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Slot Review: Happy Golden Ox of Happiness

The name of this online slot game should have clued you into the fact that it is a title based around the Chinese New Year. Granted, the Chinese New Year was celebrated back in February – so this review is a little tardy. On the other hand, there is no reason why this exotic and good-looking online pokey can’t keep you feeling “happy” all year long! Of course, this slot is very appropriate because 2009 is the Year of the Ox, based on the Chinese zodiac of twelve different animals rotating through a cycle each lunar year.

This is a five-reel, fifty-payline online slot machine title by Real Time Gaming. There is a fixed coin value of one dollar, with a single coin playable per payline for a highest per-spin wager of fifty dollars. All payouts with the game are based around the number eight, in accordance with the fact that eight is a very lucky number in the Chinese culture. Within the game, the highest jackpot is eight thousand eight hundred eighty-eight dollars, but Happy Golden Ox of Happiness also comes equipped with the standard RTG progressive jackpot! This very fortuitous prize is regularly up in the low five figures, which makes it quite the jackpot!

Lavish symbols appropriate to the Chinese New Year theme appear on the reels – a golden ox’s head (which is the jackpot symbol for the progressive prize), a jade disc with an “8” inscribed on it, paper firecrackers, a lantern, a dragon, and several Chinese symbols. There are free spins and multipliers, in addition to plenty of features that will keep you spinning the reels of this excellent slot game!

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