Striking Tiger

Striking Tiger Slot Review

A tiger prowls in past the broken masonry at the bottom-right edge of the reels, half-hidden on its clifftop ruin, and that restraint tells you what kind of game this is. Striking Tiger doesn’t need a bonus round to hold your attention, and that’s just as well, because it doesn’t have one – everything it pays sits in a two-symbol paytable that scales all the way to ten matches on a 5×3, 15-line grid.

High 5 Games keep it old-school here, and the appeal rests almost entirely on the artwork and a paytable that scales up to ten matching symbols, which is unusual for a five-reel layout. It runs at 96.5% RTP. It’s a leaner machine than studio stablemates like 88 Drums and Da Vinci DeluxeWays, closer in spirit to the classic line-payers the studio built its name on.

Base Game & Features

The reels sit in a wooden-and-stone frame that reads like a window cut into the ruin itself. Peach and lilac clouds bank behind grey rock spires, and mist pools below the cliff on the left. A small patch of sunlit grass at the base of the wall is the only bright note in all that grey stonework.

It’s painted realism, warm and unhurried, and it gives a simple layout more presence than it would otherwise carry. The tiger does the heavy lifting visually: it only ever shows a striped flank and part of its head past the ruined masonry at the bottom-right edge, an animal caught mid-step rather than posed for the frame.

That restraint runs through the whole presentation. There’s no animated intro, no character mascot bouncing beside the reels. The gilded title lettering is the only ornament, and it sits quietly against the warm dusk palette.

How Line Wins Form

Wins follow the classic line-payer pattern, and the rules around them are simple once they’re laid out:

• Line wins must appear on played lines, and symbols must sit on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one
• Only the highest win is paid on each line
• Line wins are multiplied by the bet per line
• Scatter symbols award in any position on the reels
• Only the highest win is paid for each scatter symbol combination
• Scatter wins are multiplied by the total amount bet and awarded in addition to line wins
• Wins are shown in credits unless marked as currency

The scatter entries are the ones to hold on to. A line win scales against the bet per line, a fraction of your stake, while a scatter win scales against all of it. A modest scatter count can therefore out-earn a full line of matching symbols.

Paytable

Two symbols carry the paytable, and their values scale unusually far up the count, paying for up to ten matches rather than the usual five. All values are per line bet:

• Tiger – three symbols pays 10
• Tiger – four pays 30
• Tiger – five pays 100
• Tiger – six pays 200
• Tiger – seven pays 300
• Tiger – eight pays 500
• Tiger – nine pays 1,000
• Tiger – ten pays 2,500
• Robed Figure – seven pays 300
• Robed Figure – eight pays 500
• Robed Figure – nine pays 800
• Robed Figure – ten pays 1,000

The Tiger ladder is the one to watch. It doubles from eight symbols to nine and more than doubles again to ten, so the difference between a very good spin and the best one available is steep.

The Robed Figure tops out at 1,000, less than half the Tiger’s ceiling, but it matches the Tiger step for step between seven and eight symbols. Landing either one at the top of its ladder takes a remarkable spin.

Wild Symbol

The wild substitutes for two of the game’s symbols, shown as a dark robed figure standing in for a ghostly one. That’s its whole job: it completes line wins the way wilds always have, and it doesn’t get its own feature attached.

Setting the Stake

The bet works on three counters: the number of lines in play, the value of each line, and the total amount wagered when the spin button is pressed. Change any of the first two and the third follows, so the cost of a spin is always visible before you commit to it.

The display tracks three figures alongside them: WIN shows the total amount won on the current spin, BALANCE shows what’s available to wager, and the line and per-line counters update as you adjust. It’s an unfussy system, and everything you need sits on one screen.

Holding down the spin button activates Speed Spin, where the games play faster until you release. It’s a small thing, but on a game with no features to wait for, it’s a welcome one.

One reassurance for the impatient: stopping the spin animation with the spin or stop button has no effect on the outcome. The result is decided when the spin starts, so letting the reels run or cutting them short changes nothing except the pacing.

Striking Tiger Scatter Wins & Bonus Symbols

There’s no free spins round, no pick’em bonus and no feature buy in Striking Tiger. What the game offers beyond its line pays is the scatter, and it behaves differently from everything else on the board.

How Scatter Wins Work

Scatter symbols pay in any position on the reels, so they don’t need to sit on a payline or start from the left. Each scatter combination pays only its highest result, and the win is multiplied by the total amount bet rather than the bet per line.

On top of that, scatter wins are awarded alongside line wins from the same spin. A spin that lands a solid line of Tigers and a scatter cluster at once gets paid for both, which is where this game’s best moments come from.

Help values are shown before any multipliers are applied, so the figures you read while checking the pays are per-unit values rather than final amounts. It’s the kind of detail that only matters when a big win lands, and then it matters a lot.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.8/10

Playing Striking Tiger is like sitting somewhere quiet and watching the mist roll in: spins come, spins go, and the tiger on that clifftop ruin never stops looking good. The reason to choose it is that calm. This is a game you can spin for an hour without a single thing surprising you, and there’s a real audience for exactly that.

Its strength is that ten-symbol paytable ladder. Most five-reel games stop paying at five matches, but here the Tiger’s value more than doubles between nine and ten, so a monster spin has somewhere genuinely steep to land. Its weakness is everything around that ladder being flat: with only a scatter to break up the line pays, the twentieth minute plays exactly like the second.

This one belongs to players who love a classic line-payer and don’t miss free spins at all. If a session without a bonus round feels like half a session, the clifftop will feel cold – but for the patient spinner, the view up here is lovely.

Striking Tiger FAQs

• What is the RTP of Striking Tiger?

  The theoretical return to player is 96.5%.
• How many paylines does Striking Tiger have?

  Striking Tiger has 15 paylines, and line wins must appear on a played line across adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one.
• What is the grid size of Striking Tiger?

  Striking Tiger plays on a 5×3 grid with five reels and three rows.
• When is Striking Tiger released?

  Striking Tiger’s release date is 25 August 2012.
• Who makes Striking Tiger?

  Striking Tiger is made by High 5 Games.
• What does the wild symbol do in Striking Tiger?

  The wild substitutes for two of the game’s symbols, completing line wins in the usual way. It doesn’t trigger any feature of its own.
• How do scatter wins pay in Striking Tiger?

  Scatters land in any position and don’t need a payline. Each combination pays its highest result only, the win is scaled against your total bet rather than a single line, and it stacks on top of any line win from the same spin.
• Does Striking Tiger have a free spins round?

  No. Striking Tiger is a straight line-payer with a wild and a scatter, and there’s no free spins round or bonus feature in the game.