Wan Guan

Wan Guan Slot Review

Deep red marble veined with white runs edge to edge behind Wan Guan’s reels, green marble framing the middle of the grid, all polished to a high gloss. Beneath that ornamental finish, though, sits a game that’s almost pure arithmetic: a nearly flat paytable stretched across 10,000 both-ways combinations, where the size of a win comes from how many ways land rather than which symbol does the landing.

Skywind Group have gone wide rather than deep. The 6×4 grid pays 10,000 ways in both directions, running at 96.40% RTP with mid to high volatility, and players who know the studio’s Sticky Sevens Megaways or Wild Moose Bonanza will recognise the fondness for big engines.

Whether all that width cashes in depends almost entirely on one round of free games.

Ten Thousand Ways, Both Directions

Wan Guan doesn’t use paylines. It’s 10,000 all ways, with matching symbols on adjacent reels forming wins regardless of where they sit on each reel. The number of ways behind any win is the symbol count on each reel multiplied together: one, two and three copies across the first three reels is 1 x 2 x 3, or six winning ways.

Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel and right to left from the rightmost. Only the highest combination in each direction pays, and six of a kind pays in one direction only. Coinciding wins from different ways are added together.

Both-ways engines change how a grid reads. A reel stack that would be dead weight on the right side of a one-way game is live currency here, and a full grid of matching symbols pays from either end.

Bets are set from an options panel that shows the amount staked per round alongside the coin value, and the bet is always the coin value multiplied by 20. The game plays in portrait or landscape, and holds click-and-hold continuous spin, autoplay that stops when a feature lands, and two speed settings: Turbo and the faster Turbo+. Both speed modes skip some win animations and sounds to get to results quicker.

The Paytable

Every value scales with the base bet, so the figures below are each symbol’s pay per winning way at whatever stake is set. There are four tiers, and the gaps between them are narrow:

• Turtle: 0.25 / 0.50 / 1.00 / 2.50 for three, four, five and six of a kind
• Frog or shrimp lotus creature, gold fish, abacus, yarn ball: 0.10 / 0.25 / 0.50 / 1.00
• A, 10 and 9: 0.05 / 0.10 / 0.25 / 0.50
• K, Q and J: 0.05 for three of a kind

Four symbols share a tier, which means most of the upper paytable pays identically. The turtle at the top is the only symbol with any daylight under it, and even its six-of-a-kind is only five times what the royals pay for the same count. On a 10,000-way grid those per-way values multiply out fast, which is how a flat-looking list still produces lively totals.

A gold ingot wild substitutes for all symbols except the scatter. That’s the only helper the base game offers, which leaves the both-ways engine to do the entertaining on its own.

Free Games Feature

The scatter is a coin on a red string, and it takes a lot of them. Any 10 or more scatters award the free games. That’s a steeper threshold than most games ask for, and it’s the feature’s gatekeeping in a single number.

• 10 scatters: 10 free games
• Each additional scatter: 5 more free games
• Maximum: 60 free games
• Win multiplier: x2, x3, x5 or x8 on every free games win

Free games can be retriggered in the same manner, with scatters during the round adding more spins up to that 60-spin ceiling. Every win in the round carries one of the four multipliers, which is where the game’s real punch lives. Free games run on the same base bet as the spin that won them.

The round plays automatically once it starts, so there’s nothing to click through. A running indicator tracks which spin of the round is live alongside the multiplier applied to it, which matters more than it sounds: the multiplier varies win to win, so two identical lineups can pay very differently depending on which of the four values lands.

One further rule shapes the whole game. Round wins carry an upper limit tied to the base bet, and a round that reaches it ends immediately: the win is paid up to the cap and any features still in progress are forfeited. It’s a hard stop rather than a soft slowdown.

Bonus Buy

For players who’d rather not wait on 10 scatters, the buy button skips the queue. It’s an additional single payment that guarantees free games, and pressing it brings up the feature pop-up and launches the round directly.

• Bonus Buy Option 2: 100x base bet
• Awards: 18 free games with all wins multiplied by x8

At 100x the base bet, that price buys the top multiplier from the off and a spin count well past the base trigger. Whether the exchange is fair depends on how the x8s land, which is the whole gamble of it.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.1/10

Wan Guan plays like a steady drip that occasionally floods. The marble-and-gold dressing promises fortune, and the game honours it in its own way: every spin reads twice, a near-miss stacked on the right edge of the grid isn’t a near-miss at all, and that second reading is the reason to pick it over a prettier one-way clone.

The both-ways engine is genuinely well used, because four symbols per reel let the ways multiply quickly and modest stacks build chunky totals. What lets it down is everything stacked on top of that engine: the paytable is nearly flat, four premium symbols pay identically and no single symbol is ever worth rooting for, while 10 scatters for a natural trigger is a long wait for the only round that matters.

This is one for players who enjoy frequent small action building towards one long, multiplied bonus, not for anyone after a single big symbol hit. For the patient sort, the good-luck banner at every spin eventually means something.

Wan Guan FAQs

• What is the RTP of Wan Guan?

  Wan Guan runs at an RTP of 96.40%.
• Is Wan Guan high volatility?

  It sits in the mid to high range, so wins lean less frequent than a low-variance game but it isn’t in full brute territory either.
• How do you trigger free games in Wan Guan?

  Landing 10 or more scatter coins starts the round. The base trigger of 10 scatters gives 10 free games, each additional scatter beyond that adds five more, and the round caps at 60.
• Can free games be retriggered in Wan Guan?

  Yes. Free games retrigger in the same manner as the original trigger, with scatters during the round adding more spins up to the 60 free games maximum.
• What multipliers apply during Wan Guan free games?

  During free games, all wins are multiplied by one of four values: x2, x3, x5 or x8.
• Can you buy the bonus on Wan Guan?

  Yes. The buy button is on the main interface. Bonus Buy Option 2 costs 100x the base bet and awards 18 free games with all wins multiplied by x8.
• How many ways to win does Wan Guan have?

  Wan Guan is 10,000 all ways on a 6×4 grid, with wins paying left to right and right to left on adjacent reels.
• When is Wan Guan released?

  Wan Guan’s release date is 12 June 2025.