Ox Riches Slot by Playtech

Land three wilds or scatters across the first three reels and the Prosperity Choice opens. It makes you pick one of two: the coin hold-and-spin, or a flat 8 free spins. Most jackpot slots built like this just start their bonus for you. Here you choose, and the 8 free spins are the plainer option, so the coins are where you'll want to be.

Take the hold-and-spin and the flaming gold coins lock in place and respin, each one carrying its own cash value. Every coin sitting on the board pays, and the round keeps breathing as long as new coins keep landing. Fill all fifteen positions and the full screen of coins awards the Grand, the game's top prize at 1,600x your bet, with the individual coin values banked on top of it rather than swallowed by it.

The Grand sits above three smaller fixed prizes, Major, Minor and Mini, on the meters across the top. There's a second route in too: a jackpot pick round where matching three of the same head hands you that tier outright. The laughing landlord and the farmer perched either side of the golden treasure pot up top are the ones dealing those.

Underneath the features it's a 243-ways board, matching from the left with no fixed lines on a jade-green Chinese scroll backdrop. A fierce red ox head tops the paytable, above golden figurines of a pig, a chow dog, a rooster and a rat sat on their own piles of coins, with gem-studded royals at the bottom. The gold Shou medallion is the wild, showing only on the middle three reels, and it covers everything except the coins, so it can never trick the coin feature into starting. The gong is the scatter and pays from anywhere. No buy button and no ante, so those three symbols on the opening reels are your only way to the choice.