Chi is Elk software powered video slot with 5 reels and 27 paylines. This Asian inspired slot will take you on an adventure to Himalayan Mountains to look for hidden treasures. Quest for fortune and glory with the help of the two spirits – Chi and Mow. Beautifully designed game is enhanced with relaxing music that will get you in the mood for this kind of quest. Discovering ancient secrets adventure can start here, spinning for fun or you can visit any of the Elk Casinos to spin for real.
How to Play Chi Slot
Set your bets before this gorgeous tale loaded with charm start moving in turning motion.
- By clicking on Stacked Coins button you will open the separate betting panel which will help you get the bets increased or decreased, or help you choose the betting strategy.
- Spin button is used to set the reels in motion.
- Auto will set the reels moving in succession for a chosen number of times.
Slot Features
The game has a few interesting regular features, but you will have the option to set the betting strategy which can be activated through the betting selector panel. The betting strategy will set the bets automatically for you.
There are 3 strategies: Optimizer, Leveller, Jumper and Booster. Optimizer will change bet level automatically adapting to the selected percentage of your balance. Leveller strategy will raise a bet after 5 consecutive losses, and repetition will increase the bet 2 more levels. This will reset after a win. Booster raises a bet by 1 level after a loss, and it resets after a win. All of these go up until reaching 4 levels above base bet. Jumper will raise the bet 1 level after every winning round, until reaching 4 levels above the base bet, and it will reset after a loss.
Chi and Mow
Chi is one of the helping ghosts throughout the game and it can award between 1 and 6 Wilds if Chi, the fire spirit, lands on the reels. During the Free Spins, the Wilds that Chi generates will act as sticky Wilds.
Mow, the Wind spirit, will award a multiplier in range between x2 and x5. During the Free Spins the first hit awards x2 progressive multiplier and each additional hit will increase the multiplier by 1, and will be able to grow up to x5.
Stairway to Fortune
Koi formed Yin-Yang is the Bonus symbol which will trigger the feature if you land a minimum of 3 on the reels. Chi will draw a random number between 1 and 6 while Mow will move the corresponding number of steps towards the Fortune Reels. If you draw collect, the multiplier value currently held by Mow will be collected and the bonus round will end. Reaching the Fortune Reels will award one spin on each reel and add the collected multipliers.
Summary
Chi slot has a lot to offer, and there is a lot to like about it. The game is charming and on top of everything it has innovative gameplay and is probably by far the best attempt that will help you restore the faith in this kind of slot genre. Chi is well designed slot with outstanding visuals, adorable looks, while on the inside it is a high variance beast with powerful effects, numerous features and amazing win potential.
If you’re a Sci-fi fanatic like me, then you probably believe in the existence of aliens, like I do, but what intrigues me most is, what kind of slot games would aliens be interested in? Well, to answer that question, I accidentally came across the answer – a slot game entitled Chi, by Elk Studios (most probably owned by aliens too, because elks don’t do slots, hahaha). How so? Read on and I’ll elaborate a little bit, hehehe.
Okay, let’s put your wonderings into a better perspective. Look at the paylines in the paytable of Chi – what do you see? I see a lot of alien’s symbols, the kind that are usually found on UFOs (unidentified flying objects) or on alien’s artifacts – unrecognizable and undecipherable to me. Then look at the play screen - what do you see? I see 3 reels and 5 rows, not in the standard order or format, but turn your head sideways 90 degrees and you’d see the 5 reels and 3 rows, the standard format! Lastly, that Chi and Mow characters certainly aren’t humans, so you see, this Chi game is probably designed by aliens, for aliens with eyes on the side of their heads! Hahaha.
Having said that, my first play on this game made my head go spinning! What usual winning lines I saw on the screen were not winning lines at all, so all my expectations got totally jumbled up, at times sideways, at other times upside down! Why? Because the winning lines go zig-zagging downwards or upwards instead, sheesh! Nope, I don’t like this at all! Moreover, I don’t like any game that looks like a piece of toilet roll either, but thankfully, there aren’t many of such games around.
Chi, the Fire Spirit, would award 1 to 6 random Wilds, whilst Mow, the Wind Spirit, would award 2x to 5x multipliers. All Wild, Scatter and Bonus symbols are non-paying (argh!), and the top symbol would pay only 10x the total bet for getting any 5 of them. Yep, that’s one more “argh” from me! The best feature game in this game is the Stairway To Fortune Bonus game, whereby you climb up the stairway with each dice-throw number, collecting multipliers along the way, and all multipliers are then added up to give the final payout win. Yes, this is where the big wins can occur, not in the free spins.
At the end of my play session, I was feeling very odd and very strange, but I was happy enough to finally escape with a good win on the Stairway To Fortune Bonus game. The free spins feature game, on the other hand, was particularly disappointing to me, not even getting one free spins game after doing 700 spins on it! Sorry, but I would rather give this Chi game a miss!