Geisha’s Garden Slots
The peace and tranquillity of a Japanese garden is the relaxing setting for the Geisha’s Garden slot game from US-based Aurify Gaming, but all gets quite exciting when symbols line up for some big payouts, or when a unique Bonus Wheel spins up free games, wild reels and multipliers. This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen an online casino slot game with a similar theme and we’re pretty darn sure it won’t be the last, but Aurify Gaming have chosen to fill it with beautifully designed symbols which are all related directly to the topic.
Those symbols appear across 5 reels and it’s a 30 payline game, with all of those lines permanently activated for a minimum wager of 0.30 per spin. Free Geisha’s Garden video slots are provided by Aurify Gaming, but as there’s no way to win anything without placing a bet, it’s well worth just making a real cash wager right away and seeing what prizes you can collect. Those prizes are yours when you land matching symbols across any payline from the left side reel, but there’s a gold coin scatter that pays in any places and a wild symbol which is able to replace others and complete extra combinations.
With offices in Lavonia and Duluth, Georgia, as well as in Dallas, Texas, the Aurify Gaming developer is well placed to provide games to casinos in the Southern United States, but have more recently branched out to into the Italian market as well as providing a selection of online and mobile optimised slot games, with Geisha’s Garden being a good example of the quality, gameplay and craftmanship that this company is known for. To aid this expansion, they have partnered with UK-based Adoptit Publishing, and by piggy-backing their UK Gambling Commission license, Aurify are able to supply provably fair and reliable slots to a more international player base
Entering the Garden
A quick look at this slot machine is all that’s needed to appreciate the stylish surroundings and detailed imagery. The reels are framed in a red structure that looks like just the sort of thing you’d see in a Japanese garden, while the pastel shades of flowers, cherry blossom trees and a pagoda-roofed building are all reflected in a lake behind the main game.
If you play the Oriental-style soundtrack which is complete with the sounds of running water, you could become so relaxed that you fall asleep, but stay awake, as there’s plenty going on within the blue-tinted reels of this peaceful game.
A bonsai tree, vase and decorative arch will each be worth 5x, 25x, or 50x the line bet equivalent when landing on 3, 4, or 5 reels across any payline, while the red tower and white castle are each valued at 10x, 50x and 100x. The next most valuable symbols are a wildcat and possibly the cutest monkey ever to grace the reels of a slot machine, with these creatures each returning prizes of 25x, 75x and 150x when landing on 3, 4, or 5 reels. An Imperial soldier in spectacular armoured headgear pays out the same, and we finally get to the Geisha girl, who is worth 2x the line stake when she’s on just reels 1 and 2, then 50x, 250x and 500x when she fills more of a payline.
Special Feature Symbols
That’s standard gameplay covered, but what about the wild and scatter symbols which trigger extra features? The wild symbol is a white stork, which pays between 2x and a huge 1,000x the line stake depending on how many reels it lands across, while also being able to act as others, apart from the gold coin, to complete winning lines.
The gold coin scatter symbol is even more valuable and in more ways than one. Firstly, any 3, 4, or 5 coins, in any places, will see prizes worth 60x, 600x and 1,500x the line bet paid out and secondly, once those have been credited to a players’ balance, the special Bonus Wheel begins to work its magic. This is no ordinary wheel of fortune as it’s got 3 concentric rings that spin up a free spins mode and the more scatter symbols that triggered the round, the better the potential rewards from the wheel will be.
Any 3 scatter symbols spins the wheel to reveal between 6 and 10 free spins, during which between 1 and 4 reels will be fully wild and any wins will be multiplied by between 1 and 5 times over. If 4 scatters triggered the feature, the potential rewards are for 1 and 4 wild reels, along with 16 to 20 free spins and multipliers of between 1 and 5x, while 5 scatter symbols gives you the same possible number of wild reels and multiplier values, but you can get between 51 and 55 free spins.
The bonus spins can’t be retriggered, but with up to 55 games and that big scatter pays that proceed them, few players will really mind.
Gambles in the Garden
The low limit stake of 0.40 can be raised to a maximum of 90.00 per spin, while other control options include a Fast Play button that simply speeds things up and means you won’t have to wait around to see the results of a spin, as well as an Autoplay feature which gets them spinning on their own for up to 100 times.
Before choosing the Autoplay mode, you can set any loss or single win limits that end the round when you want and means you won’t have to constantly keep an eye on your balance.
Other Oriental Ladies
There’s not 1, but a whole gaggle of Geisha’s in Novomatic’s Asian Attraction slot game, where beautiful women make up the high paying symbols while playing card icons return the smaller wins across 5-reels and 20 paylines. The game logo is a wild symbol and a pink lotus flower triggers 10 free spins when it’s seen in any 3 or more places. During the bonus spins, a Geisha will be randomly picked to become a stacked symbol, which makes it easier to land combinations with her, while a single lotus flower in the centre of the middle reel will retrigger the games.
There’s a couple of slot games simply titled ‘Geisha’, with Aristocrat’s version featuring dragons, paper fans, birds and Mount Fuji as symbols, along with a very realistic image of the Geisha herself. She’s a wild multiplier symbol who doubles the value of any line that she helps to complete when 2 or more substitute at once, while the pagoda gate symbol is a scatter that pays some of the best prizes when it’s in any 3 or more places.
A Classic Beauty
This great-looking slot machine perfectly captures the ethos of Geishas, with peace and serenity on every reel, accented by that attractive background image, and a lovely soundtrack. Basic gameplay can be quite rewarding, with the Geisha’s Garden video slot having a high return to player percentage and lots of opportunities to land winning combinations, but the highlight is without doubt that Bonus Wheel and the way it spins up extra features.
Anyone fortunate enough to get 3 or 4 fully wild reels in play and a high multiplier throughout the round is going to collect win after win, so combine this with the potential for 55 free games and this is a slot machine not to be missed.
