Happy New Year - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

With top prizes up to 10,000 and plenty of exciting bonus features, including a Chinese Lanterns bonus game and a free spins round, this medium-volatility slot offers a wonderful way to celebrate a new year. The game has an RTP of 97%.

Introduction

Themes celebrating the Chinese New Year are pretty common when it comes to online slots, but this offering from Dreamtech does a great job of creating something that stands out from the crowd. Featuring loads of traditional Chinese symbols and a thrilling soundtrack, plus some huge top prizes up for grabs, this is an incredibly beautiful, exciting and potentially lucrative celebration that you won’t want to miss! As with most slots, winning combinations are found when you land 3+ matching symbols along one of the 20 paylines active in the game.

There is a stunning rainbow dragon symbol that acts as the Wild in this slot, and he can substitute for any symbols, excluding the Bonus or Scatter (which we’ll look at in more detail later in this slot review), to help you land longer winning combinations and achieve bigger and better prizes.

The Bonus and Scatter symbols are also important, as they unlock the bonus games available in Happy New Year. One of these is a beautiful Chinese Lanterns mini-game featuring lanterns and lotus flowers, while the other is a free spins round with 10x free spins and cash prizes up for grabs.

Theme, Graphics & Soundtrack

Happy New Year is a beautifully designed slot with clear reels overlooking a stunning river with a classic Chinese town floating by in the background. There are plenty of lanterns and lights strung up ready to celebrate the New Year, and the reels are filled with traditional symbols, including fans, fireworks and more.

The soundtrack has been nicely chosen with a fun and upbeat Oriental tune playing throughout the game that really adds to the celebratory theme.

Happy New Year RTP & Volatility

Happy New Year is a medium-volatility slot with an RTP of 97%.

How to Play Happy New Year

Whenever we sit down to play a new slot, we always like to take a moment to get the hang of the controls and rules. In Happy New Year, the controls are all found beneath the reels.

1. To start, click the ‘Rule’ button in the bottom left-hand corner of the game to check out the rules, paytables, paylines and bonus features of the slot.

2. Once you’ve got the hang of the game rules, it’s time to place your bets. You can adjust your wager by clicking the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons in the middle of the control panel. We like that you can view the line bet and total bet together here for a convenient way to check exactly what you’re wagering.

3. When you’re happy with your wager, start spinning by clicking the large red ‘Spin’ button in the bottom right-hand corner of the game.

4. If you prefer to play hands-free, you can also select ‘Auto’ for up to 500 automatic spins.

5. You can keep an eye on your balance in the top left-hand corner of the screen.

Bet Sizes & Paytable

Happy New Year is designed to allow everyone to celebrate the New Year, whether you’re a penny player or high-roller! For that reason, you can place your wager from 0.01 per line (0.10 total bet) up to 20.00 per line (200 total bet). Whatever you choose, the huge potential payouts should give you plenty of opportunity to celebrate the New Year in style!

As mentioned previously, winning combinations are found when you land 3+ matching symbols along a payline starting on the leftmost reel. The Wild can substitute for other symbols (excluding the Scatter or Bonus) to help you land longer winning combinations. The best combination of symbols you can find involves five of a kind along a payline, with top prizes as follows:

Chinese Lantern: 500

Envelopes: 400

Chinese Letters: 200

Drum: 150

Fan: 125

Pot: 100

Fireworks: 75

Decorations: 50

In addition to being able to substitute for other symbols, the Wild is also the highest-paying symbol with rewards up to 10,000 for five-of-a-kind along a payline!

The Scatter will also pay out for matching combinations of 3+, with five of a kind paying up to 500.

Max-win 1,000x

Volatility Medium

Top RTP 97%

Bonus Features

There are two main bonus features in Happy New Year involving the Scatter and Bonus symbols. To make things easier for you, we’ve broken these down:

Bonus

Land 3+ Bonus symbols containing a golden fish to trigger the Lantern Game in Happy New Year. In this game, you’ll be able to pick a number of lanterns or lotus flowers specified by the number of Bonus symbols that triggered the feature to reveal a cash value.

Scatter

The Scatter symbol triggers the free spins round as well as offering cash prizes up to 500. Find 3+ Scatters anywhere on the reels to trigger 10x free spins.

Conclusion

Overall, we found Happy New Year to be a beautifully designed and fun slot with plenty of winning potential. We managed to access the Bonus Game a number of times, although the free spins feature was a little harder to trigger. The graphics and soundtrack were really what blew us away here by instantly transporting us to a beautiful celebration that we now long to visit in person!

If you enjoyed the theme and style of Happy New Year, you might also want to check out Play’n’Go’s Chinese New Year demo slot. Alternatively, we have plenty more free Dreamtech slots right here at Slots Temple for you to enjoy!

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