5 Treasures Jackpot Festival Slot Review
Red lanterns hang beside the logo, a lacquered gold vessel overflows with coins above the reels, and dragon tendrils curl up both edges of a plum-coloured screen. It’s Light & Wonder in full Lunar New Year dress, and the dressing is doing something unusual: it’s covering for the fact that this is really five jackpot games stitched into one ordinary reel-ways slot, and that only two of them are worth the ticket.
It runs on a 5×3 grid with 243 ways to win and an RTP of between 95.99% and 96.17%, three of the jackpots progressive. The headline prize reseeds at 300,000 credits, with an 888x stake prize underneath it. Cousins include Dancing Drums Tower and Ultimate Fire Link China Street. Festival over, do the treasures pay out?
The Base Game: 243 Ways and the FU BAT Wild
Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, with all 243 ways active on every spin. Multiple ways landing the same symbols add together, and only the highest combination pays. It’s a familiar setup, and the game doesn’t dwell on it, saving its energy for the jackpot layers instead.
The FU BAT symbol is wild and substitutes for everything except DRAGON WITH OVERLAY symbols. It appears on reels two, three and four in both the base game and Free Spins, so it can’t complete a five-of-a-kind on its own. It does plug the middle of most wins.
The paytable scales with your bet, so credit values shift as stakes change. In descending order:
- Red Door – the clear top payer, worth roughly six times the Gold Lion for a full line
- Gold Lion – second best, with a five-symbol pay well clear of the rest
- Blue Bird – the first of the mid-tier animals
- Green Tiger – sits just below the Blue Bird across all three match levels
- Gold Fish/Koi – the lowest of the themed symbols
- Gold Dragon – the most common symbol, and the one the Jackpot Festival feature transforms
Royals from Ace down to Nine fill the gaps alongside the themed set, along with the TREASURE DOOR scatter that opens the bonus. The Gold Dragon’s role in the headline feature makes it the one low payer worth watching.
Jackpot Festival: The Overlay Dragons
Bet at least 0.88 and every base game spin picks a handful of reels at random. Any DRAGON symbols on those reels may change into DRAGON WITH OVERLAY versions, which substitute for ordinary dragons in normal wins too.
Their real job is the ladder they build. Four overlay dragons on adjacent reels from the left pays 888x your stake outright; five awards the Jackpot Festival Jackpot, the progressive headline prize that reseeds at 300,000 credits. The chance of hitting either increases with higher bets. This one stays in the base game and never fires inside Free Spins.
FU BABY Jackpot: The Coin Pick
One or more FU BAT symbols on screen can set off the FU BABY Jackpot, so long as the Major or Grand hasn’t already dropped on the same wagered game. Coins fill the screen and you pick them, revealing FU BABY symbols until three match. The corresponding meter pays out.
- Stakes of 0.68 and above: 12 coins, with Mini, Minor, Major and Grand all in play
- Stakes of 0.18 or 0.38: 6 coins, with only Mini and Minor available
- Mini is a fixed jackpot worth roughly 11.4x your stake
- Minor is a fixed jackpot worth roughly 56.8x your stake
- The Major and Grand are progressive, reseeding at 5,000 and 88,000 credits respectively
- The Jackpot Festival Jackpot can’t be won from this feature
Your odds on the Major and Grand improve as your bet goes up, so the pick game quietly rewards the bigger stakers. The coins accumulating in the bowl over time are purely cosmetic and have no effect on triggering. Unlike the Festival, this one can fire inside Free Spins.
Free Spins: Five Modes, One Choice
Three or more TREASURE DOOR symbols on consecutive reels from the left awards a payout plus six free spins. The wild substitutes for the TREASURE DOOR in winning combinations, which helps both the trigger and the pays. When it fires from the base game, you pick one of five modes, each adding a different themed symbol to the reels:
- Koi – 128 Koi symbols across the five reels, the most crowded
- Tortoise – 118 Tortoise symbols
- Tiger – 108 Tiger symbols
- Phoenix – 98 Phoenix symbols
- Dragon – 88 Dragon symbols, the sparsest
Each mode uses the same royals, FU BAT and TREASURE DOOR symbols alongside its themed one. More copies of a symbol mean frequent but smaller wins; fewer mean rarer and richer ones. Free spins run at the same total bet as the triggering spin and play automatically once you’ve chosen.
Retriggers
Landing the doors again inside the round extends it. Three or more during the feature means another payout plus six additional free spins, played on the same reelset as your chosen mode.
The FU BABY Jackpot stays live throughout, so a coin pick can land mid-round even though the Festival itself is switched off.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing this is mostly patient waiting in a very pretty room: the spins tick along, the reels stay quiet, and the reason you’re there is the ladder glowing above them. That’s the whole draw. Nobody loads this one for the reel-ways payouts.
What earns the rating is player choice. Five jackpots, two different routes at them, and five free spins modes that let you set your own pace inside the bonus – more agency than most jackpot games offer. The weakness is that the game quietly tiers itself by stake. Bet under 0.88 and the headline feature simply doesn’t exist; the version of the game you bought isn’t the one on the poster.
For stakers who unlock the full ladder, there’s a genuinely engaging chase under all that gold and red. Small-bet players get the decor without the festival, and they’re better served elsewhere. At the right stake, the lanterns are well worth lighting.
5 Treasures Jackpot Festival FAQs
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What is the RTP of 5 Treasures Jackpot Festival?
The RTP is between 95.99% and 96.17%, reflecting the theoretical return across many plays. -
How many paylines does 5 Treasures Jackpot Festival have?
It’s a REEL WAYS game with 243 ways to win. Wins must occur on adjacent reels beginning with the far left reel, and wins on multiple ways are added together. -
What is the grid size of 5 Treasures Jackpot Festival?
The game plays on a 5×3 grid with all 243 ways active on every spin. -
How do you trigger the Jackpot Festival feature?
On stakes of 0.88 and above, each base game spin randomly selects reels where certain DRAGON symbols change to DRAGON WITH OVERLAY symbols. Four overlay dragons on adjacent reels from the left pays 888x your stake, and five awards the Jackpot Festival Jackpot. It can’t trigger inside Free Spins. -
How does the FU BABY Jackpot work?
It may trigger when one or more FU BAT wild symbols appear on screen, provided the Major or Grand Jackpot hasn’t already been won on the current wagered game. You pick coins to reveal FU BABY symbols, and three matches award the corresponding jackpot. At stakes of 0.68 and above you get 12 coins with all four jackpots in play; at 0.18 or 0.38 you get 6 coins with only Mini and Minor available. -
How do the five free spins modes differ?
When Free Spins trigger from the base game, you choose one of five modes: Koi, Tortoise, Tiger, Phoenix or Dragon. Each adds a different number of its themed symbol to the reels, from 128 Koi symbols down to 88 Dragons. The crowded modes hit often for less; the sparse ones trade frequency for bigger combinations. -
Can free spins retrigger in 5 Treasures Jackpot Festival?
Yes. Three or more TREASURE DOOR symbols on consecutive reels from the left within the round awards a payout plus six additional free spins, using the same reelset as your chosen mode. -
Who makes 5 Treasures Jackpot Festival?
It’s made by Light & Wonder, whose release date for the game is 4 March 2024.
