Tigre Sortudo 1000 Slot Review
Cherry blossom over pagoda rooftops, red pillars, jade tiles, and a plump tiger in an embroidered jacket grinning beside the reels with ×25 stamped across his belly. Tigre Sortudo 1000 is built so the paytable barely matters: line wins top out at 20x, and every result worth having comes from filling all nine positions and letting the multiplier draw land. The Chinese New Year dressing works hard for a game this spare underneath.
Pragmatic Play run it on a 3×3 grid with five paylines, low volatility and a 97.50% RTP, a figure almost nothing else in the three-reel format gets near. Stakes run from 0.05 to 250.00 a spin. It shares its lucky name with Tigre Sortudo Dourado – sortudo being Portuguese for fortunate, which the tiger clearly is.
Base Game & Features
Three reels, three rows, five fixed paylines. Wins need three of a kind across a line, and only the highest combination on each line counts. That’s the whole engine, and it spins quickly.
The theme is Chinese New Year rather than anything Brazilian, despite the name. Gold ingots, drums, scrolls and red vases fill the reels, with the lucky cat up top and a golden frog just behind it. It’s a glossy 3D cartoon look, all warm gold and red, framed in a lacquered temple arch with jade roof tiles, dragon-tail eaves and red pillars with green bases.
The paytable is short, and it tells you what kind of game this is. Every value below is for three of a kind, as a multiple of your line stake:
- Lucky Cat – 20x
- Golden Frog – 5x
- Gold Ingot on Pillow – 2x
- Drum – 1.6x
- Scroll/Charm – 1x
- Red Vase/Jar – 0.6x
Those are modest numbers, even at the top, and they drop away quickly once you’re past the first two symbols. There’s no second tier to speak of – the ladder runs from one strong symbol straight down to coins-and-pennies territory, and the lower half of the table is what you’ll be seeing most often.
A full screen of lucky cats pays 100x across the five lines before any multiplier, which is where the game’s real arithmetic lives. Nine drums pay 8x, nine scrolls 5x. Fill the grid in a respin and the multiplier draw lands on top of whatever the screen is already worth.
Because the paytable is this flat, the base game is a game of small change. A spin either returns a fraction of your stake or a thin multiple of it, and nothing in the ordinary line-win structure is going to move the needle. Everything that does move it is built around filling the screen, which is exactly where both features point.
Wilds appear on the first two reels and substitute for any paying symbol, completing three-of-a-kind lines the regular symbols miss. There’s nothing more to them than that – no multiplier attached, no special behaviour in the bonus. A wild that lands but doesn’t apply to a win isn’t wasted either, because that’s one of the two things that starts a respin.
Tigre Sortudo 1000 Bonus Features & Multipliers
Everything beyond ordinary line wins runs through two linked mechanics, and both of them lean on filling the screen rather than lining it up. There’s no free spins round, no bonus buy and no second screen – the respin and the multiplier are the entire feature set.
The Respin Feature
A respin can start randomly on any spin, and it also triggers whenever a wild lands but doesn’t apply to a win. Once it starts, one paying symbol is chosen at random, and the reels then spin with only that symbol, wilds and blanks on them. Everything else is cleared away.
Any new symbol of the chosen type that lands stays in place, and the respins keep coming. Wilds also land and stick, completing clusters of the chosen symbol wherever they sit. Each respin either adds to the screen or ends the round.
The round finishes when a respin adds nothing of the chosen symbol, or when the screen fills completely with it. Nine sticky positions is the dream outcome, because a filled screen doesn’t just pay its lines – it hands the whole grid to the multiplier draw.
Which symbol gets chosen matters, and it isn’t yours to influence. A respin running on the lucky cat is building towards the biggest screen in the game; the same round on the red vase is stacking nine of the smallest pays. The mechanics are identical either way – it’s the symbol underneath that decides what the round is worth when it closes.
Full Screen Multiplier
Whenever a full screen of winning combinations lands in the base game, or a respin round ends with the screen filled by the chosen symbol, every winning combination is multiplied by a randomly drawn multiplier:
- x5
- x10
- x15
- x25
- x1000
The tiger carries the multiplier on his belly, so the figure on show is the figure in play. Most draws sit at the low end, and the x1000 is the one that justifies the number in the game’s title.
The multiplier doesn’t care which symbol filled the screen, which is why any completed respin carries real weight. It applies to every winning combination on the grid at once, and it stacks onto the full screen’s line pays rather than replacing them. That’s the game’s ceiling: the x1000 draw on a filled screen is the biggest result Tigre Sortudo 1000 can produce, and it’s the number the title is built around.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Sitting here is mostly waiting. The tiger grins, the reels tick over, and line wins of 0.6x to 2x drift in and out without ever adding up to much. The one reason to sit down at this machine rather than another three-reeler is the respin: when a symbol gets chosen and starts sticking, the game sharpens at once, and a filled screen with a fat multiplier on the tiger’s belly is a genuinely tense finish.
The strength is the 97.50% RTP, which almost nothing else in this format gets near – your credits simply last longer here. The weakness is the same as its sibling’s: between respins there’s nothing to remember, because a 20x top symbol and a plain substituting wild can’t produce a memorable win on their own.
This one’s for the unhurried – small stakes, long sessions, one well-built payoff doing the entertaining. Anyone after big variance or constant action is at the wrong temple gate. For the patient, the tiger keeps his paw up.
Tigre Sortudo 1000 FAQs
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What is the RTP of Tigre Sortudo 1000?
The RTP is 97.50%, which is exceptionally high for a three-reel slot and well above the industry average. -
Is Tigre Sortudo 1000 high volatility?
No. Tigre Sortudo 1000 is a low volatility slot, so wins tend to be smaller and more regular than in high variance games. -
How does the Respin Feature work in Tigre Sortudo 1000?
A respin triggers randomly on any spin, or when a wild lands without applying to a win. A paying symbol is chosen at random, the reels spin with only that symbol, wilds and blanks, and any new matching symbols stick. Respins continue until no more of the chosen symbol lands or the screen fills completely. -
What multipliers can you get on a full screen in Tigre Sortudo 1000?
A full screen of winning combinations in the base game, or a completed respin screen, awards a random multiplier of x5, x10, x15, x25 or x1000 applied to all winning combinations. The x1000 draw on a filled screen is the game’s maximum result. -
How many paylines does Tigre Sortudo 1000 have?
Tigre Sortudo 1000 has five fixed paylines across its three reels. -
What is the grid size of Tigre Sortudo 1000?
It’s a 3×3 grid – three reels and three rows, with wins paying three of a kind across five lines. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Tigre Sortudo 1000?
Stakes run from 0.05 to 250.00 per spin, which covers everything from casual pennies to serious play. -
Who makes Tigre Sortudo 1000?
Tigre Sortudo 1000 is made by Pragmatic Play.

