Bally Technologies welcomes you to traditional China, where a Golden Coin Tree awaits, ready for shaking. The more you shake the Tree, the more Golden Coins will fall down, thanks to the Wild Coin Mystery feature, but that is not all.

You can also expect help from Maneki-neko, or the Chinese Lucky Cat, which brings good fortune and, in this particular slot, the Pick Me Bonus, while the Yin and Yang carries a Free Game bonus.

Apart from being packed with action, the Lucky Tree slot also houses crisp graphics and an authentic oriental soundtrack. The 2016 release is a five-reel slot with 30 fixed paylines, playable from $0.30 per spin.

Developer

Bally Technologies has come a long way since 1968, when the company was established in Las Vegas under the name Advanced Patent Technologies. At first the company produced slot machines for land-based casinos, while today Bally is considered to be one of the leading providers of mobile technologies in online gambling industry.

Their video slots are topnotch, offering interesting and rewarding additional features and housing crisp graphics. Some of their most famous titles are Playboy Hot Zone, Cash Wizard and Golden Pharaoh.

How To Play It

If you are fans of Chinese-themed slots, than you will definitely love the visuals in the 2016 release, since they really carry a breath of traditional China.

Just look at the high-value symbols, and you will see plenty of authentic symbols, such as the Frog, Turtle, Koi Fish, Bamboo tree, and Lotus. Even though the low-paying ones are playing cards, they also fit the theme perfectly.

The Dragon is one of the Wild symbols, substituting for all other regular symbols, while the Lucky Cat, or the Maneki-neko, is the Scatter that triggers the Pick Me Bonus. The other Scatter is Yin and Yang, which is crucial for the Free Game Bonus.

The Wild Coin Mystery feature revolves around the Tree that stands above the reels, and is triggered randomly. Every time a spin is over, the Tree might start shacking and releasing 2-7 Golden Coins, turning all the symbols they land on into Wilds.

When talking about the rules of the game, they are simple as 1, 2, 3. The Lucky Tree slot features a standard 5×3 grid and offers 30 paylines that pay from left to right, beginning from the far left reel.

The coin value goes from $0.01 to $3, and all you have to do is set the desired bet somewhere between $0.30 and $90 before you start spinning the reels.

Special Features

The Yin and Yang Scatters will appear only on reels 2, 3 and 4, The Free Game Bonus will be triggered once you get all three of them on the reels, awarding gamers with 10 freebies.

The Wild Coin Mystery feature will activate after every free spin, adding 3-7 Wild coins to the reels, resulting with plenty of possibilities for lucrative payouts. The good thing is that you can retrigger the feature, getting 10 more freebies.

The Lucky Cat Scatters appear only on reels 1, 3 and 5 and trigger the Pick Me Bonus the moment you land all three of them on the reels. Gamers will first need to pick one of three offered Spheres, hiding 6-12, 14 or 15 picks you will use in the next part of the Bonus.

A new screen will then appear, and your task will be to match as many Pick symbols as you can if you want to win bigger cash prizes. The Maneki-neko, or the Lucky Cat symbol pays the most in this Bonus game, offering 5,000 times the triggering bet once you gather all eight of them.

Maximum Payouts

Apart from being the game’s Wild, the Dragon is also the symbol that pays the most, rewarding gamers with 60,000 coins, or $180,000 for five of a kind, of course, if you set the coin denomination to the max.

The Coin Wild is not as generous, since this symbol will get you 1,800 coins for the maximum combo. The Pick Me Bonus offers a maximum prize of 5,000 coins for all eight Lucky Cat symbols.

Summary

The Lucky Tree video slot from Bally Technologies is really a breath of fresh air, despite the fact that there are plenty of Chinese-themed slots out there.

The 2016 release boasts topnotch graphics and a fitting soundtrack, while offering more than enough additional features to keep you spinning the reels.

Our personal favourite is the Free Game Bonus, with up to 7 additional Wilds in every spin thanks to the Wild Coin Mystery feature, which is also available during base game, where it can also be quite rewarding.

Be prepared to spend money in order to win money, because none of the additional features come as easy as you would want.