Happy Golden Ox of Happiness

Released for the Chinese New Year, Happy Golden Ox of Happiness is a 50 line progressive slot powered by Realtime Gaming. As you would expect the game has a rich Chinese theme with bold graphics and an 8 in every winning combination but the progressive which starts at $15,000.

This is the second 50 line game to be releases by RTG with Rudolph's Revenge becoming an instant hit with players. Happy Golden Ox is sure to have the same popularity as it has a fixed coin size of just 2c. This means you have a shot at the progressive for just $1 per spin.

The Happy Ox symbol is wild and as usual substitutes for everything but the scatters. Getting five on an active line during regular play awards the progressive while getting five on either of the free spin bonuses awards an 8888 coin jackpot. This is because you cannot win the progressive during the free spins.

The pay table of Happy Golden Ox has some interesting features. To start with all of the pays are made up of 8's. Secondly there are only really five different prize levels which can be won in a variety of ways. For example the gold, green and pink symbols all pay 2888 coins for a five of a kind.

The dragon, red lantern and crackers all pay 888 coins for a five of a kind and the fan. eight, vase and gold pay 188 coins for a five of a kind. This is quite a unique pay table style. We like it as you have three different ways to hit for the second highest line pay.

Happy Golden Ox of Happiness has two bonus games. The first is won with the Golden Ox symbol. Get one on both reels one and five and you win up to eight re-spins. The Ox symbols are held on the first and last reels so it is much easier to get big wins - this is further improved by the increasing multipliers. Each re-spin gets a higher multiplier up to a max of 8X. Hit the five wilds with the 8X multiplier and you win a very nice 71104.

The second bonus is activated by getting three, four or five of the Year of The Ox scatters (The Red diamonds). Once activated you win 8 free spins with all wins tripled. The Re-spin feature can be won during the free spins and start of with a higher X3 multiplier for bigger winning possibilities. The free spins can be re-triggered but again the progressive cannot be won on the feature.

In the End, Happy Golden Ox is a great new progressive slot especially if you have a smaller bankroll. The $1 max bet with the starting jackpot of $15,000 offers a great bet to return and the multiple features can also offer some nice pays. Whether you are an Ox or not this game is worth checking out.