88 Fortunes slot review

What the 88 Fortunes slot offers

88 Fortunes comes from the Bally line, a name that goes back to a Chicago company founded in 1932 and that became part of Light & Wonder through Scientific Games, which completed its purchase of Bally Technologies in November 2014 and renamed itself in 2022. It's one of several jackpot titles in our slot reviews, and its specifications below are the developer's published figures.

The 243 ways come from the 5×3 grid: any of the three positions on each reel can join a win from the left, so 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 243. Our page on ways to win shows how that compares with paylines.

How the features work in 88 Fortunes

The Fu Bat wild

The Fu Bat is the wild and appears only on reels 2, 3 and 4. Besides substituting for pay symbols, it's the key to the jackpots: a Fu Bat can trigger the jackpot feature.

The coin-pick jackpot feature

Once triggered, you pick coins from a board. Each coin reveals an icon, and picking continues until three matching icons show. The matched icon decides which of four progressive jackpots you win: Mini, Minor, Major or Grand. The picking is presentation; the result is set by the game's random outcome, so there's no skill in which coin you choose.

Gold symbols

Gold symbols are optional, and turning on more of them makes more of the progressive jackpots available. The developer's description doesn't set out the stake involved, so the help screen is where to confirm how the gold symbol setting relates to what you bet and which jackpots each setting can win. Casino.org's 88 Fortunes review (opens in a new tab) also walks through the setting.

Gong free spins

Three or more gong scatters award 10 free spins. During the round the low-value symbols are removed, so every win that lands is made of the higher-paying symbols. The round can retrigger. The published summary doesn't give retrigger counts, so check the paytable for those.

88 Fortunes jackpots: the maths behind progressives

A progressive jackpot grows as a slice of stakes is set aside for it. That slice is part of the game's return to players overall, but it's paid to very few of them. For everyone else, the jackpot share is money that won't come back in ordinary wins. Our page on progressive jackpot maths explains how that affects your expected result.

Our checked data lists 88 Fortunes at 96% without saying whether that includes the jackpot contribution, so read the game's information screen. The Gambling Commission's RTS 9 on progressive jackpot systems (opens in a new tab) sets technical requirements for how operators run these jackpots.

Current jackpot values change constantly and differ by casino, so the game screen is the only reliable source for the amounts in play.

88 Fortunes RTP: what an hour can cost

With a 96% RTP, the average long-run cost is 4% of everything staked. Taking an illustrative 360 spins in an hour:

High volatility widens the spread around those averages. With a £20 budget, a 10p stake leaves room for the jackpot feature and free spins to come round, while £1 can end the session in a couple of minutes without either. Our cost per hour guide compares slots with table games on the same basis.

How to play 88 Fortunes online

1. Open the help screen and read how the gold symbol setting works, which jackpots it makes available and the RTP shown.
2. Decide your session budget and set a deposit limit.
3. Choose a stake and gold symbol setting within the UK cap (£5 a spin aged 25+, £2 aged 18 to 24).
4. Spin manually; watch for Fu Bat wilds on reels 2 to 4 and gong scatters.
5. If the coin pick starts, pick until three icons match to reveal your jackpot tier.
6. Check the net position and session time on screen, and stop at your limit.

88 Fortunes and UK slot rules

The Gambling Commission's stake limit guidance (opens in a new tab) caps online slot stakes per game cycle at £5 for players aged 25 and over and £2 for those aged 18 to 24. Your total stake, including any gold symbol setting that adds to it, has to sit within that cap. See our slot stake limits page.

UK versions have no autoplay, turbo or slam-stop and take at least 2.5 seconds per spin, and they can't celebrate a return that's equal to or lower than the stake. Our game design rules page covers each rule.

88 Fortunes myths and mistakes

• Myth: a big jackpot total means it's about to drop. Progressives don't become "due" as they grow; see can a slot be due a win.
• Myth: choosing certain coins improves your tier. The pick is presentation only.
• Mistake: raising your stake to chase the Grand. Read the help screen for what stake and gold settings actually change, and remember that a higher stake always raises your cost per spin.
• Mistake: assuming every setting can win every jackpot. Check the gold symbol rules first.

Slots similar to 88 Fortunes

Light & Wonder's Dancing Drums uses the same coin-pick route to Mini, Minor, Major and Grand jackpots, with a 96.09% RTP and a choice of free spins grids. For other jackpot networks, see Playtech's Age of the Gods or Pragmatic's Mustang Gold, which has four fixed jackpots. More oriental-styled games are on our Asian-themed slots page.

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