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Magic Dragon Slot by GameArt

by GameArtReleased Feb 22, 2017

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Magic Dragon is a Chinese New Year 5x3 slot with 243 ways, a red dragon-head wild and a gold-coin scatter that opens retriggerable free spins plus a pick-and-click bonus. Medium volatility, 95.94% RTP, 1,964x max win. Press "Free Play" to spin Magic Dragon in demo mode, no deposit needed.

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Specifications

Game TypeSlots
RTP95.94%
VolatilityMedium
Max Win1,964x
Grid5x3
Paylines243 Ways (all-ways, left to right)
Themes
Features
Magic Dragon slot gameplay showing the 5x3 reels with red, green and blue dragons, gold ingots and lotus symbols across 243 ways

About Magic Dragon Slot

243 ways, not paylines. Match the same symbol on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one and the win counts regardless of row position, so any of the three dragons (red, green, or blue) lining up across the first few reels pays without you tracking lines. It pays left to right only, never both directions. The red dragon-head wild substitutes for everything except the bonus coin, and since it can drop anywhere on the five reels it's the symbol doing most of the work to complete those way-wins.

The Chinese gold-coin medallion is the trigger. Land enough of them and the free spins round opens, and more coins landing during the round retrigger it for extra spins, so a coin-heavy bonus can stretch well past its starting count. There's a second route to extra credit too: a pick bonus, the pick-and-click kind where you choose objects to reveal hidden prizes. Two separate bonus paths sitting on top of a fairly plain 243-ways base is more than this era of GameArt usually shipped.

If you don't want to grind for the coins, the bonus is buyable for around 50x your bet, which is cheap as buy features go and a reasonable shortcut given how much of the game lives in the free spins. Every win can also be sent to a standard card gamble, guessing red or black to double or the suit for a bigger jump, with the usual risk of losing the lot. No jackpots are attached anywhere.

The whole thing leans hard into Chinese New Year iconography. An ornate gold-dragon pagoda border surrounds the reels, red paper lanterns float in the background, and a big gold "GA" coin sits in the scene. The reels stack jade ingots, coin piles, a red lucky-money envelope, pink lotus blossoms, and gilded figures over jade-and-gold A/K/Q/J/10 royals. It's lush, all lucky reds and brilliant golds, clearly built for Asian-market players back in 2017. The one thing holding it back is the ceiling: a top win of just under 2,000x is modest for a 243-ways game with two bonuses, and it caps the upside well below where a feature set like this could reach.

Reviewed by Arina, Slots Editor at Spinoxy Media Ltd.