Wushu Punch Slot by Playtech

Wushu Punch is set in a rainy, neon-drenched Chinatown at night, its 5x3 reels ringed by skyscrapers plastered with glowing Chinese signage. The star is a young female wushu fighter, and she's not just a symbol, she appears inside red and gold picture frames that act as the game's cash symbols. Around her are nunchucks, a chopper motorbike and gold coins over royals, with a green jade crystal as the wild that lands only on the middle three reels. Base pays are modest, so the framed fighters are the point.

Land three or four framed women on adjacent reels from the left and each one hands you a random cash prize. The red frames pay small, up to 8x your bet, but the gold frames are where it gets serious, worth 10x, 15x, or one of the fixed prizes: Mini at 20x, Minor at 100x, or a Major at 500x.

Fill all five reels with framed women and you trigger the Strike and Spin, a hold-and-win round. Each triggering symbol banks a prize into a tally, then you get three respins where only stacked gold fighters land. A gold woman filling a whole reel re-adds every reel's prize to the tally, any gold woman that lands holds in place and resets your respins to three, and if all five reels fill with gold fighters you get three middle-reel spins where landing one more awards the 2,000x Grand. It's a proper build-up feature.

Three yin-yang scatters also open 10 free games, and these strip the low card symbols out for richer reels, with the Strike and Spin still able to hit. Because the four prizes are fixed rather than networked progressives, they pay out in the free Playtech demo. The 2,000x Grand is the game's max win, moderate rather than massive. One warning: the default RTP is 95%, but this is a Rare Stone title some operators run at just 88%, which is dreadful, so always check the paytable before real money. As a stylish martial-arts demo, the Strike and Spin makes it a fun one.