China Mystery is one of the most popular video slot machines you’ll find in any casino. The game is owned & manufactured by Konami Gaming and it comes in a variety of platforms.
Download my KONAMI Slots - Free Vegas Casino Slot Machines 1.30.1 APK from the link provided below. The total size of this application is 72M and the minimum Android version required to run this application is Android 4.0.3 - 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich, 15). The China Mystery slot machine takes you to the Far East where you’ll find a series of symbols all relating to the region. On the reels you’ll find a golden tortoise, an ancient vase and a Chinese lantern. The ‘mystery’ in the title might refer to the mysterious looking lady in black who frequents the reels as the wild.
In casinos, you’ll find the China Mystery in standalone cabinets like most slot machines. You’ll also find it as part of the massive multi-machine progressive game Titan 360, which is available in less than 10 casinos around the country. Another place you might come across the China Mystery machine is outside of casinos as part of the popular MyVegas Facebook game and mobile app.
There will be a different amount of pay lines depending on which configuration and denomination of China Mystery you play. There are 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30-line versions of the game available. Similarly, you’ll find multiple denominations of China Mystery ranging from $0.01 to $1 per credit. You’ll find the penny slot machine version of this video slot machine on the main casino floor while the quarter and dollar denominations are often found in high limit rooms. Depending on the casino you visit you may also find a nickel version.
China Mystery is somewhat of an anomaly in casinos today. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles that you’ll find with some newer slot games. Despite the lack of crazy bright lights and loud noises, the game is still fun to play because of its familiarity and the simplicity of gameplay. China Mystery can be considered a classic video slot machine in a similar way that Wheel of Fortune is considered a classic reel slot machine.
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Bonuses with China Mystery are fairly simple. There’s only one way to earn a bonus with this video slot game. You simply need to line up at least 3 bonus symbols per pay line to earn free games. What turns the bonuses from simplistic and boring to awesome is the fact that you can win up to 15 free bonus games per active pay line. If you have 25 active pay lines in play you can win up to 450 free bonus games if you fill every video reel with the bonus symbol.
After playing China Mystery often it doesn’t seem as though the bonus games are difficult to come by. Then again that could be memory bias as this is one of the more highly volatile slot machines from Konami Gaming. Bonus free games are helpful to winning big jackpots.
Some versions of China Mystery offer progressive bonuses but they’re not very high. The progressive jackpots aren’t the Wide Area Progressives that tie in games from multiple casinos that you’ll find in Wheel of Fortune and some other slot machines. The progressive jackpots are offered on fewer machines and, therefore, have smaller jackpots.
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There aren’t any fancy bonus games with China Mystery so your jackpots come from big wins in the base game or free bonus games that play the same as the base game. The free bonus games don’t have any multipliers so you’ll receive the same wins in free bonus games as you would during regular games. The biggest max bet wins may pay more than a grand prize win in the progressive jackpots offered in some of the games.
The reels in many video slot machines often have randomly placed symbols on each reel but that’s not always the case with China Mystery. Reels have stripes of symbols appearing together and it can look as though a jackpot is right around the corner. Jackpots aren’t easy to come by when playing penny slot machines but when they hit it’s quite a site. The striping of symbols allows for a cover all effect with the same symbol appearing on each of the video reels and this pays out handsomely.
When you have the potential for 450 free games and cover all wins you have the potential for a magical hand pay jackpot. The biggest jackpots in China Mystery have a little fireworks show which psychologically can make jackpots feel even bigger.
Similar Games to China Mystery
The gameplay for China Mystery is so popular that it has spawned a few games that play like it. If you’re looking for a video slot machine with similar gameplay as China Mystery but with a different theme you can look for Mayan Chief, Lago Di Amore and Roman Tribune. The casinos often place these games near one another so they shouldn’t be too difficult to locate.
Konami’s China Shores has been around awhile, but at one of my favorite hangouts, the Emerald Isle in Henderson, they have an Xtra Reward version, China Shores Boosted Wins & Spins.
It still has five reels and 30-lines with a 5x max. The bonus symbols are the same; the gold Chinese one on a red background, a pink lantern, a purple tea pot, the gold turtle, the wild panda and black and white ying/yang. The extra reward on this machine, which costs 15¢ per line bet, causes the center reel’s four symbols to double, so you now have eight symbols.
Not a bad bet since now each of the 30-lines can pay two ways. You actually get 60 lines of pay for only 45 cents. The doubled symbols can be different or they can match and stack.
Two weeks ago when the machines were first put on the floor, I passed a lady who had won 600 free spins. That impressed me. I knew they had to be paying because those machines were always being played.
Last Friday night I finally got my chance. There are only two of these machines and the lady playing the one next to me had $270 on hers when I sat down. I started with $20 and when I was about half way down I got the red Chinese symbol stacked on the center double reel on all except four of the other positions and won $80.
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lady next to me, down to $200 without getting into the bonus game again, cashed out. I got a $12 hit and several $4 and $5 hits boosting my credits to $126.11, which made me think about cashing out. Then the ying/yang symbols appeared stacked everywhere and the free spins started adding up. There were 10 free spins for every four-of-a-kind and 15 for every five-of-a-kind. I ended up with 500 free spins.
On this version of the game, earning over 20 free spins enables you go to a second screen. You have the choice of going with the free spins or taking a chance on a single dollar amount. A scale gives you the high and low the random amount might be. The more spins you have the higher the amounts are.
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My starting amounts were from $37 to $845. I decided to go for the free spins. Within just a few spins I retriggered and won 200 more free spins, I retriggered again for 140 free spins and several times for 30 or 40 spins. One of the slot attendants walked by when I got the first 500 spins and said great job. He came by again later after he had been on his dinner break and I still had over 500 spins left. I figure it was close to 1,000 free spins before I was done.
You can, at any time, choose to take the chance on the random amount. At one time the amounts ranged from $57 to $1,267. I stuck with the free spins and won $628.98. I cashed out $755.09.
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