Tsai Shen 10k Ways Dream Drop

Theme and Design

Tsai Chen 10k Ways has a pretty classic Oriental theme. If you’re into slots like this, then you’ll be more than happy with what’s on offer. However, it’s hardly boundary-breaking. The God of Wealth Tsai Shen is the Wild Symbol and other East Asian lucky animals make up the remainder of the symbols. 

The background is classic red, with gold coins stacked on either side and there are some nifty firework effects when you land a win. Tsai Shen is certainly a good choice for a slot with big-winning mechanics like this one, but for us, it doesn’t quite have that wow factor.

RTP and Variance

This slot has an RTP of 94%, which might not seem super generous but 12% of every single spin goes directly to that progressive jackpot pool, helping it to grow and grow. For jackpot chasers, a small hit to RTP should be easily compensated by a bigger jackpot!

Unlike most slots on the Dream Drop network, this slot has medium-high volatility (rather than sky high!). This means you can expect fewer dry spells when it comes to wins, making it a better choice for players on a bit more of a budget. Interestingly, the only other ReelPlay game on this network, Hypernova Infinity Reels Dream Drop, also has medium-high volatility too.

Maximum Win

Most of us are shooting for the Mega progressive jackpot, which seeds at €500,000 and isn’t won until it reaches at least €1,000,000! However, not everyone is going to win it, so the non-progressive max win is important too. For this game, that’s 2,561x your stake, which is actually a little low compared to many of the other games on the Dream Drops network. 

If you don’t mind switching to a game with much higher volatility, you can take advantage of a 50,000x max win with either Dueling Jokers Dream Drop or Space Miners Dream Drop. Alternatively, the non Dream Drops version of Tsai Shen 10k Ways offers a 10,000x non-progressive max win and the same medium-high volatility.

Symbols and Paytable

The 6x4 grid has 10,000 ways to win - hence the name! There’s an additional reel at the top for wilds and regular pay symbols. You make wins in a similar way to Megaways slots, but static. You need to get 2 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels from leftmost to right, including symbols on the additional reel.

There are 10 pay symbols, plus a wild and a scatter symbol that we’ll come on to shortly. The low value symbols are the Chinese symbols which pay from 0.1x your stake for 3, up to 1.2x your stake for 6. The premium symbols are the animals paying from 0.25x your stake for 3, up to 5x your stake for 6. The most premium symbol of all are the Feng Shui coins, these pay up to 100x your stake for 6 symbols.

Features and Gameplay

Tsai Shen is a game that’s pitched towards players who love features. Just as it has the 10,000 ways mechanic, it also has some other exciting features. Let’s take a look at them.

Win Explosions

This feature works just the same as the classic cascading wins mechanic. The system starts after every win. The winning symbols explode into fireworks and disappear from the grid, making room for new symbols to drop down and fill the gaps. This continues until you stop making new wins. 

Bonus Respins

If you land 6 or more scatters in the same win explosion then you trigger the bonus respins feature. All of the scatters become sticky and the rest of the grid is cleared. Only blanks or new scatters will land (which all remain sticky too). You initially get 3 respins and for every new scatter you land, it resets. The scatters come with prize values between 1x and 2,000x your stake. When you run out of respins or fill the grid entirely, your streak is over and your cash prize values are all added together. 

Dream Drop Jackpot

The Dream Drop jackpot game can trigger at any time (during a normal spin). It gives you 15 coins to click on, one at a time. If you manage to match three of the same coin then that’s the jackpot that you win. The seed values for each of the jackpots are shown below: 

• Rapid (seeded at €1)
• Midi (seeded at €5)
• Maxi (seeded at €100)
• Major (seeded at €25,000)
• Mega (seeded at €500,000 with a minimum payout of €1,000,000)