Elephant King pokies are IGT’s 2017 African savannah game, in Australian venues before going online. It plays 40 lines, and its hook is the Prize Disk above the reels: five awards that slide one reel left after every spin until the gold Elephant King scatter collects one. The Elephant King slot returns 96.02%. The free demo below is a similar savannah pokie, with no download.
Elephant King runs on five reels and three rows with 40 fixed lines that pay left to right. Every spin costs a fixed 75 coins at 1 cent to $20 a coin, so a spin runs from 75 cents to $1,500, with the ceiling varying by casino. The default return to player is 96.02%, but a 94.93% build runs at some regulated US casinos and one UK listing warns of lower variants, so check the information screen. Volatility is listed as medium by nearly every source; one reviewer says medium to high. IGT does not publish a hit frequency. The maximum win is unsettled: published figures range from 250x to 1,000x the total bet, and the best supported number is around 533x from line wins, a full screen of elephants in the free games, with any Prize Disk credits paid on top.
Elephant King Pokies Characteristics
Wins need three or more matching symbols on adjacent reels from reel 1. The wild, a tribal shield with crossed spears, lands only on reels 2, 3 and 4, arrives in stacks and stands in for everything except the gold Elephant King, with no multiplier. The gold-framed Elephant King is the bonus symbol, on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the base game and all five in the free games; it does not need to line up, because its value is whatever sits above it.
Five disks sit above the five reels, each showing a credit prize, a Free Games symbol or, in the free games, an Extra Spins symbol. After every spin the row shifts one reel left and a new award appears above reel 5. A gold Elephant King directly beneath a disk collects that award, so one base-game spin can collect up to three. There is no bonus buy, gamble, respin or progressive in the original, and autoplay runs 10 to 50 spins with no turbo mode.
Wins below are in coins for three, four and five of a kind; the bet is a fixed 75 coins, so divide by 75 for the multiple of the total bet. There are no two-of-a-kind pays.
Five elephants on one line pay 500 coins, about 6.7x the total bet, and the four animal symbols pay double in the free games, so that line is worth 1,000 coins there. The gold Elephant King has no line pay; it pays only by collecting a Prize Disk award.
The Prize Disk is the only bonus mechanic in Elephant King. Credit awards run from 500 to 10,000 times the coin value, roughly 6.7x to 133x the 75-coin total bet per collecting scatter; at the 75-cent minimum that is $5 to $100 an award. One cataloguing site notes that disk values carry over between sessions. The reels shake and the elephants trumpet over African drums when a disk award is in reach, and a shake cut short usually means a decent line win instead.
On the Australian club version the prizes scale with the bet and the collecting reels depend on whether 5, 25 or 50 lines are in play; in both versions Prize Disk wins are added to line wins on the same spin.
A gold Elephant King under a Free Games symbol awards 10 free spins, and three scatters on one base-game spin can open the round with 30. Inside the feature the scatter appears on all five reels, the four animal symbols pay double and the Prize Disk keeps scrolling. Extra Spins symbols join the disk row and add two spins per scatter beneath them; one listing also says a further Free Games award adds another 10. The bonus is capped at 250 free spins.
Thirty spins with doubled animal pays and scatters on every reel is where the 533x figure comes from. The downside is frequency: one US reviewer marks the bonus down for triggering infrequently.
At 96.02% the game keeps about 4 cents of every dollar bet over the long run; the 94.93% build keeps 5, and the MegaJackpots version at 92.49% keeps closer to 8 before the progressive contribution. Medium volatility means the 40 lines and stacked wilds keep a balance moving while you wait, and with scatters on only three base-game reels the feature is a slow burn.
At 75 cents a spin, $30 buys 40 spins; at $1.50 a spin, with the coin set to 2 cents, the same $30 is gone in 20 spins. The bet is always 75 coins and the prizes scale with the coin, so staking up does nothing for your feature chances.
Australians met the game first as Prize Disk Elephant King on IGT cabinets, in Australia and New Zealand from about August 2017 and in Macau from 2018. The club build runs at 1, 2, 5 and 10 cents with 5, 25 or 50 lines, and in the Prize Disk series the free games can also award Mega, Major and Grand jackpots with the top level set by the venue, though that is documented for the series rather than for Elephant King itself. Wolf Ridge and Tiger Fortune are siblings, not sequels.
MegaJackpots Elephant King, the online progressive from IGT PlayDigital, went live in late 2021 (listings give 13 October or 9 December). It keeps the 40 lines and the paytable but adds a MegaJackpots symbol to the disk; a scatter beneath it wins the IGT MegaJackpots pool, which one US casino says seeds at around $500,000. The price is the return: IGT lists it at 92.49%, and the 96.02% in one casino review looks copied from the base game. Elephant King Jackpots (2024) is an instant-win game for US lotteries, not a casino pokie, and we could find no Megaways version.
The setting is the African savannah: elephant, rhino, zebra and gazelle as the high symbols, jewelled card suits and a blue sapphire as the lows. The visual signature is the disk row above the reels, where you can see a big award two or three spins before it reaches a collecting reel, which gives the base game a tension most 40-line pokies lack. The graphics are 3D renders in an HTML5 build for desktop, tablet, iOS and Android.
Elephant King has a confirmed record on Australian pokies floors: IGT rolled it into Australian and New Zealand venues in 2017, and Maxgaming’s December 2017 data had it indexing at 1.07 against the floor average in New South Wales and Queensland clubs. Online is a different story: IGT’s digital arm supplies regulated markets, every listing we found is in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada or New Zealand, and none of the offshore casinos that accept Australians could be confirmed as carrying it. Availability varies, so search the lobby for the game or filter by IGT. IGT does not publish an official public demo, though several review sites host free-play versions.
Elephant King is a club pokie that moved online with its personality intact: 40 lines of steady small wins, a feature you can see coming, and maths that reward patience over aggression. It suits players who like the rhythm of a scrolling disk row and do not need multipliers or bonus buys; it does not suit anyone chasing a quick bonus, because the feature is infrequent. The one thing to check is the version and the return: 96.02% is the game described here, 94.93% is the same game running slower, and MegaJackpots Elephant King at 92.49% is a progressive first and a pokie second.
96.02% by default. A 94.93% build runs at some regulated US casinos. MegaJackpots Elephant King is listed by IGT at 92.49%.
A gold Elephant King scatter must land on reel 1, 3 or 5 directly beneath a Free Games symbol on the Prize Disk. Each one awards 10 free spins, up to 30 on one spin.
Published figures range from 250x to 1,000x the total bet; the best supported is around 533x from line wins, with Prize Disk credits of up to 10,000 times the coin value on top.
Five awards sit above the reels and shift one reel left after every spin. A scatter beneath one collects it: a credit prize, 10 free spins or, inside the feature, two extra spins.
On club floors, yes, since 2017. Online, no offshore casino accepting Australians could be confirmed as carrying it, so search the lobby before you deposit.
Not the original. MegaJackpots Elephant King (2021) adds the IGT MegaJackpots progressive as a Prize Disk award at a 92.49% return, and Prize Disk club cabinets can carry venue-set Mega, Major and Grand jackpots.
