WARNING - New IGT Game That Looks Familiar...It's Not

This post is a heads up about the new IGT game Empress of Egypt (Empress, NOT Mistress). I'm a pretty sharp guy, so I should have seen it coming. Sadly, I did not. That said, I could potentially see this happening to others and if this thread saves one person a few hundo, that's what I'm posting for.

If you find Empress out in the wild, make sure to look at it twice. At first glance, it looks very similar to another game, a game that already has several exact clones, in fact.

I think things are good, so I sit down and start hammering away at the $1.5 level thinking "Awesome, a new clone". Down $100...$200...$300...$500...damn this game is tight. "Wow, what a bad run", I'm thinking. I'm chasing the lowest jackpot, mind you. I get down $600 and then notice in very tiny letters "Jackpot does not reset until it reaches $X" present on each jackpot level. In the other games, the jackpot resets no matter what when hit.

I'm sure the game is still beatable, but it needs to be evaluated completed independently of the others.

I hope this expensive and stupid oversight on my part saves someone some cash. The fine print was easy to miss.

You probably need higher numbers than the original game, but keep in mind that when the jackpots do reset they reset at 75% of the value of the other game so that would offset the fact that they don’t go back to reset value until they exceed a certain point somewhat.