3 Bao Riches

3 Bao Riches is a dim sum kitchen slot from TaDa Gaming, released on 17 September 2026. It plays on 5 reels and 3 rows with 243 ways to win, and it is built around three bamboo steamers that sit above the reels. Scatters fill the steamers and can trigger a free game where bao buns lock in place, values grow and four jackpots are up for grabs – from the Mini at 10x the bet to the Grand at 1,000x. The RTP is 97%, the volatility is medium (three chillies out of five on the loading screen) and the maximum win is 2,100x the bet.

A Busy Dim Sum Kitchen

The game is designed in portrait format, like a mobile game. The reels sit on a bamboo mat in a warm, sunlit kitchen with red chillies and corn hanging on the wall and mushrooms on the counter. Above them, three steamers stand on a gas stove: a blue one marked Extra Spins, a purple one marked Double Up and a green one marked Boost. Each has a small heat gauge below it, and the jackpot boards for the Grand, Major, Minor and Mini fill the top of the screen.

Symbols And Paytable

The symbols are dishes from a dim sum menu. At a bet of 20, the paytable showed these prizes for five, four and three of a kind:

• Roast chicken: 80 / 20 / 10
• Sliced roast pork and pork dumplings in a steamer basket: 50 / 10 / 6
• Spring rolls and bok choy: 20 / 6 / 4
• A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9: 8 / 4 / 2

Wins pay from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the first reel, and only the highest win on each way is paid. When several combinations land at once, all of them are added together.

How The 243 Ways Work

There are no fixed paylines in 3 Bao Riches. With five reels of three symbols, every combination of positions from left to right counts as a way, which gives 243 ways in total. A win only needs matching symbols on neighbouring reels, starting from the first one; it does not matter which row they sit in. Three roast chickens on reels 1, 2 and 3 pay whether they are at the top, in the middle or at the bottom, and if two chickens land on the same reel, the number of ways doubles. This is why a single chef wild that expands over a whole reel can join so many ways at once – he counts on all three rows of his reel.

Controls On A Phone Screen

The controls sit in a wooden panel below the reels. The bet is changed with the minus and plus buttons on the left, and the large round TaDa button in the middle spins the reels – tap it to play, or hold it to open the autoplay settings. Next to it are a separate autoplay button, a lightning button for faster spins and a gear icon for the settings. A small “i” in the corner of the reels opens the rules and paytable, and the win and balance fields are shown just above and below the spin button.

The Chef Wild

The wild is a smiling chef in a white hat and red apron. He is 1x3 in size, covers a whole reel and only appears on reels 2, 3 and 4. He substitutes for every symbol except the three scatters, and whenever he is part of a winning combination he expands to fill his reel completely. In our session two chefs stood side by side on reels 3 and 4 and turned a row of greens into a 54 win, and later two chefs on reels 2 and 3 helped build a 666 win across many ways at once.

Three Steamers And The Scatters

The scatters are glowing blue, purple and green flame symbols. Each colour belongs to one steamer, and when a scatter lands, the steamer of the same colour heats up – in our session the purple and green steamers filled with dumplings and started to glow. The scatters also bring random wins and the Mini, Minor and Major jackpots. Any scatter has a chance to trigger the free game, and the steamers that trigger it decide which features you get:

• Extra Spins: the free game starts with 4 spins instead of 3.
• Double Up: a second set of reels opens, and the spins are counted separately on each set.
• Boost: a red chilli can land on any spin and adds its value to every bao on that reel, then turns into a bao itself.

The steamers can combine, so a free game can come with Extra Spins and Double Up, Extra Spins and Boost, Double Up and Boost, or all three together.

The Golden Steamer

A rare Golden Steamer can appear on reel 1, and only in the base game. If it lands together with any blue, purple or green scatter, it always triggers the matching steamers and awards the free game, with up to three steamers at the same time. It is the one symbol that guarantees the bonus.

The Free Game

The free game is a round of free spins played as a Hold and Spin-style feature. It starts with 3 spins. Bao buns that land stay in place, and every new bao resets the spins to three. Every bao carries a value between 0.1x and 5x the bet, or one of the jackpot labels. The game keeps the features chosen when the round started, and no new features are added along the way.

Above each reel sits a letter of the word GRAND. When three baos collect on a reel, their wins are collected and the lamp above that reel lights up. Light every lamp, and the Grand jackpot of 1,000x the bet is yours. When the spins run out, the values of all baos are added up and paid.

Bao Values And The Chilli

The bao buns and the red chilli share the same value scale. They can carry 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.8, 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4 or 5 times the bet. At our bet of 20 that meant values from 2 up to 100, and the baos in our session showed 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 26 and 40 – most of them from the lower half of the scale.

The chilli matters most with the Boost steamer. When it lands, its value is added to every bao already on that reel, and then it becomes a bao itself. A chilli on a reel that already holds two baos therefore pays three times: once into each bao, and once as a new bao. In our session, a chilli worth 20 landed on the first reel of the lower set, right above baos worth 4 and 26.

Jackpots At Different Bets

All four jackpots are fixed multiples of the bet. The Mini pays 10x, the Minor 25x, the Major 100x and the Grand 1,000x. At our bet of 20 the boards showed 200, 500, 2,000 and 20,000. At the minimum bet of 0.2 the same jackpots are worth 2, 5, 20 and 200, and at the maximum bet of 200 they grow to 2,000, 5,000, 20,000 and 200,000. The Grand is the only one that needs the full set of GRAND lamps; the other three can turn up on scatters in the base game and on baos in the free game.

Which Steamer Combination Is Best

Each steamer helps in a different way. Extra Spins gives one more spin at the start, and therefore more chances for new baos to land before the counter reaches zero. Double Up gives a second set of reels with its own spins and its own GRAND lamps, so it roughly doubles the room for baos. Boost adds value through the chillies. The strongest round is the one with all three steamers, but even the Double Up and Boost pair from our session was enough to push the combined win past 340 and bring several Mini jackpots onto the reels.

Our Session

We played at a bet of 20 with a starting balance of about 2,400. The base game paid small amounts – three spring rolls paid 8 – until the chef wilds stepped in with the 54 and 666 wins. Then the purple and green steamers boiled over with dumplings, baos worth 2 to 40 appeared on the reels, a “Congrats!” screen showed Double Up and Boost, and the free game began with a balance of 2,634.

The two sets of reels ran side by side, each with its own three spins. On the lower set, a red chilli worth 20 landed on the first reel next to baos worth 4 and 26, and the Boost added its value to them. The upper set filled up with baos worth 2, 8, 12, 20 and 40, and later 8 and 16 on the last reel. The combined feature win climbed from 222 to 312 and then to 342, while the lamps above G, R, A and D began to glow.

The last screenshot shows the exciting part: a full column of baos marked Mini on the fifth reel of the lower set, each one carrying the Mini jackpot, plus another Mini bao worth 20 in the middle. With only the N lamp still dark on that set, the round came close to the Grand.

Phone And Desktop

3 Bao Riches is made for a phone held upright. On a mobile screen the kitchen, the steamers, the reels and the controls fill the display from top to bottom, and everything can be reached with one thumb. On a computer the game keeps the same tall format: it sits in a narrow column in the middle of the window, with a blurred picture of the kitchen filling the space on both sides. It plays exactly the same way, but the symbols are smaller than on a phone, so the mobile version is the more comfortable choice.

The Pace Of The Base Game

Between the bonuses, the base game moves at a steady pace. Most wins come from three or four matching dishes or card symbols and pay less than the bet – the three spring rolls in our session paid 8 at a bet of 20. The chef wilds change that: because they only land on the middle reels and always expand when they are part of a win, two chefs next to each other can connect a lot of ways in one spin. In our session such spins paid 54 and 666, the second one more than 33 times the bet. Meanwhile, every scatter warms up its steamer, so you can watch the bonus build up even on spins that pay nothing.

RTP, Volatility And Max Win

3 Bao Riches has an RTP of 97%, which is above the usual 96% for online slots. The volatility is medium, so wins come fairly often, with the free game and the jackpots providing the bigger moments. The maximum win is 2,100x the bet, and the game ends a round as soon as that limit is reached. Bets run from 0.2 to 200 per spin, which makes the top payout 420,000 at the highest stake.

Who It Is For

3 Bao Riches is a good pick for players who like collect-and-respin bonuses with jackpots. The kitchen theme is cheerful and detailed, the expanding chef wilds keep the base game moving, and the three steamers make every free game a little different. The 2,100x maximum is moderate, but the high RTP and the 1,000x Grand jackpot give the game plenty of appeal.

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