Hail King Of Fortune Slot Review
A red prosperity hall strung with gold, ingots piled along the bottom of the frame, a chubby figure grinning in from the left edge clutching an ingot of his own. Hail King Of Fortune dresses its hall for Lunar New Year with the volume turned up, then keeps almost nothing else on stage: one wild, one scatter, and a single choice that carries the entire game. Few slots hand you so much say over what kind of round you get, and fewer still make every option a genuinely live one.
It’s a High 5 Games title, cousin in spirit to prosperity-themed outings like 88 Drums and Dragon’s Blessings. The game runs a 5×4 grid played at 1024 ways, with all five reels always in play, a 96.5% RTP and high volatility to match the fortune-hunting theme.
1024 Ways to Hail the King
Wins form across adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one, with one symbol from each reel making up a way. The same symbol in a different position on the same reel pays that way again, and only the highest win counts for each combination. It’s a standard ways setup, so five-of-a-kind wins can land in many configurations at once.
Every win is multiplied by the bet multiplier, and all five reels stay in play on every spin, so a way can run the full width of the grid. Because wins pay left to right only, the middle reels do a lot of the work, which is where this game puts both of its special figures anyway.
The pink rose figure is the base-game wild, substituting for all symbols except the golden scatter, and it appears only on reels two, three and four. The scatter is the golden figure in red and pink, and three of him anywhere on those same middle reels start the bonus.
The paying symbols are drawn straight from the prosperity hall, with the god of wealth himself at the top and gold trinkets below. Values are shown without any bet modifiers applied, so treat them as multiples of the bet multiplier rather than fixed prizes.
- Cai Shen figure (red, with scroll): 10 for two, 50 for three, 200 for four, 500 for five
- Blue figure with peach and green figure with child: 25 for three, 100 for four, 300 for five
- Gold ingot, gold tree and gold egg: 10 for three, 50 for four, 150 for five
- A, K, Q and J: 5 for three, 20 for four, 80 for five
Royals make up the floor of the paytable and turn up often enough to keep the balance ticking between bonus triggers. The three gold trinkets sit just above them, and the two figures with the peach and child fill the middle rung. Cai Shen is the only symbol that pays for two, which tells you where the game expects its big base-game wins to come from: him, stacked down the middle reels.
Bonus Select: Three Rounds in One
Landing three scatter figures in any position on reels two, three and four awards one pick, and the choice is the whole feature. Few spins with wild multipliers that bite, or many spins with modest ones. That’s the entire decision, and it’s a real one: no option is a safe pick.
- Option 1: just 3 free games, but the wilds carry the biggest multipliers at 11x, 18x and 28x
- Option 2: a middle path of 8 free games, with 5x, 8x and 11x wilds
- Option 3: 18 free games, the long haul, priced down to 2x, 3x and 5x wilds
The pick is made, the select ends, and the free games begin immediately afterwards. There’s no ladder to climb, no meter to fill, no second stage. The option you choose is the round you get, from first spin to last.
Free Games Bonus
The free games run on different reels from the base game, playing the same 1024 ways at the same bet multiplier as the spin that started them. Whatever you picked, that’s your round: the bonus doesn’t award additional free games, so there’s no retrigger to chase. It ends when the count reaches zero.
The bonus round has its own paytable, and it pays noticeably less per symbol than the base game does. That’s the cost of having multiplier wilds in play, and the gap is biggest at the top: Cai Shen drops from 500 for five down to 200, and from 200 for four to 80.
- Cai Shen figure: 5 for two, 20 for three, 80 for four, 200 for five
- Blue figure with peach and green figure with child: 10 for three, 50 for four, 100 for five
- Gold ingot, gold tree and gold egg: 8 for three, 20 for four, 60 for five
- A, K, Q and J: 5 for three, 10 for four, 30 for five
Bonus Wild Multipliers
During the free games, the wilds change character entirely. Seven dancing figures take over from the pink rose, each of them wild and each carrying a multiplier: x2, x3, x5, x8, x11, x18 or x28, one value per figure. They appear only on reels two, three and four, same as everything else special in this game.
One detail shapes the whole round: when more than one of these wilds appears, the multiplier values are summed rather than multiplied. Stacking several figures onto a single spin is where the bigger results live, and the three-spin option is built entirely around catching exactly that. A full house of dancing figures on the middle reels is the prize this game dangles.
It’s a summed-multiplier design rather than a compounding one, and the trimmed bonus paytable is the other side of that arrangement. The wilds are also the substitute for every other symbol in the round, so any spin carrying two or three of them has several ways to turn into something.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing this game means sitting through a fairly plain ways grid waiting on three scatters, and then the whole thing resolves in the few seconds it takes to make one pick. That pick is the reason to choose it over any other prosperity slot: it puts the round’s shape in your hands instead of the machine’s, and every option is live.
The summed wild multipliers are what make it work, because they give even the shortest round real teeth when the dancing figures stack up. The weakness sits right next to that: nothing extends and nothing builds, so a pick that goes quiet is simply finished, and the trimmed bonus paytable makes quiet picks sting.
This suits players who like their feature short, loud and decided in one moment of nerve, and it will leave anyone who wants a long round with safety nets cold. For that first kind of player, the prosperity hall delivers exactly the kind of fortune worth queueing for: brief, bright, and all down to you.
Hail King Of Fortune FAQs
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What is the RTP of Hail King Of Fortune?
The theoretical return to player is 96.5%, which sits comfortably above the industry average. -
Is Hail King Of Fortune high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility game, so wins can be infrequent and the bonus round carries most of the potential. -
How many paylines does Hail King Of Fortune have?
It’s played at 1024 ways, and all five reels are always in play. -
What is the grid size of Hail King Of Fortune?
The game uses a 5×4 grid with symbols forming wins across adjacent reels from the left. -
When is Hail King Of Fortune released?
Hail King Of Fortune’s release date is 11 June 2019. -
Who makes Hail King Of Fortune?
Hail King Of Fortune is made by High 5 Games. -
How does the Bonus Select work?
Landing three Bonus Select scatters anywhere on reels two, three and four awards one pick from three options: 3 free games with multipliers of 11x, 18x and 28x; 8 free games with multipliers of 5x, 8x and 11x; or 18 free games with multipliers of 2x, 3x and 5x. The free games begin immediately after your pick. -
Can the free games be retriggered?
No. The Free Games Bonus doesn’t award additional free games, so the round plays out in full and ends when the count reaches zero.
