A Dancing Drums Explosion video slot machine went boom on the Strip on Saturday night. An unidentified player hit a nearly $4 million jackpot on the machine at Bellagio. Specifically, the haul was.
Base Game – How to Win Your Share of the 5 Treasures
This slot uses ‘reel ways’, which is an all-ways system. The name seems to be a combination of all-ways and reel-power. There is a 5 reel by 3 row grid of symbols, which gives you 243 potential winning combinations starting from the left-hand side. The smallest spin amount is 88c, and you can bet in multiples of this. You’ll find this creates some odd-looking bet sizes, for example 6x per spin would be $5.28c.
If you are a fan of Asian themed games, whether created by Bally or any other slot software developer, then the symbols found on the reels will not come as any surprise. There are golden carp, dragons, a turtle and golden ingots. You will also find plain (though boldly colored) playing card symbols, which make up the smaller line wins.
Wild symbols have two uses in this game. These are elaborately decorated red symbols, with a gold center containing a Chinese symbol. They substitute for the regular symbols to create extra wins as usual. This can be very valuable when an all-ways system is in play. They also add gold to the jackpot pot of gold above the reels – more on that below.
The final symbol is a red doorway with gold attachments – this is the free spins bonus symbol, you’ll need 3 to trigger the bonus game.
5 Treasures Jackpot Pick Game
Jackpots are awarded randomly in the 5 Treasures slot machine, only you’ll increase the chances of this by collecting wilds during your play session. Each time you hit a wild, gold jumps up above the reels into a special pot – along with a sound effect. The more gold you add, the bigger the chances of the random jackpot game starting. Bally use this same system in many of their free slots.
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When this does start, you’ll see the lid of the pot close and the pot shake. Next you have a second screen with 12 gold coins. You pick these, each one showing a white-face (traditional makeup) Fu baby character. There are 4 types, each is associated with one of the jackpots – mini, minor so on. Once you pick 3 of a kind, that is the jackpot you will win.
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Free Spins Bonus Round
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6 Free spins are a lower number than you’ll find awarded on many slot games – though there is an extra to sweeten the deal. This is a screen where you get to choose which symbol you want added to the reels in super-stacks. You can choose 88 extra dragon symbols (this is the top paying symbol), up to 128 extra of the golden carp (the smallest prize unique symbol). This gives you a chance of some big multi-line wins – and the free spins bonus can be extended with more of the red / gold door symbols.