Wings of Ra in South Africa: Mystery Coins and 12 to 18 Free Spins
Red Tiger released Wings of Ra on 27 February 2020 and calls it a 5x3 Egyptian adventure with 10 win lines where all wins pay adjacent. Its page lists two features. All Mystery Coins in a spin reveal the same random symbol, and in Free Spins every coin that lands fills a progress bar; each time the bar is full, the current lowest-paying symbols turn into coins too. Red Tiger's badge rates the volatility Extreme, and its page lists a 3,166x maximum payout.
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What Wings of Ra looks like
Images: Red Tiger, official game page and game files (redtiger.com).
How Wings of Ra plays
Wings of Ra spins five reels, three symbols high, on 10 win lines. 'All wins pay adjacent' is Red Tiger's own phrase for it, used on the game page and on a label under the logo in the studio's screenshots.
Red Tiger's symbol art for the game has nine regular symbols: the card ranks 10, J, Q, K and A, an eye, a winged bird in red and gold, a woman's head in a tall blue crown and a gold mask in a striped headdress. The help's chapter on special symbols and features has two entries, Mystery Coins and Free Spins, and names no Wild.
Mystery Coins: one symbol for every coin in a spin
A Mystery Coin spins to reveal a random symbol, and the help adds the rule that shapes the whole feature: all Mystery Coins in a spin reveal the same symbol. Four coins in one spin, for example, show four copies of one symbol, wherever they landed.
The help gives Mystery Coins a chapter of their own, separate from Free Spins. In Free Spins each coin also counts towards the progress bar described below.
How many free spins the scatters award 🎁
The Free Spins symbol is a scatter, so it counts anywhere on the reels, but only one can land on each reel. Three start the round, and each one over the minimum adds three spins.
| Free Spins symbols | Free spins | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 12 | The help: three anywhere award 12 bonus spins |
| 4 | 15 | Our sum from the help's rule, 12 + 3 |
| 5 | 18 | The help: at most five, for a total of 18 |
The progress bar in Free Spins 🎁
By the help, no Free Spins symbols can land during the bonus round, so no extra spins are awarded there. What can change during the round is the set of symbols in play, through a bar that Mystery Coins fill.
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Coins fill the bar
Every Mystery Coin that lands in a free spin goes into a special progress bar, and 14 coins fill it. The help says the bar can be filled multiple times. -
A full bar converts the lowest symbols
Each time the bar is full, each of the current lowest-paying symbols turns into a Mystery Coin. From then on, coins no longer reveal the symbol that was converted. -
Converted symbols count as well
Symbols that turn into Mystery Coins on the reels also count towards the bar, so a conversion itself moves the bar on. -
It stops at the top symbol
The bar keeps filling until every symbol except the highest-paying one has become a Mystery Coin. By our reading of the help, from then on a coin has only that highest-paying symbol left to reveal, since coins no longer reveal the symbols already converted.
22.49% hits, two volatility labels and two maximum figures 📊
Red Tiger's page gives a hit frequency of 22.49%: over a long run, roughly 22 spins in every 100 end with a win, by our arithmetic.
The volatility badge on Red Tiger's page reads EXTREME, while Evolution's games site lists the same game as High. The facts panel shows Red Tiger's label; our guide to RTP and volatility explains what such labels describe.
Red Tiger's page also carries two maximum figures: 3,166 times the bet in the game's figures, and treasures 'up to 3,000x your stake' in its description. Evolution's games site gives 3,166x as well. Both are the studio's own figures, not a promise of what any spin pays. As examples only, 3,166 times a R1 bet is R3,166 and times a R5 bet R15,830, by our arithmetic.
Red Tiger's page lists no Feature Buy for Wings of Ra, and the help describes the scatters as the way into Free Spins. No staking pattern or betting system beats the house edge in a game Red Tiger puts at a 95.69% return.
Wings of Ra RTP and volatility 📊
Red Tiger gives Wings of Ra's return to player as 95.69%.
Volatility is extreme: most spins return little or nothing, and the return rests on rare, very large hits that many sessions never see.
Top payout: 3166x.
Paying for Wings of Ra in rand
Wings of Ra is in the lobby at 11 operators we list: all of them take cards; 10 take Ozow; 7 take Capitec Pay; 10 take cash vouchers.
The smallest first deposit for Wings of Ra among them is R1, at Luckyfish.
Wings of Ra winnings are paid by EFT to an account in your own name, after FICA.
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Is Wings of Ra legal in South Africa? 📜
Wings of Ra is a slot, which licensed bookmakers carry under their provincial betting licences.
All 11 operators we list for Wings of Ra hold a South African provincial licence.
Before you play with real money ⚠️
Set your Wings of Ra budget and a deposit limit before the first round, not after a losing one. If it stops being fun, the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation helpline is free on 0800 006 008.
Pros, cons and verdict ⚖️
- All Mystery Coins in a spin reveal the same symbol, by the help
- In Free Spins the bar can convert every symbol but the highest-paying one
- The award is fixed by the scatter count: 12, 15 or 18 spins for three, four or five
- Symbols the bar turns into coins also count towards the bar
- No retrigger: Free Spins symbols do not land during the round
- Extreme on Red Tiger's volatility badge (High on Evolution's games site)
- No Feature Buy on Red Tiger's page, so the round waits on the scatters
- Fewer than one spin in four ends with a win, by our arithmetic from the 22.49% hit frequency
Wings of Ra keeps its rules short: Mystery Coins that all reveal the same symbol in a spin, and 12 to 18 free spins in which every coin moves a bar that turns the current lowest-paying symbols into more coins. The round cannot be retriggered, so its length is fixed when it starts, and each fill of the bar narrows what the coins can reveal. Red Tiger's figures are a 95.69% RTP, a 22.49% hit frequency and a 3,166x maximum payout.
Wings of Ra FAQ ❓
How do free spins start in Wings of Ra?
Three Free Spins scatters anywhere on the reels award 12 spins, and each one over three adds three more. Only one can land per reel, so five give the most, 18. No scatters land during the round itself, so it cannot be retriggered.
What do Mystery Coins do?
A Mystery Coin spins to reveal a random symbol, and all coins in the same spin reveal the same one. In Free Spins every coin also counts towards a progress bar; 14 fill it, and each fill turns the current lowest-paying symbols into more coins.
Can the progress bar fill more than once?
Yes. The help says it can be filled multiple times and keeps filling until every symbol except the highest-paying one has become a Mystery Coin. Once a symbol is converted, coins no longer reveal it.
What is the maximum win in Wings of Ra?
Red Tiger's game page gives two figures: a maximum payout of 3,166 times the bet among its numbers, and 'up to 3,000x your stake' in its description. On an example R2 bet, 3,166x comes to R6,332 by our arithmetic. Neither figure says what a session will pay.
Is Wings of Ra the same game as Wings of Ra Megaways?
No. Red Tiger released Wings of Ra in February 2020 and Wings of Ra Megaways in December 2024, as separate games with their own pages and figures. Everything on this page is about the 2020 original, so check the full title on a casino's tile.
Where to play Wings of Ra in South Africa
Licensed South African operators we have found carrying Wings of Ra, each with its licence and our score, and the date where we saw the game in the lobby ourselves. Ordered by that score. How we score Offers checked September 2026.
Also carrying Wings of Ra. Bonus, payment and payout terms for each are on its review.