Paws Of Fury

Paws Of Fury Slot Review

The slot underneath Paws Of Fury‘s kung fu panda is older than it looks. Blueprint Gaming haven’t rebuilt the reels here; they’ve taken a plain 5×4, 20-winline format and buried it under interruptions, so that a random panda, a ladder of five bonus rounds or a three-tier progressive pot system can hijack any spin. The sunglasses-wearing mascot gets the attention, but the interruptions are the game.

It runs at a 94% RTP, and the top prize outside the pots is a 1,000x total bet cap in the biggest of the bonus rounds. It sits in the studio’s catalogue alongside Ted and The Goonies, sharing their taste for stacked features rather than Genie Jackpots Megaways-style reel experimentation. Even a modest ceiling can’t quite slow the panda down.

Base Game & Features

The reels sit inside that gold gateway, framed by red banners and gilded stonework, with the panda himself supervising from the left edge. Underneath the dressing it’s a straightforward setup: five reels, four rows and 20 fixed winlines. Wins pay left to right on consecutive reels, and only the highest combination counts on each line.

Each line win is multiplied by the value bet on that line, and every win across all the different lines adds together into the total for the spin. Stakes are set through the Total Bet menu, with the exact options depending on operator configuration and the currency in play. A busy board can stack several modest pays into one decent hit.

The Golden Paw is the wild and substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus scatter, which makes it the joint richest symbol on the grid. The Bonus scatter, a mask icon, pays nothing on its own; three or more anywhere on the reels awards the Panda Bonus instead, and scatter wins are added on top of any line wins.

Symbols pay as multiples of the total bet:

• Paws of Fury logo – 0.5x for two, 10x for three, 25x for four, 125x for five
• Pagoda – 5x for three, 20x for four, 62.5x for five
• Book – 2.5x for three, 15x for four, 50x for five
• A / K – 1.25x for three, 10x for four, 25x for five
• Q / J – 1.25x for three, 2.5x for four, 12.5x for five

Two paying tiers for the royals keeps the paytable tidy, and the logo paying from two of a kind is a small mercy on a 20-line grid. Beyond that, the base game’s job is to stay out of the way while the random events do their work mid-spin.

Paws Of Fury Bonus Features

The Panda Bonus Ladder

Landing three or more Bonus scatters starts the Panda Bonus, which plays out as a spin of a wheel and a climb up a ladder to win one of five bonuses. Whichever round the wheel stops on is the one you play:

• Win Sum Dough
• Journey of the Panda
• Panda Warrior Free Spins
• Rise of the Panda
• Enter the Panda – BIG MONEY BONUS

The five rounds aren’t tiers you climb through in sequence. Each one is a destination in its own right, reached by the wheel, and the ladder simply frames the choice. Four of the five carry their own mechanics – two of them free spins rounds, the others feature games – while the fifth is the big one covered below.

Enter the Panda – BIG MONEY Bonus

The top rung of the ladder is the BIG MONEY round, where the ceiling is 1,000x the total bet. Getting there takes two strokes of luck: the scatters to start the ladder, then the wheel carrying you past four other rounds to land on it. No retrigger rule exists for any of the five rounds, so each climb is a single shot at whatever the wheel gives you.

Panda Modifiers

The panda doesn’t wait to be invited. He can trigger randomly during any spin and activate one of five modifiers:

• Golden Super Spin
• Eye of the Panda
• Pandamonium Wilds
• Panda Mind Trick
• Belly Smash

Five names, five different ways for the base game to lurch into something bigger without warning. It’s the classic Blueprint formula of stacking random events so that no spin is ever quite dead.

Jackpot King

Jackpot King can activate randomly on any spin, whatever else is happening. The sequence runs in steps. First you spin the reels to collect crowns, and more crowns award a bigger total bet multiplier.

Next you pick from the King’s Treasure to increase your prize, and finally you enter the Wheel King for huge wins and a chance at a progressive pot. Three pots climb continuously: the Royal Pot, the Regal Pot and the Jackpot King itself, ticking upward with every qualifying spin across the network. The Wheel King is the only route to the biggest of them, which means the crown-collecting step is never just decoration.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

Playing Paws Of Fury is a waiting game with a short attention span. You grind a thin paytable while random events keep interrupting, and those interruptions are the reason anyone would choose it over a plainer 20-liner. The temple-pavilion artwork and the lounging panda make the waiting easier on the eye than most.

The strength is variety with a reason behind it: one scatter trigger feeding five different rounds, plus five modifiers, means no two sessions route to the same place. The weakness is that the fixed pay is thin. A 125x top symbol and a 1,000x ceiling leave the progressive pots to do the real prize work, and the biggest round needs the wheel to beat four other destinations first.

It suits players who enjoy a slot that keeps throwing small surprises rather than one big promise, and jackpot hunters get a genuine chase on top. Anyone after four-figure ceilings will find it too low. For everyone else, the panda is good company in his pavilion.

Paws Of Fury FAQs

• How do you trigger the Panda Bonus in Paws Of Fury?

  Land three or more Bonus scatter symbols anywhere on the reels and the Panda Bonus begins. You then move up the ladder to win one of the game’s five bonus rounds, from Win Sum Dough up to the Enter the Panda BIG MONEY Bonus.
• What does the Golden Paw wild do in Paws Of Fury?

  The Golden Paw is the wild symbol and substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus scatter. It’s also the joint richest symbol on the grid, paying up to 125x the total bet for five of a kind.
• How does the Jackpot King feature work in Paws Of Fury?

  Jackpot King can activate randomly during any spin. You collect crowns for a bigger total bet multiplier, pick from the King’s Treasure to increase your prize, and then enter the Wheel King for a chance at one of three progressive pots: the Royal Pot, the Regal Pot and the Jackpot King itself.
• What are the Panda Modifiers in Paws Of Fury?

  The panda can trigger randomly during any spin and activate one of five modifiers: Golden Super Spin, Eye of the Panda, Pandamonium Wilds, Panda Mind Trick or Belly Smash.
• What is the maximum win on Paws Of Fury?

  The maximum win outside the progressive pots is 1,000x your total bet, awarded in the Enter the Panda – BIG MONEY Bonus at the top of the Panda Bonus ladder. The three Jackpot King progressive pots sit on top of that and climb continuously.
• Can the bonus rounds in Paws Of Fury retrigger?

  The game sets out no retrigger rule for any of the five bonus rounds, so each one is a single shot at whatever the wheel hands you. There’s no rule for earning a second round from inside a bonus either.
• How many paylines does Paws Of Fury have?

  Paws Of Fury has 20 fixed winlines. Matching symbols must land on consecutive reels from the far left, and any winning lines on a spin are added together to form the total win.
• Who makes Paws Of Fury?

  Paws Of Fury is made by Blueprint Gaming. Its release date is 19 July 2017.