Fortune Year

Spin auspicious reels and symbols on the slot from NetEnt to hit one of three fixed jackpots. Fortune Year is the Asian edition of 2019 released Grand Spinn and comes with Multiplier Wilds, a Nudge feature, and the proclaimed fixed jackpots. Each and every spin can potentially trigger a jackpot win, and Multiplier Wilds combined with nudging reels may, with luck, bring the rain of golden coins down worth up to 2,000 times your bet.

Slot Details

Fortune Year is a video slot with three reels, three rows and one pay line. Wins are awarded for three matching symbols on the pay line from left to right only. Playable on desktop or mobile devices, it comes with bet sizes from 0.02 to 200 credits per spin. The RTP of this high variance game is set at 96.19%.

NetEnt has combined Art Deco style with Asian elements in an attempt to create a luxurious design with a structured golden background. Three jackpot displays are placed on top of the game window. Artistically drawn fruit and other traditional slot symbols populate the reels. An Asian soundtrack provides the fitting audio to the gameplay.

The pay symbols further emphasize the fusion of the Art Deco theme with Chinese culture. In ascending order they are bars, cherries, plums, oranges, melons and lucky 8s. Hit three on the single pay line to win 0.5x to 10x your stake. A pair Ang Pows, the fabled red packets, are the wild symbol, awarding as well 10x your bet when three land on the line. However, these are multiplier wilds, each marked with x2. One wild in a winning combo will multiply the win by x2, two will raise that to x4 and three wilds will multiply it by x8, which is taking the maximum win potential in a single spin without nudges to 80x your stake.

Fortune Year Slot Features

Admittedly, there is more to this slot than meets the eye. NetEnt included quite an array of modifiers, features and of course the fixed jackpots into the gameplay that can indeed lead to wins of up to 2,000 times your bet. According to the game sheet, this should happen once in 121,563 spins on average. Either way, let’s get through it. We’ve covered already the Multiplier Wilds which will multiply any wins by up to x8.

Next in line is the Nudge feature which is triggered on every winning spin. If the symbol on top of the winning symbol on reel one is matching it, then the reel moves one position down, awarding the same win again. This repeats until a different symbol appears on top. The nudges will continue then with reel two and reel three if there are as well matching symbols on top. The sequence ends when no more matching symbols appear on top of the winning symbols.

But there is more. Should an arrow symbol appear on top of the winning symbol, then the reels where the arrow is in view move to the bottom of the current winning symbol stack and then all nudges are repeated one more time. Remember, wins are paid again and again after each nudge.

For added spice, Fortune Year comes with three fixed jackpots – Mini at 40 coins, Midi at 200 coins and Mega at 10,000 coins – which can be won on any spin. In real money, you will have to multiply the coins by the bet level. To win the jackpots, you will need to have jackpot symbols appearing on top of the pay line, be it at the end of a Nudge feature, on a winning or losing spin. If different symbols land, then the lowest jackpot is paid. Matching symbols will award the respective jackpot.

Final Verdict

Well, NetEnt is steaming ahead with Asian conversions of existing games, basically, a lazy road to try and appeal to our Far East gaming friends. The mechanics, pays and features are all unchanged, the only thing they have done is slap different set of graphics on the UI and ‘voila’ Grand Spinn becomes Fortune Year. One can only hope that to catch it in an auspicious moment.

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