Jade Idol Slots

Jade-IdolJade Idol appears to be a slot with a Chinese inspired design, a game that focuses on a beautiful Chinese woman and on various items related to both modern and traditional aspects of this part of the world. With a modern skyline being one symbol, while an Asian sail ship being another, you get a feeling for the kind of views and contrasts that this continent can offer you. The game is one of the more impressive titles from Cryptologic feature wise, and it does alright with its graphics, even though they’re slightly older looking.

Jade Idol might not be a game that impresses you when you first look at it, it only has 5 reels and 9 lines on them, but when it comes to payouts and features it would be above average for this developer. You get up to $50,000 inside, plus the reels have plenty of surprises for you, including wild symbols, multipliers, free games, bonus games and scatters.

Features of Jade Idol

The game might feel like an older title, thanks to the number of paylines, but it has a lot of things to offer still, including bonus games, free spins, multipliers, wilds and scatters.

Two types of wild symbols are present in Jade Idol, but they have their own reels that they show up. You get Kitty, the beautiful Asian woman, on reels 1 through 4. Monkey, the Jade idol, gets the 5th reel. Neither wild can substitute for the scatter symbol. They also don’t offer prizes, even if they’re on the same line with multiple icons.

The Skyline view, with one of the fast growing cities of Asia on it, will act as the other major kind of feature symbol, the scatter. The main role of this scatter would be to get you prizes by being present in any location it lands on. You only need two scatters to get some kind of prize, but with five you get the maximum value, worth 100 times the bet you’ve made.

Free Games Feature

It’s easy enough to get a free games round going. You only need one of the Kitty wilds to be present on the same screen as a Monkey wild, and if that happens, you get the free spins. There are 5 spins awarded, each one taking advantage of a 2x multiplier. You can retrigger this feature, the requirement being the same.

Jade-Idol-rules

Bonus Game

The bonus feature also needs two different symbols to start up, but in this case the requirement is for the Skyline scatter to be on the 1st reel, while a Monkey wild is on the 5th.

You are asked to pick from the green monkeys displayed (9 total), until you get three symbols that match. You win the prize displayed for that symbol. If you don’t make a match, you get a consolation prize, worth 2x the bet. The most you can get from the bonus game is 500x the triggering bet.

Betting options and jackpots

The smaller number of lines gives you fewer chances to win, but the game doesn’t require bets as big, so you can end up with just $45 per round for the maximum wager. The bet is composed of up to 9 coins, using denominations that go from $0.05 to $5.

The Blue Diamond, the game’s best paying symbol, will get you up to 10,000 coins, provided that you have five matching symbols on one of the active lines. Given the right coin denomination, it means you can cash out up to $50,000 from a single spin.

Design and symbols

The Chinese theme is not hard to figure out; it’s visible not just in the objects that serve as symbols, but also in the way the playing card letters are drawn. A huge ocean view is visible in the background, a picture taken at night, with a big Asian city with skyscrapers taking only a small bit of the picture, in the top left corner. The drawing style and the coloring used for the background suggest an older slot machine, but it’s not unpleasant to look at, far from it.

Symbols: Kitty (wild), Jade Monkey (wild), Skyline (scatter, 100x the wager), Blue Diamond (10,000x), Sail Ship (2,500x), Hand Fan (1,000x), Paper Lantern (1,000x), Ace or King (400x), Queen or Jack (200x) and 10 or 9 (100x).

Jade-Idol-paytable

Is It Worth Playing?

Though you will find plenty of Chinese themed slots out there, few have the same number of features as Jade Idol. Even though it’s not a new game, it’s a pleasant surprise and it remains a good choice for anyone with an interest in the Chinese.

Jade Idol can be found at any Cryptologic casino, where you get a chance to play it for real money or in free mode.