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Aztec Vault & Cleopatra’s Vault pays out on its own schedule, and the cabinet gives you clues if you know where to look. This preview covers those clues. The exact thresholds are for members.
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Aztec Vault and Cleopatra's Vault are sister titles from Aristocrat that share the same underlying game engine — a persistent-state format Aristocrat calls Cash on Reels — dressed in two different visual themes: Mesoamerican temple imagery for Aztec Vault, Egyptian imagery for Cleopatra's Vault. Both games display a vertical column of coin slots above each reel, and rather than resetting with every spin, those columns accumulate value over time and carry their progress forward between spins, and even between different players sitting down at the same machine.
Aztec Vault and Cleopatra's Vault run on identical mechanics under the hood, which is common in the slot industry — manufacturers frequently reskin a proven engine with different artwork and licensing to extend its shelf life on the casino floor. Aztec Vault leans on Mesoamerican temple and jungle imagery, while Cleopatra's Vault uses the ancient Egyptian aesthetic that Aristocrat has returned to repeatedly across its broader Cleopatra franchise, one of the longest-running and most recognizable slot brands in the industry. Recognizing either cabinet's coin-column display above the reels is really recognizing the same core game regardless of which skin it's wearing.
Above each reel sits a vertical column of coin slots, and as symbols land during normal play, coins with different credit values (or special labels) can drop into open slots in that column. Unlike a standard paytable where every spin's outcome is independent, these columns retain whatever coins have already landed — progress builds gradually rather than resetting, and once a column fills completely, the accumulated prizes in that column are paid out. That persistent, visible state is what defines the Cash on Reels format and separates it from a conventional video slot where nothing carries over between spins.
Because progress in the coin columns doesn't reset between spins or between players, a machine's current state is something you can actually see just by looking at the cabinet — a column that's mostly full looks meaningfully different from one that's freshly reset. That visible, carried-forward progress is part of why Cash on Reels games in general, including this pair, have drawn attention from players who pay close attention to machine state rather than treating every slot machine as a fresh, independent event each time they sit down.
Both games are standard video slot cabinets rather than anything unusually large or mechanically distinct, so the coin-column display above the reels — and the corresponding theme, Mesoamerican for Aztec Vault or Egyptian for Cleopatra's Vault — is the clearest way to identify which specific title you're looking at on a casino floor. Title signage on the cabinet or top box will also confirm which of the two you've found, since they're marketed and cabineted as related but separate games rather than one machine with a theme switch.
More games you can identify the same way, from a single photo.