Qixi Festival Slots
Qixi Festival is an Oriental-themed slot machine from Gameplay Interactive featuring a romantic Chinese theme and a range of interesting symbols and payout opportunities.
The QiXi Festival is also called Chinese Valentine’s Day and celebrates the romantic legend of the cow herd and the weaver girl. Players can enjoy a range of symbols related to the intriguing theme, 9 paylines, wild symbols and scatters to entertain them on their trip to the Far East.
Romantic Beginnings
There are 9 fixed paylines in Qixi Festival, which means you have the maximum number of chances to win on every single spin without having to change your paylines.
You can alter your bet per spin by clicking on the ‘line bet’ button to increase or decrease your stake from a minimum of €0.10 per line to €10 per line. This gives a minimum total stake of €0.90 per spin and a maximum total stake of €90 per spin. This is a decent betting range, although lower rollers might prefer to play only €0.01 or €0.02 per spin and higher rollers may prefer a max bet over €100.
In general, however, mid rollers will be pleased with the variety of betting options. You can also choose to play with automatic spins to speed your gameplay and enjoy hands-free spinning.
Qixi Festival is an atmospheric and peaceful-feeling slot machine with the hazy blue, purple and pink background mixing in with the green grass and plants to give a mystical atmosphere, as though you have walked into a magical garden.
The symbols include the Prince and Princess, who may represent the legendary lovers the goat herd and weaver girl. The other symbols are cherry blossom, a gold box with red hearts motif, dancing silhouettes, red lanterns, a child, a woman with gold braids in her hair, a plate with chopsticks, and a sacred cow.
Payouts From China
The highest-paying symbol is the Prince symbol, which pays up to 5,000x your bet for 5 matching symbols on a payline. The second-best symbol is the Princess, which awards up to 2,500x your bet for 5 matching symbols. The child and the woman with gold braids both pay up to 1,000x your bet for 5 matching symbols, while the plate with chopsticks awards up to 500x your bet for 5 matching symbols.
The other Chinese themed symbols award the lower payouts, including the strange wooden bed which awards 300x your bet, the sacred cow which awards up to 200x your bet, the red lanterns which award 200x your bet, the cherry blossom which awards 100x your bet and the gold box with red heart motif which awards up to 100x your bet for 5 matching symbols.
Blue Bird Wilds and Silhouette Scatters
The blue bird is the wild symbol in this game. The wild symbol stands in for all the other symbols in the game, including the scatter symbol, to create more potential winning combinations. Whenever the wild blue bird appears in a winning combination it flutters its wings and doubles your payout!
The scatter symbol is the silhouetted dancers. You only need to spin 2 or more of these scatters to receive a payout, which is a multiplication of your total bet. If you manage to hit 5 scatters you will enjoy a payout of 100x your total bet, while 4 symbols awards 10x your total bet, 3 symbols pays 5x your total bet and 2 symbols pays 1x your total bet.
Peaceful but uneventful entertainment from the Far East
Qixi Festival is a gentle game with a soft and pleasant tune playing throughout the game to add to the romantic atmosphere. Each win is accompanied by a fun animation and sound effect for extra interest. There are many different symbols here, which can actually make finding a match more difficult, but the combinations do still seem to appear regularly.
The wild symbol and scatter icon both help to boost your bankroll but this is all that is on offer in the Qixi Festival. Unfortunately there are no free spins to trigger and no bonus game to enjoy. This means that although the entertainment is atmospheric and the theme is interesting and fresh thanks to the festival being little known in the West, there is little else to hold players for a longer gaming session.
