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88 Fortunes is a 5 reels, 243 paylines UK PayPal casino game by Bally. 88 Fortunes has Wild, Scatter symbols, Free Spins, Multiplier, and Bonus Game features, and an RTP of 95.93%. You can play 88 Fortunes today right here at DoveCasino.com, where it's one of hundreds of fantastic PayPal Slots, including Lara Croft: Temples and Tombs, Fluffy Favourites, Shaman's Dream, and Chilli Heat.

Decked out in an array of warm and welcoming colors, and with more going on in the background than you first realize, 88 Fortunes is a particularly strong Oriental slot from a developer who excels at them. Looking at these screenshots, you could easily think that the playing area is overwhelmingly complicated, but it isn't. Most of it is just there for decoration. All the important action happens on the 5x3 reel-and-row layout, where a total of 243 paying lines have been made available through the fact that an 'adjacent pays' system is in operation - so long as your matching symbols are on adjacent reels you'll trigger a payout.

If we turn our attention to what we have to play with on the reels, we'll find the familiar faces of the playing card royals staring back at us, and running from 9 all the way up to A. Above them are some a Chinese-themed items including an ornate ship, a little bird, a gold turtle, and a gold coin. Not all of the symbols are gold all of the time unless you want them to be. 88 Fortunes is an unusual PayPal casino game in that you can materially change the value of the symbols by increasing your stake. If you're a high roller and you play with the maximum stake, every symbol turns to gold and becomes worth five times more than it would be during standard play. It's an original idea delivered in an uncomplicated way, which is always refreshing.

Above the standard base game symbols (and their golden variants) is the ‘Fu Bat’ wild symbol, limited to appearances in the central three reels only and capable of replacing everything apart from the bonus symbol, which is represented by a gong. The gong is our way into the 88 Fortunes bonus features, so let’s talk about them!

88 Fortunes Symbols

You could almost consider the ‘golden symbols’ aspect of 88 Fortunes to be a bonus feature in and of itself, and we think Bally might have done, because there are only two more bonuses to speak of, and only one of them can be triggered from the base game. It is, however, well worth triggering.

Free Spins Feature

The Free Spins feature triggers whenever you land three or more gong symbols during the base game. That’s enough to land you ten free spins, although you can increase that to fifteen spins for four symbols, and twenty for five. Sadly there’s no multiplier available during your free spins, although it does come with an extra perk - for however long your free spins last, the playing card symbols are taken away from the reels. That means every win you (hopefully) find should be a valuable one. It’s possible to re-trigger this feature from within it if enough gongs re-appear on the reels.

Progressive Jackpot Bonus Feature

88 Fortunes is also connected to a randomly-occurring Progressive Jackpot, which might trigger on any spin upon which a wild symbol lands, or may never trigger at all. The precise mechanics of the bonus are mysterious, although we're led to believe that it's more likely to happen if you're playing with the maximum stake. If the jackpot feature triggers, you'll be taken to a new game screen, and your job is to find matching symbols behind the gold coins on offer to you. When you've found three symbols that match, the round is over, and you'll have won one of the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand jackpots. They're all worth winning, but the typical value of the Grand jackpot is several thousand pounds. All of the current jackpot values are visible on the right-hand side of the screen at all times during base gameplay.

About the Developer of 88 Fortunes – SG

As you work your way through the enormous amount of casino games at our UK PayPal casino, you'll see one name appear repeatedly, and that's SG Gaming. SG, also known as Scientific Gaming, is an enormous American casino company, but the majority of its PayPal casino games are made by the British companies they've acquired over the years. One of them is Bally, who created 88 Fortunes and has a history that stretches back decades.

Bally's name is taken from an old wooden pinball-style game that was manufactured and sold to children during the 1930s and was the first product the company ever created. They carried on making games for years after that, but by the early 1970s, they'd moved into the more adult world of pub and casino games. Our older players may remember seeing their name and logo on the side of many slot game cabinets in pubs and clubs during the 1970s and 1980s. When the world of gaming changed and moved online, Bally moved with the times and was trusted with the license to make the official Michael Jackson casino game, which is sadly no longer available.

The company's continuing success caught the eye of Scientific Gaming in 2014 and led to a massive $5.1bn merger toward the end of that year, which made Bally SG's property. Knowing the name value of their purchase, SG has continued to use the Bally name when using the company's expertise to produce new PayPal casino games in the here and now. If you like what you see in 88 Fortunes, you might also be interested in other Bally casino games such as Lucky Tree, Fu Dao Le, and The Gem Machine.

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You don't have to know everything there is to know about Far Eastern mysticism to enjoy Bally's excellent 88 Fortunes slot, but if you do, you'll get an extra kick out of it. Fortunately, we've learned a lot from playing all the great Oriental-themed PayPal casino games at Dove Casino, so allow us to explain. The number 8 is believed to be lucky in Chinese culture, so pairing two of them together implies that this is one of the luckiest slots in the world. Is it? Well, you'll just have to play it and find out!