Fish Pawn Crab Slot by YGR
by YGRReleased Jun 1, 2023
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Chinese dice-game 6x5 cascade with 15,625 ways, unbounded FG multipliers, Dice Cup reel transforms. Buy Bonus 25x (lowest in YGR catalogue).

Specifications
| Game Type | Slots |
|---|---|
| Volatility | High |
| Grid | 6x5 |
| Paylines | 15,625 ways |
| Min Bet | $0.2 |
| Max Bet | $50 |

About Fish Pawn Crab Slot
Before it was a slot, Fish Prawn Crab was a Chinese street-corner gambling game played with three dice tucked inside a shake cup. The dice carry six symbols rather than pips, fish, prawn, crab, rooster, gourd, coin, and bettors call which face will surface after the dealer lifts the cup. YGR drops that whole ritual onto a 6x5 cascade grid with 15,625 ways paying left-to-right, and most of the original symbols show up intact: red fish, green crab, a purple prawn drawn closer to a dragon than a shrimp, a rooster zodiac, and multi-colored Chinese gambling coin tiles.
The base game runs on an unbounded cascade multiplier. Every winning drop clears the cells and bumps the meter by +1 with no stated ceiling. Break the chain and it resets to x1 for the next spin. There's no Wild available in base play at all, which is worth flagging since the entire Wild economy is locked behind free games. The Dice Cup symbol you see on the reels during base mode is purely cosmetic until the bonus starts.
That bonus triggers at 5 scatters for 6 free games, with +1 extra spin per additional scatter. The multiplier behavior shifts a tier up: x2 baseline and +2 per cascade instead of +1, still unbounded, still holding through every cascade in a spin. The Dice Cup mechanic wakes up here. Cups can spontaneously land on reels 2 through 6 (reel 1 is always excluded), and when they do, the entire reel's symbols transform to golden-backed premiums. Any golden-backed symbol that then lands in a winning combination converts into a Wild for the rest of the cascade chain, and those Wilds keep participating as drops continue. Stack two full reels of golden symbols at once and WILD conversion can chain for several cascades before the board stabilizes.
The headline number is the Buy Bonus price: 25x bet for direct entry into free games. That undercuts every previous YGR title and is the lowest feature-buy tier the studio has shipped, notably cheaper than the sibling Mahjong Wins at 88x or the 100x standard most of the catalogue uses. The free-game trigger itself is tight, so paying 25x to skip the scatter hunt is genuinely competitive rather than a vanity shortcut.
Visually the cabinet stages a casino-table scene: deep green felt stretching under the reels, stacks of multi-colored gambling chips piled at the lower corners, a gold-trimmed grid with a vertical red "15,625 WAY" banner running down the right rail, and the Fish Prawn Crab logo rendered in ornate red-gold Chinese-style lettering at lower-left. A dice-gambling skin sitting on top of a cascade engine where the FG multiplier genuinely has no cap.
Reviewed by Arina, Slots Editor at Spinoxy Media Ltd.