Happy Golden Ox of Happiness is a five reel, fifty pay line Asian-themed video slot machine that is powered by Real Time Gaming software. This game features a progressive jackpot to win, free spins, and scatter wins, a re-spin feature, multipliers and wild substitute icons.
Real Time Gaming released the Happy Golden Ox of Happiness video slots in 2009 way before they started to make 3D games like Football Frenzy.
The game was released accorded to the Chinese calendar, as 2009 was the Year of the Ox.
This game does not have a large betting range, which does not make it suitable for penny slot players and high rollers that play for high stakes. The coin denominations are two cents per pay line on all fifty pay lines.
The way that you can win the Happy Golden Ox of Happiness jackpot is to land five of the Happy Ox symbols on the reels during the regular game.
Land five of the Happy Ox icons during the bonus round you will not win the jackpot, the only way to win is to land all five of them during the regular game.
Keep in mind that you can win the progressive jackpot from the free game features and the re-spin.
Besides the Happy Ox there are several other Asian themed symbols you will see when playing the Happy Golden Ox of Happiness. When spinning the reels you will see Asian decorations, fans, coins, firecrackers and other Chinese New Year symbols.
In this game, the wild symbol is the Happy Ox. Score one of the wilds and replace all your other icons except the scatter. As a result, you the wild card helps you put together winning combinations. However, the wild only trigger the re-spin feature if it is on the first and the fifth reel.
The Happy Ox symbol is the most important icon in the match as it triggers the jackpot plus the 8,888 fixed coin jackpots, which is the wild symbol in the game and substitutes for all of the other icons except the Ox scatter symbol.
In conclusion, the benefits of this old-school Asian themed game is that there are progressive jackpots. Having said that, Realtime Gaming made this game a long time ago and you can tell by the graphics. As you see the symbols like the pretty hand-held Fan, the round infinite Jade, the Red Pouch filled with rings, the green Spittoon and the Happy Golden Ox, you can tell they are outdated.