Panda’s Coins Slot Review
A panda in a red silk jacket and a tiny gold crown sits astride a temple roof on Chinese New Year’s night, half-buried in gold ingots while coins tumble through the sky around him. Panda’s Coins looks like pure festival excess, but the most striking thing about it is how little of the game that excess actually covers: five reels, three rows, five fixed paylines, and a base paytable that tops out at 100x. Everything else Evoplay has built here is stored in one place, a coin-collecting bonus round with stacked multipliers and a GRAND jackpot worth 5,000x the bet.
It runs at 96.31% RTP, and it sits in the same coin-hoarding family as Piggy Bank: Coinstorm and Fruit Fusion: Three Pots. Whether one round can carry a whole game on five paylines is the fair question. The panda seems confident it can.
How Panda’s Coins Pays
Wins form in the classic way: identical symbols running left to right across the five fixed paylines, with only the highest combination on each line counting. Nine regular symbols do the paying, and the spread is narrow by modern standards.
- Lion: x7 for three, x20 for four, x100 for five
- Gold Ingot: x4, x10, x50
- Money Bag: x4, x10, x50
- Red Lantern: x2.5, x7.5, x25
- Fan: x2.5, x7.5, x25
- A, K, Q, J: x1, x3, x10
The paytable tops out at 100x for five lions. Base wins are small change by design, keeping the reels ticking over while you wait for the coins to arrive.
The wild is a panda in a ceremonial robe. It substitutes for all regular symbols but never for the bonus symbols, and in the main game it only appears on reels two to five. The bonus game changes its job completely: there it can land anywhere on the reels, and instead of substituting it transforms into a random multiplier.
Coins, Collectors and the Bonus Game
Triggering the Round
The bonus game needs a full screen of intent to open. Bonus symbols come in two flavours: Bonus Coins, which carry values, and the Bonus Collector, which can also help satisfy the trigger from the main game.
- Six or more bonus symbols anywhere on the reels in the main game opens the round
- Bonus Coins and Bonus Collectors both count towards that six
- A random event can top up a short count after a losing spin
Bonus Coins and Values
Every bonus symbol holds a random value, drawn from a wide ladder. Those values are paid only inside the bonus game, never in the base game.
- Multipliers of the bet: x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x8, x12
- A flat total-bet prize
- The MINI, MINOR or MAJOR jackpots
Values are shown in the currency you’re playing in, so the coins on the reels read as real money rather than abstract multipliers. The jackpot symbols are the ones to watch: any of the three tiers can ride in on an ordinary-looking coin.
The Bonus Collector
The collector appears at most one per reel, and when it lands it gathers the sums from every bonus coin and collector present on the reels, including values banked from earlier spins. It only collects once per spin, on the spin it lands.
That once-per-spin limit matters more than it sounds. A collector that lands late in the round sweeps up everything the earlier spins built, so the timing of its arrival changes what the round pays.
Multipliers
Multipliers are bonus-game only, carrying random values of x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10. A multiplier can land on a free cell or on a cell already holding another multiplier, in which case the values stack, capped at x20 per cell.
Applying one takes a bonus symbol landing in the multiplier’s cell. A coin that lands there has its value multiplied; a collector that lands there gathers everything on the reels first, then takes the multiplier on the total.
The Random Event
There’s a safety net for near misses. In any round without a winning combination, if at least one bonus symbol is on the reels, extra bonus symbols can appear on random positions until the count reaches six or more, starting the bonus game on the spot.
The event doesn’t fire every time, so a lone coin on a dead spin is a chance rather than a promise. But it means no short count is ever quite dead until the reels stop.
The Jackpot Ladder
A four-tier ladder sits on the base game screen, and the jackpots ride inside the bonus symbols rather than on a separate round.
- GRAND: 5,000x the bet
- MAJOR: 150x the bet
- MINOR: 50x the bet
- MINI: 25x the bet
The GRAND is the game’s ceiling in practice. Landing it means pulling it out of a bonus symbol during the round, which is a long shot, but the ladder gives every trigger something to hope for beyond the coin values. Even the MINI, at 25x, is a respectable result for a single symbol.
Bonus Buy
Two buy options sit alongside the spin button: Standard and Premium. The buy menu is there from the first spin, so you don’t have to wait on the scatter count if you’d rather go straight to the coins.
What separates Standard from Premium is shown at the point of purchase.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Most of your time in Panda’s Coins is spent counting. Spins drift past the lanterns and royals while you watch one coin, then two, and wonder whether the count will hold, and the festival dressing is what keeps that watchable rather than thin. The single reason to pick this up is that one round where the whole board finally settles up at once.
The collector is the best thing in it. Because it banks everything on the reels the moment it lands, a late arrival in a stacked cell can turn a modest round into the best result of a session, and no spin inside the bonus is dead until it’s over.
The base game is the weakness, and there’s no dressing it up: on five paylines with a 100x ceiling, the gaps between triggers can stretch. It’s a good fit for players who enjoy one long build to a single decisive round, and a poor one for anyone who wants the base reels to pay their way. The panda’s hoard rewards the patient; everyone else will run out of lanterns to look at.
Panda’s Coins FAQs
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What is the RTP of Panda’s Coins?
Panda’s Coins runs at an RTP of 96.31%. -
How many paylines does Panda’s Coins have?
The game is played with 5 fixed paylines on a 5×3 grid. -
How do you trigger the bonus game in Panda’s Coins?
The round opens when six or more bonus symbols land anywhere on the reels in the main game. A random event can also add bonus symbols after a losing spin if at least one is already on the reels. -
What does the Bonus Collector do in Panda’s Coins?
In the bonus game the Bonus Collector gathers the sums from every bonus coin and collector on the reels, including values from earlier spins. It appears at most once per reel and collects only on the spin it lands. -
How do multipliers work in Panda’s Coins?
Multipliers appear only in the bonus game, with values of x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10. They can stack on the same cell up to x20, and apply when a Bonus Coin or Bonus Collector lands in that cell. -
Can you buy the bonus on Panda’s Coins?
Yes. Two Bonus Buy options are available from the base game: Standard and Premium. -
What jackpots does Panda’s Coins have?
A four-tier ladder of GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR and MINI jackpots, worth 5,000x, 150x, 50x and 25x the bet respectively. They are carried on bonus symbols and paid in the bonus game. -
Does the wild symbol do anything different in the bonus game?
Yes. In the main game the wild only appears on reels two to five and substitutes for regular symbols. In the bonus game it can land anywhere and transforms into a random multiplier instead of substituting. -
Who makes Panda’s Coins?
Panda’s Coins is made by Evoplay. Its release date is 29 October 2026.
