Jade Coins Slot by Endorphina

Two kinds of coin run this game, and they don't do the same job. Gold Coins drop on the outer reels (one and three), each stamped with a cash value. The Jade Coin only ever shows up on reel two, and it's the one that does the collecting. Land three or more coins across all three reels at once and the grid converts to a hold-and-win round of Jade Coins, Gold Coins and empty patterned cells, with the triggering coins carrying their values in.

Here's the part that makes it tick. You get three attempts. Every spin burns one, but any coin landing resets you back to three, so a reel that keeps feeding coins keeps the round breathing. Only the columns still holding Gold Coins or empty cells respin. The Jade Coin sticks where it landed for the whole round, and after each spin it soaks up the value of every Gold Coin currently on the board. If two Jade Coins are sitting there, each one absorbs from all the Gold Coins independently. When your attempts finally run out, the totals on all the Jade Coins are added together and paid. That accumulation is the whole math of the bonus, no free spins anywhere, no buy button to skip ahead.

The coin prizes range from small line-multiples (1x through 15x the total bet) up to four fixed jackpot tiers: MIN at 25x, MID at 50x, MAX at 150x, and ULTRA at 1,000x, the four plaques glowing across the top of the cabinet. Those tiers exist only inside the bonus. There's also a separate network Mystery Jackpot (Grand, Major, Minor) drawn at random, which an operator may or may not switch on. Wins can be sent to a card gamble, beat the dealer's card to double, up to ten times running, though jackpot money can't be risked that way.

One thing worth flagging if you're spinning the base game: when coins land on only one or two reels and fall short of triggering, the Lucky Time feature can fire at random and sprinkle in the extra coins needed to force the bonus anyway. So a near-miss isn't always a miss. The cabinet itself is heavy with Lunar New Year fortune symbolism, a glossy emerald dragon coiled in carved cloud relief around a small gold-and-jade reel set, purple folding fans, red hongbao envelopes, paper lanterns, a money bag and a white maneki-neko cat among the pays. Deep jade green and gold throughout. If you've played Endorphina's Crown Coins, this is the same coin-collect engine wearing an Asian coat instead of a royal one.