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fa cai shen slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

Oriental, Far-Eastern, Asian; any of these terms can legitimately be used to describe the theme of Fa Cai Shen. This speaks volumes as to just how fascinating the history and culture of countries such as Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam is in contrast to that of most Western Nations. It's little surprise then that iGaming has embraced the eastern culture as it gives developers a new topic to focus on and get creative with when designing new games. You won't need to visit many casino lobbies to find proof of this, with most of them including classic titles such as 88 Fortunes Megaways, and if you want to see a newer release in this genre, check out Gifts of Fortune Megaways from provider Big Time Gaming.

Some would say the dragons, emperors, and Bonsai trees that feature as the high-paying symbols on Fa Cai Shen are little more than tropes today. I don’t think there is anything wrong with using these symbols myself – at least you can tell what they are, unlike the Scatter, which is represented by some kind of golden bowl or trinket. The scatter pays 100x your stake for five of a kind, whilst the best-paying normal symbol is the dragon at 36x your stake for all five. A complete line of dragons with a wild would pay around 105x your stake, and a full stack of this symbol on reels two and four alongside a wild on reels one, three, and five should return a maximum win of exactly 3,000x your original bet. The golden medallion pays roughly 18x your bet for five of a kind, whilst the lizard halves this again to around 9x your bet. The bonsai tree completes the top half of the paytable with a payout of around 3.5x stake for all five.

The betting range was difficult to discern whilst playing in demo mode; the game's interface allows you to set a coin value of between 0.1 and 5 and a bet level between 1 and 10. With 28 fixed pay lines, this would give a potential maximum bet of €1,400 per spin – surely that cannot be correct? The manufacturer's website states the maximum and minimum bets being €0.01 to €140.00 per spin, which seems much more realistic.

base game & modifiers

Basic gameplay takes place on a standard 5x3 playfield. There are 28 paylines spread across this area which results in slightly unusual line layouts and bet multiples, but the actual gameplay isn’t any different from a typical 25 payline slot. Wins are awarded for matching symbols arranged from left to right in the typical slot machine fashion. The game’s help files mention “jackpot” and “race” modes, both of which were unavailable during testing. There doesn’t appear to be any functionality related to a progressive jackpot, so these features are likely to be active only when the slot is in real money mode.

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I was pleased to see Habanero included a free spins bonus round in Fa Cai Shen, as it breaks up the monotony of playing the base game only for an extended period. Scatter symbols are included on all five reels and return 1x your stake for three, 10x your stake for four, and 100x your stake for all five.

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