BABY CAI SHEN QUICK START GUIDE
Released on 27th October 2016, Spadegaming brings us Baby Cai Shen a 5 x 3 reel slot with an RTP of 97%. The game’s variance is medium, and players can win on any of the nine fixed pay lines. The game also has a wild symbol, a scatter symbol, and free spins bonuses to win.
REEL SYMBOLS
An Oriental-themed slot, you will be spinning Chinese symbols of luck. Baby Cai Shen himself is a popular deity in China who represents good luck.
The high-value symbols here are:
- Oranges
- Golden turtle
- Koi
- Firecracker
The wild symbol is Baby Cai Shen, and the scatter symbol is a golden Chinese letter or character. There are five low-value symbosl in the game represented by numbers and letters.
BASE GAME SYMBOLS & PAYS
The paytable below is for the high-value symbols. The numbers you see are the prizes, which are expressed as multipliers.
| PAYTABLE | ||||
| Number of Appearance in a Pay Line | SYMBOL | |||
| Oranges | Golden Turtle | Koi | Firecracker | |
| 5 | 1,250 | 1,000 | 600 | 400 |
| 4 | 600 | 250 | 150 | 100 |
| 3 | 150 | 100 | 50 | 25 |
| 2 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
The game has nine fixed paylines, and the minimum wager is 0.90, which makes the bet per line 0.10. The prizes on the table do not change even if you adjust your bet size. In the slot game, you can bet between 0.90 and 450 per round.
If you bet 450 per round, then your bet per line is 450/9 = 50 coins. If you landed 1 orange on the first reel, your prize is 2 x 50 = 100 coins.
With the exception of the Oranges and the Golden Turtle, you must land three same symbols on the pay line positions to win money. These symbols must be on adjacent reels, and the combo must start from the leftmost reel.
Each prize on the table is going to be multiplied by your bet per line, not your total bet. If you wagered 0.90, and you landed one Golden Turtle on a pay line, then you win 2 x 0.10 = 0.20.
BONUS GAMES & FEATURES
The game has three main features. These are the wild, scatter, and free spins.
- Wild – the wild substitutes for all symbols to make a winning line except the scatter symbol. Baby Cai Shen is the wild, and this symbol appears from reels 3 to 5 only. All wins that used the wild as a substitute will trigger five free spins.
- Scatter –the scatter symbol in the online slot is the Golden Chinese Letter. Landing at least two of this will grant a coin prize. The prizes are:
- 5x – 50
- 4x – 20
- 3x – 5
- 2x – 2
The prize will be multiplied by your total stake, not your bet per line. If you wagered 0.90 and you landed five scatter symbols, then you win 50 x 0.90 = 45. The scatter would produce wins anywhere they land—they do not have to be on specific spots.
- Free Spins – you will trigger the free spins if the wild was used to substitute to make a winning combo. During the free spins, any additional wild would yield another free spin. All wins during the free spins round are tripled.
SUMMARY
Baby Cai Shen is a simple slot game that changes how free spins are triggered. Normally, players would win free spins if they landed three scatter symbols, but this slot requires that the wild is used for a combo. This is by far easier to achieve so we will rate this game with 7.7 points out of 10 in our review.