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cygnus 3 slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Whilst the second Cygnus game marked quite a significant departure from the original, this next sequel is much more of an iterative improvement over its predecessor. The symbol sets look to be identical as far as I can tell – they’ve been redrawn, for sure, but they’re all undoubtedly the same things – symbols of the Zodiac, celestial objects and the like. That’s not such a bad thing, but it always strikes me as a little bit lazy if there isn’t a significant change to how the game plays either. That seems to be the case here – the variance has been cranked up to 11 by replacing the standard bonus round with a wheel that might only chuck you 10x your bet – a real bummer if you’ve been waiting hundreds of spins to see a bonus round. Nevertheless, the ‘Puyo Puyo’ style bubble-popping gameplay will likely attract as many new fans as old ones, which will surely satisfy our friends over at ELK Studios.

Considering the small scale of the changes made to Cygnus 3, it shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that the paytable remains identical between this machine and its predecessor. The sun remains the top symbol with a payout of 15x the total bet for a full payway of six of a kind. That’s a major outlier here, however, as the Sagittarian lion drops significantly to just 1.2x for all six symbols, followed by only 0.8x for six Aries rams. Six Scorpio symbols will net you 0.4x your bet, after which just three geometric shapes act as the game's low-paying symbols with shared payouts of 0.2x for a six-symbol combination.

Another common bugbear of mine with ELK’s slots is their tendency to drastically and arbitrarily limit your wager selection options – minimum/maximum bets of €0.20 and €100.00 are fine, but with only a handful of options in between the two extremes, you could easily find yourself forced to play higher – or lower – than you might otherwise like.

base game & modifiers

Despite the unusual offset layout of the Cygnus 3 playfield, this is, for the most part, a relatively standard video slot. After you first load the game, only four rows will appear on the playfield – hitting winning combinations will increase the grid's height, creating additional chances to win big. Payway-based slots only require you to hit matching symbols in adjacent columns – something you’re almost certainly already used to, but the offset nature of the circular symbols used in these games can make things seem confusing to the uninitiated eye.

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cygnus 3 slot bonus features

Triggering the regular bonus mode requires you to get a single bonus scatter symbol over to the leftmost column – this might sound easy, but it’s deceptively tricky! Whenever winning combinations are removed from the playfield, the remaining symbols will fall to the left or right depending on which column has the lowest number of remaining symbols within it – the game always seeks to find an equilibrium, so falling symbols will always target the column with the smallest stack. As ever, you’ll need to be lucky!

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