Pirots 5

Pirots 5 begins on a 6×6 grid with four birds and red, purple, green and blue gems. Each bird collects its own colour and all feature symbols by moving horizontally or vertically to a neighbouring collectable symbol. A diagonal match or a row of identical gems does not pay by itself: a bird has to reach them. Collected symbols disappear, the remaining gems and birds fall into empty spaces, and new symbols drop in. One paid round can therefore contain a long sequence of collections and refills.

The bar above the grid counts gems and Wilds collected by the four ordinary birds. Fill it to queue a feature-symbol release. Up to three releases can wait together, and they are awarded once the birds cannot collect any more symbols. The release turns random gems into random features, which can give a stalled bird something new to collect. Blackfeather’s collections do not fill this bar; the other worlds have their own exclusions.

The grid can expand to 8×8. In ordinary play, each new drop begins at 6×6 with gems at payout level 1. Bonus drops preserve the enlarged grid, gem levels and meter progress instead. This distinction matters more than simply counting how many symbols are visible: an upgraded gem and a level-1 gem of the same colour have different payouts.

The Temple’s ten feature-symbol types are Captain Blackfeather, Bonus, Super Bonus, Wild, Coin, Upgrade, Upgrade All, Token, Transform and Super Transform. The special symbol changes to Golden Compass Cannon in The Kraken and Golden Book in City of Gold. The ordinary Upgrade increases the collecting bird’s gem colour by one, two or three levels, up to level 7. Upgrade All increases all four colours together. If a colour has reached the maximum, an Upgrade can advance another colour.

Transform changes a nearby cluster into the collecting bird’s colour and may also create features. Super Transform affects two or three clusters. A Wild substitutes for a gem at that bird’s current payout level, so it has no single fixed award independent of the collecting colour and level. Each bird can collect a given Wild once; a bird that reaches it moves to an empty position instead of ending its collection on the Wild.

Coins pay the printed multiplier of the active base bet when collected. The MAX WIN Coin pays the amount still needed to reach the round’s cap. Bonus and token symbols do something different: Bonus symbols build the current round’s feature entry, while token progress belongs to the wider world collection. Seeing a special symbol on the board is not the same as collecting it.

Blackfeather activates when a bird ends up next to him horizontally or vertically. He turns that bird into a ghost, takes its win counter and its gems, and can randomly take over more birds, up to all four. The taken-over gems become Blackfeather gems at the highest gem level among the birds he took. Birds standing on a Wild, in a portal or in a tunnel cannot be taken over.

He collects the highlighted Blackfeather gems and available features, then leaves the board. This is a collection takeover, rather than a conventional Wild covering a reel. During Bonus and Super Bonus, an untriggered Blackfeather stays available between drops and moves to a new random position until he activates or the feature ends. His collections do not add to the Collection Meter.

Blackfeather also changes a Catacombs visit. If he enters, or takes over the visiting bird there, he wins the subsequent mummy fights. That guarantee applies to those fights; it does not mean the bird will reach every feature symbol or that the whole game round reaches its maximum win.

A trap activates when a bird walks onto its tile or collects the symbol above it. Arrow Shooters sit around the outer rim and wait until the birds stop collecting. An arrow removes a bird it hits and changes that bird’s gems to another surviving bird’s colour. Removed birds can return on the next refill. If all four are hit, some gems associated with the last surviving bird become Coins.

Boulders cover 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 areas and roll horizontally or vertically, crushing gems, walls and birds. Feature symbols and pending Arrow Shooters survive. Secret Door works differently: it splits the original 6×6 board into four squares, rotates them 180 degrees and adds cross-over floor tiles. Birds can cross a previously collected position once to reach more symbols. Catacomb entries are disabled during this sequence.

Clearing every collectable gem and feature during Secret Door enters the Temple Coin Game immediately. A clear outside Secret Door does not trigger it. If the clear fails, the original board rotates back and the cross-over tiles disappear. Where Secret Door and a Boulder are both pending, Secret Door happens first.

Each corner of the initial board has a randomly assigned bird colour. A bird that collects on the matching-colour corner enters the Catacombs. Inside are four coffins with hidden adjacent fight positions. Reaching one starts a mummy fight: a win leaves a feature symbol; a loss sends the bird back to its corner on the main board. Winning all four fights adds Coins where the coffins were. The corner colours are assigned again at the start of each bonus drop.

A reward can still be out of reach after a fight. The movement and collection rules remain relevant inside the Catacombs, so defeating a mummy does not automatically collect everything it leaves. Blackfeather guarantees subsequent fights if he takes over there, but this is separate from the route through the room.

Labyrinth starts when at least three adjacent birds are stuck. Random rows and columns of gems are removed and the birds move apart; traps remain and more can appear. Birds do not collect during the rearrangement, and Labyrinth does not start the Secret Door Coin Game. Two stuck adjacent birds may instead perform Switcheroo, swapping places. Super Switcheroo moves one bird towards the edge or the next collectable symbol. These are random movement features, not moves the player selects.

Portals can appear in the walls at the start of a round or bonus drop, with at most four visible at once. When a bird has collectable symbols beside two or more portals, it can teleport between them. Connected sections of outer wall can form a tunnel; the bird can uncover and collect features while travelling through it.

Portals persist through bonus drops, but the main board’s portals do not carry into the Coin Game. The Coin Game may begin with its own portals. This makes a change of scene meaningful: the routes that helped the birds clear the main grid are not automatically the routes available on the coin board.

The Coin Game starts on an 8×8 board with a bird in each corner and a 2×2 Cursed Treasure in the centre. It awards three drops; landing one or more Coins, symbols or birds resets the counter to three. This is a separate feature from the five-drop Bonus. Its natural trigger is a complete collection during Secret Door, while the 50× X-iter choice provides direct entry.

A bird next to the treasure that has nothing left to collect triggers a curse. The bird leaves, its win counter is banked, and Coins rain onto the board. New Coins can occupy empty spaces, add to existing Coins or double a bird’s current counter when they hit it. Blackfeather upgrades the central treasure so it can add extra coin rain during the remaining drops; if he is already present at entry, that upgrade happens immediately.

Rotation traps can move one to three parts of the coin board once collection stops. Bird counters are added to the total before the next drop, and the feature ends when the drop counter runs out. The birds then return to the main game for a refill, with earlier pending features still relevant. There are no collectable world tokens inside this Coin Game.

Collect three Bonus symbols during one active round to receive five bonus drops. If at least one of the three is a Super Bonus symbol, the feature becomes Super Bonus. Every additional Bonus symbol collected during the feature adds one drop. The triggering symbols must be collected by the birds; three visible symbols that cannot be reached do not complete the trigger.

Regular Bonus begins with the current grid size. The Collection Meter, gem payout levels and additional Bonus-symbol collection persist through the feature. Pending feature releases and an Arrow Shooter are resolved as part of the first bonus drop. This is why a Bonus reached after the main board has developed can feel different from an ordinary fresh drop: the game keeps relevant progress instead of restarting every colour at level 1.

In Cursed Temple, Super Bonus adds Cursed Treasure coin rain at the start of every bonus drop. The other worlds use their own enhancement: Kraken tentacle strikes or coin drops, and City of Gold’s Diver and Airstrike minions. The feature ends when no drops remain or the 10,000× round cap is reached. Bets cannot be changed during an active round.

X-iter changes what you pay for a round and how you enter a feature. Bonus Hunt and Mega Hunt buy an enhanced-chance drop; they do not guarantee a Bonus. The 50× choice enters the selected world’s Coin Game. Bonus and Super Bonus guarantee entry to those respective features. All five choices are available from the base game, and their costs multiply the selected base bet.

At a €0.20 bet, the menu charges €0.60, €2, €10, €20 or €50. At a €1 base bet, those costs are €3, €10, €50, €100 and €250. Check the total charge rather than reading the base BET display as the full purchase price. Entry is what the guaranteed choices buy; it is not a guarantee that the feature returns its cost.

The current demo’s Rules state 96% RTP for every X-iter mode. Bonus Hunt is described there as more than five times the ordinary bonus chance and Mega Hunt as more than twenty times. These are relative chances with higher costs, not absolute Bonus probabilities. Token frequency also varies by mode, with no numeric rate supplied.

Use the compass to open the world map and choose Cursed Temple, The Kraken or City of Gold. These share the four-bird collection system, but their signature features, traps and Coin Games differ. Blackfeather belongs to Temple; Kraken uses the Golden Compass Cannon; City of Gold uses the Golden Book. The same-looking seven-level gem structure should not obscure those differences.

Each world has three tokens. Collect all nine across the three worlds to unlock Boss Castle permanently. A token pays the equivalent of a 5× Coin as well as recording collection progress. Progress is global across bet levels, rounds and modes; changing the stake does not start a separate token collection. Once a world’s three tokens have been collected, it offers no further tokens.

The Rules say token frequencies differ between worlds and between normal play and X-iter modes. The 25.1% game hit frequency is not a token-drop rate. Tokens do not appear in the three Coin Games. Boss Castle is a locked destination in a fresh collection; its unlock condition is clear, while this guide covers the three worlds available before that unlock.

The Golden Compass Cannon fires in eight possible directions, turns gems in its path into features and removes walls. Coins in its path are upgraded; birds and other existing feature symbols survive. It recoils in the opposite direction, then chooses another shooting direction. Its movement stops at obstacles, birds, features, highlighted symbols or the edge. If it cannot recoil, it keeps choosing directions until it can.

The Captain’s Quarters replace the Temple’s Catacombs, with land-crab fights instead of mummies. Firing the cannon at a coffin removes it and counts as winning that fight. Harpoons replace Arrow Shooters and anchors replace Boulders. Secret Door still rotates the original board, permits cross-over movement and requires the full clear to trigger the Kraken Coin Game.

The Kraken Coin Game uses an 8×8 board, three resetting drops and a 2×2 music box. A bird reaching the box activates tentacle strikes that add or increase Coins. The box moves and can remove birds or Coins as it travels. A cannon present at entry carries into the feature; shooting upward through the top row hits the Kraken and produces a coin drop. Those Coins can double a bird’s counter when they land on it. Super Bonus adds a tentacle strike or coin drop at the start of each bonus drop.

Collecting the Golden Book turns the collecting bird, and potentially one to three more birds, golden. Their gems and floor tiles turn golden too. Golden birds can cross previously collected golden positions and collect connected golden gems once each, subject to the previous bird’s finishing position. They can duplicate the value accumulated by golden birds that already collected. Golden collections do not fill the ordinary Collection Meter.

The corner room is a Treasure Chamber with shaman fights. A golden bird guarantees subsequent fights there. Fireballs replace Arrow Shooters, and Golden Bells replace Boulders; golden birds survive the bell during Secret Door. Golden birds already present carry into the City of Gold Coin Game, which still requires the Secret Door clear for natural entry.

The Coin Game’s 8×8 board starts with a 2×2 Mastermind that can grow as large as 5×5. An adjacent bird starts a fight and one to three Diver or Airstrike features. A losing bird leaves and banks its counter. A defeated Mastermind is replaced with Coins across its current area, then returns at its starting size on the next refill. Diver adds Coins in lines or an X shape; Airstrike can add Coins, increase existing values or double a bird counter.

Three drops are awarded initially; landing symbols or birds, or an expanding Mastermind, resets the counter. Golden birds persist if the Golden Book activates in the Coin Game and keep their counters between drops, banking at the end or when they lose a Mastermind fight. Unlike the Temple and Kraken rotation trap, City of Gold can rotate zero to four board parts and discards a rotation that cannot happen. Super Bonus adds Diver, Airstrike or both at every bonus-drop start.

Open the three-line menu for Paytable, Settings and Rules. Paytable contains ten illustrated pages in each world; Rules gives the longer explanations and the active RTP. Settings has separate sound, game-sound and music controls, Quick Play and a coin-display switch. Its second page offers reality checks at 15, 30 or 45 minutes or one hour. The stake selector contains twelve EUR options, from €0.20 to €100.

The official demo inspected here gives 96% RTP for normal play and all X-iter modes. ELK’s three product sheets list a market/operator-dependent range of 87–96%, volatility 7/10 and hit frequency 25.1%. The range does not identify every individual configuration. Check the Rules of the casino version you actually open; neither a different RTP setting nor the hit frequency tells you when the next Bonus or token will arrive.

The round cap is 10,000 times the base bet. The €1,000,000 shown on the introductory paytable is the maximum-stake cash illustration, not an amount every stake can win. At a €0.20 base bet, 10,000× corresponds to €2,000. The cap ends the round immediately once reached. Auto Spin repeats rounds, while Quick Play changes presentation speed; manual play is easier for learning the order of collections and traps.

These values are multiples of the active base bet for each gem collected. The Info illustration uses a €1 reference bet, so its displayed euro amounts equal the multipliers below. The four colours have different progressions; level 7 red pays 25× per gem, while level 7 blue pays 7.50×. Multiply by your current base bet to convert a value into the selected currency.

Ordinary drops start with level-1 gems. Upgrades during a round increase the relevant colour’s value, and Bonus preserves the levels reached. This table is not a conventional three-, four- or five-of-a-kind payline chart: each bird’s collection pays according to that gem’s current level. Coin values are printed on the Coins themselves, and Wilds follow the collecting bird’s current gem value.

Blackfeather gems and City of Gold’s golden gems use the special seven-level progression below. Blackfeather takes the highest gem level among the birds he takes over. Golden Book has its own collection behaviour, so the shared printed payout scale does not make the two features mechanically identical. Read the takeover or golden-floor rules alongside these values.