Fu Nan Fu Nu Slot – Free Demo

The firecracker and the coin

The base game unfolds in… a shrine, a forecourt, a hall where good fortune is coined into something more enigmatic? The reels turn inside a fixed frame, with a panel down the left carrying the jackpot meters and the PowerXStream name. Your guess is as good as mine. But firecrackers are detonating across the central reels and gold coins keep appearing. The gold coin is the bonus symbol, and between them those two carry both of the game's features. That bolsters AGS's interest in the Chinese luck theme.

The ticker under the win box

Bet levels run 88, 176 and 352 credits. A separate multiplier control sits alongside them on the panel and is set on its own. Theoretical RTP comes in at 95.89%. Every award is shown in credits, so the paytable figures are read against the bet level and the multiplier applied to it. The base game action occurs on a 5-reel game grid with 243 PowerXStream ways. There are no paylines to choose between; all 243 ways are live on every spin. Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and each prize is multiplied by the count of symbols per reel, with only the largest prize paid per combination. The captured frame shows that arithmetic spelled out on a ticker under the win box, which names the paying symbol and gives the per-way award and the number of ways it landed on before the total.

Where Fu sits in the pay order

Line wins might not be the chief attraction around here, but the game's highest pay symbol is Fu, worth 1,000 credits for five. Beneath it the pay order runs golden dragon, treasure chest, koi fish, red fan, red envelope and oranges, then the four card ranks. Closing off this section is the wild symbol. It's a firecracker that appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, and wilds substitute for all symbols. Held to the middle reels as it is, it can never be the leftmost symbol in a combination.

Choosing the round before it starts

Landing a winning grouping of gold-coin bonus symbols in the base game activates the Free Spins Bonus. The coin has to form a winning combination to do it, so it is read by the ways engine like any other symbol. The grouping pays credits on its own account too: 440 for three, 880 for four, 4,400 for five, and a pick screen then presents three choices — 15, 10 or 5 free spins, each on its own reel layout. Those bonus credits are added to whatever the line wins on the same spin came to. The round is played on a separate set of reels, the bet multiplier carries over from the triggering spin, and retriggers are possible. The choice is made and locked in before the first free spin turns. The retrigger prize and reel layout match the original selection. A round that began on the 5-spin option therefore keeps adding 5 at a time.

Twelve objects and three matching icons

A wild appearing anywhere in the base game may grant the Jackpot Pick Bonus, and players pick from 12 items until 3 matching jackpot symbols surface. There is no other exit from the pick screen; it runs until that third match appears. That jackpot pays. The jackpot meters sit on the panel beside the reels for the whole of the base game, with the PowerXStream logo below them. The tiers in credits are Grand 10,000, Major 800, Minor 25 and Mini 10. AGS runs the same four-level jackpot ladder across other cabinets, among them Longhorn Jackpots and Rakin' Bacon.

Two triggers, two different endings

The Free Spins Bonus is where the game puts its work. It is the only feature that moves play onto a different set of reels. There is more to it than a spin count: there's the pick screen to consider, a separate set of reels behind each choice, and a whole lot of good old-fashioned firecracker racket to encounter if it all goes according to plan. That largely comes down to landing the correct symbols. The Jackpot Pick Bonus asks for one symbol instead, and it is the same firecracker that does the substituting. Having a wild able to dole one out in the base game puts a second trigger condition into every base spin. That one ends in a fixed credit award from one of the four levels, with no spins attached.

Minty’s Final Note: The pick screen is the whole feature — three spin counts, three reel sets, and the choice locked in before the round turns. Mine took the 5-spin option on spin 258 and paid 20 times the stake, the biggest thing the session produced.

290 spins and one pick screen

My own 290 spins were less eventful. No Jackpot Pick Bonus came out of them. 510.40 wagered emerged as 243.23, a 47.7% return, with 75 paying spins and a 30-spin dry spell concluding on spin 71, and the one Free Spins Bonus I witnessed arrived on spin 258. Most of those 75 wins did not cover the stake. The 5-spin option came off the pick screen, and no retrigger followed. The round ran on the reel set behind that option, at the bet multiplier carried over from spin 258. It paid 35.20, 20 times the stake and the largest thing that occurred all session. Take all of the drama, emotion, letdown and hope of a slot that pays 26% of the time, tune the daylights out of it, and you've got Fu Nan Fu Nu.