Dragon Pots

Dragon Pots arrived on 19 August 2026 - the same day InOut shipped Rump & Friends, and the two could hardly be less alike. While its stablemate does political satire, Dragon Pots plays the Asian-fortune theme with a completely straight face: misty mountains, koi, lotus flowers and three literal pots of gold sitting above the reels. Those pots are not decoration. They are the entire architecture of the game - three colour-coded piggy banks that catch coins off the reels and, when they trigger, open six different bonus modes between them.

We spent a long session in the demo and then put real money through it, finishing with a bought Super Hold & Win round that ran two and a half minutes and came within $850 of paying for itself - the full video is below, and every number on this page was checked against what the screen actually showed.

Five reels, 243 ways, one quiet paytable

The base game is a 5×3 window with 243 ways: wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, row position does not matter, and only the longest chain per symbol counts. Ways multiply - two matching symbols on one reel double every chain running through it, which is where the format hides its teeth. The game announced its own ceiling on the loading screen: a maximum win of 8,600× the bet.

That same screen previews the jackpot board - Mini ×20, Minor ×50, Major ×250, Grand ×2000 - and the Match-3 pick game they hang off. More on both in a moment; first, the machine itself.

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The symbols, and what the dragon is really worth

The paytable is deliberately modest. Koi tops it at 7× the bet for a full five-reel chain, followed by the knotted coins at 5×, the lantern at 3× and the lotus at 2×. The golden dragon head - the symbol you will see most in wins, since it stacks generously - pays 1.4× for five, and the A-K-Q-J-10-9 royals bring up the rear at 0.5×. Nothing here funds a big session on its own; the paytable exists to keep the reels ticking while the pots fill.

The ways arithmetic, checked live: three dragon heads across reels one to three paid exactly $40 at our $100 stake - the 0.4× three-chain rate to the dollar. One spin later the format showed why ways beat lines.

Same symbol, but two dragons stacked on reel one and a chain running to reel four: two ways of a four-symbol chain, $60 each, $120 total. The counter agreed to the cent. Stack a premium on the first reel and every chain through it doubles - that is the whole 243-ways pitch in one screenshot.

Wilds that catch fire

The Wild - a golden dragon coiled around a pagoda - appears only on reels two, three and four and substitutes for every regular symbol, though never for coins. It has no payout of its own on those middle reels; its job is bridging. When it connects several chains at once the frame ignites, literally.

Two burning Wilds carried three separate ways to a $330 hit on this spin - dragons and royals sharing the same bridges. With only three Wild positions possible per spin, these moments are not constant, but they are where the base game's better payouts live.

Three pots above the reels - the actual game

Now the architecture. Coins land on the reels in three colours - red, green and blue - plus a gold variant that transforms into one of the three after the reels stop. Every coin flies off the board into the pot of its colour, and each pot is a progress meter: fill it, and it tips its contents into a bonus. Which pot triggers decides everything:

• Red pot - the Jackpot Bonus, a Match-3 pick game.
• Blue pot - Mighty Hold & Win on a 3×5 grid, 6 starting coins.
• Green pot - Mega Hold & Win on 4×5, 8 starting coins.
• Green + blue together - Super Hold & Win on a full 5×5, 10 coins.
• Red together with others - the pick game plays first, then the Hold & Win runs with jackpot coins active: Ultra (blue+red), Supreme (green+red) or Ultimate (all three).

Six distinct bonus configurations from three buckets is a genuinely clever bit of design - the studio squeezed a whole feature matrix out of one collect mechanic, and watching two pots close in on full at the same time, as in the shot above, is the game's best tension.

The Jackpot Bonus: touch a coin

The red pot opens a fifteen-coin pick field. You tap coins until three matching jackpot symbols are collected, and that jackpot pays: the girl in green is Mini at 20× your bet, the dark-haired girl Minor at 50×, the merchant Major at 250×, the emperor Grand at 2000×. Three Upgrade symbols double every jackpot value for the rest of the round, and the picking continues until a jackpot lands - there is no losing exit.

The multipliers held up to verification at both stakes we played: the board read $40/$100/$500/$4,000 at a $2 bet and $2,000/$5,000/$25,000/$200,000 at $100 - the same four multipliers exactly. The Grand at 2000× is also the single biggest prize the game publishes anywhere, the stated 8,600× max win being a combined-round figure.

Six Hold & Win rooms, one rulebook

Every Hold & Win variant plays by the same rules and differs only in floor space. Three respins to start; every new coin landing in an empty cell resets the counter to three; Prize Coins pay their face value and stick; the round ends when the respins run dry or the grid fills - and a full grid pays the Grand Jackpot on top.

Two details separate the good rounds from the great ones. In the jackpot-active modes, Mini and Minor Jackpot Coins can land directly on the grid as collectable cells. And the Green Dragon Coin is a collector: when it lands, it sweeps the values of every coin already on the grid - jackpot coins included - and several dragons in one respin collect one after another, compounding the whole board.

Buying your way in: 30×, 55× or 80×

The buy menu sells instant entry to the three jackpot-free Hold & Win modes: Mighty at 30× the bet, Mega at 55×, Super at 80×, each played at your current stake. The red-pot pick game is not for sale - jackpot access has to be earned on the reels, which is a rather more player-friendly split than most buy menus manage.

At our $100 bet the cards priced at $3,000, $5,500 and $8,000 - the advertised multipliers to the dollar. Note how gentle these prices are next to the 75×-300× cards in Rump & Friends or Chicken Road 2 Bonus: Dragon Pots sells access cheap because the jackpots are not in the package.

Our bought Super round, on tape

We took the $8,000 Super card - the full 5×5 grid, ten coins already placed - and recorded the whole round. Two and a half minutes: sticky coins stacking up, the respin counter clawing back to three again and again, and the grid flirting with a full board it never quite reached.

The result screen tells the story with a straight face:

$7,150 back on an $8,000 ticket - 71.5× returned on an 80× buy, a $850 loss. As bought bonuses go that is close to par: compare our Ultimate Rump tape on Rump & Friends, which returned barely a quarter of its price the same week. The lesson repeats across the catalogue - buys purchase variance and a look at the feature, not an edge - but Dragon Pots at least prices the look honestly.

What the studio publishes, and what the game itself adds

Officially: 96% RTP, single player, released 19 August 2026 - and that is the entire spec sheet from InOut's site. The interesting numbers all come from inside the game, which is exactly why screenshots are this site's source of truth: the 8,600× max win and the jackpot ladder live on the loading screen, the mode grid sizes in the rulebook, the buy prices in the menu. Volatility and bet range are published nowhere; our demo session ran stakes from $2 to $100, and the buy-card star ratings other InOut slots carry are absent here. Where a number does not exist, we say so rather than invent it.

The burger menu is the standard InOut kit - provably fair verification, full rules, bet history, spacebar play - identical to the rest of the catalogue, which by now reads as a mark of the engine rather than an afterthought.

Dragon Pots bonus and free credits

Two meanings of “bonus” worth keeping apart: the demo's virtual credits, which refill forever and cost nothing, and the real-money welcome offers at whichever casino you play. Everything documented on this page happened on both.

If your plan is buying Hold & Win rounds, size the bankroll off the card prices - a welcome bonus that covers a $20 deposit does not move the needle on an 80× Super ticket.

Dragon Pots APK and download

There is no Dragon Pots APK. The game is HTML5 and runs in any browser on any device - always the current version, nothing to install, nothing to sideload from a third-party store.

For an app-style shortcut, open the demo in your phone's browser and use Add to Home Screen - identical result, none of the risk that comes with unofficial downloads.

Pots, coins and the rest of the shelf

Dragon Pots is InOut's most feature-dense Hold & Win yet. The respin engine is the one from Chicken Coin and Joker Pyre, the collector coin echoes the chest columns of Mine Slot, and the multi-pot trigger system is new to the catalogue entirely. Players who want the same era of releases with a very different temperament should see Rump & Friends - same release day, opposite planet.

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The verdict

Dragon Pots is the best-engineered slot InOut has released: a modest 243-ways base wired to a three-pot trigger system that turns one collect mechanic into six bonus configurations, with the honest touch of keeping jackpot modes out of the buy menu. The theme is safe where Rump & Friends is loud, but the machine underneath is the more interesting of the two. Learn the pot colours in the demo, let the red pot come to you rather than chasing it, and if you ever buy the Super card - our tape shows roughly what to expect: a long, tense round that flirts with greatness and settles for almost-even.

Reviewed by Miles Harker Game analyst

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