Best Mobile Slots to Celebrate Chinese New Year With

Best Mobile Slots to Celebrate Chinese New Year With

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While the rest of the world is winding down from their own New Year celebration, China is just getting started! That patience is well rewarded, too. Their festivities last almost an entire month, ending on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Going to China to see it all happen in real life is something everyone should experience at least once!

Of course, it’s not something everyone can afford. Fortunately, there’s an easier way to experience the magic of the Chinese New Year, available directly from your phone! Today, we’ll choose a few of our favourite festive games. If you’re really lucky, you might win enough to afford a real trip to China!

Lucky Firecracker

If there’s one game that immediately comes to mind when Chinese New Year comes knocking, it’s this one. Lucky Firecracker is a Microgaming release and one that remains relatively popular despite its age! It doesn’t look like much at first glance, we’ll admit. But if you’re willing to give it a chance, it will win you over! It’s bright, colourful, and has awesome winning potential!

Sadly, one thing it does lack is the presence of any engaging special features. This slot follows a more old fashioned design. It has only one bonus: a free spins round, during which all wins are tripled! And yes, those free spins can be retriggered, with no limit. Make good use of the free spins special feature, and you can win up to $90,000!

Why pick this slot?

Fantastic winning potential combined with sweet and simple gameplay. If you want the perfect slot to relax while watching some fireworks, this is the right choice.

Pig Winner

Another great addition to the Chinese New Year-themed games is Pig Winner! We remember not being too pleased with it at first glance. We know for a fact that RTG can do much better in terms of design. And when this slot first came out in 2019, it looked hopelessly outdated. Honestly, it looks even worse now!

So why include it on the list? Well, for starters, it fits the theme we’re looking for! The developers designed it for the then-upcoming Year of the Pig. We also like its 243 ways to win structure, which beats regular paylines any day of the week.

But the real draw of Pig Winner is its free spins round. It offers eight free spins for players who collect three or more Scatters. During free spins, extra Wild and Scatter symbols will appear on the board. This increases the chances of you retriggering the extra turns. Hence why the developer had to limit you to two retriggers!

On top of that, each pig Wild will grant triple pays for any winning combination it is a part of after the eighth free spin. Meaning you can only make use of this if you successfully retrigger free spins.

Why pick this slot?

It’s not the best looking game in this group. But despite its outdated visuals, its special features pull through to make it a fun and lucrative experience.

Yutu

The previous two games we covered were immediately festive and cheery. Yutu, meanwhile, is a more Zen approach to the whole thing. It incorporates the legend of the moon rabbit, visible if you stare up at the moon’s dark spots. It’s not a purely Chinese phenomenon either, as the legend exists in nearby Asian countries, too.

This Playtech release is easily the prettiest looking one of the whole group. We have an animated background, depicting a beautiful starry sky. Symbol designs also look quite lovely, though we’re not too keen on the playing card royals.

Collect three Scatters to win ten free spins. After each extra turn, an additional Wild is added to reels two, three, four and five. This increases your odds of winning drastically. You can retrigger the free spins bonus once, which awards five free spins.

Why pick this slot?

People who find pretty visuals important will love this game. Not to mention the possibility of winning a stunning 7,500x your total stake!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Say hello to the God of Fortune! Every time the Chinese New Year rolls around, it’s customary to wish good luck and wealth to others. IGT’s slot decided to use the traditional Chinese New Year greeting as the title for its game!

While we’d have liked to see better graphics, we’re not feeling too annoyed. This developer was never one to focus on amazing visuals. IGT’s strength always laid with gameplay, and that stays true for Gong Xi Fa Cai.

There’s a whole host of awesome special features to look forward to in this game! There’s a free spins bonus, during which only high-value symbols can appear. Besides, a symbol replacement special feature can also create more high-value icons on the reels with each spin! Finally, multiplier symbols can appear on the first reel.

But the real draw of this slot lies in its progressive jackpots! There are four in total: Mini, Minor, Major and Max. They’re activated using the Lucky Fortune Progressive Picker, which can trigger on any base game spin with a multiplier on the first reel.

Why pick this slot?

Progressive jackpots and a whole heap of fun special features. What’s not to love?

Lucky Zodiac

We swing back to Microgaming for our final festive slot of the day. It looks okay, though the symbol designs leave a lot to be desired. We would have preferred to see scaled up Chinese icons, rather than seeing them attached to playing card royals.

Keep an eye out for the firecracker Scatter, which awards free spins! You can win up to twelve extra turns and can retrigger another twelve free spins. The multiplier also has an active multiplier, which can climb up to 7x! Lucky Zodiac also has a Gamble bonus. You can choose to double or quadruple your win by correctly guessing the card colour or card suit.

Why pick this slot?

Despite its simplicity, this slot has plenty to offers players. The free spins and 7x multiplier combo alone are worth checking this slot out for.

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