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Lucky New Year Slot
Lucky New Year is a new online slot from Maltese designers of mobile-optimized HTML 5 slot games Pragmatic Play. Like a high number of slots added to Pragmatic’s portfolio, it takes on a traditional theme – the Chinese New Year. Released in 2018, the year of the Dog in Chinese Zodiac, this slot game was launched to celebrate the occasion as well as people born under the sign of the dog. It also provides enjoyment to anyone with an interest in Chinese holidays.With the distinct look of an Asian online slot game and the sounds of folk instruments happily playing in the background, the Lucky New Year video slot is a simple but stimulating game that doesn’t draw your attention away from the task at hand. The format of the machine is fairly standard, letting you play with 5 reels, 3 rows of symbols and 25 fixed paylines. And since it’s a game aimed at a region known for its high rollers, this particular slot also allows you to spend big sums of money during your sessions.
No matter how deep your pockets run, Lucky New Year can give you value with its profitable pay table and bonus features. Armed with 3 progressive jackpots, cash bonuses, free spins, and 3x3 symbols, this game will give you the tools you want to turn a small investment into a big payout.
Have a Profitable Year!
You can uncover the fortunes hiding in this slot game no matter whether you want to play with a small budget or splurge thousands within minutes. The stakes start at 0.01 credits per payline, or 0.25 credits for a spin when you play with only 1 coin per line. But you also have the option to increase the number of coins up to 10 and bet up to 0.5 credits per line, which will give you a max bet of 125 credits.Given it was the dog that was celebrated at the time of the slot’s release, it’s natural to see this symbol being awarded the most value. Not only is the golden dog symbol a wild card that can substitute for all other symbols apart from the scatter and bonus trigger, but it can also pay rewards of 25-500x your coin size when you get 3, 4, or 5 of the symbols on any available payline. The same rewards are also offered by the Chinese dragon symbol.
Other thematic symbols you can find in this slot are the firecrackers, drums, and mandarin oranges, which give returns of 10-400x your coin value, according to the type and number of symbols collected on a payline. But if none of these symbols appear in the required numbers, you also have the standard card symbols to hope for (Ace-King-Queen-Jack), which can pay you 5-50x your line bet for a single combination of 3, 4, or 5 matching cards.
Another special picture symbol you can see on your reels is the scatter, which can only land on reels 1, 3, and 5 to trigger 5 free spins. The free spins are triggered when 3 scatter symbols appear on the selected reels, in which case you’ll also get to win a bonus payout of 1x your total bet. The free spins rounds use a special set of reels, in which the first and fifth reel spin per usual while the second, third and fourth reels spin together as one giant symbol that spans across 3 reels and 3 rows of symbols. These extra spins can be retriggered indefinitely by getting 3 more scatters during the bonus feature – only each time you do so, the game will award you 3 extra spins instead of 5.
The final bonus you can win in this lucky slot machine is the Money Respin feature. This is activated by the special lantern symbols which appear on the reels with various prizes written on top of them. If 6 or more land on your screen during a spin, you will trigger the Money Respin bonus round where your collected lanterns, together with their prizes, will be added.