Eastern Wonder Slot by Genii

The cabinet sits inside a red-and-gold pagoda frame, with curled tile-roof eaves at the top corners and Greek-key meander running down the gold columns. Two strings of red paper lanterns hang on each side of the reels, swaying with gold tassels and ornate caps. The logo across the top reads EASTERN WONDER in metallic red-and-gold with 东方奇迹 in Chinese characters underneath and a small "MAX WAYS" tag. This is a 243-ways game, not paylines, so adjacent matches from the leftmost reel pay regardless of vertical position.

The paytable runs deeper than most Genii titles - eleven paying symbols, all the way down to the royal 9. The top symbol pays 888 coins for five of a kind, which is a deliberate cultural wink (8 means wealth and fortune in Chinese, and 888 is the maximum auspicious stack of it). High-pays after that are a green-and-gold Money Frog perched on a lotus base and a pair of orange-and-blue koi swimming together. Mid-pays are a pink lotus on a lily pad, a paired lantern bundle with gold tassels, and a pink Chinese lion-dance head. Royals A through 9 are rendered as ornate metal pieces in red, blue, and jade-green gem tones.

Two separate scatters do separate jobs, which is the part most worth knowing before you spin. The yin-yang Bagua disc with FREE SPINS text on it triggers the free games: 3 lands 8 spins, 4 lands 9, 5 lands 10. Every win during the round is doubled, no exceptions, no retrigger. The other scatter is a gold round Chinese coin with the square hole in the middle and FEATURE stamped on the rim - and this one runs a completely different bonus. Three or more anywhere triggers a Hold-and-Respin round where every other symbol gets disabled. You start with 3 spins. Feature coins that land stick, and each new one resets the spin counter back to 3. Extra Spins symbols can stretch the round further. When the counter finally runs out, every held coin reveals a prize value scaled to your triggering bet.

One important constraint: the Feature coin bonus cannot trigger inside the Free Spins round, so the two bonuses never stack. The Wild substitutes for everything except the two scatter types. Max win lands at 13,600x stake, no buy bonus, no jackpot, bet range $0.25 to $62.50 - which puts the ceiling within reach of the coin-collection bonus rather than the doubled free spins.