Panda's Fortune Slots
Beautifully designed symbols with a Chinese style ensure that there’s nothing black and white about our view of the Panda’s Fortune video slot. It’s a top-quality game, that’s part of the Pragmatic Play casino games range and comes with some equally high-quality bonus features, such as jackpots, free games and special golden versions of symbols that lead to the biggest rewards.
It’s all set in the bamboo forests where panda’s like to make their homes and the main reels are framed in the stuff, while gently swaying bamboo plants make up a relaxing background image. The action unfolds over 5 reels, each of which contains 3 symbol positions, while running from the left side, there’s 25 paylines, across which, you will need to land 3, 4, or 5 matching symbols to claim a prize.
All of these lines are active, so anyone who likes to practice by playing just a line or two will be out of luck, although free Panda’s Fortune video slots can be found at online casino that use software by Pragmatic Play. You can have a single coin on each line for a minimum stake of 0.25 per spin, or raise your bets to the high limit of 125.00, claiming multiples of the line bet with each winning combination. Other bet options include a fast-spin mode, while you can also set the reels spinning on Autoplay for any number of times.
Heading into the Forest
High-card symbols, in an Asian style, will create the lower value, but consequently more frequent, winning combinations in this high volatility slot machine. They are all worth the same amount, paying 5x, 10x, or 50x the line bet when stopping on 3, 4, or 5 reels, while the unique pictures of a bonsai tree, blue fish and green frog will return wins of 5x, 20x, or 100x.
There’s a fierce-looking lion statue who pays out a maximum of 150x, while the top prize from a standard symbol is claimed when a brightly-coloured butterfly fills a payline, with spinners getting an award equal to 200x the line stake.
Each of these symbols comes in a special golden version that will only appear on the right-side reel, and while these are worth the same amount as their regular versions, if a full line of any symbol is landed, and the golden symbol is on the fifth reel, a jackpot is awarded. Any winning line which needed the wild symbol to complete it will be worth the Minor jackpot of 25x the total bet, while playing card symbols that didn’t feature the wild in the mix will win the Major prize of 200x the triggering stake. Landing a picture symbol, with no wilds, scoops the Grand jackpot of 800x the stake.
Wild Panda and Bonus Symbols
Our friendly panda, happily chewing on some bamboo, is the wild symbol, but he will only turn up on the middle 3 reels, so isn’t worth anything on his own. Keeping with the black and white theme, we see a Yin Yang bonus symbol that can be anywhere on the reels to award scatter payouts, with just 2 being worth a win of 2x the total bet, 3 scatters are worth 15x and the best prize of 100x the bet comes from landing 5 of this symbol at any time.
Gamblers also get 8, 10, or 15 free spins, depending on how many landed, and during these games, there’s some special features in play to hopefully make them more rewarding. A red lantern symbol will appear on any reel except the first from the left, and it’s stacked to fill more positions at once. At the end of each free spin, all of the lantern symbols will randomly transform into a single type of standard symbol, or the wild, and any new winning lines are calculated.
If you hit any 3 or more Yin Tang symbols during any free spin, an additional 5 bonus games will be added on to the end of the current round, and technically, there’s no limit to how many times this could happen. While it’s nice to think we could enjoy an infinite number of free spins, re-triggering the round once or possible twice is probably all we’re going to get.
Will this game Cause Pandemonium?
The striking design of the Panda’s Fortune video slot makes a great first impression, and the joys of playing it continue once you have started to make real cash wagers. The bonus rounds, especially the unique golden symbols feature, are excellent, although being a high-volatility game, you could be waiting for a number of spins before claiming any prizes.
It’s fully mobile-optimised, and like all slots from Pragmatic Play, results are randomly determined to ensure fairness at all times.
If you like the Chinese theme, and judging by the number of online slot games that follow the topic, lots of people do, then the Panda’s Fortune slot is highly recommended.
