Jewel of the Dragon

Bally built Jewel of the Dragon around a friendly cartoon dragon perched on a mountain of treasure, one of several dragon-themed slots in the studio's catalogue. It runs on 5 reels and 4 rows, with 40 fixed paylines and a betting range from 0.10 up to 400 per spin, and the title is also part of Bally's Mega Drop network of linked progressive jackpots.

Winning combinations need three matching symbols upward, with five-symbol lines landing regularly enough that individual payouts stay modest. The lower half of the paytable is filled by card royals from 9 through Ace, while three higher-value symbols — a crown, a dollar-sign shield, and a bell finished in a Celtic pattern — each worth 1.87x the bet when five appear in a line.

Jewel of the Dragon layers three wild types across the reels. A standard Wild substitutes for other symbols and pays 2.5x the bet for five on a line, while a Wild Diamond and a Bonus Wild each tie into their own mechanics. Three or more diamonds in view trigger the Drop Zone Bonus, where the player selects a diamond from a set of three, revealing a shape — a 2x2 square, for instance — that then drops onto the grid and turns every symbol it lands on into a wild. Landing three or more bonus symbols instead awards 8 free spins. Wilds stay sticky for the whole round, but three of the base-game mechanics don't carry over: the Hot Zone shapes, the Dragon Nudge, and the Drop Zone Bonus all pause during free spins.

The Hot Zone feature adds shifting Tetris-style shapes that drift across the screen during the base game; wherever one comes to rest on the reels, every position it covers turns wild. The Dragon Nudge feature works alongside this — if a qualifying shape stops just outside the reel area, the dragon nudges it into play rather than letting it go to waste.

Bally publishes two RTP figures for Jewel of the Dragon: 94.07% when the Mega Drop jackpot isn't connected, rising to 96.07% when it is. Volatility falls in the medium band, with the free-spins round contributing most of the game's bigger returns while the base game plays at a steadier pace.