Nian Nian You Yu Slot Machine

Pros

• Big prizes. There are progressive jackpots up for grabs as well as generally large main game prizes too.
• Great artwork throughout. The background, and symbols have all been carefully designed and beautifully illustrated. This makes Nian Nian You Yu one of the better-looking slots around.
• Higher stakes machine. Players can pay between 1p and R9 700 per spin.

Cons

• Lacking in features. There’s no real special bonuses other than the progressive jackpot and the multidirectional win lines. Nian Nian You Yu is geared specifically around the big prizes, rather than many smaller bonuses.

Top Jackpots

As mentioned, this game is all about the big pay outs. Even the game’s straight-up symbol prizes are high, without even getting to the progressive jackpot.

All the icons of the game are reasonably valuable, and inspired by Chinese celebrations. As there isn’t really any differentiation between tiers of symbols as there are on other slots, we’ll group them all here. The prizes quoted below are for hitting five-of-a-kind across any single win line:

• Dragon 1 = 10,000x the line bet.
• Dragon 2 = 5,000x the line bet.
• Oranges, or red envelope = 1,000x the line bet.
• Either dumpling symbols = 300x the line bet.
• Bells, or lantern = 200x the line bet.
• Cherry blossom, or the red sign = 50x the line bet.

Game Features

The Nian Nian You Yu slot machine revolves around a single feature – its progressive jackpot. It’s understandably epic but the game does suffer a lack of additional bonuses.

Progressive Jackpot

There are four progressive jackpots in the game. What’s more, any spin of any value can win entry to compete for all the prizes on offer. That said, the higher the bet placed, the more likely a player is to receive entry to the mode.

The game is played in a wheel of fortune style fashion, with a circle divided into the four jackpot dragon’s colours. Each one represents one tier of the progressive jackpot. The illustrious single yellow dragon is what we’re after. The wheel is spun three times and players collect dragons.

If they manage to catch three of the same colour, they win the appropriate prize from the display on the right of the screen. It’s not easy but winning a five or six figure jackpot is hardly going to happen daily.

Multidirectional win lines

At first glance, it appears that there are just nine win lines on Nian Nian You Yu but you’d be wrong in thinking that this is the case. Each of them are paired with their mirrored line running right to left as well. This substantially increases the ways to win, and is a nice variation on the classic one-way format which most slot machines use.

Progressive Jackpots

Like a number of Playtech slot games, Age of the Gods is linked to four different progressive jackpots. Players can at random trigger the Jackpot Game which gives them a chance to win one out of the Power, Extra Power, Super Power or Ultimate Power jackpots. Which one they win depends upon their choice in the Jackpot Game.

Betting Limits

There are a few different ways to mix up your betting size on Nian Nian You Yu. There’ s a total of nine betting lines that are variable. Players can play any number between one and the maximum 9 (pairs). In addition, they can of course vary their bet size.

The lowest bet size is just 1p, making the lowest cost per spin also 1p, with a single pair of win lines active. Conversely, with all values maxed out entirely, the R1 100 maximum bet across all nine pairs of win lines costs an impressive R9 700. That’s easily enough to satisfy all but the highest rollers around.

It’s also refreshing to see that players betting any stake can also gain entry to play for all the progressive jackpots too. That one penny spin could literally make you a millionaire.

What We Think

This style of this slot machine is understandably not for everyone. Being so geared around the multiple progressive jackpots significantly limits the number of bonus rounds the developers can include. That said, for those who really love playing for the big money, it’s great.

The artwork is well-designed and the bright, colourful setting and traditional Chinese music make for a slot with a good feel. All in all, Nian Nian You Yu is an ideal way to hunt out those huge progressive jackpot wins.