Great China, Zong Hua Zhi Zui (3Win8): the expanding panda on reel 3, the tripled pays and the star scatter
The 3Win8 help page for Great China (中華之最) explains an expanding, win-tripling panda on reel 3. Here is that rule, the full paytable, and the 50-line bet bar.
Cartridge label
- Reels
- 5 x 3
- Lines
- 50
- Wild
- Panda, reel 3 only, expands, triples the win
- Scatter
- Red star, 3 or more start the feature
- Jackpot bars
- Random Jackpot, Minor, Major
Controls
- BET arrows
- Stake per line; the small box shows the total
- AUTO / GAMBLE
- AUTO before a win, GAMBLE after one
- SPIN
- One spin
- ?
- Opens the help and paytable pages
Great China, with the logo 中華之最 (Zong Hua Zhi Zui, roughly "the best of China"), is a red-and-gold 50-line slot on 3Win8. Gold lion statues, an emperor, the Great Wall and a 福 tile fill the reels. The part worth understanding is the panda, and the 3Win8 help page spells it out.
The screen
A balance box sits top left with a lobby ticker, BACK, ? and settings to the right. Below: RANDOM JACKPOT (about 16,283 in the hero), the logo, MINOR 850.00 and MAJOR 1900.00. The reels are tall and red with coloured line tabs running up to 50 on both sides.
The bottom bar reads LINE 50, then BET with arrows, a small box showing total BET and WIN, AUTO and SPIN. At 0.10 per line the total is 5.00; another capture at 0.01 shows 0.50.
The panda wild
The help text for the panda is specific:
- It only appears on reel 3 during normal games.
- When it lands it expands to cover the whole reel before wins are paid.
- The prize is tripled when one or more wilds substitute in a win.
- It substitutes for everything, including the scatter, and counts once on its reel towards a scatter win.
So one panda on reel 3 turns the middle column into three wilds, touching many of the 50 lines at once, and every win through it is multiplied by three.
The paytable
Pays are line-bet multiples. "With panda" is the tripled figure the help page prints beside each one.
| Symbol | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 / 4 / 3 with panda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emperor | 3333 | 333 | 33 | 6 | 9999 / 999 / 99 |
| Great Wall | 3333 | 333 | 33 | 3 | 9999 / 999 / 99 |
| 福 tile | 333 | 150 | 12 | 3 | 999 / 450 / 36 |
| Gold lion or incense burner (any mix) | 333 | 60 | 6 | - | 999 / 180 / 18 |
| A, K, Q (any mix) | 150 | 30 | 5 | - | 450 / 90 / 15 |
| 10, J, 9 (any mix) | 99 | 20 | 5 | - | 297 / 60 / 15 |
The star scatter
A gold star on red is the SCATTER, paid on total bet. Two pay 2 times. Three start the FEATURE. Four pay 9 times plus the feature (27 with a panda), and five pay 33 times plus the feature (99 with a panda). The feature screen itself was not captured, so how many free games it gives is not shown here.
In one capture two stars and two gold lions landed at 0.01 a line; the lions paid 0.03 on line 13 and the spin paid 0.24 in total, after which the AUTO button had turned into GAMBLE.
Pacing
At 50 fixed lines the only lever is the line bet, and 0.01 already costs 0.50 a spin. Decide your number of spins from that figure, not from the line bet.
Compare the same title on ACE333, or see the 3Win8 overview. To play, get a 3Win8 game ID.
Troubleshooting and questions
Why do the pays have two columns?
The second column, headed WITH and a panda, is what the line pays when the panda substitutes in it. It is exactly three times the first column, because the help page says the prize is tripled whenever a wild is part of the win.
Is this the same game as Great China on ACE333?
Same title and theme. The 3Win8 help page describes the panda as reel-3 only and expanding; compare with the ACE333 page, which was written from that lobby's screenshots.
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