Money Gong Emperor Slot by IGT

Firecrackers ring the golden gong on the left side of the grid, and they're not just decoration. Land anywhere from one to five green coin symbols during a base spin and those firecrackers might all ignite at once, forcing the gong to fill in the remaining coins needed to hit six - the threshold for the Hold & Win Bonus. It is a random safety net that fires without warning and pulls you straight into the bonus even on an otherwise dead spin.

The Hold & Win itself runs on a standard 3-respin counter. Green coins lock, each new landing resets the counter, and filling all 15 positions awards the Grand jackpot. But the gong stays active here too. After each respin it can award one of four modifiers: Prize Boost (bumps a coin's value by 10 to 150 credits), Repeat Pays (pays one coin's value 2-5 times over), a x2/x3/x5/x8 multiplier placed on a single coin, or a Money Gong symbol. That last one opens a second bonus layer - an 8-reel sub-grid where you collect gold coins across 3 respins for a separate payout. Lock all eight positions and you hit the Money Gong Prize. The whole sum then folds back into the Hold & Win as a Collect symbol value. For 30x your bet you can buy straight into free spins, or 50x skips everything and drops you into Hold & Win directly.

Free spins award 6, 12, or 18 rounds triggered by three scatters across reels 2-4. During every free spin the gong places up to nine wilds on reels 2 through 5 before wins evaluate. If enough coins land during free spins to trigger Hold & Win, it plays out in full before free spins resume. Five fixed jackpot tiers sit across the top - Mini, Minor, Mars, Major, and Grand - all scaling with your coin value. Deep red and gold everywhere: ornate pillars framing the reels, jade-green coin orbs floating across the grid, golden lion statues and bonsai trees filling the premium symbol slots. The Chinese New Year energy is loud and deliberate.