Lucky Panda

Lucky panda is a video slot game from Playtech that turns out to really bring luck to its players. I love this slot. I have played it only couple of times before but the last time I did was the most memorable of all. I got a second chance during the base game and only the first reel was the same and all the others respun. So I got a five of a kind with the highest paying symbol on couple of lines I suppose, it all happened so fast and I was only looking at the numbers not the symbols, and I won 97.60 and I also triggered the free spins. I got 15 free spins and all the wins were doubled so I won 322 euros. During the next free spins round I got 128 euros. I stopped there. I deposited 20 euros and I made a withdrawal of around 700 euros, it was perfect. I know that maybe if I have continued playing I would have won more, but there was a bigger chance that I would lose all. So, this was a quick but good decision.

Lucky panda is 5 reels and 1024 ways to win video slot game. The game gives some kind of an oriental or Chinese vibe, but the main symbols are all animals. This is maybe because of the sounds that are all Far Eastern. The wild in this game is the panda symbol and the Lucky Panda logo is the scatter. Every time you get 2 pandas you get a chance to spin a third one. Probably when I was playing I got 2 pandas on the first reel and I did not know what was happening. But this turns out to be a great addition to this game and makes it unique at the same time. This does not mean that you will get the third panda on the reels always.

I have been looking at this game for a while now and never gave it a try. Don't know why but something about it just did not felt right and I never had the courage to give it a try. Even though I give all games a try for some reason I skipped this one. I think also the fact that the minimum bet on it is €0.70 always kept me away from this game.

Lately I had a good bit of money on my account and I made myself give this game a try. I raised the bet to 2 coins and started playing. Just as usual I was getting small wins almost all of the time but was still loosing money.Then I noticed that I can stop the reels, so I started double tapping. The game stayed the same but I started loosing much faster. Before I knew it I lost half of my money and there was no sign of pandas. ' Damn pandas' I though to myself. One side of me really wanted to quit, but another was sure that the feature was going to come out because I spend so much already.

Teared between choices I kept on playing and praying. Feeling that it is too late was taking me over and I did not know what to do. Then as if God heard my prayers I caught three pandas on a double tap and was able to breath. 15 free spins with stacked wilds gave me hope of winning some money or at least getting my money back. At the end of the free spins I won around €30 and was super disappointing. The stacked wilds did not even come out and all of the other wins were tiny.

This was the first and last time I tried this game and from that experience I would rate this game 4 out of 10. I am sure it is possible to win big but I really don't like this game. It has made it personal and I swore not to play it again.

Panda is the name-giving animal at this slot but the game has other beautiful animal figures to offer like tiger, monkey, snake. The graphics of the symbols are very high quality but somehow with lot of card elements it seems as if they wouldn’t form a real unit and I have little felling that something’s missing here.

Lucky panda is a 1024 ways-to-win type game but lesser ways also can be used if player wishes. The most paying symbol can reward up to 4000 coins which is quite good at a multi-way slot where special payout rules exists and the cumulative wins are more frequently occurred. The Lucky Panda emblem is the Wild and only appears on the three middle reels but doesn’t multiply any wins while it’s substituting and unfortunately hasn’t paying ability. 3 or more Pandas anywhere on the screen activate 15 free games where all wins are counted by x2 multiplier and the feature itself can be re-triggered and can pay up to 100 times of total bet with 5 such visible symbols at the end of spin. A little unique feature named Second Chance Scatter is assigned to increase the chance of getting free spins which is a single re-spin possibility if just 2 Pandas are on the reels, then the other 3 reels are spinning just one more time for the purpose of pulling out another Panda and the feature being active. These are the hard cold facts.

Playing the game the obvious advantage of being ‘1024’ slot is remarkable. Not just the winnings are formed in very strange positions but I noticed more 5 of a kind success happen than I expected what’s really good news for the balance.
The Wild does its job but the real deal to get free spins. With doubled prizes there there’s a good chance every time to win some nice rewards and in my case more times happened when fortunately 5 identical symbols arrived to that positions where they should have to complete a winning combination and almost every figure can do that trick as I got almost each of them such wins (of course sadly for me not in one session).

Generally, it’s not a bad game and has the ability to sometimes surprise me with open-handed behavior but looking at the big picture somehow it doesn’t entertain me that much as some other games do at this platform. Honestly, I don’t have any idea what is that that pull out this game from the mediocre section for me but the excitement if it causes not every time is enough for me so that’s why I don’t use up every possibility to play with this game when I’m around any Playtech casinos.

Lucky panda is the only one slot from playtech, which have 1024 paylines. When i first time see that playtech game has so many lines, i was impressed and waited something really great from them, because their 243 line archer is really great, and when i played lucky panda a bit i understand that i am disappointed with that game.

First of all slot looks not very nice, and this is really shame, i thought if company has only one 1024 game, they should work hard and do something unique and interesting, but symbols just boring here and nothing interesting. Second stupid thing is that on base game wilds not stacked, and no any symbols here which are stacked, and this is on 1024 line games, what the point to play base game so? Just for fun? My best result during base game is about x 50 total bet, and i can see only one chance to get better - get 5 scatters which will pay x 100 total bet. Feature enable stacked wilds, which is already better, but after i played couple of features i realize that stacked wilds appears very rare, and also there is not any other boost during this free spins, no multiplier or extra stacked wilds, just sit and wait did wilds come. My best result on free spins was around x 120 bet, which is poor result for 1024 liner, and also i am noticed that it is really hard to trigger free games, which made this slot even more worse, because base game boring.

I did not know what variance this game had, probably high, but i did not like it at all, and can say that i will not play this game again, because in my opinion it can't pay good, or it should be miracle, and because it is hard to trigger feature on this game.