Lucky Rat Slots
Lucky Rat is an oriental themed online video slot game which was crafted and released by renowned gaming developers RealTime Gaming in January of 2020 to celebrate the Year of the Rat according to Chinese astrology.
It offers highly intuitive gameplay that is made pleasurably easy for even novice punters to understand, with New Year festivities introducing a sly and speedy rat offering punters up to 240 free spins with potent scatter symbols and the chance for some very decent wins of up to 1,320 times their stake.
The gaming grid is soaked in sumptuous red and gold both lucky and prosperous colours offering 5 reels with 3-4-5-4 3 rows and 720 ways to win and pays both ways. Players can make wins using at least three and up to five identical and matching symbols that pay out from left to right and right to left.
Chinese festive music provides the immersive sound and the visuals are crisply detailed with animations that are inspired by Chinese culture.
Bets will need to be placed first in order for gameplay to begin and for each spin they start from a minimum of $2.50 and up to a maximum of $250.00. This ample betting range provides a multitude of options to satisfy a wide variety of punter from novices and including veterans and high rollers.
A useful convenience is the Auto-play button which enables punters to pre automate a number of spins to game with which can help tremendously with maintaining a particular gaming budget. It is also a handy tool for those who dislike manual gameplay.
The RTP (Return to Player Percentage) is 97.50% and Year of the Rat plays with low volatility. This means a high frequency and steady trickle of small sized wins which offers low risk along the course of the game.
The gaming symbols offer a wild which is represented by the golden lucky rat with the wild logo and it appears on the middle three reels 2, 3 and 4 and can substitute for the other symbols with the exception of the scatters which are shown as a firecracker and the golden coin. These wilds can show up individually but often they appear as stacked wilds which increases the odds of getting some nice wins. The golden interlocking coins are traditional symbols of good fortune and are also ones to look out for as they pay out between 2x, 10x and 50x and can appear anywhere.
Other symbols are red and pink icons which pay out 50x the wager for five of a kind. Purple and yellow symbols offer 100x for five on a payline. Green hieroglyphs, red envelopes and red lanterns bring 125x, 300x and 400x for five of the same respectively on a payline. The golden nugget is the most lucrative of all offering a top jackpot worth 1,000x for five of the same on a payline.
The firecracker triggers the free spins round which can be retriggered and each combination of five leads to 8 free games and if all the positions are filled on the grid then players are awarded with 240 free spins. Players can also win 1x their stake before the free spins start.
Players can take Lucky Rat slot game on the go to play anywhere and at anytime as it is fully mobile optimized. It is compatible with any iOS Apple, Android or Samsung smartphone or tablet device with a responsive design which automatically resizes for optimal and slick performance.