About Happy New Year
Happy New Year is a Chinese themed classic slot machine, and that is perhaps something which your average slot machine player was not expecting. The slot machine game can see players able to wager on 3 reels (which won’t come as a surprise), but there actually 5 paylines spread over those reels, and that is special, even if it isn’t unique to Microgaming developed classic slots. Players can expect to prosper from wilds and multipliers in this classic slot machine game, too. Players can select coin values which range from 1.00 up to 25.00, and bet as many as 5 coins per spin (each coin refers to a payline). Happy New Year is a somewhat costly classic slot, with floor bets costing players at least 1.00 per spin, whilst maximum wagers are guaranteed to set players back at least 125.00 per spin. Once again, Happy New Year is just full of surprises.
Payouts and symbols
Happy New Year contains a host of Chinese symbols on its reels. The Chinese characters are the best paying icons, and they also serve other features. They can double the value of any winning combination in which they appear once (save the jackpot), and they can quadruple wins in which they appear twice, again save for the jackpot. These symbols are wild icons and they can substitute for all other symbols in the slot.
Other symbols in this game include red, green, and yellow firecrackers, as well as lanterns. Any 3 firecrackers can offer you a 5-coin win, whilst any 3 green firecrackers can see you win 10 coins. Land 3 of the yellow firecrackers to win 40 coins, or land 3 red firecrackers to pocket 80 coins wins. Bagging 3 Chinese lantern symbols on a payline will see you win 160 coins in all.
Winning the jackpot
Happy New Year’s best paying symbols are the Chinese character symbols, as we’ve said. These not only act as wild symbols and multipliers, but also jackpot paying icons. Land 3 of them on the first payline (through the centre of the reels) to win 1,000 coins. Landing them on the second or third paylines – which run across the top and bottom of the reels – will see players win 1,200 or 1,400 coins respectively. Bagging three such symbols on the fourth line (from the top left hand side of the reels down to the bottom right) will see players win 1,600 coins.
The top prize is worth 2,400 coins and is yours if you can land the 3 symbols on the fifth payline, which runs from the bottom left of the first reel, to the top right of the fifth reel.