Jade Tiger Pokie Machine
Jade is a beautiful green semi-precious stone, which among other things, is used to make statues and jewellery, notably in China. The soft greens are featured across the Jade Tiger pokie from Ainsworth, where lots of traditional Oriental symbols tumble down 5 reels, lining up to reward players with some generous prizes and bonus features.
Of course, there’s also a tiger on these reels, and it’s a rather magnificent example who not only adds to the appearance of the game, but also helps to add funds to a players’ bankroll when he, or she completes winning lines.
Symbols are laid out in 3 rows, and there’s 30 paylines running across the reels, with players looking to land 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols across a line on adjacent reels running form the left to get a win, although the scatter symbol will pay in any positions.
Like all pokies from Ainsworth, it’s reliable, has a decent return to player ratio and comes with some realistic sound effects for that ‘real casino’ feeling.
Playing Jade Tiger
It’s green, green, everywhere in this pokie, but that’s not a bad thing, as green is a relaxing colour and there are some nice patterns in and around the reels to make it look even better. The darker background image sees a flowery print design and the actual reels are a lighter shade and feature some nice swirly designs across them.
The standard Ainsworth control buttons are found below the reels, and it’s here that players set their bet levels, which go from 0.01, or 0.30 if all lines are activated, to a massive 3,000.00 per spin. They can also set the reels to autospin up to 25 times, stopping at pre-determined win and loss levels.
Standard playing card icons are used to make up the smaller wins, with the 9, 10, J, Q, K and A all being worth the same amount. Players land 3 of a kind across a line to win 5x the line bet, 4 matching symbols will be worth 10x and a full line of 5 across the reels will return 50x to them.
It’s the picture symbols that add interest to the run of play however, as they look nicer and pay out more. Each of these is presented in exquisite detail, with pin-sharp graphics and bold colours where appropriate.
There’s a golden turtle, a blue, red and golden bowl, fortune cookie, some unidentified object that in all honesty looks like a richly decorated turd, and a red and gold koi carp that’s the highest value regular symbol, paying out 10x, 50x or 200x the line bet.
Jade Tiger
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Bonus Features
The tiger is a wild symbol, so can act as any standard symbol if it’s possible to complete a winning combination, although it doesn’t have any value on its own.
A jade coin is the games’ scatter symbol and when this item stops in any 3, 4 or 5 positions, it will first pay out 2x, 10x or 50x the total stake per spin and then launch a free spins bonus game.
These free games play out on a new set of reels, which should give players more chances to collect some bigger wins. There’s only 10 spins, but it’s possible to get a further 5 added on if any 3 or more scatters land after a spin during the round.
On this new set of reels, players will see each symbol comes with a different value from the base games, plus there’s a couple of extra symbols, including the game logo, which becomes an extra wild, and a Lucky Boy.
If this symbol stops on reels 1 and 5 at once, the tiger symbol replaces him across the whole of those reels and the middle 3 will spin again, potentially making up multiple winning lines across the game.
The Verdict
Jade Tiger is one of numerous pokies that has an Oriental theme, but because it’s so well designed, and the bonus features are pretty unique, we’ll forgive it. The overall green ambience to the game gives it a restful appearance, while the highly-detailed symbols really make it stand out.
Add to that a huge potential bet range and the prospect of a higher-paying free spins round and we have a game that any fan of the theme will want to try out.
It’s not all positive however, as players should take note of the different values applied to symbols in the bonus round, with some being worth less than in the base game. Overall though, it’s still a worthwhile extra feature and shouldn’t put anyone off from spinning these attractive reels.