Geisha Story Slot by Playtech

Land the black-haired geisha on reels 1 and 5 at the same time and the Geisha's Garden bonus opens. It's a pick round, not an automatic award: you choose from a spread of ornamental fans to reveal how many free spins you've won, up to 20, and a win multiplier as high as 10x on everything the round pays. Both numbers come out of your own picks, so a short run at a fat multiplier and a long run at a small one are both on the table. The spins retrigger from inside the feature too, so a lucky hit stretches the round further.

The samurai does the rest of the work. That purple-haired portrait marked WILD substitutes for every symbol except the geisha and the old man, and it's also the top payer on the board, so the biggest wild run and the biggest single line hit are one and the same. What's unusual is how little it needs. Two samurais on a line already pay, where the other symbols want three. The white-bearded old man is the scatter and pays from anywhere on the grid rather than along a line, though he does nothing past that, no round of his own.

Everything sits in a spring garden. The reels rest on a cream bamboo-scroll panel under a soft pink cherry-blossom sky, sprigs of blossom draped across the top corners, and the symbols are all traditional Japanese pieces: a blue-and-white porcelain tea set, wooden geta sandals, koi in a blue medallion, a bonsai in green, cherry blossoms in orange, a folding fan, a pink parasol and a red torii gate lit by sunrise. It's an older romance-themed build, so there's no buy button and the pace stays gentle. One extra to watch for is the optional Dollar Ball, a lotto-style progressive side bet some casinos switch on and this demo leaves off.