The latest addition to the ever-growing lineup of online slots in New Jersey comes in the fire-breathing shape of Dragon Spin. This game is available exclusively at Golden Nugget, and at the time of writing you can score double points for every dollar you wager on Dragon Spin.

Dragon Spin: Overview

Bally Technologies, a Nevada-based gaming company, are the brains behind this online slot.

Of course, if there’s one place in the world that knows its stuff when it comes to slot machines then it is the home state of Las Vegas. In fact, Vegas visitors may recognize this game from its availability in brick-and-mortar casinos.

Dragon Spin is an Asian-themed slot, a slot subject that proves popular with NJ online slots and casino slots players like. While Bally Technologies may not be known for amazing graphics and animations, this game still tries to visually compete with some of the best online slot teams.

Where to play Dragon Spin online in New Jersey

Dragon Spin is available to New Jersey online casino players exclusively at Golden Nugget.

Players new to Golden Nugget are in for a treat – on top of this game and many other fantastic video slots, you’ll receive $20 free when you create a new account. Plus, a $1,000 bonus awaits if you make your first deposit!

Just be sure you enter this NJ online casino bonus code at signup: PLAY20.

Gameplay: Dragon Spin

Dragon Spin is a 5-reel game with 30 fixed paylines, allowing players to wager as little as $0.30 per spin and up to $4 per line for a $120 maximum bet.

As you might expect, the reels are extremely dragon-heavy. However, traditional slots poker ranking symbols also feature (albeit with an eastern twist) to keep purists happy.

Bally Technologies present a highly usable and intuitive game. It’s easy to adjust bets or spins, as well as to view the rules of the game in-depth.

Special features

Mystery stacked reels

Each reel contains mystery symbol positions, which are stacked to potentially maximize big wins.

At the start of each spin, all mystery symbols are replaced with one identical symbol across the reels. This includes all the highest-scoring symbols, save for wilds and scatters.

Raining Wilds free games

During Raining Wilds Free Games, up to 10 wild symbols will be awarded at random at the start of each spin.

These are kept in place throughout the spin and will pay out any winnings. You’re guaranteed at least three wild symbols per spin.

Persisting Wilds free games

Persisting Wilds free games play as normal, but each game will award at least one wild symbol which will be locked into place throughout the bonus feature.

You can receive up to 16 wild symbols throughout the feature.

Reel Blast free games

All Reel Blast free games will have three reel sets, expanded to give 90 total paylines, with a shared center reel. Reel Blast free games uses different, but still lucrative, paytable prizes when compared with the base game.

Dragon Spin: the positives

Variety of free games

Free games are a fairly standard bonus feature in online slots – a welcome one, but often boring. Dragon Spin ramps up the excitement of this often-dull feature by giving you a randomly-determined style of free spins.

Fantastic soundtrack

It’s not often that the music is one of the standout features when playing online slots. But this perfect mix of exciting, thumping electronic music with Asian style refrains does the rare job of perfectly complimenting the theme and also adding to the thrill of the gameplay.

Mystery stacked reels

It’s always good to see a way to keep base spins exciting, and the tantalizing possibility of a high-scoring set of stacked symbols with every spin is certainly a good way to accomplish that!

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The not-so-positives

Extremely low volatility

With a return to player percentage of 96 on the nose, Dragon Spin is far from poor value for online slots fans. However, it’s very low variance, which means that you’re extremely unlikely to see any fantastic prizes during an average session.

Graphics could be better

The graphics aren’t bad, but they’re quite unimaginative and the animation is almost non-existent. Fans of exciting, aesthetic slots will be put off by an average showing on the design front.

The scores

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Graphics and soundtrack: 3.5/5

As we mentioned, the graphics are pretty sub-par when you compare the game to some of the more visually astounding offers in New Jersey online casinos. However, they’re by no means bad and a fantastic musical accompaniment pushes the score up.

Originality and creativity: 3.5/5

As slots themes go, Asia and dragons are about as original as fruit and bells, so you’re unlucky to find any exhaustive chatter on New Jersey casino forums about a theme like this.

That being said, the gameplay here is extremely original with regards to a combination of stacked mystery symbols and three different bonus features.

Play value: 3/5

This is pretty much the perfect slot with which to clear a first deposit bonus, combining a higher-than-average return to player with low variance and an overall fun playing experience.

However, existing players with no bonus to clear can find better value elsewhere.

Jackpot potential: 2/5

Though some variations of Dragon Spin carry a progressive jackpot, the maximum prize playing at Golden Nugget is $250,000. It’s not to be sniffed at, of course, but it’s not “all the tea in China” money, either!

Repeat play: 3.5/5

As with the play value score, the value here depends on whether you are clearing a bonus or simply playing. That being said, the variety of free games features means that the game is worth a few different plays to find your favorite bonus.

Total score: 15.5/25

All in all, this is a sterling effort from Bally Technologies. Bally’s attempt to be competitive with some of the world’s most acclaimed online slots providers has paid off with a fantastic Asia-themed slot that delivers on several fronts.