Shah Mat Slot Review

Shah Mat: Slot Overview

When I first loaded up Shah Mat, the chess theme hit me straight away. Red Tiger have put the action on an 8 by 8 grid that looks like a shadowy Persian chess board in a palace hall. Every spin drops 64 symbols and you need clusters of at least five matching icons touching horizontally or vertically. Bets run from 10 pence up to 20 pounds per spin on desktop or mobile.

I found the game highly volatile, so Shah Mat can swing hard in both directions. The default return to player sits around ninety five point seven nine percent, though some operators may pick a lower setting, so I always check the help screen. With cluster wins that can reach over thirty symbols for up to eighty times the stake, and a stated max win of about four thousand three hundred and twenty three times, it keeps things tense.

Shah Mat: Slot Features

Cascade wins sit at the heart of Shah Mat. Every time a winning cluster lands, the symbols that formed it vanish and the remaining ones fall to fill the gaps. New symbols drop in from above and can create fresh clusters in the same paid spin. The reaction only stops when no new win appears, so a single stake can stretch into a chain of small hits or one long, satisfying sequence.

On top of the reactions, Shah Mat throws in Super Symbols. At random, high paying chess pieces and wilds can land as oversized tiles in two by two, three by three or four by four blocks. When those chunky tiles connect with matching neighbours, they make it much easier to build the big cluster sizes you need for the higher paytable tiers, especially on that spacious eight by eight layout.

The real drama in Shah Mat comes from the wild multipliers. Wilds can land anywhere and stand in for regular symbols, but when two or more sit next to each other they merge into a single wild with a multiplier up to twenty times. In free spins, triggered by three to six scatters for twelve to twenty one games, those merges feed a global multiplier that applies to every win instead.

Shah Mat Symbols and Paytable

In Shah Mat, the symbols are split into card suits and chess pieces. Clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades are the low pays, giving around four to seven times your stake for clusters of thirty or more. Above them sit the knights, bishops, rooks, queens and kings. With the right run, a huge cluster of the top royal can reach eighty times the bet before any multipliers from wilds come into play.

Lower down the paytable, even five of a kind can pay, though the real money is in those twenty plus symbol groups. Wilds themselves do not have a direct payout, yet they act as the glue that binds the larger shapes together. Then you have the scatter, which is the only symbol that does not get replaced by wilds and is responsible for triggering the free spins feature when enough appear.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	30+	x80
	25+	x60
	20+	x40
	15+	x30
	12+	x16
	9+	x8
	7+	x4
	5+	x2
	30+	x60
	25+	x40
	20+	x30
	15+	x15
	12+	x8
	9+	x4
	7+	x2
	5+	x1
	30+	x16
	25+	x12
	20+	x8
	15+	x6
	12+	x3.2
	9+	x1.6
	7+	x0.8
	5+	x0.4
	30+	x12
	25+	x9
	20+	x6
	15+	x4.5
	12+	x2.4
	9+	x1.2
	7+	x0.6
	5+	x0.3
	30+	x8
	25+	x6
	20+	x4
	15+	x3
	12+	x1.5
	9+	x0.8
	7+	x0.4
	5+	x0.2
	30+	x7
	25+	x4.5
	20+	x3.5
	15+	x2.2
	12+	x1.3
	9+	x0.7
	7+	x0.2
	5+	x0.1
	30+	x6
	25+	x4
	20+	x2.8
	15+	x2
	12+	x1.2
	9+	x0.6
	7+	x0.2
	5+	x0.1
	30+	x5
	25+	x3.5
	20+	x2.4
	15+	x1.8
	12+	x1
	9+	x0.5
	7+	x0.2
	5+	x0.1
	30+	x4
	25+	x3
	20+	x2
	15+	x1.5
	12+	x0.8
	9+	x0.4
	7+	x0.2
	5+	x0.1
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The 200 Spins Shah Mat Experience

The most telling sample I had with Shah Mat was a batch of around two hundred spins. In that stretch, the base game could feel quiet for a while, then suddenly a single paid spin erupted into a long string of cascades, helped by a couple of merging wilds. The free spins dropped fairly late, yet once they came in, the global multiplier climbed to the cap and the grid lit up nicely.

Shah Mat: Slot Verdict

As a long term player, I rate Shah Mat highly for theme and atmosphere. The way the chess pieces are rendered, the moody lighting in the throne room and the switch to a stormy skyline for free spins all give the slot a strong character. It feels like a proper nod to the old Persian roots of chess, rather than just slapping generic pieces on a random grid.

From a more practical angle, Shah Mat sits on the higher variance side with moderate potential for a grid game. The capped twenty times multiplier and stated maximum of around four thousand three hundred and twenty three times the stake will not suit extreme win hunters, yet they are fair for longer sessions. I do watch out for operators choosing the lower RTP settings, but when the full model is offered, the slot holds up very well.

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