Aladdin on Play8oy: The Lamp, the Sorcerer and the Arabian Setting

Say "Aladdin" and most people think of Disney's 1992 animated film. The Aladdin slot on Play8oy goes further back, to the Middle Eastern folktale collected in the eighteenth-century editions of One Thousand and One Nights, better known as the Arabian Nights. Don't confuse it with Aladdin's Treasure, a separate 777igt game.

The tale behind the Aladdin slot

The plot is close to the one you know from the film. An evil sorcerer (Jafar, in the Disney telling) recruits Aladdin to fetch a magic oil lamp from a cave. The sorcerer tries to double-cross him, but Aladdin escapes the cave and keeps the lamp.

The genie of the lamp makes him rich and powerful, and he marries Princess Badroulbadour, the character Disney renamed Jasmine. The sorcerer later tricks the princess into handing over the lamp. In the end Aladdin defeats and kills him, with help from a magic ring.

China or Arabia

Oddly, the written story places Aladdin in China. Many scholars argue that the original folktale was set in Arabia, and that is the setting the Disney film and this Play8oy slot both use: desert palaces, lamps and gold.

Starting out on Aladdin

Details on the reels, paylines and bonus features are hard to find, so learn them from the game itself. Open the paytable first and look for the wild, the scatter and whatever triggers the free spins. The lamp is the obvious candidate for a special symbol, but let the help screen confirm it.

Keep your first spins at a low bet while you get a feel for how often it pays. When you're set, you can play Aladdin on Play8oy. Other games on the platform are covered in our Play8oy game reviews.