Pandamania Slot – Free Demo

3000 coins a line for five Pandas

An escaped Panda turns up on the reels without any trigger condition being met, crosses them and leaves wilds where it passes, and it comes around more often once the free games are running. Pandamania is constructed using 5 reels with 3 rows. Payline wins are multiplied by the amount staked per payline, and only the highest win on each selected line counts. There are 25 paylines, playable from 1 up to 25, and the RTP is 95.53%. Scatter wins are multiplied by the total stake instead, and are added to the payline wins.

The best symbol, of course, is the Panda himself. Every symbol except the scattered Sign and the Pick Me pays left to right. 5 in combination of him will grant you 3000 coins per line, and he is also the wild, substituting for all symbols except the Pandamania Sign scatter and the Pick Me symbol. The session ran 278 spins at 12.50 credits a spin, wagering 3,475.00 and winning back 2,483.75 for a return of 71.5%, with 113 spins paying and 76 of those 113 coming back under the stake. Any win including a Panda is doubled.

A bicycle across reels 2, 3 and 4

In one captured spin the escaped Panda rode a bicycle straight across the middle row of reels 2, 3 and 4 while the reels stood still, with a Panda Wild already sitting on reel 5. The Panda Escape Bonus can trigger at any moment, and an escaped Panda may appear on the reels and render symbols wild. Light & Wonder builds the same device into Foxin Wins and Foxin Wins Again, where a character arrives on the reels outside any trigger condition and leaves wilds behind it.

Pick Me needs reels 2, 3 and 4 at once

Another feature is the Pick Me symbol. One logged spin held a single Pick Me locked on reel 2 with no partners on reels 3 or 4, and nothing came of it. It appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, and when they land together, you choose one symbol to uncover either 1 cash prize, 1 prize plus a Pick Again for 2 prizes, or Win All for 3 prizes. In that same spin an escaped Panda had landed on the middle position of reel 3 and was holding it as a wild, and the spin paid 20.00 credits across two paylines.

Two Sign triggers in 278 spins

Lastly, there is the Pandamania Sign which triggers the Free Games Feature, and it pays anywhere on the reels. Because it pays any, the Sign does not have to sit on a selected payline to count. 2, 3, 4 or 5 of them will grant you 1, 5, 20 or 100 times your total stake respectively. The feature arrived twice across 278 spins, on spin 52 and on spin 175. 3 or more will also deliver 10 free games with all prizes doubled, played at the lines and bet of the triggering spin, and once begun, the feature can be retriggered. Neither logged feature retriggered; each ran its 10 games and ended there.

In the bonus, you'll also benefit from the Panda Escape Bonus. The first one paid 225.00 credits, 18.0 times the stake, on a spin where the base game had already paid 7.50, and the balance went from 937.50 to 1,157.50. The escaped Panda appears more often throughout the free games. The second came 123 spins later and paid 262.50 credits, 21.0 times the stake, lifting the balance from 390.00 to 640.00.

The Minty Summary: The Free Games Feature came twice in 278 spins and paid 487.50 credits between them, while the escaped Panda kept letting itself out in the base game with no trigger condition to meet, doubling whatever line it landed on.

Where 3,475 credits went

You can always contend that Light & Wonder has played it a bit too cautiously, and yes, I did anticipate something more distinctive. The two free games rounds together paid 487.50 credits, 20% of everything the session won. But the doubled wins were the chief attraction here, and Light & Wonder keeps the Panda at the heart of everything. The largest win outside a feature came on spin 49, 225.00 credits or 18.0 times the stake, ahead of 162.50 on spin 194 and 125.00 on spin 50. As a result, it's not a wholly new game but more of a polished version of a familiar formula. The balance peaked at 1,178.75 credits on spin 61 and ran out on spin 278 at 8.75, with the longest run of losing spins reaching eight and ending on spin 98.

For those players who crave more bite and bark, at least, Pandamania is a plain game with this paytable.