60-credit spin, for three, four and five of a kind; multiply by the coin value for cash.
Sphinx scatters pay on the total bet: 2x for two, 5x for three, 10x for four and 20x for five. Five wilds on a line is 1,750 credits against a 60-credit spin, about 29 times the total bet before the multiplier, so about 58x in the base game and 87.5x in the free spins; all 20 lines filled with wilds in the feature is the 1,750x cap. At the $0.60 minimum one line of five wilds is $17.50 before the multiplier, $35 doubled and $52.50 tripled; the next-best symbols pay 300 for five.
Gold Spins is what separates this game from the original Cleopatra. When stacked blue logo wilds cover a whole reel, in the base game or the free spins, the stack turns gold and locks; a stack one or two short can nudge up or down to complete the reel. A second reel window then opens above the first, carrying the gold reel with it, and the other reels respin inside it. Another full gold stack there opens a third window, which is the limit; a full stack on the third earns an extra respin instead.
When a window produces no new full stack, play drops down one window, and dropping below the first ends the feature. A locked gold reel is three wilds, so every line through it is doubled or, in the free spins, tripled. Sphinx scatters landing during Gold Spins count toward the free spins trigger.
Three golden Sphinx scatters on a spin, counting any that land during Gold Spins on the same spin, award 10 free spins. Each extra scatter adds two, so four pay 12 and five pay 14. During the feature the wild multiplier rises from 2x to 3x, and Gold Spins can trigger inside the bonus, which is where the biggest results live. Three or more scatters during the free spins add another 10, plus two per extra scatter, up to a cap of 150 in total. Ten spins is a third fewer than the original’s 15, the price of the lower volatility and the respins.
At 95.97% the game keeps about 4 cents of every dollar bet over the long run, a touch above the original Cleopatra’s 95.02%. At the 93.05% floor it keeps about 7 cents, and which operators run which setting is not published, so the information screen is the only way to know. Medium volatility means small line wins land often enough to stretch a balance, and the big results sit in Gold Spins inside the free spins.
At the $0.60 minimum, $30 buys 50 spins, enough to see the wild lines at work but not enough to count on a free spins round; at $6 a spin it is five spins. The only lever is the coin value.
The original Cleopatra is the yardstick: the same 5×3 grid and 20 lines, but a 20-credit bet, 15 free spins with all wins tripled, retriggers up to 180 spins and a top award of 10,000 times the line bet for five Cleopatras, at a quoted return of 95.02% (some sources say 95.7%). Cleopatra Gold trades that for a 60-credit bet, 10 free spins, three wild types, Gold Spins, a 1,750x total-bet cap and lower volatility. Cleopatra II, with a free spins multiplier that grows during the bonus, is a separate game, as are Cleopatra Plus and MegaJackpots Cleopatra.
Cleopatra Diamond Spins is a UK land-based linked progressive from 2018 that shares its symbol set with Cleopatra Gold. Cleopatra’s Gold, with the apostrophe, is an older and unrelated Realtime Gaming title.
The setting is Egypt under Cleopatra in blue and gold: a blue backdrop with Egyptian line drawings, gold-framed royals decorated with flowers, scarabs, golden cups, gold ingots, the crook and flail and the Eye of Ra. Cleopatra herself watches from above the reels, blinks and speaks now and then, and a drum-driven soundtrack beats on every spin. The visual hook is the reel windows stacking upward during Gold Spins. The land-based Cleopatra Gold slot machine was built for the 43-inch curved 4K CrystalCurve cabinet, and the online build is HTML5.
IGT sells the CrystalCurve cabinet in Australia, but its 2018 local line-up in the trade press did not include Cleopatra Gold, and no Australian club, pub or casino placement is documented. Online, IGT distributes to licensed markets only: the game is live in Britain, the Nordics and several US states, and Australia is not among them. None of the offshore casinos that accept Australian players has been confirmed as carrying it, so availability varies and a lobby search for the exact title is the way to check. IGT does not publish an official free demo; review sites embed its HTML5 client for free play. IGT’s slot and digital business was bought by Apollo-managed funds and merged with Everi in mid-2025, and it still trades as IGT.
Cleopatra Gold is a careful sequel. Gold Spins gives the base game something the first Cleopatra never had, and the medium volatility makes it the gentler of the two. It suits players who like the Cleopatra look and want a feature they can reach without waiting for three scatters; it does not suit anyone chasing the original’s 10,000x line award or a jackpot. The one thing to check is the return setting: 95.97% is a good game, 93.05% is not the same game.
95.97% at the top setting. Operators can run it as low as 93.05%, so check the information screen.
Land three or more golden Sphinx scatters on one spin, including any that arrive during Gold Spins. Three pay 10 free spins, four pay 12 and five pay 14, with retriggers up to 150.
1,750 times the total bet: five wilds on all 20 lines under the 3x free spins multiplier. The 5,250x on some sites is not supported by the paytable.
A reel of stacked blue Cleopatra Gold wilds turns gold and locks, and a new reel window opens above it for a respin. A second full stack opens a third window, the maximum; the feature ends when play drops below the first window.
Not easily. It is not documented on Australian venue floors, IGT’s online markets do not include Australia, and no offshore casino accepting Australians is confirmed to carry it.
Same grid and 20 lines, but 60 credits a spin instead of 20, 10 free spins instead of 15, three wild types, Gold Spins, lower volatility and a 1,750x cap instead of a 10,000x line-bet top award.
