The design in 5 Lions is typical of what we’ve come to expect from Pragmatic Play. It’s not quite Champions League standard but it’s more than adequate. On the reels you’ll see lower value playing cards plus 5 golden animals. In order of value are the tortoise and fish, frog and phoenix. The best paying symbol is the dragon which pays 1, 2 or 20 times your stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 on adjacent reels.
The golden lion is the wild and lands on the middle 3 reels only. When it forms part of a winning combination, the payout receives a random multiplier boost of 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 30x or 40x.
5 Lions comes with a Free Spins feature and it has the potential to be a cracker. Land 3, 4 or 5 of the Tao yin and yang scatter and you’ll be awarded a payout of 2, 5 or 20 times your total stake. You’ll then be offered a selection free spin and wild multiplier combinations. The fewer the free spins on offer, the higher the multipliers and vice versa. The free spins are played out on a 576 ways to win machine:
- 25 free spins with 2x, 3x or 5x wild multipliers
- 20 free spins with 3x, 5x or 8x wild multipliers
- 15 free spins with 5x, 8x or 10x wild multipliers
- 13 free spins with 8x, 10x or 15x wild multipliers
- 10 free spins with 10x, 15x or 20x wild multipliers
- 6 free spins with 15x, 20x or 30x wild multipliers
- Mystery package - random set of free spins and a random set of multipliers
Land 3 or more scatters and you’ll trigger another round of free spins. These play out after the current selection is completed. You can choose another combination of free spins and multipliers. This allows you to play with up to 50 free spins in total.
The action in 5 Lions centres on the wild multipliers. They can really come into their own in the Free Spins feature. This is a high risk high reward game though. We came out with virtually nothing during some of our free spin triggers but cashed in nicely at other times. This is a super volatile slot game so be warned – saying that, you could win up to 1,408 times your stake on each spin.
We enjoyed 5 Lions. The design and gameplay are simply done but work very well. If you like high variance action and the Chinese theme, then this is well worth a spin. If you like big multipliers, Queen of Gold (by Pragmatic Play) offers multipliers up to 100x!