Lanterns and Lions: Hold & Win slot is the latest addition to the iSoftBet portfolio, and it comes with 6 reels and up to 117649 paylines that invites you to come and visit an ancient temple that is filled with ornate lamps and dancing oriental lions. Dive into the ancient Chinese mythology and let’s find out all we can about Cai Shen here for fun, or at any iSoftBet Casino and do it for real.
How to Play Lanterns and Lions: Hold & Win Slot
Set your bets and embrace the God of Wealth with open hands, and he will get you something in return.
- Hit the Casino Chip button and it will open a panel where you can choose the bets.
- Spin will set the reels into a moving motion once you choose your bets.
- Autoplay will open up a panel and offer to choose the number of automatic spins to take, the loss limit and define a stop point when wins reach certain amount.
Slot Features
Cai Shen is your Wild symbol that can substitute for all the other symbols in the game when it is needed to form a win combo. The only symbols that it cannot substitute for is are the Gold Lanterns and Dragon Scatter.
Cai Shen Wilds
Landing 3 Cai Shen Wild landing vertically will expand them to become Stacked Wilds on middle three reels, and cover them completely.
Lucky Envelope
This feature is triggered randomly and can happen on any paid spin. Once the Envelope lands, it will open up to reveal an instant Cash Prize that can be either x8, x88, x888 or x8888 the bet. The letter may shake during the game but it will not guarantee the feature.
Dancing Lions
Getting 3 Lions on reels 1, 3 and 5, on the same spin will trigger the Dancing Lions feature pick. You will get to choose one of the 2 Lion’s to reveal a feature – Hold & Win or Free Spins.
Free Spins
If you win Free Spins feature you will be awarded with 8, 10, or 12 spins that carry 25, 50, 75 or 100 extra Wilds. Cai Shen will have the ability to expand vertically and cover the entire reel during the Free Spins feature. Additional 3 or more Scatters will retrigger the initial amount of Free Spins won.
Hold & Win
Getting 5 or more Lanterns to land during base will also get you into the Hold & Win. Here, you will get 3 respins and the triggering symbols will stick to the grid. Every additional Lantern that lands will also stick to the reels and reset the number of spins back to 3.
Values are set on a lantern, but if you happened to get a lantern with Mini, Minor or Major on it, you will bag yourself a corresponding jackpot that is x30, x100, s500 the bet, respectively. Whereas to drop the x1000 Grand jackpot, you will need to cover the entire grid with Lanterns.
Summary
Lanterns and Lions: Hold & Win is your average Hold & Win mechanic featuring slot with no surprises. The graphic design and artwork look good, and features are enjoyable. Max exposure is set to x8888 the bet which is not to be neglected especially when you take into the account that this is 96% RTP and medium volatility slot.
Lanterns and Lion: Hold and Win is a classic Asian theme slot from iSoftbet and one of their recent releases. The slot has 5 reels and 25 paylines with a very bad payable. The game has a free spins and hold and win feature where you re-spin coins for wins.
I am not really impressed as the paytable is very low. For 5OAK high-paying symbol pays x6 your total bet. Now I get x6 your bet on all pay way slots like 117 649 or 243 ways pay but on 25 pay lines? Really? Very disappointed in iSoftbet with this release.
Normally these are the slots that are supposed to be used for crushing wagering, however, this slot plays badly in the base game. You will find a lot of Chinese symbols in this ancient setting, with a Cai Shen wild symbol that lands on the middle three reels including reel 5. If you managed to land a wild it will expand to cover the entire reel.
The game has a lucky envelope feature that displays an envelope and can randomly award a prize of 8x, 88x, 888x, or 8888x your total bet. Now that sounds high right, but how often do you think you will get the 888x or 8888x prize? You must be extremely lucky.
The Dancing lion feature will trigger free spins or the hold and win feature. Lion symbols will and on reels 1, 3, and 5 and trigger the pick me the game. You are awarded free spins and extra wilds are added to the reels. I must add, you will notice wilds landing on almost every spin for a decent win.
The hold and win seem the most lucrative as a grand symbol or full screen of coins will award 1000x your total bet.
Overall wilds are pretty active in the base game but do not always make connections, so end up as Dead spins.
I prefer this slot over Wolf Gold though.