50 Dragons seems to be a sequel for 5 Dragons, both of them being games that were released by Aristocrat, a relatively new company when it comes to online gaming, but a big name in the land based slot industry. The game hasn’t been improved that much, and I’m still not a very big fan of what it has to offer, and I’m talking especially about the design here, as the features tend to look slightly better.
The number of dragons also tells you how many lines are used in this game, 50 being spread across the 5 reels. The slot’s free spins, scatter symbols and wilds are all features you expect to see these days. As for the biggest prizes, the paytable mentions that you get up to 1,000x back, so a maximum of $4,000.
Features of 50 Dragons
The features are quite basic, and they don’t bring you the bigger prizes, like they would in other slots. Two symbols are used here, one wild and the other a scatter. The latter will be responsible for triggering the slot’s free spins.
The wild symbol, the Pearl, will substitute for the regular symbols which appear on the last four reels of the slot. Since you don’t get it on the 1st reel, you shouldn’t expect to get a prize from it, as it can’t form its own combo. All it will do is the substitution which will take place whenever a wild is in position, appearing on a payline which already has a couple of matching icons and needs just one more to form the combo. The Gold Ingot is the only one which doesn’t benefit from the Pearl’s ability, as it is a scatter.
Free Games Feature
The Gold Ingot, a scatter which appears on three reels out of five, will trigger a small prize of 4x the bet and will also start up the free spins. The first three reels are the ones that can get the scatter symbols. Get them all at the same time, and the three Gold Ingots will start a round of 10 free spins.
During each free spin, one additional wild Pearl will be added to the last four reels, and will be used during the remaining rounds. You can only retrigger the free spins once, and you will get only 5 free spins.
Betting options and jackpots
You get to decide the number of lines which will be active and the individual line bet. The first option goes from 1 to 50, which is the largest number of lines that can be used. The line bet starts at $0.01 and reaches $4, so if you max it out and you do the same with the number of lines you get a top wager of $200.
The best payout offered by the game gives back 1,000 times what the line bet was, so you can expect $4,000 in the best case scenario.
Design and symbols
The design is clearly inspired by the Chinese, as are many other slots these days. A red and black drawing of a mountain scene is shown behind the game area, looking quite nice actually. The symbols are either playing cards or Chinese themed icons which are made out of gold. Neither look particularly impressive though, which is unfortunate.
Symbols: Gold Ingot (scatter, 4x bet), Pearl (wild), Gold Dragon (1,000 coins), Peacock (500 coins), Tiger (500 coins), Fish (400 coins), Jewelry (400 coins), Ace (400 coins), King (400 coins), Queen (200 coins), Jack (200 coins), 10 (200 coins) and 9 (200 coins).
Is It Worth Playing?
It’s the slightly better looking slot of the two that Aristocrat has released with a dragon theme, plus the features are also better than before. You’re not going to get rich playing it though, and that’s one big reason why people play slot machines.
You will find 50 Dragons at any online casino which chooses to use software from Aristocrat, playable either for free or for real money.
