Cai Shen's Palace: Hold 'N' Link

Cai Shen's Palace: Hold 'N' Link Overview

Cai Shen’s Palace: Hold ‘N’ Link is a Chinese-themed slot from NetGame Entertainment, released on 25 July 2024 according to NetGame’s own game data; SlotCatalog gives 15 July. It plays on 5 reels and 3 rows with 100 fixed paylines, and it combines a stacked god-of-wealth wild, free spins with mystery symbols and a Hold ‘N’ Link coin bonus with four fixed jackpots.

NetGame lists an RTP of 96.10%, medium volatility and a maximum win of 5,000x the bet, capped at €250,000. Its data also gives a hit frequency of 30.9%, a feature about once every 80 spins and a big win about once every 443 spins. SlotCatalog lists bets from 0.20 to 200. The numbers below come from our own demo session, played at a bet of €40.00.

The God of Wealth at the Palace Gate

The reels stand inside a red and gold palace gate with a curved green roof, in front of pagodas and fireworks over a dusky red sky. The high symbols are the classic signs of fortune in Chinese culture: a red money pouch, gold ingots, an abacus and a jade ring. The low symbols are the card ranks from 10 to A, drawn in gold on dark red tiles.

Cai Shen himself, the god of wealth in his red robe and hat, is the Wild. A pagoda marked BONUS is the trigger for the Hold ‘N’ Link feature, and gold coins marked with values or jackpot names appear once that round begins.

The Paytable

The paytable shows cash values for the current bet. At €40, the Bonus pagoda is the top payer: five pay €4,000 (100x), four pay €600 and three pay €80. The Wild pays €160 for five, €40 for four, €10 for three and €2 for two.

Among the regular symbols the money pouch leads with €120, €30, €10 and €2 for five, four, three and two. The gold ingots pay €60, €12 and €4, the abacus €60, €10 and €2, and the jade ring €40, €10 and €2. The A pays €30 for five, and K, Q, J and 10 each pay €20, €4 and €2.

The rules screen notes that the Wild substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus symbols and the spheres, and that it appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 only in the base game. The 100 lines are drawn on small 5x3 grids across several pages.

The Symbol Set

NetGame’s own game data sums up the reel set as one Wild, one Bonus, one Mystery symbol, four high symbols, five low symbols and one sphere. The four high symbols are the pouch, the ingots, the abacus and the jade ring; the five low ones are the card ranks. The sphere is the gold coin of the Hold ‘N’ Link round, and the Mystery symbol is the golden tile of the free spins.

That is a compact set for a 100-line game, and it explains why wins land so often: with only ten regular symbols on a 5x3 grid, matching combinations across three reels are common, and each one is counted on every line that passes through it.

One Hundred Lines and a Stacked Wild

With 100 lines on a 15-position grid, almost every symbol sits on many lines at once, and the Wild does most of the work. On one of our spins Cai Shen filled reel 3 from top to bottom and appeared again on reel 4, and the As and jade rings around him added up to €46.00. Another spin, with the Wild on reel 2 next to pouches and jade rings, paid €62.00.

Single line wins are small at this layout – most are worth a fraction of the bet – so the base game moves in modest steps, and the features carry the bigger results.

The Hold 'N' Link Bonus

Bonus pagodas trigger the coin round. In our session four of them landed on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5, and the game announced “Congratulations! You won Hold ‘N’ Link Bonus” over a shower of gold coins.

Inside the bonus the grid turns into a board of empty coin frames. Each coin that lands carries a cash value or a jackpot name. On our board the values were €40, €80 and €120, and two coins were marked MINI. When the round ended, the win field showed €600.00 – 15x the bet.

Four Fixed Jackpots

The jackpot panel above the reels scales with the bet. At €40 it read MINI €400, MINOR €2,000, MAJOR €20,000 and GRAND €160,000 – that is 10x, 50x, 500x and 4,000x the bet. NetGame marks the jackpots as internal and not progressive, so these figures stay fixed relative to the stake. The Grand sits below the 5,000x maximum win, which leaves room for coin values on top of it.

Free Spins with Mystery Symbols

The free spins bring the mystery symbols: large golden tiles that land on the reels and then turn into a single matching symbol. In one of our free spins, mystery tiles covered most of reels 1, 3, 4 and 5, and the spin paid €244.00 from a screen of Ks and Qs.

The round total grew quickly. With four spins remaining the win field stood at €1,880, and with two spins left it had reached €2,124 – about 53x the bet. After the round the balance stood at €2,572, up from €440 before the feature.

Playing the Game

The controls sit along the bottom and the right side of the screen. The bet is changed with the minus and plus buttons next to the BET field, and the balance and the last win are shown on either side of it. On the right, a large button starts the spin, and two smaller ones switch on autoplay and a faster spin mode. The paytable, the rules and the settings open from the menu in the corner, and the paytable pages show every value in cash for the bet you have chosen.

A message bar under the reels wishes you “Good luck!” between spins and counts down the remaining free spins during the feature, so the state of the game is always visible at a glance.

The Numbers to Keep in Mind

A 96.10% return is close to the market average, and medium volatility fits what we saw: frequent small line wins with a 30.9% hit rate, and features that come round about once every 80 spins. The 4,000x Grand and the 5,000x cap set the top of the range.

Who Should Play It

Cai Shen’s Palace suits players who like Asian-themed Hold ‘N’ Link games with fixed jackpots they can see before they spin. The two features are clearly separated – coins for the jackpots, mystery symbols for the free spins – and both are easy to follow.

It is a good fit for longer sessions at a steady pace, since the 100-line base game returns something often without large swings.

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Cai Shen’s Palace: Hold ‘N’ Link was listed in all six of our partner casino libraries when we checked on 24 September 2026.