Lucky Rat Slots
Lucky Rat is a fun and rewarding online video slot game crafted and released in January 2020 by legendary gaming developers RealTime Gaming. The rat makes up the first sign in the Chinese Zodiac and as 2020 was the Year of the Rat this game embraces that theme along with the Chinese New year as an opportunity to bring in new beginnings along with prosperity and great fortune.
Red is a prominently lucky and fortuitous colour in China and the gaming grid showcases a lot of it along with gold with a chinese lantern seen to the left and a golden rat seen at the bottom right. Players are offered 5 reels with 3 rows and 720 paylines which pay out both ways. A unique structure presents the 5 reels in a pyramid format with the first and fifth reel holding three symbols, the second and fourth reel have four symbols and the middle reel holds five. At least three matching symbols are needed on adjacent reels to make winning combinations and up to 1,320x bet can be paid out in this slot game.
The artwork is vivid and colourful and the 3D animations provide a nice fluidity to the gameplay which is simple and easy for punters to navigate. The music keeps it traditional and harmonious using strings and flute.
Before gaming players will need to select their bets starting from a minimum bet option of $2.50 per spin and up to a maximum of $250.00 per spin. This generously accommodates both low and high rollers. An auto-play button can be optionally used to pre determine a set number of spins which helps those conscious of maintaining a gaming budget as it involves setting win and loss limits.
The RTP (Return to Player Percentage) is a very decent 97.5% and Lucky Rat plays at low volatility which means frequent small sized wins are guaranteed to punters.
The wild symbol is represented as the lucky golden rat himself appearing on the middle reels. It also acts as a substitute for the other gaming symbols but not the scatter and enables potent winning combinations.
There are two scatters and one is shown as a red and golden firecracker and bestows 1x the total stake when five land on the reels. It is also responsible for triggering the free spins bonus game. Three interlocking golden coins tied with a red ribbon symbolises the lucrative second scatter/bonus which is worth 50x total bet for five and winning payouts are multiplied by the total bet when three or more of these coins appear anywhere on the gaming grid.
Other gaming symbols in Lucky Rat include a golden bowl offering a payout of 1,000x bet for five, a chinese lantern and red envelope pays out 400x and 300x the line stake for five of a kind respectively. Punters can collect up to 125x their stake for the green hieroglyph, for the yellow it is 100x and the purple and pink coloured ones 100x and 500x the line bet respectively. The red one brings 50x the bet for five of the same.
Five firecrackers landing in consecutive order triggers the free spins and with each winning combination players are granted 8 free spins. They can can also re-trigger the feature by landing more firecrackers. If more than one combination per spin awards the free games the sum of these is awarded to players in one go. This bonus feature ends when there are no more free games remaining or after 240 free spins have been played.
Lucky Rat is fully mobile optimized ensuring it can be played seamlessly from wherever and whenever from either a desktop or compatible smartphone or tablet device such as iOS Apple, Android or Samsung.