Play Happy Chinese New Year for Free

The New Year is a special occasion in the Far East. Here players can join in the celebration with the red rooster on the reels, which is the animal for 2017. Other symbols here include fire crackers, gold coins and other classic Chinese motifs. Traditional Chinese music plays in the background to give an authentic atmosphere and create a great realistic feel to the game. The background scene includes Chinese lanterns and dragon statues.

Happy Chinese New Year has 5 reels and 20 paylines which are fixed into position on every spin. This gives you the max number of ways to win each time and also makes gameplay easy with no decision to make about paylines.

You can choose your stake by changing your total bet per spin from a minimum of 0.20 to a max of 100. This works with bets per line of a minimum of 0.01 per line to a maximum of 5.00 per line. Other options to improve your gaming experience include a max bet button for auto betting the max amount each spin, and an autoplay feature which lets you spin the reels automatically.

The payouts in Happy Chinese New Year are quite good with the rooster paying the top award of 1500 coins for 5 matching symbols. The banner icon pays up to 1000 coins, while the other image icons pay from 250 coins to 750 coins for hitting 5 matches on a payline. The high cards pay the lower rewards with up to 100 coins available if you hit 5 of the Ace symbols.

The rooster is the bonus symbol in this game and if 2 of these icons appear in reels 2 and 4 they trigger the bonus game. You care transported to a new screen where you have to select boxes to reveal cash prizes. The dragon symbol is the scatter and can transform other symbols into higher paying icons by breathing fire to turn them wild.

The wild symbols in this game stand in for the other icons to give you more possible wins. If you collect 2 wilds on reels 2 and 4 in the middle position at the same time, you could trigger the free spins round.

If any two identical symbols appear in reels 2 and 4 in the centre position, you will trigger the cascade feature. This means the two triggering symbols disappear and the reels drop down to reveal more symbols – and more potential winning combinations.

This slot machine from Booongo is perfect for this time of year and the emphasis on the lucky red rooster is great for 2017! The wild symbols help to boost your payouts and the range of features make this entertaining for a longer gaming session, as there is always something happening on screen. The sophisticated graphics and detailed background in Happy Chinese New Year make this visually attractive to play, while the free spins are another great touch as they offer lots of ways to hit free wins.

It is nice to see the cascade feature making an appearance as this always makes a big difference to payouts and creates in effect a free re-spin whenever it is awarded.