Super Graphics Upside Down Slot by Blueprint Gaming

The literal selling point sits in the title. Once any bonus round starts, the entire reel set physically rotates 180 degrees and the spins play out on an inverted grid - symbols hang from the top, the jackpot ladder swaps sides, the cats end up below. It is purely visual but the implementation is unusually committed for a gimmick, and Blueprint built the rest of the game around making sure you see it often.

Triggers come through the Maneki-neko trio perched above the reels. Tokens drop in three colours (blue, green, red) and any token landing in view randomly pays a 2x to 15x base-bet cash prize before flying up to its matching cat. Four or five matching-colour tokens on a single spin guarantee that cat triggers a bonus. The six combinations: blue alone is the Blue Bonus with x2 Wilds, green alone is Green with x3 Wilds, blue plus green is Super with x4. Add a red into either combo and you get Ultra (blue+red, x2) or Supreme (green+red, x3), both of which include a single spin of the Bonus Wheel before the spins start. All three colours together is the Ultimate, x4 Wilds plus the Wheel. Seven spins regardless of tier.

The Wild restriction is worth flagging because it changes how the multipliers compound. Wilds only land on reels 2, 3 and 4. When more than one Wild contributes to the same winning way their multipliers ADD together, not multiply, so two x4 Wilds in the Ultimate round make x8, not x16. It caps the runaway potential but keeps the math readable. Inside the bonus only red tokens appear, and they award either 0.25x to 50x cash, +1 or +2 extra spins, or another trip to the Bonus Wheel via the red cat.

The Wheel itself runs from 20x up to 2,000x your stake and can be stopped manually if you want to claim the indicator early. Five jackpot pots run down the left rail (MINI 20x, MINOR 50x, MAJOR 200x, MEGA 1,000x, GRAND 2,000x) which is one more tier than Blueprint usually fits on a cabinet. The GRAND and the Wheel max share the same 2,000x ceiling, and the overall game cap is a modest 3,000x total bet - so the headroom above the top wheel hit is narrow.

Visually it commits to a cute Japanese arcade pop look without irony. Three smiling Maneki-neko figurines in matching coloured collars perch directly on top of the reel cabinet. The 5x3 grid sits inside a gold frame against a purple-and-magenta starburst field scattered with floating sky-blue stars. Reel symbols pair classic fruit (lemon, grapes, plum, orange, cherries) with stylised character portraits - a red-armoured Japanese knight, a woman in red robes, a man in colourful traditional dress - and the bright blue WILD brick. No buy bonus, no ante bet. Default stake sits at $2.00 rather than the usual $1.00 starting point, with chunky increments like $0.60, $0.80 and $6.00 in the bet menu.