4 Dragon Pearls Slot Review
Four pearl-filled ceramic pots crown the reels, misty peaks glowing behind them in a violet dawn. Most of 4 Dragon Pearls’ charm is spent before a single spin resolves: nearly everything the game has to offer lives inside one bonus round, and the base game is little more than a wait for it.
It’s a 3 Oaks Gaming build on a 5×3 grid with 25 fixed paylines. The game doesn’t publish an RTP figure, so there’s nothing to quote there. There’s no maximum win number either; the ceiling is whatever a full board can hold.
The real business happens in the hold-and-stick bonus round, where four different special symbols fight for space on the board. Whether the pearls are worth chasing depends on how much you enjoy that particular grind.
Base Game & Features
The base game runs on five reels and three rows, with the number of bet lines fixed at 25. You can’t adjust the line count, only the stake. Wins form from the leftmost reel onwards, and the game pays the highest win per line rather than stacking combinations.
Wild symbols appear on the reels and stand in for other symbols to complete winning combinations. That’s their whole job in the base game, and there’s nothing unusual about how they behave.
Ordinary play is a straightforward spins-and-lines affair. The four pots above the reels sit inert during the base game, waiting for the bonus to give them work. Any SUPER BONUS symbol that lands during the main game adds charge to the SUPER POT, which is the slow fuse that can set the bigger round off.
4 Dragon Pearls Bonus Features
The bonus round is where this game keeps everything it has. It’s a respin-and-stick format with four special symbols layered on top, plus an expanded super version that grows the board. Each part is simple on its own; together they give the round its shape.
The Bonus Game
The Bonus Game is played at the triggering bet and opens with three respins. Every fresh symbol that lands restores the count to three, and everything on the board stays put until the round ends.
The round runs until the respins are exhausted or the board fills completely. At that point, the values of all symbols on the board are summed and paid as the Bonus Win. Each feature above the reels, MULTI, COLLECT and EXTRA, collects the same-coloured symbols as they land.
The rhythm that follows is the same one every respin-and-stick round uses. Land nothing and a respin burns; land anything at all, even a single low-value symbol, and you’re back to three. A board that keeps dripping symbols can run for a long time, and the tension sits in the empty stretches rather than the full ones.
MULTI Feature
When a MULTI symbol appears in the Bonus or Super Bonus Game, it places multipliers on three empty cells:
- x2 multiplier
- x3 multiplier
- x5 multiplier
If there are no empty cells left, the new multipliers are added to cells that already carry one. The MULTI symbol itself then takes a random value from the list below, and the cell multipliers are applied to symbol values when the round ends.
- 2X Total Bet
- 3X Total Bet
- 4X Total Bet
- 5X Total Bet
- 6X Total Bet
- 7X Total Bet
- 8X Total Bet
- 9X Total Bet
- 10X Total Bet
Note the order of operations: the multipliers land on cells first, and they only touch symbol values at the end. A multiplier sitting on an empty cell does nothing until something lands there, which makes the mid-round geography matter.
COLLECT Feature
The COLLECT symbol gathers the values of every symbol on the reels and folds them into its own. Any cell multipliers in play are applied to the symbol values during collection, so a COLLECT landing on a board carrying multipliers picks up the boosted amounts rather than the base ones.
That makes it the one symbol whose value depends entirely on what the rest of the board has built. A COLLECT early in the round, before anything has accumulated, is worth little; the same symbol late, on a busy board with multipliers scattered across it, is where the round’s biggest single payouts come from.
EXTRA Feature
The EXTRA symbol receives one random value when it appears:
- MINI
- MINOR
- MAJOR
- 20X Total Bet
- 25X Total Bet
- 40X Total Bet
- 50X Total Bet
- 75X Total Bet
It’s the simplest of the four special symbols, but the top end of its range is the largest fixed value any single symbol can carry in the round.
Super Bonus Game
The super round has no separate trigger symbol in the bonus. It’s charged from the main game: every SUPER BONUS symbol that lands builds the SUPER POT, and once that charge pays out, the Super Bonus Game begins.
On entry the board grows from 5×3 to 5×5, with one fresh empty row added at the top and bottom. The SUPER BONUS symbol receives one random value of 7X, 8X, 9X or 10X Total Bet, and the SUPER POT randomly adds BONUS symbols carrying values from this list:
- MINI
- MINOR
- MAJOR
- 1X Total Bet
- 2X Total Bet
- 3X Total Bet
- 4X Total Bet
- 5X Total Bet
- 6X Total Bet
- 7X Total Bet
- 8X Total Bet
- 9X Total Bet
- 10X Total Bet
- 12X Total Bet
That’s the real prize of the super round: a larger board seeded with bonus symbols from the off, with the same respin reset and the same MULTI, COLLECT and EXTRA features in play. A full board is far more reachable at 5×5 with symbols already on it than from a cold start.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing 4 Dragon Pearls is mostly a long wait for the pots to earn their place on the shelf, and the reason to choose it is that the wait pays into the super round rather than vanishing. Every SUPER BONUS symbol builds the charge, so even the dull stretches are doing something.
The bonus round itself is the strength, and it’s a real one: MULTI, COLLECT and EXTRA all live in the same round, so a good board compounds instead of just filling up. The super round’s expanded grid, pre-seeded with paying symbols, is as generous as this format gets.
The weakness is everything else. The base game offers only wilds, and it carries the whole game on its own for however long the charge takes. It’s honest about being a waiting room, but that’s what it is.
This one suits players who play slots for the bonus round and don’t mind quiet reels between visits. Anyone who wants something happening on ordinary spins will find the pearls dull long before the pot fills.
4 Dragon Pearls FAQs
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How many paylines does 4 Dragon Pearls have?
4 Dragon Pearls has 25 paylines, and the number is fixed. You can adjust your stake but not the line count, and wins pay left to right across those 25 lines. -
What is the grid size of 4 Dragon Pearls?
The base game uses a 5×3 grid. When the Super Bonus Game starts, the reels expand to 5×5 by adding one empty row at the top and bottom. -
Who makes 4 Dragon Pearls?
4 Dragon Pearls is made by 3 Oaks Gaming. -
How does the Bonus Game work in 4 Dragon Pearls?
The Bonus Game starts with three respins at the triggering bet. Each new symbol that lands resets the respin count to three, and all symbols stick in place. The round ends when the respins run out or the board fills, at which point all symbol values are summed and paid. -
What does the MULTI symbol do in 4 Dragon Pearls?
The MULTI symbol places x2, x3 and x5 multipliers on three empty cells. If no empty cells are available, the new multipliers stack onto cells that already have one. The MULTI symbol itself then takes a random value between 2X and 10X Total Bet, and the cell multipliers boost symbol values at the end of the round. -
What does the COLLECT symbol do in 4 Dragon Pearls?
The COLLECT symbol scoops up everything currently showing on the reels and adds the lot to its own value. Any cell multipliers in play are applied during the sweep, so it benefits from a busy board with multipliers on it. -
What does the EXTRA symbol do in 4 Dragon Pearls?
The EXTRA symbol receives one random value when it appears during the Bonus or Super Bonus Game: MINI, MINOR, MAJOR, or between 20X and 75X Total Bet. -
How is the Super Bonus Game triggered in 4 Dragon Pearls?
The Super Bonus Game is charged from the main game. Any SUPER BONUS symbol that lands increases the SUPER POT charge, and when the charge is full it can trigger the super round, which expands the grid to 5×5 and pre-seeds the board with bonus symbols.
