Tiger of Fortune

Tiger of Fortune Overview

Tiger of Fortune is a five-reel, three-row Evoplay slot with 20 fixed paylines, a Lunar New Year setting and a bonus round that can run on two grids at once. It shares its engine with the studio's Liberty Fireworks – the same three boosters, the same jackpot ladder, the same buy prices – but the paytable underneath is considerably richer, and that changes how the base game plays.

Where most jackpot slots starve the line game to fund the bonus, this one pays 100x the bet for a full line of gold ingots. That is a genuine result from an ordinary spin, which is rare in this category.

Theme and Graphics

The reels sit inside a red and gold pavilion in a Chinese garden, with a pagoda on the hillside behind, green mountains in the distance and paper lanterns hanging from the trees on both sides. Cherry blossom drifts across the screen. A cartoon tiger in red robes sits on the roof of the pavilion, arms folded, and doubles as the wild.

The four jackpot amounts run along a bar above the tiger's head, and the three booster banners – purple, red and green – are mounted on the pavilion eaves. It is a busy screen, but the reel area is left clean and pale so the symbols read clearly against it.

Symbols and Paytable

The gold ingot leads at x100 for five, x20 for four and x2 for three. The ceremonial drum follows at x30 / x15 / x3, the gold knot at x20 / x10 / x2, the firecrackers at x15 / x7 / x1 and the blue bells at x10 / x3 / x1.

The royals are ordinary – the ace pays x5 for five, the king x4, and the queen, jack and ten x3 each, with three of a kind worth half the stake across the board. On the 50.00 demo bet a mixed line with two tiger wilds returned 100.00, twice the stake.

The gap between the ingot's 100x and the drum's 30x is the widest single step on the table, and it means the top symbol carries the base game almost by itself.

The Four Bonus Colours

Bonus symbols come in four types – Red, Purple, Green and Gold – each carrying a random value of 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 12x or 15x the total bet, or one of the Mini, Minor and Major jackpots.

The three coloured ones appear only in the main game, and each is tied to a booster: Purple brings Extra Wealth, Red brings Extra Reels, Green brings Extra Spin. When one lands there is a chance the Bonus Game starts with that booster active, and the game can trigger with one, two or all three at once. At the start of the round every coloured symbol turns into a Gold Bonus carrying the same value – and inside the bonus, Gold is the only kind that appears.

The Three Boosters and the Double Field

Extra Wealth gives each bonus round a chance to raise the values of one to four random symbols by 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x the total bet – though not symbols holding the Mini, Minor or Major jackpots. Extra Spin lifts the round from three spins to four.

Extra Reels is the one that changes the shape of the screen. A second bonus field is added, the symbols from the bottom field are duplicated into the matching positions on the top one, and from then on both fields spin independently. The demo shows the pavilion holding two stacked grids, each with its own running subtotal above it, filling at different rates. The prizes from both are summed into the final win.

Jackpots and the Two-Grand Rule

Four fixed jackpots: Grand 3,000x, Major 350x, Minor 80x and Mini 35x the bet. At the 50.00 stake the bar reads 150,000, 17,500, 4,000 and 1,750.

Mini, Minor and Major bonus symbols award their jackpots directly. The Grand has no symbol at all – it is paid for filling all 15 positions with bonus symbols. And the rules attach one more clause that explains the game's ceiling: during a Bonus Game with the Extra Reels booster there is a chance to win two Grand jackpots, one for each bonus field with 15 Bonus symbols.

Two Grands is 6,000x. The published maximum win is 6,414x. The top of this game is not a single jackpot but both grids filled simultaneously, with the coin values on top.

Bonus Buy, RTP and Max Win

The buy menu sells boosters rather than spins, and it guarantees activation: one random booster for 35x the total bet, two for 44x, all three for 66x. At the 50.00 stake the demo prices these at 1,750.00, 2,200.00 and 3,300.00.

The jump from two boosters to three costs 22x – more than twice what the second one cost – but it is the only option that guarantees Extra Reels, and Extra Reels is the only route to the second Grand. Buying two random boosters leaves you hoping for the one that matters.

The RTP is 96.02% and the title ships with RTP ranges, so the operator selects the version and the in-game info screen is the number to trust. Volatility is rated Medium-High.

What separates this from its stablemate is the balance. With a 100x top line symbol, Tiger of Fortune gives the base game something to do while you wait for the bonus – and on a game where the real prizes need fifteen or thirty coin positions to fall, that waiting is most of the session.

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