Majestic Red Dragon free spins begin on a wheel, not a counter
Most slots open a free-spin round with a number already decided. This one stops and asks for a spin: a wheel fills the screen, an instruction runs across the top of it, and the panel it lands on is how many free spins the round will carry. The studio names the whole thing Free Spins - Double Symbol Wheel, which ties the count and the symbol format together in one feature.
The wheel screen. The outer ring carries the spin totals, the inner ring four reel symbols, and the instruction above reads that the spin button determines the free spins.
How the wheel decides the number of spins
Five totals, repeated around the ring: 10, 15, 20, 30, 40.
The wheel is not decoration behind the reels. It is a working screen: the reels dim, the
wheel takes the centre of the frame, and a banner across the top asks the player to press
spin to determine the free spins. The outer ring is divided into panels in red, green and
gold, each printed with a number of spins, and the number of panels is larger than the
number of distinct totals — ten and fifteen each appear more than once in the
captured frame, which is how a wheel weights a result without printing odds on itself.
That gives the entry to the bonus a shape most slots skip: a beginning, a moment where
something is decided, and a result the player watches arrive. The practical consequence
is that a round can be four times longer than another round from the same trigger, and
the player knows which they have before the first free spin turns.
The four pictures on the inner ring
Inside the ring of totals sits a second, smaller ring holding four of the game's picture
symbols: fan, lotus, scroll, koi. They are the same artwork used on the reels,
not a separate icon set drawn for the wheel, and they surround the central spin control.
Their purpose shows up a moment later. In the captured free-spin state a small framed
marker sits above the reels carrying one picture symbol, which is the connection between
the wheel's inner ring and the round in progress. That is as far as the published
material goes, and so it is as far as this page goes: the ring exists, the marker exists,
and the studio's own feature name ties both to the doubled-symbol format.
What the round looks like once it runs
The free-spin screen returns to the ordinary symbol set on the same five-by-three frame.
The remaining count appears at the lower left of the control bar, where the per-line
stake sits during normal play, and the win field keeps its place at the right. Temple
roofs and blossom stay where they were. Nothing moves, grows or is replaced, which is the
consistent habit of this title across every captured state.
What does change is density. The captured round shows two full-height dragon Wilds
standing at once, koi repeated down a whole reel, and the selected-symbol marker above
the frame — a visibly busier board than the base game, built out of tall Wilds and
doubled pictures rather than out of a bigger grid.
Which return the round is played at
The same one as every other spin. Free spins are part of the configuration the operator
installed, not a product with specifications of their own, and the four certified
figures — 88.69%, 92.16%, 94.04%, 96.31% — apply to the game as a whole. A round
opened by the wheel at an operator running the lowest of the four is a round at the
lowest of the four.
Questions about the wheel and the round that follows
What starts the free spins?
A wheel. It opens over the darkened reels with the instruction to press spin, and the segment it settles on is the number of free spins the round carries.
Which totals are on the wheel?
Ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty and forty spins. Several of those appear in more than one segment, so the ring holds more panels than it holds distinct values.
Are the segments all the same colour?
No. The panels are red, green and gold, with the forty-spin segment on green in the captured frame.
What are the pictures in the middle of the wheel?
A fan, a lotus, a scroll and a koi, arranged around the centre button. All four are picture symbols from the main reel set.
A small marker above the reels during free spins shows a selected picture symbol, which is where that inner ring leads.
Does the reel frame change during free spins?
No. It stays five reels by three rows on 25 lines, with the remaining count shown in the bar beneath.
Can free spins be retriggered?
Nothing we hold says either way, so this site does not answer it. The number on the wheel is the number the captured round began with.
Is the wheel the same thing as the Bonus Game?
No. They are separate screens with separate symbols. The coin round has its own page here.
