Dragon Pot Slot Review
A red-and-gold dragon curls down the left of the screen, whiskers flared, coiled over a teal panel while mist softens the rocky backdrop behind the reels. Dragon Pot from Amatic is a game where the base reels exist mostly to pass the time: everything that matters is built into a single respin round that refuses to end on a schedule. It’s a bold shape for a traditional five-reeler, and mostly it comes off. The 5×3 grid, 10 fixed paylines and RTP of 96.88% frame the deal, with that RTP sitting comfortably above the industry norm.
Amatic’s catalogue on these pages includes Fortune Joker 10, Fortune Joker 20 and Mr Magic, and Dragon Pot shares their fondness for stacked symbols and a single well-built bonus round. Line wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, with the wild doing useful work in between. The question is whether one bonus round can carry a whole pot.
Symbols, Lines and the Paytable
All wins occur on active lines, and only the highest combination on each line is paid. Wins from different lines are added together, and every line win is a multiple of the line bet. Nothing here is unusual in shape: ten fixed lines, left to right, adjacent reels only.
Where Dragon Pot differs from a plain five-reeler is in its stacking. Symbols come stacked, so a single reel can carry three copies of the same symbol at once. When two or three stacked reels align, the middle and higher symbols pay across multiple lines simultaneously, and that’s where the bigger base wins come from.
A stacked wild reel is the best case of all, filling several lines in one spin. With only ten lines in play, a full wild reel touches a good share of them at once. The wild also stacks alongside the paying symbols, which keeps mid-size wins arriving in clusters rather than one at a time.
The Wild
The wild substitutes for every symbol except the BONUS symbol, and it’s the richest symbol on the reels by some distance. Five wilds on a line pay 2,500x the line bet, five times what the next-best symbol manages. It appears stacked too, which is what makes it genuinely dangerous rather than just useful.
The paying symbols, at three, four and five of a kind, are multiples of the line bet:
- Wild – 100, 250, 2,500
- Pot (gold ingot) – 25, 100, 500
- Lotus – 20, 80, 400
- Fan – 15, 75, 300
- Lantern – 10, 50, 200
- A, K – 4, 15, 50
- Q, J – 3, 10, 40
- 10 – 2, 6, 30
That’s a modest ladder outside the wild. The premium symbols are drawn in the same ornate red-and-gold style as the frame around the reels, so the theme holds together even on losing spins. The royals fill the gaps, and five 10s returns just 30x the line bet.
There’s a clear gap between the top four symbols and the card ranks. Four gold ingots pay 100x the line bet; four aces pay 15x. The practical effect is that a base-game win involving wilds or premiums feels like an event, while the royals mostly exist to keep the balance ticking between the moments that matter.
Three of a kind tells a similar story. The pot symbol pays 25x the line bet for three, while three queens pay just 3x. Wins at the bottom of the ladder are frequent enough in shape to keep the reels moving, but they rarely amount to much on their own.
Paytable values are based on the current bet level and update automatically when the stake changes. Payouts are only made when the specified number of matching symbols lands, from the leftmost reel onwards.
The BONUSSPIN Round
Three BONUS symbols anywhere on the reels win the BONUSSPIN feature. The BONUS symbol appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, so there are exactly three positions in play for each of the three needed. It’s a tight trigger, and the wild can’t stand in for it.
Every spin is therefore a simple watch: three reels can start the feature, and the other two can’t. Because the symbols only need to land on any position rather than on a payline, the placement within those reels doesn’t matter. Getting one on each of the three eligible reels is the whole requirement.
When the bonus begins, the COIN MULTIPLIER starts at x1. From there, the round changes shape entirely: each of the 15 reel positions spins independently, one position at a time, rather than the reels turning together as they do in the base game. Every position can land its own symbol, and what lands determines both the payout and whether the round continues.
Coins, Pots and the Multiplier
Two symbols matter inside the round. COIN symbols carry their own multiplier values, shown as icons on the reels. POT symbols are the collectors: any time one lands on any position, every multiplier currently sitting on the reels is gathered up and added to the pot.
The two work as a pair. Coins build value where they land, and a pot banks it. Because the collection happens the moment the pot arrives, a well-timed one can sweep a screen of coins into the total before anything else has a chance to interfere.
Multiplier icons of up to x8 appear on the reels during the round, so a full screen of high-value coins, collected at once, is what the feature is built to deliver. The round-opening multiplier of x1 is the floor. Everything above it has to be built one coin at a time.
Retriggers
The round doesn’t run to a fixed count of spins. It continues for as long as it feeds itself: land one or more COIN and/or POT symbols on any reel during a BONUSSPIN, and another BONUSSPIN is played. Every spin that adds to the pot also extends the feature.
That gives a run of productive spins two ways to pay: each one builds the total and buys more chances to build it further. A single coin on a single reel is enough to keep the round alive, so the feature never dies while anything of value is still landing.
The reverse holds too. A spin that lands neither a coin nor a pot is where the round stalls, and a feature that stops early can finish on very little. That asymmetry is the whole character of the BONUSSPIN: quiet spins end it, and productive ones lengthen it.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Most sessions here feel like waiting by a warm, well-decorated fire. You spin, the stacked wilds occasionally light things up, and the real reason to sit down is that one round where fifteen positions start spinning on their own and refuse to stop while coins keep landing. That round, and the greedy little pot at the bottom of it, is why anybody chooses this game.
Its strength is the retrigger: a bonus with no fixed length gives the long build that makes a single feature feel like an event. Its weakness is everything around it. The base paytable outside the wild is thin, and a quiet bonus that dies early pays almost nothing for the wait.
This is one for players who like one idea done properly, wrapped in glossy red and gold. Anyone who wants variety in the bonus menu will find the dragon guarding a single pot, and that pot is all there is.
Dragon Pot FAQs
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What is the RTP of Dragon Pot?
Dragon Pot runs at an RTP of 96.88%, which is above the industry average. -
How do you trigger the BONUSSPIN feature in Dragon Pot?
You need three BONUS symbols on any position to win BONUSSPINS. The BONUS symbol appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and the wild can’t substitute for it. -
How does the BONUSSPIN retrigger work?
The round doesn’t have a fixed length. Landing one or more COIN and/or POT symbols on any reel during a BONUSSPIN plays another one, so the feature keeps running for as long as new coins keep arriving. -
What does the POT symbol do in Dragon Pot?
The POT symbol is the collector. Whenever one lands, every multiplier currently on the reels is gathered up and added to the pot, banking the value the COIN symbols have built. -
What does the wild symbol substitute for in Dragon Pot?
The wild substitutes for all symbols except the BONUS symbol. It’s also the game’s top payer at 2,500x the line bet for five of a kind. -
How many paylines does Dragon Pot have?
Dragon Pot is played with 10 fixed paylines, and line wins pay left to right on adjacent reels. -
What is the grid size of Dragon Pot?
Dragon Pot uses a 5×3 grid with 15 reel positions. During the BONUSSPIN round, each of those 15 positions spins independently. -
When is Dragon Pot released?
Dragon Pot’s release date is 20 July 2023.
