Dragon King Hot Pots

Dragon King Hot Pots: Slot Overview

Building on the legacy of the iconic Reel King slot, Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom introduce Dragon King Hot Pots, a game that revives the classic mini slot machine style of the original release with a fresh theme and added features. Known for its unique mini-reel feature, Reel King became popular for its straightforward gameplay, and Dragon King Hot Pots continues this approach with a mini slot bonus capable of awarding individual prizes up to 2,500x.

Dragon King Hot Pots doesn't score a huge number of points for visual originality, but it has a definite Reel Kingdom look. The overarching theme is that of the Asian variety, with shimmering light around the place and a dragon's head poking over the reels depending on how you play the game - landscape, portrait, mobile etc. There's not much more to say about the presentation other than Dragon King Hot Pots looks almost exactly how one might picture an Asian-themed slot from Reel Kingdom to be.

Bearing a natty green patterned background is Dragon King Hot Pots' 5x3 gaming grid along with a total of 10 paylines are provided for evaluating regular line wins. All the evaluating and bonus activity puts out a maximum RTP of 96.54% with the help of a highly volatile math model, and gamblers may stake 5 c to $/€125 per base game round. Dragon King Hot Pots also has an optional ante bet that increases the chance of triggering the feature for double the stake when activated.

On the symbol list, we find J-A card ranks paying 3 to 6 times the stake for a 5 OAK winning combination, as well as lanterns and coins awarding 15 to 60 times the stake for landing 5 in a line. Wilds stand in for any paying symbol and have the same value as the highest pay when making wins consisting only of wilds.

Dragon King Hot Pots: Slot Features

Dragon King Hot Pots' main feature is its mini slot machine bonus. In the base game, when 1 or 2 scatters land, there is a chance that 1 or 2 of the scatters transform into a mini slot machine. If 3 or more scatter symbols hit, they all transform into mini slot machines, triggering the bonus round.

During the round, mini slot machines spin and award the prizes for the winning combinations they display. Each time a win occurs, one more spin of that mini-slot machine is awarded. When a non-winning round occurs, that mini-slot machine is locked. The round ends when all mini-slot machines are locked.

The mini slot machines have 1 payline, containing only blanks or red, blue, and green '8' symbols. Landing 3 red 8s pays 50x, 3 blue 8s pays 15x, 3 green 8s pay 5x, and any 3 8s pay 1x. When all mini slot machines are locked and the round ends, there is a chance that the Dragon King Hot Pots Slot feature triggers. When this happens, 1 mini slot machine appears, then spins and stops when no more wins hit. In this feature landing 3 red 8s pays 2,500x, 3 blue 8s pays 250x, 3 green 8s pay 25x, and any 3 8s pay 5x.

Bonus Buy

Paying 100 times the bet from the bonus buy menu triggers the bonus feature with 3 to 5 mini slot machines randomly awarded.

Dragon King Hot Pots: Slot Verdict

While fundamentally building on the original Reel King slot, it could also be confidently assumed that Dragon King Hot Pots is an offshoot of Reel Kingdom/Pragmatic Plays' earlier Asian slot, Year of the Dragon King. As well as having a related title, both games have as their central feature the ability to trigger mini slots to potentially win prizes from. Like before, the bonus consists of hitting as many consecutive wins as possible to keep the flow going and the prizes racking up.

However, Reel Kingdom has busted out the thinking caps to give players a newer experience this time. Where Year of the Dragon King injected multipliers onto its mini-slots feature, Dragon King Hot Pots does not. Instead, if you want to chase the bigger rewards, players might have to cross their fingers and hope the Dragon King Hot Pots Slot feature triggers. That's where the 2,500x top prize is located - though so are several lower values, let's not get too carried away. The two games might lay out differing winding pathways to get potentially there, but the ultimate destination is the same since both have a 5,000x the bet max win.

If the other Dragon King game didn't float your lantern at the time, then it's likely Dragon King Hot Pots won't either. The opposite assumption applies as well, though, for those who received the last game with open arms. You can see the possible charm here for gamblers into slots that aren't afraid to express their Asian-inspired theme, those fond of the number 8, or just those into Reel Kingdom's particular way of entertaining fans of its work. It might be an acquired taste, but the Dragon King must have thrilled enough punters on its earlier outing to prompt a repeat performance.