Fortune Fortune Thundershots Slot by Playtech

Match four or more of the same symbol in a square block and they collapse into one Giant Symbol that stamps a multiplier of up to x5 on every win it forms part of. That block can be a small 2x2, or it can swell to the full grid, and because the reels run four rows deep there's room for a genuinely large one to build. Wins then cascade: the matched symbols clear out, fresh ones drop into the gaps, and the board pays again. A giant carrying an x5 badge sitting through three or four cascading drops is where the base game does its real damage.

String together seven consecutive cascading wins on a single spin and you set off the Thundershots wheel. It's loaded with cash prizes, extra shots at the wheel and entries into the free games, so a long chain doesn't just pay the lines, it can tip you straight into the bonus.

The free games arrive a different way. A giant version of the red lucky-coin scatter, the 招财进宝 medallion, awards the round, and once you're in it any giant symbols that form turn wild, stacking the multiplier idea on top of substitution. The money tree is the wild throughout and the top payer in its own right, dripping gold coins as it completes lines. Everything sits in an ornate gold surround on deep maroon, with two enormous coiling golden dragons rising up either side against a red scale-patterned back wall. Money toads, golden koi, gold ingots, fortune cookies and a red hand fan fill the paytable above the styled royals. There's no jackpot and no bonus buy, so the wheel, the giant multipliers and the cascade chains carry the whole thing.