Queen of the Nile 2 is Aristocrat’s sequel to the 1997 club pokie that defined the Egyptian theme for Australians. Cleopatra is still the wild that doubles wins, the pyramid is the scatter, there are 25 lines, and free games come as a choice of four packages, from five games at x10 to 20 games at x2. Most sites list a 95.86% return. The free demo below is a similar Egyptian pokie.
Queen of the Nile 2 runs on five reels and three rows with 25 lines, adjustable from 1 to 25. Bets are quoted most often at 1 cent to $2 a line, so a full-line spin costs 25 cents to $50, though some sites cap it at $10 and others allow $100 a spin, depending on the operator. There is no official RTP sheet. Published figures range from 95.56% to 95.88%, with 95.86% the most repeated, about a point above the 94.88% commonly listed for the original. Volatility is medium by most accounts, although labels run from low-medium to high, and hit frequency is not published. The top paytable prize is five Cleopatras on a line for 3,000 times the line bet, which is 120 times the total bet with all 25 lines in play.
Queen of the Nile 2 Pokies Characteristics
Wins pay left to right from the first reel, and only the highest win on each line counts. Cleopatra is the wild. She substitutes for every symbol except the pyramid, and any win she completes by standing in is doubled, so four masks plus a Cleopatra pays 1,500 line bets rather than 750. Five Cleopatras on a line is a natural win and pays the flat 3,000. She is not stacked, expanding or sticky. The pyramid is the scatter, pays in any position, and two of them already return double the total bet.
Three or more pyramids open the free games, the only bonus in the game. There is no progressive jackpot, no bonus buy and no respin layer, and autoplay is offered. A card gamble sits behind base-game wins.
Figures are multiples of the line bet for two, three, four and five of a kind; the pyramid scatter is the exception and pays in multiples of the total bet.
Five pyramids pay 400x the total bet on most listings, although one table prints 100x, so take that cell as disputed. The top line, five Cleopatras, is worth 3,000 line bets, or 120x the total stake at 25 lines; inside the x10 package that line would be worth 30,000 line bets, though no source publishes an official maximum and the 6,000 figure some databases print has no stated unit.
Three or more pyramids anywhere on the reels start the free games, and you then pick one of four packages: 5 free games with all wins multiplied by 10, 10 games at x5, 15 games at x3, or 20 games at x2. Bet and active lines are locked at the triggering values. Cleopatra keeps doubling the wins she completes inside the feature, and that doubling stacks with the package multiplier.
Spins times multiplier comes out at 50, 50, 45 and 40, so the two short packages carry the most raw multiplier value and the most variance: five spins at x10 can pay nothing at all. The longer packages give more chances to retrigger with another three pyramids. No cap is published, and one player report says a retrigger asks you to choose a package again rather than adding spins; treat that as unverified. No source publishes each package’s expected value.
After any base-game win you can take the amount to a card gamble: guess the colour of a face-down card to double it, or the suit to quadruple it. A wrong guess loses that spin’s win. One source says the gamble can be taken up to five times in a row; the others give no limit. It is optional, and skipping it costs nothing.
At 95.86% the game keeps a little over 4 cents of every dollar bet over the long run, roughly a cent better than the original. Medium volatility with a 120x top line means the base game is built around frequent small and medium wins, with the free games doing the heavy lifting.
At 25 cents a spin on all 25 lines, $25 buys 100 spins, which is enough to get a feel for the game with every line in play. At 10 cents a line, which is $2.50 a spin, the same $25 lasts 10 spins, too few to expect a feature. The package choice is the one decision that affects variance: 20 at x2 if you want the round to last, 5 at x10 if you are happy with a coin flip for a bigger number.
The original Queen of the Nile dates from 1997: 20 lines, Cleopatra doubling wins, and a fixed 15 free games with all wins tripled when three or more pyramids land. Its top line pays 9,000 line bets for five Cleopatras and its listed return is 94.88%. Queen of the Nile 2 trades that for 25 lines, the four-package choice, a 3,000 top line and a slightly higher return. The wild doubling and the card gamble are the same in both.
The family is wider than those two. Queen of the Nile Special Edition (2001 or 2002, on the MKVI cabinet) pays 15, 20 or 25 free games for three, four or five pyramids with wins tripled. King of the Nile (2002) and Queen of Sheba (2003) are spin-offs built on the Special Edition. Queen of the Nile Legends followed in 2013, and Aristocrat has since released newer versions with hold-and-spin and jackpot layers.
The look is Aristocrat’s classic Cleopatra idiom: a royal-blue backdrop covered in hieroglyphics, reels that look dusted with sand, and a symbol set of Cleopatra, the pyramid, a pharaoh’s gold mask, a gold bracelet, a scarab, the Eye of Horus, lotus flowers and Egyptian-styled nine-to-ace card ranks. Graphics and audio were carried over from the original with the symbols polished rather than redesigned. The online build is a Flash-era product, and whether it runs on a phone depends on which site’s emulation you are using.
Australian-facing review pages describe Queen of the Nile 2 as a club pokie that was later ported online, but no cabinet model, approval date or venue has been published, so treat its land-based history as plausible rather than documented. The older online build appears to have been withdrawn from most markets: several large game databases flag it as no longer available, and the one that counts a handful of Australian-facing casinos carrying it does not name them. Availability varies, and a search of the lobby at the casino you use is the only way to confirm it. Aristocrat publishes no official free demo; the free-play copies on review sites are third-party emulations.
Queen of the Nile 2 suits players who already like the original and want more say in how the feature plays out: the four-package choice is a real decision and the return is a shade better. It does not suit anyone after a big ceiling, because 120 times the total bet on the top line is modest and there is no jackpot to make up for it. The one thing to check is whether you can play it at all: the Aristocrat online build is scarce now, and when you find it, read the information screen for the return setting.
Aristocrat has not published one. Third-party listings range from 95.56% to 95.88%, with 95.86% the most common figure.
Land three or more pyramid scatters anywhere on the reels, then choose one of four packages: 5 games at x10, 10 at x5, 15 at x3 or 20 at x2. Three more pyramids during the feature retrigger it.
Five Cleopatras on a line pay 3,000 times the line bet, which is 120 times the total bet with 25 lines active. No overall maximum across lines or free games is published.
Only wins she completes as a substitute. Five natural Cleopatras pay the flat 3,000.
Rarely. The Aristocrat online build is flagged as no longer available on several databases, and no casino accepting Australians has been confirmed to carry it. Search the lobby of the casino you use.
The sequel has 25 lines instead of 20, a choice of four free-games packages instead of a fixed 15 games at x3, a 3,000 top line instead of 9,000, and a slightly higher listed return. The wild doubling and the gamble are the same.
