Dragon Spirit Pokie Machine
Online casino games developer Euro Games Technology (EGT), seem to have a thing for placing dice symbols all over their pokie machines, and like many other developers, they also love to bring out games themed around Chinese culture. So maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised when they combine these into a single game, and one of the newest titles to hit the market is Dragon Spirit, a poke filled with panda bears, Emperors and of course, a liberal dose of dragons, all shown on dice.
These all land across 5 reels and just 10 paylines, all of which are permanently active, so players will need to wager at least 0.10 to get them spinning. Free Dragon Spirit video pokie games can be found at many casinos for practice spins, and once they are ready to play for real money, the bets can be raised to a high limit of 10.00.
It all plays out against a bamboo forest background, where even the reels look as if they are made of wood. Above them, there are the Club, Heart, Diamond and Spade playing card symbols, each linked to a rising progressive jackpot that we will cover in a little while, and below are the control buttons that also take players to a pay table if they want to review what each symbol is worth. Winning lines are created by lining identical symbols across any of the 10 paylines on adjacent reels from the left side.
Playing Dragon Spirit
Each of the dice symbols is worth a different amount when it lands across a payline, starting at the bottom with the light blue symbol that returns wins of 5, 10 or 30 coins for 3, 4 or 5 on a line, and moving up through the purple, green, red and dark blue, until we arrive at the yellow dice. This pays out 10, 50 or 200 coins for the same combinations, and above this are the picture symbols with the panda worth 10, 50 or 250.
The Empress and Emperor symbols only need to land on reels 1 and 2 to pay out prizes of 2 coins, and 5 on a line equals 400 or 500 coin wins. By far the best payouts come from the Yin Yan symbol, as anyone lining this on 2, 3, 4 or 5 reels of a line will win 5, 50, 200 or 1000 coins respectively. As an added bonus, this is also the wild symbol of Dragon Spirit, so players who need a winline completing and have this symbol in right place, will see it substitute for any missing symbols and they still get paid out.
Dragon Spirit
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Free Spins Bonus Game
It can’t replace the scatter symbol however, as this golden dragon will take gamblers to the main bonus feature, which starts whenever it lands on reels 1, 3 and 5. It’s a free spins game with multipliers and the number of spins that play out, as well as a number of additional wilds on the reels throughout them, can be chosen by the player.
The options are for 5 free games and having all of reels 1, 3 and 5 filled with wild symbols, 10 extra games and reels 2 and 4 fully wild, or 15 free spins where just reel 3 is wild. Whichever option is chosen, these are pretty generous for a bonus round and should see several winning combinations turning up before they end. The free games can’t be retriggered, so once done, players are returned to the base game.
Gamble Option
Like all EGT pokies, there’s the option to gamble any win below a certain amount, which in this case is 350 coins. The win can be doubled if players correctly guess if a playing card will be from a red or black suit, with correct picks giving them the further option to gamble again or collect, but a wrong pick losing the triggering bet.
Jackpot Cards
Those 4 jackpots above the reels are part of the randomly-triggered Jackpot Cards progressive round, where players see 12 face-down cards and click on them in any order to reveal their suit. Once 3 of a kind have been found the relevant jackpot is awarded, and while the Club prize can be quite small, the Spade award is often a substantial sum.
The Verdict
A popular Oriental theme, lots of colourful dice, each decorated with a Chinese symbol, and a cute panda bear are just some of the visual attractions of the Dragon Spirit video pokie, but it goes beyond that with a special free spins bonus round and the potential to trigger jackpots.
The gamble game can be difficult to win however, and even though it’s a straight 50/50 choice, winning several times in a row can be tricky.