Money Gong Empress Slot by IGT

Two bonuses feed into each other here, and understanding the chain is most of the game. The first is a lock-and-collect round triggered two ways: land 6 or more green coins anywhere on the reels, or ignite every firecracker strung around the golden Gong medallion on the left. Small coin drops of one to five may light those firecrackers, and once they're all lit the Gong steps in to place whatever coins you still need. Either route hands you three respins. Every locked coin shows a value from 3 to 88, or a Mini, Minor, Maxi or Major marker, and each fresh coin resets the count back to three.

After every respin the Gong throws in a random modifier, and these are where the values climb. Prize Boost adds 10 to 150 coins to a single coin. Vortex Pays hits one coin repeatedly, 2 to 5 times, stacking 8 to 40 coins each pass. A multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x8 can land on one coin or several. Or the Gong drops a Money Gong symbol onto an open reel, and that's the trapdoor into the nested round. Fill every position on the main grid and the Grand pays out immediately, ending the respins right there.

Each Money Gong symbol you collected plays out afterward as its own separate hold-and-win, three spins across eight single-position reels that only show gold coins worth 12 to 150 or gold jackpot markers. Lock all eight and it awards the Money Gong Prize, then folds its total back into your main haul as a Collect symbol. It's a bonus buried inside a bonus, and the top end reaches 10,000x.

The Free Spins round runs cleaner. Three scatters on the middle reels award 6, 12 or 18 spins, and on each one the Gong scatters up to nine wilds across the board, sparing only reel 1 and any coin or Empress icon already sitting there. Want to skip the wait, 30x buys the free spins, 50x buys straight into the collect round. The board itself leans hard into Chinese New Year red and gold, ornate gold koi, folding fans and lotus blooms against deep purple with lanterns overhead. If you've played Money Gong Emperor, this is the same machine with a two-point RTP bump in the Empress version's favour.