Arabian Nights is one of the oldest slot machines in the NetEnt portfolio that is still widely played in online casinos. The major appeal with this 2005 slot is the progressive jackpot, but Arabian Nights is also a popular choice among players that prefer pretty simple and unadorned slot machines without interactive bonus rounds, expanding wilds, portals, eggometers, double symbols, re-spins, avalanches, etc.
The largest jackpot paid out by Arabian Nights so far is the €8,635,872 progressive jackpot won by a Finish player in Paf Casino in November 2012.
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Short info about Arabian Nights
- Arabian Nights was launched by NetEntertainment (NetEnt) in 2005.
- The theme for this slot is Arabia. Examples of symbols that can appear on the reels are the dromedary, the oil lamp, the fez, the Bedouin tent, the pointy-toed shoes, the janbiya, and the turban-wearing man.
- Arabian Nights is a 5 reel slot machine with 10 paylines.
- The coin value is fixed and can not be adjusted. If you play Arabian Nights in Euro, a coin is always worth €0.50.
- You decide how many paylines to bet on, from 1 to 10. You can only win the progressive jackpot if you bet on all 10 paylines.
- You can not bet more than 1 coin per payline.
- The smallest possible bet is €0.50 x 1 payline x 1 coin = €0.50 per round.
- The largest possible bet is €0.50 x 10 paylines x 1 coin = €5 per round.
- Arabian Nights has a wild symbol and a scatter symbol.
- There is a free spins mode.
- There is no bonus symbol or bonus game.
- Arabian Nights has one progressive jackpot. It is pooled for some casinos, and local in others.
- Arabian Nights has a fixed 10,000 coin jackpot.
- The RTP for Arabian Nights is 95.6 percent.
- NetEnt has not released any mobile (touch screen) version of Arabian Nights.
Special symbols
- The turban-wearing man is a wild symbol. He can substitute for any symbol except the scatter (the oil lamp).When the turban-wearing man helps form a winning combination by acting as a wild symbol, the win is doubled.
- The oil lamp is a scatter symbol. You need at least three oil lamps, anywhere on the reels, to get to free spins mode.
Free spins mode
The free spins mode consists of 15 free spins. It doesn’t have any special features.
| Casino | Strenghts | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Exclusive games Great mobile casino | + Bonus on first 4 deposits |
| Large selection games Generous bonus | + Bonus on first 4 deposits |
Winning the progressive jackpot
As mentioned above, the turban-wearing man is a wild symbol. But, he is also the key to the progressive Arabian Nights jackpot. If you get five turban-wearing men on payline #10 you will win the progressive jackpot, provided that you have bet money on payline #10 (i.e. are playing with all ten paylines active).
So, is the progressive Arabian Nights jackpot pooled or local? The answer is yes and yes. Some online casinos have a local Arabian Nights jackpot, while all the other casinos where you can play Arabian Nights feed a pooled progressive jackpot.
It might be tempted to assume that the pooled progressive jackpot gets much bigger than the local ones, but this isn’t true. Many of the really big Arabian Nights jackpots that have paid out have actually been local jackpots. This is for instance the case with the above mentioned Paf Casino win back in 2012 (€8,635, 872), and it is also true for the Betsson Casino win of 2010 ( €4,865,159) and the big Unibet Casino Arabian Nights win that took place in 2013 (€4,159,181).
