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There are hundreds of oriental-themed online slots out there; it’s a popular theme, even though gambling is prohibited in many far-eastern nations. The Sakura Fortune games are one particularly popular franchise, but there are endless titles based around dragons or temples and other oriental imagery. Even within the Megaways category of games, there are already at least a dozen titles such as Fu Fortunes, Jin-Ji-Bao-Xi-Megaways, and Si Ling Megaways to quench your thirst for a great oriental-themed Megaways game. Whilst most Megaways games are ultra-high variance, Fa Fa Spin Megaways is a medium variance game, so it could potentially find an audience in slots players who enjoy oriental-themed games, Megaways, and medium-variance slots… but you do have to wonder how big an overlap could exist between players who enjoy these three distinct attributes.

Whilst most Megaways games feature six reels, Fa Fa Spin features the more conventional layout of five. This is why the maximum number of pay ways is so much lower than other Megaways slots – 16,807 in this game, compared to 117,649 for a “typical” Megaways game. This is perhaps one reason why the numbers on the paytable aren’t quite as high as you might expect. The highest-paying bowl symbol pays just 7.5x your stake for a full pay way of five-of-a-kind, followed by 6.25x for all five lucky coins, 5x for five lucky red envelopes, and 3.75x for full five-of-a-kind of the bunch of firecrackers. All these symbols are stacked on the reels, meaning you can simultaneously win on many pay ways. Despite this, I didn’t see as many five-of-a-kind combinations as I might have expected as I was testing this game.

One more curiosity of Fa Fa Spin Megaways online slot is the minimum bet size of €0.80 per spin, which feels very high, even compared to other Megaways slots. I know that €0.80 isn’t a massive amount of money, but considering you are betting this amount every couple of seconds whilst playing an online slot, the numbers soon add up. The maximum allowed bet is €160.00 per spin – an obscene amount of money to be betting on a slot machine, no matter what variance category the game may fall into.

base game & MODIFIERS

The design of Fa Fa Spin Megaways online slot was created with smartphone players in mind, as the size of the viewport does not change no matter how large or small your window might be. If you do play the game on a smartphone or tablet, then you are unlikely to notice this. Still, anybody playing using a regular computer and monitor is sure to see how squashed the game looks if they maximise the window to try and take advantage of the full size of their screen – it will just occupy a thin strip in the centre instead.

Each of the five reels will divide into between two and seven rows for each spin, which I calculate should result in a minimum of 32 possible pay ways and a maximum of 16,807. Unfortunately, there are no modifiers or other special aspects to the base game to break up your play whilst you wait for a bonus round, but on the bright side, you can win almost as big during the base game as you can during the free spins.

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The game's single special feature is a free spin-based bonus round, with the number of free spins awarded being determined by the number of scatter symbols which trigger the bonus round. The minimum of three scatters will award eight free spins, whilst four scatters will give you twelve spins, and the maximum five scatter symbols will result in a reward of sixteen free spins.

Most Megaways games have a gimmick or two to separate the bonus game from regular play – the most common one being an ascending multiplier which increases each time you hit a winning combination. Unfortunately, World Match has chosen not to include anything like that here, instead opting to make the wild symbol act as a 2x multiplier during the free spins feature. 

This sole difference is all that separates the base game from the bonus round, so there isn’t very much to look forward to unless you happen to be lucky enough to get a five-scatter trigger where the large number of free spins should result in a somewhat reasonable chance of a decent-sized win.

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