Majestic Red Dragon Bonus Game: a coin field and a ladder
The Bonus Game is the one part of this title that leaves the ordinary reels behind. The koi, lotus, scrolls and card values disappear, gold coins take the fifteen positions, a ladder of multiplier marks stands down the left-hand edge and three numbered stages sit above the field. It shares nothing with the wheel except the frame it happens inside.
The coin round. Twelve of the fifteen positions hold coins, three are empty green, the pointer rests at the bottom of the ladder and the first of three stages is lit.
The shape of the game, in six rows
Studio — Spinomenal
Frame — five reels, three rows
Lines — 25, fixed
Return — 88.69, 92.16, 94.04 or 96.31 per cent
Bonus ladder — marked from x3 up to x500
Interface — fifteen languages
A field of coins where the symbols were
The change of symbol set is the whole point of the screen. In the base game the frame
holds a mixed board — a tall dragon, framed pictures, flat card values — and
reading it means reading lines. In the coin round there is one kind of object on the
field: a large gold coin with a square hole and a red centre. Everything else is empty
green with a faint pattern in it.
That reduces the screen to a single question a player can answer at a glance: how many
positions are filled, and how many are not. The captured frame shows twelve coins and
three empty spaces. No line-reading, no symbol hierarchy, no paytable — just
occupancy, which is a completely different reading task from the one the base game sets.
Reading the ladder down the left-hand edge
Ten marks, bottom to top: x3, x6, x9, x12, x15, x20, x50, x100, x200, x500.
The ladder is a vertical strip in gold and jade running the full height of the field. Its
spacing is not even: the lower marks climb in threes to x20, and then the gaps open out
— x50, x100, x200, x500 — so the top half of the strip covers far more ground
than the bottom half. A small pointer sits beside the lowest mark when the round opens,
with the segment beneath it lit green.
This is the figure most likely to be misquoted from this game, so it is worth being exact
about what it is. x500 is the highest mark printed on a ladder inside one bonus round. It
is not a published maximum win for the title, and this site does not present it as one: no
source we hold states a ceiling for Majestic Red Dragon, and an outside listing that keeps
a maximum-win field for every game it catalogues leaves this one blank. A number on a
ladder and a certified maximum are two different claims, and only the first is supported.
What the three numbered stages do
Above the coin field sit three small tabs marked 1, 2 and 3, with the first highlighted in
blue in the captured frame and the other two dimmed. They are drawn as a progression, they
are positioned apart from the ladder, and they are the only other piece of state on the
screen.
What the published material does not say is what moves a stage on. Collection rounds
elsewhere in this studio's catalogue work on a count of attempts that resets when something
lands, and the three-stage marker here is consistent with that shape — but consistent
with is not the same as documented, and a relative's rules are not this game's rules. So
the honest statement is the one the frame supports: there are three stages, the first is
active when the round begins, and they advance.
Why the result screens belong to this page too
The Big Win and Mega Win overlays use the coin round's visual language rather than the reel
game's: gold lettering, falling coins, a dark green result panel held between two dragon
ornaments. They appear over whichever board was running and give a larger outcome somewhere
to land without introducing a fourth screen.
They are presentation, not arithmetic. A Big Win banner is a threshold the game draws for
effect; it says nothing about the configured return, nothing about the ladder, and nothing
about how often such an outcome arrives. The figures printed on those panels in the captured
frames are the result of one spin at one stake and are not quoted anywhere on this site.
Questions about the coin round
What does the Bonus Game look like?
The ordinary symbols go and a field of gold coins takes their place, on the same five columns and three rows, with unfilled positions left as textured green.
How many positions are on the coin field?
Fifteen, the same fifteen the base game uses. The outer dimensions of the frame do not change for the round.
What is the ladder down the left-hand side?
Ten multiplier marks, from x3 at the bottom to x500 at the top, with a pointer resting beside the low end when the round opens.
The marks in between read x6, x9, x12, x15, x20, x50, x100 and x200.
Is x500 the maximum win of the game?
No, and nothing we hold says what the maximum is. It is the top mark on the ladder in this round, and a listing that carries a maximum-win field for this title leaves it empty.
What are the three numbered tabs above the field?
Stage markers reading 1, 2 and 3, with the first highlighted in the captured frame. They are separate from the ladder and sit above the coins.
Does the Bonus Game use free spins?
No. Free spins are a different feature with a different screen, opened by the wheel.
Is there a Buy button in the Majestic Red Dragon slot?
A Buy control sits beside the spin button on the main screen. The published list names it without naming a price, and this site prints none.
The wheel the coin round is often confused with is on the free spins page, the doubled format on its own, and all six names together on the feature page. Figures and their sources, including what this title does not publish, are on the figures page.
