THE GREAT VOYAGES QUICK START GUIDE
The Great Voyages is not your ordinary slot in the sense that it has no regular reel and row format, you will see a cone shaped reel format of 2-3-4-5-6-7.
The slot game has 192 paylines, six reels, and up to seven rows on the most right reel. With an RTP of 96%, the game from KA Gaming has a high variance and 192 ways to win. This slot has wilds, scatters, and stacked wilds, it was released on 9th March 2019.
The Great Voyages is based on the life of a real person named Zheng He. He lived from 1371 to 1435, and was a court eunuch and master mariner.
He was primarily an explorer that served in the Ming Dynasty. He had the biggest ships ever sailed in ancient China, and he rose to power as a commander of the armed services.
REEL SYMBOLS
Because of the game’s background, the symbols you will spin here are related to the travels of Zheng He. The man himself is a symbol in the game.
The high-value symbols are:
- Zheng He
- Ship
- Giraffe
- Lion
- Castle
- Flag
Zheng He can be a wild symbol at times. The slot game also has four low values symbols, which are represented by the suits of a typical playing card deck. These low-value symbols pay between $5 and $400 at the highest bet.
The reel set up is 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 7—total of six reels but each reel has a different row count.
BASE GAME SYMBOLS & PAYS
| PAYTABLE | |||||
| Number of Appearance in a Pay Line | SYMBOLS | ||||
| Zheng He | Ship | Giraffe | Lion | Castle | |
| 6 | 2,000 | 1,500 | 1,250 | 1,000 | 750 |
| 5 | 250 | 200 | 150 | 125 | 100 |
| 4 | 40 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 15 |
| 3 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
All the pays shown here are for the highest bet of $200 per round. The payout table changes as you increase and decrease your bet, and all pays are in currency, not as multipliers.
All 192 lines are active at any given round. To win, you have to land at least three same symbols on separate but adjacent reels. They have to be on specific positions as designed on the 193 paylines. All combos must start from the leftmost reel.
BONUS GAMES & FEATURES
The slot game has some features like the wild and the scatter.
- Wild – the wild in the game is the golden scroll. It is a substitute for all symbols except the scatter. It also pays money if you landed it as a combo on any of the 193 paylines.
The cash prizes for the wild at the highest bet are:
- 6x – $4,000
- 5x – $2,000
- 4x – $400
- 3x – $500
- Scatter – the scatter symbol is the compass. It only appears from reel 2 to 6 during the base game. In the free spins bonus round, it appears on the first five reels.
The scatter symbol awards between 10 and 50 free games. You have to land at least three of it to win the free games. It also awards money, but only of you landed at least four of it on the grid.
The cash prizes are for the highest bet are:
- 5x – $10,000
- 4x – $2,000
- Stacked Wild – during the free games bonus, Zheng He becomes a stacked symbol on the reel where it lands. Also, it becomes a wild symbol after getting stacked.
SUMMARY
We will rate this slot as 5.8 out of 10 points. While there are wilds, scatters, and free games, landing a winning combo is difficult. We did quite poorly in our real money gaming test overall.