Fire 88

A slot from Pragmatic Play with a Chinese theme and comes with 3 reels, 3 rows and 7 fixed pay-lines. The min bet is a very friendly 0.07 per spin making it suitable for all players.

The slot has a jackpot bonus game where you got to get three three 88 jackpot symbols to get into the bonus game where you are guaranteed to win one of the jackpots, the biggest one pays 888x. The 2nd biggest pays 88x and the smallest pays 38x. Lot’s of eights as you can see because the Chinese love the 8 number for luck. When it came to me trying this game out I had a go to see if I could trigger the bonus game but it wasn’t to be during the session however a base game of almost 37x did show up for me and that was good enough for the session this time.

When it comes to the graphics we see plenty of yellow and orange and red colors which is part of the Chinese colors that they are into and it also enhances the gambling since those colors have been known to get players to gamble more. There are these flames that are on the sides of the reels which give it an interesting look.

The music is suitable for this slot considering it is Chinese themed and is played during the base game as well as features. The reels have their sound effects too as well as when there is a re-spin in the case of getting two wild dragons you hear a voice saying re-spin, that’s pretty cool.

I played the 95.47% RTP version and while there is a 96.45% RTP version I was pleased with the way this version played for me during my session and I was able to walk away with a bit of a profit.

The max win cap is pretty small of around 888x or so and that is on the low side for me when I play slots I would like to have 5000x or higher. There is no option to bonus buy that would for obvious reason as the feature would just be a jackpot each time you trigger it. Sometimes the 88 do appear on the reels but you gotta get one double 8’s with the jackpot badge on them and it’s a bit of an annoyance when you get two 8’s with jackpot badges and a 3rd one that doesn’t have a badge.

Okay, so I don't like 3-reels game, to be very honest, and I don't play them either, but for trying out sake, I gave this Fire 88 game a try. Not many tries, but just one try, hehehe. It's a very simple game to play, with just 7 paylines, so you only need to pay $0.07 per spin at the minimum bet. If you have plenty of money, then go ahead and try this game out with bigger bets.

There's only 7 symbols in play, with the Dragon as the Wild symbol, substituting for all other symbols, and paying a very low 35x the total bet for getting 3 of them. What if you get 5 of them? Sorry, it's a 3-reels game, so no 5 of a kind wins here, hehehe. '88' is the highest paying regular symbol, at only 14x the total bet, whilst the other symbols have even lower win values, not worth mentioning here anyway. There aren't any free spins, but getting 2 Dragon symbols would trigger one respin to try and get the third Dragon symbol.

Better still, there's a Jackpot Bonus game to aim for, by getting 3 of the '88' symbols with 'Jackpot' labels, in which you are guaranteed to win either the Mini, Major or Grand Jackpot prize. All you need to do is pick the coins and match 3 same colour-coded symbols to win the corresponding jackpot prize. The prizes? That's 888x total bet for the Grand Jackpot, 88x for the Major Jackpot and 38x for the Mini Jackpot. Not a lot isn't it?

Well, my one and only play on this Fire 88 game managed to get me 2 attempts at the jackpot prizes. The first Bonus game gave me the Mini jackpot prize, but the second Bonus game gave me the Major jackpot prize. Yeah, nothing really to get excited about anyway, but I was satisfied enough to get those 2 Bonus games. Nah, I didn't bother to play on to try and win the Grand jackpot prize, simply because I know that it would take ages to get that! Hahaha.

Honestly speaking, some may like this game more than I do, and may even get that Grand Jackpot prize, but playing the game was not too bad for me, although I got bored real fast and quick, so I made a quick exit, hehehe.