The Great Albini 2 Slot Review

The Great Albini 2: Slot Overview

As someone who spent a lot of time with the first game, firing up The Great Albini 2 felt like taking a cheaper seat at the same theatre. Foxium has stripped away most of the theatrical magic act and gone for a far more streamlined, mobile friendly layout. On desktop you now stare at a squished central window with a blurry stage behind it, while the soundtrack still carries that nicely magical vibe.

Under the hood The Great Albini 2 runs on a 5x4 grid with 40 fixed paylines and a medium volatile maths model. RTP comes in several versions, from 96.1% down to 92.1%, so game settings matter. Stakes range from 20p up to 12 per spin on any device. You can also activate the Booster ante bet, paying 50 percent more per spin in exchange for extra Money Gems and Collect symbols.

The Great Albini 2 Slot Features

In regular play The Great Albini 2 keeps things fairly straightforward. Wins land from left to right on the 40 lines when at least three matching symbols show up from reel one. The lower tier 10 to A icons pay around 0.67 to 1.33 times your stake for five of a kind, while Lucky Cups, Knives, Lilies and Albini himself form the premium set with line wins that climb up towards 6.67x.

The wild symbol appears on all reels and steps in for any regular pay icon to complete or improve line wins. A full line of wilds gives the best standard payout on the table and can land surprisingly often in streaky spells. Scatters, Money Gems and special Albini or Lily icons are separate pieces of the puzzle that only really show their teeth in the bonus action.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x25
	4	x5
	3	x1
	5	x10
	4	x3
	3	x1
	5	x5
	4	x2
	3	x0.5
	5	x4
	4	x1.5
	3	x0.4
	5	x3
	4	x1
	3	x0.3
	5	x2
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.2
	5	x2
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.2
	5	x2
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.2
	5	x1
	4	x0.35
	3	x0.15
	5	x1
	4	x0.35
	3	x0.15
	Special
	Collect
	Scatter

Collect Feature in The Great Albini 2

The base game in The Great Albini 2 leans heavily on the Money Gem Collect mechanic. Blue, violet and red Money Gems can drop on reels one to four with attached values. Blue stones carry 1 to 9x bet prizes, violet ones sit between 10 and 20x, while the red gems carry chunkier 25 to 50x stakes in the main game. None of these pay on their own though.

To get paid you need a Collect symbol on the fifth reel. When it appears, the values from all Money Gems in view are summed and awarded at once. Sometimes the Collect icon lands with a 2x to 5x multiplier attached, and that modifier applies to the total haul. Playing with the Booster ante bet switched on noticeably increases how often gems and Collect symbols appear.

Bonus Feature in The Great Albini 2

Scatter symbols only land on reels two, three and four in The Great Albini 2, and hitting all three at once activates the hold and win style Bonus Feature. You start with three spins on a cleared grid where only blanks, Money Gems, Albini Multiplier symbols and Lily Extra Spins symbols can appear. Every time a new paying symbol lands, it locks in place and the spin counter jumps back up to the current starting value.

Money Gems are sticky until the feature ends and their values build a running total. Albini Multiplier symbols carry values from 1x to 5x, and each one adds to a global win multiplier that sits above the reels. Lily symbols adjust the tempo rather than the payout; each Lily that lands increases the reset value of the spin counter by one, so it becomes easier to keep the round alive for longer.

When no spins remain, the bonus tally is calculated by multiplying the total value of all collected Money Gems by the accumulated Albini multiplier. In theory, filling the grid in The Great Albini 2 and stacking enough Albini symbols allows up to 20,000x stake in a single feature. In practice the round feels fickle; during my sessions I saw several short-lived bonuses that barely crawled back more than a handful of stakes.

The 200 Spins The Great Albini 2 Slot Experience

Running a longer test session on The Great Albini 2 felt very close to what you see in the usual 200 spins videos. The Money Gem Collect feature keeps dropping in steady top ups, and with a decent Collect multiplier it can throw out respectable hits. The real drama sits in the bonus, yet actually landing three scatters on the middle reels took patience, and the first triggered round frustratingly paid absolutely nothing at all.

Review Summary - The Great Albini 2

What stands out most about The Great Albini 2 is how different it feels from the original stage show. The cramped central game area and lack of animated magic act tricks make it seem like you only just squeezed into the cheapest seat at the back. On the flip side, stripping out the old flourishes turns this sequel into a more direct gambling machine that focuses almost entirely on numbers and features.

From a maths angle The Great Albini 2 sits in comfortable medium volatility territory, with a 27.19% hit frequency and that headline 20,000x top prize dangling in the bonus. The adjustable RTP range and the 50 percent Booster premium mean it pays to check game info before spinning hard. For me it is a slot to grind on mobile when I want gem collects and streak respins without much theatre.

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