Templar Tumble 2 is a tumble wins slot with progressive gameplay.
With each spin, a mix of symbols and blank blocker tiles is dropped onto the grid. If a payline is completed, winning symbols, and adjacent blocker tiles are removed and new ones are dropped in to replace them. This is a ‘tumble’. If this brings up another win, then the process repeats. If not, the round ends.
Whilst this is happening you have the chance to collect symbols that trigger one of three features – multipliers, mystery symbols or free spins. The exciting, and frustrating part of the game, is that once the sequence of tumbles ends, your collection of symbols is lost and you are back to the start again. A new spin, more tumbles, and more chances to collect symbols.
Activating Multipliers and Mystery Symbols
The big event here is the free spins round or the Dream Drop Jackpot game. But these are rarities and in the meantime your attention should be focused on filling the blue and red meters held by the Knights standing either side of the grid. To do so you need to destroy symbols or blockers that land with blue or red frames around them. Each one that is destroyed fills another space on its respective meter.
Each meter has 5 spaces. Destroy 5 symbols with blue frames and you fill the blue meter. And the same for red. Once you hit 5 blue, your win multiplier increases by 1x for the round. Once you hit 5 red, you get two new mystery symbols added to the reels. These reveal either a standard pay symbol or a 1x or 100x cash win.
The vast amount of time spent playing Templar Tumble 2 will involve dead spins or you watching just one or two tumbles before the round ends and your meters re-set. However, there will be times when the tumble sequence stretches further, your multiplier grows and more mystery symbols are added with cash values and that can be pretty exciting.
And there is a further twist. Blockers never drop in after the original spin, only symbols. So, gradually you are filling the grid with symbols. And once all blockers are gone, each new meter level is just 3 high.
Free Spins Round Without Re-Sets Between Spins
You get the idea by now that the further you progress into the game, the better the pays might get. More multipliers, more mystery symbols, fewer blockers.
And this all culminates in the free spins round where like most high variance slots, the game really kicks into another gear.
Free spins are unlocked by collecting trophy symbol scatters which are stored above the reels. Once you have 3 the round begins with 10 spins. But watch out because these too are removed at the end of each tumble sequence.
The good news is, if you make it this far then your multipliers and mystery symbols are carried over into the bonus round and applied at the end of every free spin, they do no re-set between spins, and every additional scatter that land earns you another free spin.
After many, many frustrating spins, redemption just might be at hand!
Winning a Dream Drop Jackpot
Finally, there are the five Dream Drop Jackpots. This network was launched in May 2022 and has grown in popularity quickly so that the prizes grow quickly and the Mega now regularly drops a win of in excess of £1,000,000.
To get a chance at that you need to be awarded a random Jackpot Spin. This could happen at any time. When it does, on a few grid of six reels you must land six DD symbols. If any of the reels come up blank, the chance is gone and you return to the main game. If all six reels land a DD, then you’re into the main jackpot round.
Here, a new reel set flanked by Templar Knights in gold armour appears. This has 5 reels, one for each jackpot. Spins start and once again only DD symbols and blockers land. The spins continue until one of the reels is filled with DD symbols and its jackpot is triggered.
Here are the jackpot levels and the number of DD symbols required to unlock each one:
- Rapid (seeded £1): 2 DD symbols
- Midi (seeded £5): 2 DD symbols
- Maxi (seeded £100): 3 DD symbols
- Major (seeded £25,000): 4 DD Symbols
- Mega (seeded £1,000,000*): 5 DD Symbols
*The seed value for the Mega Jackpot started at £500,000. It increases by £500,000 after every second win. This will continue until it reaches a maximum of £10,000,000.