Advantage Slots

In my video, which can be seen at the end of this blurb, I was doing a little experimenting for the most part since I hadn’t seen the game before.

For the original version of the game (Lucky Buddha and Lucky Wealth Cat), I recommended the following: My minimum play is a Buddha (top symbol), plus two active crappy symbols on the right. I also play any other symbol on the left (cat, dragon) with three active symbols on the right. And I play any two symbols on the left, regardless of what’s on the right.

With a bigger board and also the ability to hit unplanned wheel bonuses at a seemingly higher rate, I’m recommending the following for Grand Buddha Link: At least two active symbols on the left side (Buddha, cat, dragon):

What do I mean by “active”? Let me zoom in on the important part of this photo:

In the example above, you can see I have eight spins under the green dragon/turtle thing, six under the cat, seven under the A, and seven under the Q. A symbol would not be active if it had a zero underneath, so in this case all four symbols are active. For our purposes when evaluating minimum plays, this meets our requirement because we have two active symbols on the left side (dragon and cat).

You’d spin at least six times (cat has six), with the possibility for more if things recycle (more on that later).

You might also notice the symbols have multipliers next to them. The Buddha is 8x, the dragon 6x, the cat 5x, and the A/K/Q 3x. That’s why those left-side symbols are more valuable — higher multipliers. Any line hit you register with an active symbol will be multiplied by the corresponding number.

It’s possible something like an active Buddha plus three active symbols on the right would be worth playing as well:

I’ll blow that one up too:

But for now to keep it simple, I’m sticking with at least two active symbols on the left side. Having others on the right side (A/K/Q) are nice, but they shouldn’t be factored in a whole lot in my opinion.

With a bigger board in this version of the game, you’ll quite often add more symbols and refresh your existing symbols as you spin since this game will do that any time you register a spin that gives you even a fraction of your bet back. For that reason, I noted that some plays could take 25 or so spins if that keeps happening.

How about something like this? Should you play?

I’d pass. The Buddha is not active (has a zero). You do have four active symbols, including the cat, but on this bigger version of the game, I’d move on from something like this.

This is not the type of game you’re going to crush all that often, as “grand slam” finds will often still result in small losses. And even if you do get lucky and hit an unplanned wheel bonus, that too often disappoints. Still, there is an advantage to be had, so add it to your arsenal.

Here’s my aforementioned video, where I was learning a bit as I was playing: