About Persian Fortune
Persian Fortune runs on 5 reels and 3 rows with 20 paylines. Red Tiger's official page dates the release to 2 November 2016, SlotCatalog to 19 October 2016: a fortnight between the publisher and the reference database. We keep Red Tiger's date.
The game's oddity fits in one sentence: there are no free spins and no scatter symbol, as LCB notes. Where almost every game of its era builds its upside on a free spins session, Persian Fortune spreads its own across three mechanics that all operate during normal spins.
The first is the chain reaction bar. Winning symbols vanish, a respin replaces them, and a multiplier climbs with each consecutive win. WhichBingo details the ladder: 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 6x and then 8x, six rungs in total. A chain of six consecutive wins therefore multiplies the last win by 8, and no more. That is modest next to the uncapped multipliers Red Tiger would later use on Vault of Anubis.
The second is the Persian wilds mechanic: certain symbols are framed in gold when they land, and those that take part in a win turn wild on the respin. The third is the Mega symbols system, where regular symbols land as 2x2 or 3x3 blocks and behave normally for payline purposes. On a 15-position grid, a 3x3 block occupies nine of them.
The Magic Carpet bonus triggers on three treasure chests. The player first picks one of three carpets, which sets how many picks they get, then turns over cards from a set of fourteen to reveal coloured jewels. Three matching jewels pay 18x for purple, 38x for blue, 138x for green and 888x for red, according to WhichBingo. Those figures deserve perspective: 888x represents 37% of the game's 2,423x maximum win. The best possible bonus is therefore not enough to reach the ceiling; you need base-game spins loaded with Mega symbols on top.
The RTP is a problem. Red Tiger publishes 96% on its product page, leaving £4 of house margin per £100 staked. SlotCatalog lists 95.08% (£4.92) and specifies that the game ships with several RTP configurations. LCB goes as low as 94.17% (£5.83). Between the most generous and the tightest build, the gap reaches £1.83 per £100 wagered — £183 across £10,000 of cumulative stakes. The player does not choose the build: the operator does.
Red Tiger publishes a hit frequency of 21.64%, higher than Lucky Halloween's 20.27%: roughly one spin in 4.6 returns something. Volatility is rated high by both SlotCatalog and LCB.
Stakes run from £0.10 to £50 according to Red Tiger, from £0.20 to £40 according to SlotCatalog and LCB. The maximum win of 2,423x — 2,423.80x precisely at SlotCatalog — is worth £242.30 at £0.10, £2,423 at £1 and £121,150 at £50. Within the Red Tiger catalogue listed at BetsRank, that places it above Dragon's Luck (1,380x) and well below Dragon's Luck Deluxe (3,999x). No source documents a bonus buy on this title.
