Fu Dao Le
With so many Asian-themed slot games out there, you might wonder what sets this one apart. Massive bonuses, stacked wilds and progressive jackpots combine to make this a uniquely lucky video slot. Find out more about the many ways you can win in our Fu Dao Le slot review.
14 Active PlayersHoused in a huge cabinet, and featuring state of the art graphics and animations, Fu Dao Le can be called a next-generation video slot. You’ll have jackpots, stacked symbols and a free spins feature game with covered reels to enjoy. Fu Dao Le casino slot is full of the amazing surprises, which make it very exciting. The various lucky symbols and the additional features can bring the players lots of credits. So, let’s see what you can hit and how it works. Lucky Hieroglyph – this icon is the Wild for Fu Dao Le slot video game and comes in stacks. Fu Dao Le is designed by Bally, a developer known for its stylish offerings. Fu Dao Le lives up to Bally’s high standards with its intense visuals and a great balance between a traditional slot-game experience and contemporary add-ons that enhance the fun. The Fu Dao Le slot game features five reels and 243 paylines. Slots like Fu Dao Le are popular ones due to the bonus game that can be triggered, for there is a good chance as it is playing off that you could win a large cash pay-out, but that is never guaranteed of course.
Game Info
Theme
Lucky Chinese Celebration
Paylines
243
RTP (%)
96.00
This slot lives up to the name's translation as 'good luck has arrived' when you spin the reels with Fu Dao Le.
What we like
- Excellent visuals and soundtrack
- Medium-high volatility game has big payouts
- Four progressive jackpots to be won
- Bonuses offer free spins that retrigger
What Can Improve?
- Bonuses can take some work to hit
- Base game wins could be higher
About Fu Dao Le
This Chinese-themed slot game is filled with all manner of excellent elements that set it apart from other Asian-inspired slots. Mystery stacked reels wrap the reels in beautiful gold foil that can be revealed to show excellent payouts if luck is on your side. There are also red envelope payouts and all the adorable graphics as the babies share their wins with you. Plus, there are plenty of wilds and extra bonuses.
This modern slot has 243 ways to win, giving you ample opportunities for luck to rain down on you.
This slot encourages you to embrace your lucky side and spin the reels to win all kinds of extra jackpots and payouts.
- James Hadley, Assistant Editor- Stunning symbols and excellent soundtrack and effects enhance the Chinese theme
- Stacked wilds can shift into position with huge payouts
- Free spins include multipliers and can retrigger
- Four progressive jackpots offer lucrative rewards
One of the main appeals of any game is the free spin bonus. In Fu Dao Le, this is triggered by 3 wild gong symbols, which reward you with 8 free spins. Entire reels can be turned into stacked symbols with the mystery reels, and the standard wilds are joined by 2x and 3x multipliers. Each time that gong symbol appears during the free spin round, you'll earn an extra free spin, making this a feature that could last for many free spins and huge winnings.
In the third reel you'll find stacked wilds. Even if you only land 1 of these symbols, the reel will turn to give you all 3. Sometimes, it will even trigger the bonus, letting you pick coins and find out if you won a progressive jackpot. Combine this with the red envelope jackpot that hits when you get a red envelope on the first and last reels, and you'll feel like you're always winning something extra.
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The character Fú (福, Unicode U+798F) meaning 'fortune' or 'good luck' is represented both as a Chinese ideograph and, at times, pictorially, in one of its homophonous forms. It is often found on a figurine of the male god of the same name, one of the trio of 'star gods' Fú, Lù, Shòu.
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Mounted Fú are a widespread Chinese tradition associated with Chinese New Year and can be seen on the entrances of many Chinese homes worldwide. The characters are generally printed on a square piece of paper or stitched in fabric. The practice is universal among Chinese people regardless of socioeconomic status, and dates to at least the Song Dynasty (AD 960 – 1279).
When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, Fú is often displayed upside-down on diagonal red squares. The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese: the words for 'upside-down' (倒, Pinyin: dào) and 'to arrive' (到, Pinyin: dào) are homophonous. Therefore, the phrase an 'upside-down Fú' sounds nearly identical to the phrase 'Good luck arrives'. Pasting the character upside-down on a door or doorpost thus translates into a wish for prosperity to descend upon a dwelling.
Another story states that posting the character upside-down originates with the family of a 19th-century prince of the Qing Dynasty.[citation needed] The story states that on one Chinese New Year's Eve (or Chuxi, Chinese: 除夕), the prince's servants played a practical joke by pasting fu characters throughout his royal dwelling. One illiterate servant inadvertently placed the characters upside-down. The prince was said to have been furious upon seeing the characters, but a quick-thinking servant humbly calmed the prince by saying that the occurrence must have been a sign of prosperity 'arriving' upon his household by using the above wordplay.
Bats (蝠) are the most ubiquitous of all Chinese symbols with the same symbolic meaning as the ideograph 'fortune' (福).[2] A less common representation is bran (麸子), not only because 'depictions of grain have been used throughout Chinese history to represent fecundity'[3] but also in combination with other grains with related homophonous word-plays (for example, lì which can mean either 'grain' 粒 or 'profit' 利).[4]
Usage of the character Fú (福) in various forms of calligraphy and seal characters as papercuts or posters represents the desire that one's good luck will be expansive and come in many forms. Chinese textiles and ceramics often found transcribe this felicitous message by portraying random numbers of bats in flight, sometimes can be more than a hundred.
Since 2017, the version 10 of the Unicode Standard features a rounded version of the character in the 'Enclosed Ideographic Supplement' block, at code point U+1F260 (ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU).[5]
Gallery[edit]
Pair of 'Famille Verte' wine pots in the form of Fu (福) on the left and Shou (寿) on the right
Chinese New Year decorations in Hong Kong, with Fu on the Chinese knotting on the right
A pebble mosaic in a small inner courtyard of the Mu Mansion, Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan, with Fu character in the center
Chinese New Year celebration in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 2009, with Fu in the front of the float
Fu lantern at the Singapore River Hongbao Carnival during the Chinese New Year in 2006
Chinese New Year decorations at Western Union's headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, with the center character Fu displayed upside down
See also[edit]
- Foo, originally derived from this
- The shou character (寿), a Chinese character symbolizing longevity
- Double Happiness (calligraphy) (囍), another common calligraphic design symbolizing good-luck and happiness
- Homophonic puns in Mandarin Chinese, of which 'Fú' upside down is one
References[edit]
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- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 4, by permission of the author
- ^Welch, Patricia Bjaaland, Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery, Tuttle Publishing, 2008, pp. 112–3.
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 52
- ^Welch, Chinese Art, p. 52.
- ^'The Unicode Standard, Version 10.0, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement'(PDF). unicode.org. The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 16 August 2017.