Red Mansions is a 5-reel video slot, which is a gambling version of a classic Chinese novel, Dream of a Red Chamber. It pays due respect to this immense saga and offers you a stunning and variable combination of a 40-payline slot and a 1024-ways-to-win slot. A bet of up to 80 coins of any value above $1 opens up a chance to win up to x5000 on lines plus up to x500 a coin value on ways. Up to 20 retriggerable free spins heat up the game. Find the rules and tips below.

Gameplay

Dream of a Red Chamber is a huge work of literature describing Chinese life in the 18th century. There are hundreds of characters involved into dramatic developments. Yet the main line shows the fate of a family once favored by the Emperor and endowed by wealth and power, and then disfavored, completely destroyed and devastated.

The slot offers an incredible freedom of choice. The game may be played at 1, 10, 20 or 40 paylines or at 40 paylines and 1024 ways to win. Playing on 1 payline costs 1 coin and playing 1024 ways to win costs 40 coins, so a total bet with all lines and ways activated amounts to 80 coins ($80 or greater). A value of coins though is up to you; it starts from $1 and has no upper limit, a clear welcome sign for high rollers.

Select $1 or $100 or whatever you might like, it depends solely on your will and your gambling budget. Placing a 80-coin bet activates both modes, a 40-payline slot and a 1024-ways-to-win slot. Reels and paylines are arranged so that each of 20 positions is a separated reel, i. e. each position rotates independently of all others. This solution gives you an ever greater variability of the outcome and diversifies winning on lines. Ways are arranged in 5 columns, i. e. each reel is a column for the purpose of calculating the payout. Matching non-feature icons on adjacent reels pay out way wins in addition to line wins.

Slot symbols

The slot brings major characters of the novel into the gameplay as well as a sentient Stone; the Stone was taken to Earth by goddess Nuwa and it is now worshiped by Taoist priests and Buddhist monks. The same set of symbols works with lines and ways but the difference is in payouts and the way winning combinations arrange.

There are nine non-feature symbols including 4 playing cards from J through to A and five characters taken from the novel. One of the characters holds a white shining sphere – this is Stone.

As to paylines, non-feature symbols pay from left to right when you land 3, 4 or 5 matching icons on any active payline. All line wins achieved in a spin are paid in full, but if a line hosts competing wins, only the highest line win is paid. Paylines are activated manually; any winning combination on an inactive line never pays. So it is recommended to activate all 40 paylines before spinning; this step maximizes your chances for winning it huge because line wins stretch from x10 up to a stunning x5000. Anyway, to run the slot at its full capacity, i.e. 40 paylines plus 1024 ways to win, you have to activate all 40 paylines first.

As to ways, non-feature symbols pay when you land matching icons on 4 or 5 adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. Adding extra matching non-feature icon on a reel multiplies your win. For example, you land eight A’s on four consecutive reels, two A’s per reel. This means you have 16 winning combinations. A four-Ace combo pays x10 a coin value, and sixteen of them pay 16×10=160 coins of the value you have select, i. e. the minimum of $160.

There is a Wild symbol as well and it features a Red Chamber. It appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and substitutes for all symbols except for a Bonus Scatter.

Red Mansion free spin bonus

A Bonus Scatter appears on reel 3 only. Landing 2, 3 or 4 Bonus Scatters on reel 3 triggers 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively. These are initial free spins: a free spin bonus may be re-triggered during free spins. Again, land 2, 3 or 4 Bonus Scatters on reel 3 during free spins and win 10, 15 or 20 extra free spins. The luckiest gamblers may hope for up to 130 free spins per bonus.

During free spins the reels are richer then in a base game, and winning combinations come more often and pay better. This is why you should strive for hitting 2, 3 or 4 Bonus Scatters on reel 3 and, if you are a lucky one, repeating this achievement again and again until all 130 free spins are exhausted or, as the case may be, you rich the cap put on winning, which is $25,000,000.

A free spin mode runs in an automatic mode. As soon as you activate it, all initial and extra free spins play one by one and you can neither stop nor postpone them. Besides, you cannot change your settings: active lines, ways and a coin value are the same as in a triggering round. To take full advantage of free spins offered by the slot, it is recommended to select a higher coin value in a base game.

The slot has an exceptional value of combining two lucrative modes, a 40-payline and 1024 ways-to-win mode. It offers a stunning paytable with up to x500 a coin value in way wins and up to x5000 in line wins. In contrast to many other slots offering high wins for one or two symbols, this reviewed slot has many icons with very high payouts.

There are five character symbols and all have impressive rewards. The lowest character payout is between x50 and x500 and there are two icons with such payouts. The next one offers x75 to x1000, the next up awards x100 to x1000 and the top-paying icon grants you x10 to x5000. Moreover, the last pays out when you land at least two matching icons on any active payline. This is a really generous offer. Do not spoil your chance: visit the recommended online casino and play the game for real money, it is clearly worth it.

In regards to automated functions, you may also have recourse to an autospin mode. Select from 10 to 50 spins and the slot runs them all until you stop it or a feature activates or the selected spins run out.

Summary

This is a 5-reel video slot with two game engines including 40 paylines and 1024 ways to win. This mobile-friendly game accepts 80-coin bets and pays line wins of up to x5000 and way wins of x500 at max. Wild symbols are there to help you, and Bonus Scatters are ready to award up to 20 retriggerable free spins.