Year of Luck Slot Game | Spinomenal Slots

Year of Luck is a video slot from a game developer called Spinomenal – and it’s built around a Chinese New Year theme. Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is celebrated annually based on the lunar calendar.

The reunion of families marks it, and the tradition of the zodiac animal, and the current year is the Year of the Tiger. The zodiac animals, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig, each represent a distinct personality trait.

Year of Luck aims to honour the Chinese New Year – and the different animals can be seen in the game. While Spinomenal isn’t the first to create a Chinese New Year-inspired video slot, their take on things is pretty unique.

Year of Luck is built onto a 5-reel, 3-row format – and the game uses 9 fixed paylines. However, Year of Luck uses a win-both-ways mechanic, meaning that wins are formed from left to right and right to left. Effectively, this doubles the number of paylines from 9 to 18.

Year of Luck has a minimum bet of 0.09 credits – and the maximum bet can reach as high as 90 credits, depending on the online casino you’re playing at. The RTP of Year of Luck is above-average, at 97.63%. The game was released in 2016, and it looks like Spinomenal started to remove it from the online gambling world in 2021. It’s unclear whether it can still be played at online casinos.

Symbols in Year of Luck are all theme-specific – and the low-value ones pay between 50X and 75X your stake for a 5-of-a-kind combo. The higher-paying symbols pay a lot better and award between 100X and 250X your stake for a 5-of-a-kind combo. There is also a wild symbol – the cat – and the scatter, represented by a snake.

Game Features

Year of Luck has a few bonuses and features – and the first is a wild substitution. During the base game and the free spins, the wild symbol – the cat – substitutes for all other paying symbols besides the scatter symbols.

If you land 3, 4, or 5 of the scatter symbols anywhere in view, you will trigger the free spins bonus round. You will be awarded 10 free spins, and a cash payout of 2X, 4X, or 6X, depending on the number of scatter symbols landed. There are no enhancements during the free spins, but you can re-trigger additional spins.

Finally, there’s the base game non-winning-spin progressive multiplier. For each consecutive spin without a win, the multiplier will increase by one. This continues (until a maximum of 16X), and the multiplier will then apply to your next win. Once this happens, the multiplier resets to zero, and the process repeats itself.