Caishens Gold

In Chinese mythology, there are a ton of different deities and figures. One of those is the God of Wealth, and he is the center of the Cashien's Gold video slot by Pragmatic Play. You'll find a number of figures on the reels here that will give you a lot to get excited about with pleasant graphics and an immersive soundtrack. With a number of jackpots and a medium overall volatility, this is a game that will appeal to a wide range of players who prefer different play styles.

Format and Layout

The layout of this video slot is built for excitement with five reels, three rows and 243 ways to win. Something players should definitely be aware of, however, is that the game has a very atypical betting scheme with multiples of 38 coins wagered per spin. You can bet between 38 and 380 coins on each individual spin, and those coins range in value from $0.01 to $0.50 apiece. This leads to a set of bet sizes that run from $0.38 to $190 per spin, which is a pretty wide range even though they are of atypical sizes. Numbers that end in 8 are lucky in this particular mythology, and that could be why they decided to go with 38 instead of a more round number.

Wild Symbols and the Jackpot Bonus Game

Cashien is the golden wild symbol. It shows up on the second, third, fourth and fifth reels only, so it doesn't give you any payouts all on its own. While it gives you extra chances to win, it also gives you an opportunity to play the Jackpot Bonus Game at random whenever at least one wild symbol appeals on the reels.

In this bonus game, you're taken to a second screen. Players are given an opportunity to pick from a 3x4 grid of symbols. If you line up three of the same symbol, then you'll trigger that respective jackpot. These appear like progressive jackpots in this game, but they aren't, and instead, they are based on multiples of your total bet size. The grand jackpot is the largest, and it's worth 1,000 times your total bet. You can win the major jackpot that's worth 100x or the minor that's worth 50x as well. The smallest is the mini jackpot, and it comes in at the 30x level.

Scatter Symbols

In the Cashien's Gold online slot, the scatter symbol is a golden temple with purple letters on it, and this symbol gives you some pretty good wins. You'll pick up 1,900x for five of a kind, 380x for four of a kind and 190x for three of a kind. Each of these wins is given for the symbols when they are located anywhere on the reels, so you get some pretty good chances to hit these payouts.

Free Spins Bonus Feature

The free spins feature is triggered with three or more of the scatter symbol on left-to-right reels starting from the leftmost side of the game. You'll get 10 free spins to start things off, and it can be re-triggered in the same way repeatedly to get an additional 10 free spins each time with no maximum.

During this feature, you'll be hit with improved reels where only the wild, the scatter and the five best-paying regular symbols show up on the reels. This means better payouts in a major way.

Important Symbols and Payouts

There are two other character symbols that appear on the reels aside from the wild. The first is a baby on a green background, and it pays 200x for five of a kind. The second is another baby that shows up on a purple background, and you can win 150x for five. Five of the purple flower earns a 125x payout, five of the blue fan is worth 100x, and five of the musical instrument pays out 75x.

The bottom-end pays in this game are made up by six card rank symbols. The red A and orange K both pay 50x for five of a kind. The five-of-a-kind pays for the yellow Q, green J, blue 10 and purple 9 are all 25x.

Overview

Pragmatic Play's Cashien's Gold slot has a medium-low volatility overall because of the way the jackpot feature works and how much value is tied up in the free spins feature with the improved symbol set. Without those two aspects of the game, it would have a particularly low volatility with its high hit-rate format and balanced pay table. The graphics are sufficient, and the gameplay is solid, but this game is fairly generic outside of that.