Jin Ji Bao Xi: Endless Treasure: Review

Is it just us, or do Chinese-themed slots often end up feeling about as thrilling as a bowl of rice—serving up an endless stream of kitschy symbolism and predictable traditional music? This Scientific Games powered slot developed by Shuffle Master even includes a translation page where we’re told that the title, Jin Ji Bao Xi, carries the meaning of good luck and good news. Nothing says excitement like picking up a little Chinese while desperately digging through the help file for genuinely useful details like RTP, win potential, and volatility.

As you might guess, we’re approaching Jin Ji Bao Xi with a heavy sigh and very little enthusiasm. To be fair, it’s not only the painfully generic visuals—this slot is also a confusing tangle of mechanics. Still, could there be something worthwhile buried underneath? That’s what we’re here to uncover.

A land-based conversion, Jin Ji Bao Xi comes with 5 reels and 243 ways to win and, as you’d expect from a jackpot slot, the 95.65% RTP sits a bit below what we typically see online. You can spin from 0.08 to 88 Eur per round on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

Visually and stylistically, it’s essentially a twin of 88 Fortunes, another Shuffle Master slot launched in 2016. It delivers the full Chinese-slot checklist—shine, gold, and more shine. On the reels you’ll find low-value A to 9 card suit symbols alongside higher-value koi fish, turtles, tigers, phoenix and dragons. All animal symbols share the same payout, awarding 20 times your stake for landing 5 of a kind. The wild symbol appears only in the base game and can only land on reels 2, 3 and 4.

The base game revolves around the All Up feature, letting you upgrade regular premium symbols into golden versions worth more—at the cost of a higher spin price. To activate it, select a level on the meter to the left of the reels. In the top left corner, a box shows which symbols are currently enabled. With the highest level switched on, you’ll collect 250 times your stake if you hit 5 dragons across a full payline.

Jin Ji Bao Xi: Endless Treasure: Features

Jin Ji Bao Xi packs in plenty of features—here’s what you get:

Golden Chance feature – can turn any standard premium symbol into its golden version when a wild lands on the middle reel. Any wins formed also receive a 2x multiplier.

Fu Value feature – activates during the bonus feature. Each bonus symbol carries a coin value that’s randomly selected from a set of pre-defined Fu values. When these bonus symbols land, their values are added to the pot displayed above the reels.

Bonus feature – starts when at least 6 bonus symbols land anywhere on the reels at the same time. You begin with 6 free spins and are presented with 6 options, which add extra golden symbols to the reels during the bonus feature. A golden coin is also used here, acting as a wild and appearing only on reels 2, 3 and 4. Above the reels, a pot collects all Fu Value hits, and once the round ends, that pot is paid out to you.

Top Up feature – essentially a streak spin mode, offered as a 6th option when you trigger the bonus. Bonus symbols (including their Fu value) stay locked on the reels while respins continue. Your goal is to land more bonus symbols or yellow or green coins. If a yellow coin lands, it awards the total from the Fu value bonus coins from that triggering spin. The green coin is even stronger, paying the combined totals of everything accumulated—both the Fu value bonus symbols and the yellow coins. The Top Up feature can award up to 2304 times your stake (Grand Jackpot).

Jin Ji Bao Xi feature – the jackpot feature may also trigger at random. It’s a familiar pick-and-reveal style bonus seen in many slots. You keep picking until 3 matching symbols show up, and that match determines your prize. There are 4 jackpots available – Mini, Minor, Major and Grand.

Jin Ji Bao Xi: Endless Treasure: Verdict

Jin Ji Bao Xi isn’t the kind of slot you can just launch and spin without thinking—we strongly suggest trying the demo first. At the beginning, we genuinely couldn’t tell what was happening, and the sheer amount of clutter was enough to cause a headache. Even putting this review together felt like work. We do like it when developers attempt fresh ideas, but here it becomes a bit too much to take in.

The boredom arrives fast, helped along by the recycled theme. A slot should at least hint that there’s a point to what you’re doing—some payoff for pushing through the chaos. Here, the main “reward” is realizing a few minutes in that you’re not obligated to keep playing, and you can just move on. We don’t know the exact max win potential, but the help file states a cap of 250 000€ on max bet, which equals 2,800 times your stake.

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There is also a Megaways version using the hugely popular Megaways engine, simply called Jin Ji Bao Xi Megaways.