Fire Drake

The game stacks up across the conventional 5 reels, with three rows of symbols running left to right. Combinations are paid in this direction for three or more matching symbols, and you can find out about the different values for combinations on the paytable – accessible from the bottom left of the main game reels.

There are 9 paylines available on the reels, and matching combinations across these paylines are paid accordingly. The symbols are, as you’d expect, in keeping with the game theme, so expect fairytale castles, crossed swords, heraldic helmets and high card symbols that are styled in a medieval-looking font.

Unusually, there’s no wild symbol in Fire Drake, so you need to land true combinations of three or more in order to get a combination payout on any given spin. There is, however, a scatter symbol, paying a dedicated scatter win as well as triggering the game’s main bonus feature. In this case it’s the fire-breathing dragon – or ‘Drake’, to give it its archaic name. Three or more of these symbols anywhere on the reels triggers the bonus round.

Players set the number of lines they want to play per spin, adjusting from one to nine using the Up/Down arrows under the main reels. Players can also use this area to decide on their max bet per line, which will be multiplied by the number of lines in play to give the per-spin max bet. Choose bets from £0.01 to £10.00 per spin, for a maximum possible stake of £90.00.

For those who want to automate the spinning, the autospin function allows real money players to choose a set number of automatic spins, or conditions for stopping the spin, such as triggering the bonus feature. Players can toggle this feature on or off for maximum convenience as they spin.

The highest paying symbol on the reels is the knights, which can earn up to 10,000 coins for five of a kind. This is the game’s main win, subject only to the progressive Ca$h Fla$h jackpot, which perpetually looms over this slot.

Bonuses & Jackpots

There’s no wild symbol, so much of this game rests on the bonus feature. Three or more of the fire drake scatter symbols triggers the feature, and moves the game right into the dragon’s lair. Here, you are confronted with several sealed chests. You pick three from the total five chests to reveal the prizes contained within. These can include 3 free spins for finding a gem, 10 free spins for a sword, or anywhere from 15-100 free spins for finding a dragon’s egg.

When you’re spinning through this bonus, all free spin wins are multiplied by 4x. The bonus is retriggerable too, so you can add multiple lots of free spins to your total by landing three more of the scatter symbols on any of your allocated free bonus spins.

The highest paying combination in the main game is the knight, with five in a combination leading to a payout of 10,000 coins. But there is also another feature in Fire Drake that’s worthy of attention – the progressive jackpot.

Fire Drake is linked up to a number of other online slots titles through the Ca$h Fla$h progressive jackpot, which can be awarded at any time as you’re playing through the game. The running total is shown at the top right of the screen as you’re spinning away, and each spin anywhere in the world contributes a share of the stake to the prize fund.