Panda Money Slot by Big Time Gaming

Land a win and the reels don't pay and move on. The winning symbols lock in place, and every other position respins to try to make that same win bigger. If it grows, the held symbols stay put and the rest spin again, and this Prize Build keeps repeating until a respin fails to improve anything. Only then does it pay. Each build can also stretch the board wider, pushing the way-count up as more matching symbols get pinned.

It's a Megaways game, but a shorter one than the studio usually builds. Six reels, five symbols high at most, so the ceiling sits at 15,625 ways instead of the familiar 117,649. A horizontal Extra Reel rides above the grid, and it's the only spot the Wild and Scatter appear, though a Prize Build can drop them into the reels below. Whenever symbols clear during a build, Bamboo pieces turn up, and the dozing panda gathers them. Every five bamboo lifts the win multiplier by one.

Three Scatters open 8 free spins, plus 2 more for each Scatter past the third, and the same lands retrigger. The multiplier is what changes in the bonus. It starts at x1 and never resets, climbing a step for every five Bamboo the panda collects across the round's Prize Builds, with nothing capping how high it goes. So a long, bamboo-heavy run inside the feature is where the real damage gets done.

There's a shortcut in, too. Hit a win of 100x or more and you can hand 100x of it straight over for 8 free spins, spin a wheel to gamble a qualifying win toward the same 8, or press collect and keep the cash. Or buy the feature directly, with Feature Drop symbols trimming the price. It all sits in a sunlit bamboo forest beside a waterfall, a stone pagoda and an orange lantern in the trees, a giant black-and-white panda asleep on mossy rocks. The premiums are a purple lotus, a red koi-dragon, a blue butterfly and a green jade ring, with the jade lettering of the logo glinting off to the side.