There are also expanding wilds which can occur on reels 2 and 4. This means that on a five of a kind re-spin, there are a whopping 103 potential pay lines! Naturally, the biggest pay outs occur in the expanding reels re-spins. There’s more though! If you had a five of a kind win on your original spin, then the re-spin slot dimensions increase to 5×7. This gives you more chances to win as the pay lines go up to 65. However, if you had a four of a kind win, then the reels will expand to 5×5. If the win is simply a three of a kind win, then the reels will stay the same dimensions (5×3).
This happens when one of the statues sucks in all the old symbols, and the other one spits the same one out before the re-spin! If you get a winning spin with a high pay symbol, then that will replace all the other high pay symbols on the re-spin. If you get a winning spin with a low pay symbol, then on the re-spin, the winning spin symbol will replace all low pay symbols. The crux of the gameplay revolves around getting 1 re-spin every time you have a successful spin.
In the basic game, Easter Island slots has 5-reels and 27 pay lines.