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Playing card symbols, in a blue tone that contrasts nicely with the stone effect, make up the lower-paying combinations, starting with the 10 that returns 3x, 10x or 50x the line bet when it’s on 3, 4 or 5 reels. The top wins from playing cards are awarded by the K, with players getting paid 10x, 25x or 200x their line bet, but it’s the beautifully detailed character symbols that pay the best prizes. A cross-looking rabbit head on a blue background is worth 15x, 50x or 500x, while the orange tiger head pays 20x, 100x or 1000x. The biggest rewards for players come from a red demon symbol and when this stops on 3, 4, or 5 reels across a payline, the wins are equal to 50x, 250x or 2500x the line stake.

Instead of spinning down the reels, each round sees the stone blocks dropping away to be replaced by a new set thudding into place. Any time a winning combination is formed the monkey character comes to life and blows away the symbols that made up the win, which leaves spaces for any above to drop into and new ones to fall from above, in what Evoplay Entertainment call a Free Fall feature.

Here’s where that multiplier table above the reels comes into effect, as the first Free Fall is worth a standard payout, but if the new set of symbols creates a second win, there’s a 2x multiplier, followed by 3x and finally 5x for a 4th consecutive Free Fall. If anyone is lucky enough to get yet another Free Fall after this, the multiplier reverts back to 1x, but to be honest, that’s something that isn’t going to occur very often and getting 2 or 3 in a row is good going.

Rounding out the game, we have a couple of other symbols that have unique qualities and can lead to extra rewards. A scary green dragon on a green background looks wild and acts as a wild symbol, replacing any other standard icon to help spinners land more winning lines, either filling in gaps in a run of matching symbols, or stretching a winline further across to the right side.

It doesn’t have any value of its own though, and won’t be able to act as the scatter symbol, which is a big gold coin. When 3 of these coins appear on a bet line in succession from the left side, 10 bonus Free Falls are activated, and although the mix of symbols is the same as it is during the base games, should another 3 coin symbols appear on a line, an additional 10 Free Falls will be added on to the end of the current games.

The Great Wall video slot machine is another feature-filled game from Evoplay Entertainment, a developer that’s building a reputation as solid as the wall itself. The nicely animated images, an Oriental-style soundtrack and the satisfying thuds as blocks of symbols drop into place, all combine to give this game some life.

Free Fall multipliers can occur quite frequently, although we have yet to get to the top 5x level, but other bonuses like the wild substitutions and free games are also regularly triggered. You can’t play The Great Wall on mobile devices, but apart from this minor issue, it’s a slot machine that has lots going for it.