5 Lions Slot

Statues of Guardian Lions have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial Palaces, Tombs, Temples, Homes of Wealthy officials. Believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits. The Lions are usually depicted in Pairs. When used as statuary the pair would consist of a Male leaning his Paw upon an Embroidered Ball (in imperial contexts, representing Supremacy over the world) and a Female restraining a playful Cub that is on its back, representing Nurture.

The ‘5 Lions’ is a brightly colored video slot developed by Pragmatic Play Software with High Volatility and 243 Ways to Win across 5 reels, which creates an attractive atmosphere. The delightful Chinese theme with its detailed graphics and sound adds up to adds to the excitement! On those reels, you’ll see symbols from Ancient Chinese culture, such as Tortoise/Coi Fishish/Dragon. Special symbols include the Lion as the Wild and the Yin - Yang as the Scatter.
There's an interesting Free spins-Bonus where the reels expand to 576 Ways to Win, where you can choose your level of Volatility. In other words, allows you to pick your own Bonus round, that suits your Style of Play! Take note this might be a crucial decision though, for either more Free spins with Lower or Higher Multipliers with just a few Free spins.

Lions are such a popular animal to be used as icons or symbols in games, right from the very early days when 5-reels slot games started appearing in digital form. The game Safari Heat from Playtech, for example, goes back to almost 2 decades ago when it first appeared on the screen, and lions have since been appearing in numerous variants. This 5 Lions game from Pragmatic Play uses a passive lion image for its Wild symbol, in seven different colours, each colour offering slight variances in its award, but nonetheless, I must say that none of them are impressive to me at all, but then again, passive icons are usually like that.

Typical of almost all of Pragmatic Play games, 5 Lions uses the familiar very low paytable and win values for all the symbols. The Lion Wild symbols are absolutely non-paying, getting 5 Scatter symbols would pay a blardy low 20x the total bet amount, and every other win values are really not worth mentioning at all! The only good thing would be the random win multipliers accompanying any win with the Wild symbol, but if without any Wild symbol in the combination, then nothing gets multiplied.

The Free Spins are also offered in seven different options, ranging from a low 6 free spins up to 25, and from a low 2x multiplier up to 40x. Pick your choice of free spins and multiplier, or simply pick the Mystery option to get a random variant of free spins and multiplier. Nah, I don’t fancy this at all, because there’d be times when you may get rubbish awards like 6 free spins with a 5x multiplier, when you can actually pick 6 free spins with 15x, 30x or 40x multipliers. Get 25 free spins with the top three multipliers? Only in your dreams, so don’t ever count on getting them!

One more positive point for this game is the 243 ways to win in the main game but with 576 ways to win during the free spins. However, after several plays on this 5 Lions game, I have yet to get, or see, good wins from the 576 ways – those blardy Lion Wilds hardly appear at all when you need them, or would appear in miserable winning combinations! Sheesh!

Very briefly, this 5 Lions game may show good winning possibilities with the free spins options, but they hardly ever give what they promise! As far as I am concerned, 5 Lions is no different from any other games from Pragmatic Play – they simply don’t deliver!

Pragmatic play has released lately some very good slots and ones that pay. Not like before when they just another top game casino slots with bad games that does not even look interesting. Although their pay tables are some of the worst I have seen, the in-game features normally have something to make sure you will benefit and win big from those small pay tables. Most of their latest editions are medium to high variance, however 5 Lions is a very high variance slot as in 9/10. The games potential is just amazing with 243 – 576 ways to win and up to x40 multiplier during the free spins. I must admit, graphics wise their slots are amazing and have the look and feel of game art slots.

5 lions have an Asian based theme. With 243 ways in the base game and upgradeable to 576 during free spins is enough to keep you entertained. During the base game you get an up 5 multipliers, whereas during free spins you can get up to x40 multiplier. The pay table for this slot symbols are above your average that you see out there, so huge winning potentials. I mean I have hit a few x40 with full line of symbols and that’s a guaranteed x200 – 300x already, with low paying symbols such as the card deck ones.

To trigger the free spins, you need to land 3 bonus symbols on the reels, starting from the left most reel consecutively. Scatter pays according to how many scatter symbols land on the reels. You can choose your amount of free spins from 25 with 2,3 or 5 multipliers up to 6 free spins with the max x40 multiplier. Note, the multiplier only applies to the win if a wild land in the winning combination. If you have played tesla from GameArt before then you would understand the concept.

I think this is one of the best slots ever and I had some luck the other day on the slot. Triggered the bonus very quickly, but I placed some decent bets as I took a 400% deposit bonus which is cool, so if I were to lose, then I would not feel it, but hey because of my luck on this slot, I am $300 richer.