Celebrating the Chinese New Year is always lots of fun with the celebration coming after the traditional New Year celebrations and giving something to look forward to for everyone not just the Chinese. 2009 was the Year of the Golden Ox of Happiness and this slots game is a tribute to the Golden Ox of Happiness. There are five reels and fifty paylines in this slots game that can be tried out for fun and practice before the player places real money bets. Players enjoy free spins and re-spins in this game in addition to wilds and scatters offering winning payouts. There is only one coin size in this game, a 1$ and players can choose to place bets on all of the paylines or just some of them.
Wild Happy Ox
In this game the Happy Ox is wild and when appearing on the screen it can substitute for other symbols giving the player a chance to make up aw inning payline. When the Happy Ox appears on reels 1 and 5 at the same time the player can win up to 8 re-spins. The reels with the Happy Ox on them stay in place and the other reels are re-spun. During these re-spins the player earns increasing multipliers with every extra re-spin that is won. The re-spins also run during free spins.
Earning Free Spins
Free spins are won for landing three and more of the Year of the Ox symbols on the screen. Initially the player wins 8 free spins during which all winnings are tripled and the player can trigger more of these free spins with the appearance of further Year of the Ox symbols. There are some other great winnings offered from this symbol that include lining up five of these on an active payline, this awards the player 8888x the coin bet placed. Celebrating the New Year is always fun but now it is lucrative too!
