Fortune Gods Slot by PG Soft

Despite the name, this isn't part of PG Soft's Fortune zodiac series - no Mouse, no Ox, no Tiger connection. It's a standalone game built around Caishen, the Chinese God of Wealth from the Yuan Dynasty, and its central mechanic splits that deity into two distinct symbol types that each transform the grid differently.

Lucky Caishen and Success Caishen both appear exclusively on reels 2, 3, and 4. Lucky Caishen works vertically - when it lands, every symbol in that entire reel column converts to Wild. Success Caishen works horizontally, turning the full row across reels 2 through 4 into Wilds. Both types land on the same spin sometimes. After wins pay out, all those Wilds lock in place and the game respins once. If the respin drops another Caishen on the middle reels, the whole conversion-and-respin cycle starts again. Wilds don't exist in the base game outside of this feature - there's no standalone Wild symbol spinning on any reel during regular play.

The 15 paylines pay in both directions, left-to-right and right-to-left. With a full column of locked Wilds on reel 3, that bidirectional counting means the same Wild participates in wins reading from both sides simultaneously. Stack a Lucky Caishen on reel 2 alongside a Success Caishen on reel 3's row, and you get overlapping Wild coverage that the two-way paylines exploit from every angle.

Free spins trigger off 3 scatters for 12 spins, with 2 more per extra scatter. The multipliers sitting above each reel position upgrade during the bonus - x2, x4, x6, and x10 instead of the base game values. Retriggering is possible, and the Fortune Gods Feature with its Caishen conversions still fires inside free spins. A respin chain during a x10 multiplied free spin is where the 3,600x ceiling lives.