Fu 10K Ways

Fu 10K Ways: Slot Overview

Sydney-based studio ReelPlay adds to its range of 10K Ways slots with an Asian-themed entry titled Fu 10K Ways. So far, the series has explored such topics as leprechauns, pirates, and space, so it was no major surprise to see the team add one with an Asian focus. To do so, they've hardly pulled out all the stops to make it an explosive celebration of world culture. Instead, Fu 10K Ways is basically a copy of Shamrock Money Pot 10K Ways, meaning players get a game with bonus respins round packing cash symbols and five bonus prizes.

ReelPlay didn't exactly use Fu 10K Ways as an excuse to let loose their creative minds into the imagination ether and come back with something original to dazzle the market with. A similar assessment was induced by the game's visuals. Asian-style buildings sit on both sides of the game grid, where several objects sway in the breeze, and golden sunlight washes over the background. It looks okay; nothing wrong with the artwork, but nothing massively memorable either.

In the centre sits the game board. It is made up of 6 main reels holding 4 symbols each, plus a 4-symbol horizontal reel sitting at the top of the panel. The number of symbols on each reel stays the same, so it's not Megaways despite kind of looking like it, as does the number of ways to win at 10,000. A highly volatile creation, Fu 10K Ways' return to player value comes out at 96.2% available to play from 20 p/c to $/€12 per paid game round.

Brush stroke style 9-A card ranks lead the payable off, paying 0.5 to 1.2 times the stake for six-of-a-kind. Then come four miscellaneous Asian-themed objects, worth 2 to 100 times bet when winning combinations of a six-of-a-kind hit. When winning ways appear on the reels, the symbols involved in them are removed by the cascade mechanic. Other symbols fall down to close the gaps, and if another win is formed, the cascade feature triggers again, stopping only when no new win appears. Potentially helping out is the wild lion symbol. It appears on the top reel to substitute for anything except the scatter.

Fu 10K Ways: Slot Features

When scatter symbols land, they display cash values or one of the five bonus prizes. When 6 or more scatter symbols are in view, the bonus respin feature is triggered. The triggering scatters are held in place, and 3 respins are awarded. The round is played out on a grid where regular pay symbols and wilds do not appear.

When new scatter symbols land, they are locked in place and reset the respin count back to 3. The round ends when all spaces on the board are filled, or the number of respins runs out. Scatters either have a cash value of 1-100x the bet or one of the five bonus prizes. These are the Mini, Minor, Major, Grand or 10K Bonus, worth 10x, 50x, 150x, 2,000x, or 10,000x the bet, respectively. The Mini or Minor Prizes may be won more than once; the other three bonus prizes can be won once per feature.

Fu 10K Ways: Slot Verdict

Around the start of the review process, a brief thought occurred that the 'Fu' in Fu 10K Ways meant, um, 'f*** you'. In our defence, this was the first result when searching for the meaning of the word 'Fu' online. For, like, a nanosecond, we imagined an outrageously ballsy move on the part of ReelPlay, up there with something Nolimit City might pull off. Once the game loaded, though, it soon became clear Fu 10K Ways was nowhere near as ballsy. In fact, it's basically a clone of Shamrock Money Pot 10K Ways, which wasn't the most imaginative game in the first place. But players who choose these 10K Ways games presumably aren't picking them to see outrageously creative ideas go off like a string of fireworks during Chinese New Year. Instead, you pretty much know what you're going to get, and there is little deviation from the original supposition.

This means an uncomplicatedly flowing game running 10,000 ways alongside a hold 'n win respin bonus round with cash wins and five static bonus prizes. Dress it all up in an Asian setting, and you've got Fu 10K Ways in a nutshell. Either this will sound enticing, which is cool, or it won't, and when it's in motion, not much is likely to occur to either ruin expectations or trigger a major surprise. Fu 10K Ways looks okay, functions okay, and does its job as expected. Apologies, but it was hard to get much more of a rise from playing the game than that. Potential is decent, but.

Depending on the source, the Chinese word 'Fu', when translated to English, means things like happiness, good luck, or good fortune. Apparently, there is a tradition of it appearing around festivals like the Chinese Lunar New Year. Fu 10K Ways didn't exactly strike us as a particularly exciting release full of original touches or innovative features, quite the opposite, really. But, there is clearly an audience lapping up the 10K Ways range, so for the right punter, here is another opportunity to potentially find a level of happiness, good luck or good fortune.