Year of the Rat offers an animal-themed slot, that might seem quite strange at first. If you dig deeper than the graphics and sound effects, you’ll find a surprisingly great game, with a wide playing area and plenty of paylines to keep you busy.
Check out if you can find your Chinese zodiac on the reels, and get a feel of the stars through a plentitude of big wins.
But what about features and bet levels? What’s the variance and how many paylines are there exactly?
Read on to find out!
Theme and Symbols
The rat takes the centerfold, with the background expanding the reels all the way into stars. There are quite a few other animals here as well, familiar from the Chinese Zodiac. The style is something between cartoonish and comical, making a perfect fit for the game. The audio effects aren’t very complicated, but they do their purpose, especially when a big win hits the reels. The slot could have used a few more animations, though the way it is makes the game easy to run on all devices.
Betting Options and Functions
As soon you open up the slot it’s pretty obvious that it’s not special features but the reels themselves that are the center of attention here…
The play area consists of five reels of four symbols each. Through this, runs 100 paylines, though you can play with as few as 10. Naturally, with so many paylines you have to choose your bet carefully.
The variance is somewhere between medium and high. This results in basic paytable wins that are not exceedingly high, though at 400 times the line bet you can strengthen your bankroll considerably when the symbols land just right.
Features
There aren’t any features with this slot actually. Instead, Spinomenal has simply opted to make the wild and scatter two ultra-powerful symbols…
The wild has a few special abilities, meaning that it can land in massive numbers. The ultimate form of this is all the reels with all their symbol positions full of wilds. That means you are going to win over 200 000 times your line bet! Just five wilds will net you a decent 2000 times the line bet too.
Scatter, on the other hand, pays out handsomely from any position. It might not dish out any bonus spins, but with five scatters paying 25 000 times the line bet that’s not really of any concern!
Our Take
Year of the Rat isn’t the first zodiac slot from Spinomenal, and probably not the last one either. The theme doesn’t, in fact, play a very big role here, instead this is a game that fully embodies the power of wilds and scatters. You rarely see these two simple symbols dish out such massive prizes!
Slot data and features
- 5Reels
- 100Pay lines
- $100,000.00Max cash jackpot
- 95.75Payout Percent
- YesWild Symbol
- NoMultiplier
- $0.1 - $50Betting Range
- 0.01 - 5.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 20000Max coins jackpot
- 100Max coins
- YesScatter Symbol
- NoFree spins available
- NoBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Animals , New Year , Cute and Fluffy Game theme
