Joker Tricks by Amigo Gaming dresses a classic fruit machine in cabaret clothes, and the staging is the first thing you notice. The reels sit on a nightclub stage lit in green and magenta, with a doorway glowing at the back and light beams crossing behind the grid. Standing above the reels are three harlequin performers – Jinxie in green, Jest in red at the centre, and Luna in blue – each named on a banner beneath her, each watching the spins.
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Lucky Gold Scratch by KA Gaming is an instant win scratch card dressed in full Chinese New Year colours. There are no reels and no spins here: every round is a single ticket, bought and resolved in about two seconds. It is the simplest format in the casino, and this version does not try to complicate it – it just layers three small games onto the same ticket so there is more than one place to look while it resolves. The staging is generous for a game with so little to show.
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Beach Party by KA Gaming is not a slot at all, and it is worth saying that first because the game sits in slot lobbies alongside them. There are no reels, no paylines and no spin button. It is a multiplayer shooting arcade – the format that has dominated Asian casino floors for years and is now spreading westward – in which you aim a cannon at things moving across a scene and are paid for what you hit. The scene here is a beach at sunset, and it is genuinely lovely.
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