Nova 7s slot by Realtime Gaming (RTG)

How to play Nova 7s comes down to one decision made before anything moves: the size of the stake. Every figure in the Nova 7s paytable is a multiple of it, so changing the stake rescales the whole table at once.

Nova 7s pays on 40 lines: the symbols have to land next to each other from the left edge, and the line has to be one the game is running. Scatters are the exception — they pay from wherever they land.

The full table of payouts sits in the Nova 7s menu, and it is worth opening before the first round rather than after a result that looks wrong: it lists every symbol, the entry for Nova Wild, and the conditions each one needs.

Nova 7s runs on 5 reels, 3 rows and 40 paylines. Wins are read left to right from the first reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts, so a second star seven further along the same line adds nothing. Payouts climb steeply near the top: the star seven is worth many times what a comet pays, and the card ranks at the bottom exist mainly to keep a losing spin from looking empty.

Wild duty falls to Nova Wild: the flare turns a whole reel wild. The maximum quoted for Nova 7s is 5,000× the total bet, and that figure is reached through the features rather than on a base spin — worth knowing before you judge the game by its first fifty spins.

Everything else on the grid is ordinary; Free Games is not: up to twenty-five spins under a multiplier that climbs. That is why the base grid on Nova 7s feels quieter than the numbers suggest: the variance is deliberately parked in the feature.

The feature set on Nova 7s runs to three rounds, and it repays reading the paytable once before you spin.

Nova Wild (the flare turns a whole reel wild). In a high-volatility game like Nova 7s that matters more than it sounds: Nova Wild is the round the quoted ceiling is calculated from.

Free Games — up to twenty-five spins under a multiplier that climbs, on the 5-reel grid described above. Free Games is the part of Nova 7s most worth having a balance left for.

Supernova Bonus: a chain reaction that pays at every step. Supernova Bonus does not fire often on Nova 7s, and the game is built on the assumption that you are waiting for it.

Taken together the set is what separates Nova 7s from the rest of its shelf. The base grid is common enough across the catalogue; Nova Wild is not, and it is the reason the game has its own page here.

The stake on Nova 7s is 40 lines times whatever you set per line. Playing fewer than 40 is possible but rarely sensible on Nova 7s — it lowers the cost and the hit rate in the same step. Note that 5,000× the total bet is a multiplier, not a rand figure. It holds at every stake, which is what makes Nova 7s comparable with the games either side of it in the lobby.

Volatility on Nova 7s is high, which means it concentrates its return into a small number of spins, which means most of them give back nothing. Be careful with any RTP figure you find for Nova 7s elsewhere. RTG sets the return per operator, not per game, so Nova 7s runs differently from one casino to the next. The only figure worth trusting for Nova 7s is the one printed in its own paytable.

Raising or lowering the stake mid-session leaves no memory behind in Nova 7s: it settles each spin independently, and a run of losses does not make the next one better priced. Autoplay handles the base grid of Nova 7s perfectly well. Set it to stop on Nova Wild and you get the pace without losing the event.

On Nova 7s the stake wants to be small relative to the balance: the game can go a long way without paying, and the only protection against that is spin count. A limit set before Nova 7s loads is worth more than one set at the end of a losing run; the tools for it are in your account.

For wagering purposes Nova 7s counts as a slot, which means it contributes at the full rate, and the conditions are set out on the bonus page. Nova Wild is what Nova 7s is built around, and it shows itself in play rather than in a table — a few rounds say more than the specification above.

Resist the urge to raise the stake because Nova Wild has not landed for a while: on Nova 7s it is no closer than it was, and the wait has just become more expensive. The responsible gaming page collects the limit tools and the independent support contacts in one place, and they apply to Nova 7s as to every other game here.

In short: Nova 7s is for a game that can do very little for a long time and then do a great deal at once. If it lands well, Mystic 7s is the next one to try — same corner of the catalogue, different rhythm.

Put Nova 7s beside Mystic 7s and the shared parts fall away quickly. Start with Nova 7s if you are prepared to sit through the quiet. Full specifications for Nova 7s — the 5 reels, 3 rows and 40 paylines, volatility, the top end (5,000× the total bet), the feature list and the release year — are in the table at the top of this page.

Mystic 7s