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Chinese New Year 2
Chinese New Year 2 Stats
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- Firecracker on all 5 reels triggers the Free Game and a choice of five lanterns · 3 to 18 games by lantern; a retrigger adds the same number of games; retrigger limit 100 spins · Retrigger: Firecracker on all 5 reels during the Free Game: the same number of games as the chosen lantern and an additional multiplier, up to the lantern's retrigger maximum; retrigger limit 100 spins
- Bonus Buy
- Buy Feature 50x · Extra Bet 1.5x
- Multipliers
- 2X–18X by lantern; retrigger maximum 8X–72X
Symbols & Pays
- Wild
- Substitutes for any symbol except the firecracker scatter
- Ways Pays
- Top symbol 16.67x · Lowest 0.17x
Fa Chai’s Chinese New Year 2 Demo
Five sky lanterns hang over a full moon when the free game opens in Chinese New Year 2, and you light one. Teal gives you 18 games at 2x, and red gives you 3 games at 18x, with pink, purple, and orange in between. That’s a plain trade of spins for multiplier, but the lantern you light also sets how high a retrigger can lift the multiplier later, and that’s the part of this 243-ways slot worth your attention.
That pick is the big change from Chinese New Year, the studio’s 2020 original. Chinese New Year Moreways has a lantern choice too, and its free game retriggers with the spin count and starting multiplier you picked. Here, a retrigger repeats the game count, but the multiplier can grow, up to each lantern’s own limit.
Free Play Features
Five Sky Lanterns
The last column shows how far a retrigger can take each one.
| Lantern | Games | Win multiplier | Retrigger maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teal | 18 | 2x | 8x |
| Pink | 13 | 3x | 12x |
| Purple | 8 | 6x | 24x |
| Orange | 5 | 9x | 36x |
| Red | 3 | 18x | 72x |
Retrigger Ceilings
Fill all five reels with firecrackers again mid-bonus and you get the same number of games your lantern gave you, plus the chance of an additional multiplier up to that lantern’s maximum. The retrigger limit is 100 spins.
This is where the short lanterns come into their own. Red’s 3 games start at 18x, and a retrigger adds 3 more and can take the multiplier up to 72x. Teal’s 18 games can climb no higher than 8x.
Extra Bet Toggle
The green Extra Bet button raises each spin to 1.5x the original bet and doubles the chance of entering the free game. Your wins are calculated from the original bet, meaning the extra stake buys trigger chances. It’s the weaker half of the sequel’s additions, since you pay the higher stake whether a firecracker shows up or not, but it’s easy to judge in free play, since trying it in the demo costs you nothing.
Firecracker Trigger
The lanterns appear once a firecracker lands on all 5 reels. The lion Wild can’t stand in for one, so each reel needs its own red drum with the gold 春.
So, which lantern suits you? If you like a long round, teal’s 18 games are the calm choice, with the smallest retrigger limit. If you’d rather swap length for multiplier, orange and red give a retrigger room to climb, up to 36x and 72x. That choice is the best thing in Chinese New Year 2, and between free games there’s little else to it.
How to Play
Adjacent Ways
The green 243 WAYS banner over the reels tells you how this one pays. Matching symbols count when they fall on adjacent reels beginning with reel 1, so a J on reels 1, 2, and 3 pays even if reels 4 and 5 have nothing to add. Three reels is the shortest win, and the paytable starts there.
The lion-head Wild can replace every symbol apart from the firecracker. It gets no pay row, so its value is in the wins it completes. The screenshot under the opening heading shows how that looks, with two Wilds at the bottom of reels 4 and 5 stretching a run of blue Js from reel 1 across all five reels. The firecracker has no pay row either. Its job is to trigger the free game, which opens with the lantern pick.
RTP
High volatility and a 96.5% RTP are Fa Chai’s ratings for the sequel, which arrived in June 2022. That High rating cuts both ways, meaning bigger swings when a free game goes well and smaller returns when it doesn’t. The lantern you pick changes how that feels inside the free game, with teal spreading the round over 18 spins and red packing it into 3. Fa Chai lists a 16,800x maximum for Chinese New Year 2, and if waiting on 5 firecrackers isn’t for you, the buy is 50x.
Game Paytable
Eight symbols have rows here. For five of a kind, the letters range from 2.33x for J to 3.33x for A, and every figure is a multiple of your total bet. Above them come the four gold symbols: the red envelopes marked 福, the gold ingot, the carp, and the pineapple, which tops the table at 16.67x. A run of three is small change on the letters, 0.17x for J, and four of them lift that to 0.33x.
| Symbol | 5 of a kind | 4 of a kind | 3 of a kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 2.33x | 0.33x | 0.17x |
| Q | 2.67x | 0.4x | 0.2x |
| K | 3x | 0.5x | 0.27x |
| A | 3.33x | 0.67x | 0.33x |
| Red envelopes (福) | 4.17x | 1.33x | 0.83x |
| Gold ingot | 5.83x | 2x | 1x |
| Carp | 6.67x | 2.67x | 1.33x |
| Pineapple | 16.67x | 5x | 1.67x |
