Floating Dragon Hold & Spin is the 10-line festival slot that Reel Kingdom built with Pragmatic Play in April 2021. Its free spins borrow the Big Bass formula, with a princess collecting fish values, and three gold coins filling the middle reel start a Hold & Spin round. It returns 96.71% with a 5,000x cap. Play the official Floating Dragon demo below free, with no download or sign-up.
Floating Dragon runs on five reels and three rows with 10 fixed lines that pay left to right. You play 1 to 10 coins a line with a coin of 1 cent to $2.50, so a spin costs 10 cents to $250; the 1 cent minimum some listings show looks like the coin value rather than the bet. Pragmatic lists the RTP percentage as 96.71%, and although one review mentions multiple RTP settings, no lower figure has been confirmed. Review sites rate the volatility as high, while Pragmatic’s own page gives no rating. Hit frequency is not published. The most the game pays is 5,000 times the total bet, which is $1,250,000 at the maximum stake, and a single Hold & Spin diamond can be worth up to 4,993x on its own.
Floating Dragon Pokies Characteristics
Wins need three of a kind from the first reel, except the flying ship, which pays for two. The princess is the wild, substituting for everything except the coins and the scatter; one review says she appears only in the free spins. Three, four or five dragon scatters start the free spins. Gold coins land only on the middle reel in the base game, carry 1x to 20x the total bet, and three stacked on that reel at once start the Hold & Spin. The koi fish is an ordinary line symbol here; its cash value counts only in the free spins.
There is no bonus buy, gamble feature or jackpot. Everything beyond line wins comes from the two features, and with high volatility that means long stretches of small wins between them.
Wins below are multiples of the total bet for three, four and five of a kind; the flying ship also pays for two.
Five flying ships pay 200x the total bet, the best line win in the game. The flying ship figures come from one review database, but the launch release’s range of 20x to 200x for five premium symbols backs up the top value, and two independent reviews agree on the rest. No pay is listed for the dragon scatter. Three royals return half the stake, so the base game mostly recycles your balance and the 5,000x headline sits in the features.
Three gold coins on the middle reel, a full stack on reel 3, start the Hold & Spin. Everything else is cleared, the coins stay where they landed, and you get three respins. Each new money symbol stays in place and resets the count to three, and the round ends when the respins run out or all 15 positions are full. Coins are worth 1x to 20x the bet. The diamond, which only appears in this round, is worth 100x to 4,993x (one review lists the values as 100x, 200x, 300x, 400x and 4,993x).
Pragmatic’s rules say each landing money symbol awards all visible values, which one review reads as every new coin adding the value of every coin on screen to the total, so check the in-game rules on this point. The launch release also promised a minimum of 20x the stake for the round, and one review says the game adds three more respins if the total would fall short.
Three, four or five dragons award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. In the feature the koi fish carry cash values of up to 500x the bet, and every princess that lands collects all the fish values on screen; when more than one lands, the launch coverage says the total is multiplied by the number of princesses. Every fourth princess collected retriggers the feature with 10 more spins and raises the multiplier on collected values to 2x, then 3x and finally 10x.
The trail is what turns ordinary fish into big wins, and it is a long climb: the 10x stage takes 12 princesses, which is a lot to ask of a round that starts with 10 to 20 spins.
At 96.71% Floating Dragon keeps about 3.3 cents of every dollar bet over the long run, a good figure for an online pokie. High volatility means that return arrives unevenly: the line pays are small, either feature can end modestly, and the occasional big Hold & Spin board or late multiplier does most of the paying.
At $1 a spin, $100 covers 100 spins. At that stake the coins in Hold & Spin are worth $1 to $20 each, a diamond is $100 to $4,993, the launch release’s minimum for the round is $20 and the cap is $5,000. At 20 cents a spin the same $100 lasts 500 spins, five times the chances at features whose trigger rates are not published.
Pragmatic has turned the game into a series. Floating Dragon Megaways Hold & Spin (September 2022), which Pragmatic calls the sequel, moves to six reels with up to 236,196 ways (one review gives 147,456, which is another title’s figure), keeps both features, returns 96.70% and raises the cap to 20,000x. Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin is the other six-reel version: up to 147,456 ways, 96.70%, cascades, mystery symbols and up to 25 free spins.
The 10-line follow-ups stay closer to the original. Dragon Boat Festival (June 2023) keeps Hold & Spin and multiplier free spins at 96.07%. Year of the Snake (January 2025) keeps the 96.71% return and adds free spins modifiers such as extra symbols, extra spins and a head start on the multiplier trail. Wild Horses (January 2026) returns 96.50%, gives 15 to 25 free spins and adds a horse wild that collects alongside the princess, with four of either adding 10 spins and multipliers up to 10x. If a lobby lists plain Floating Dragon, it is the 2021 game reviewed here.
The setting is an Asian festival beside a cherry-blossom grove, with the reels on a transparent 5×3 grid. Kites shaped like birds, butterflies and masks, a flying ship and koi fish are the premium symbols, A to 10 royals fill the low end, and a princess, a dragon, gold Chinese coins and diamonds run the features. If the free spins feel familiar, it is because they are the Big Bass Bonanza formula with a princess in place of the fisherman; the middle-reel coin round is what Floating Dragon added. It runs in HTML5 on desktop and mobile.
Floating Dragon is an online game, no land-based version has been found, and it is unrelated to Aristocrat’s land-based Dragon Link machines. Under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, Australian-licensed operators cannot offer online casino games, so playing Floating Dragon for real money means an offshore casino that accepts Australians. Pragmatic Play is widely carried at those casinos, but we could not confirm the Floating Dragon slot in any specific lobby, so availability varies and the lobby search is the way to check. Pragmatic publishes an official free demo on its own game page, the simplest route to Floating Dragon free play and a good way to see both features before staking anything.
Floating Dragon Hold & Spin is a well-made high-volatility pokie with two features that both matter and a fair 96.71% return. It suits players who liked the Big Bass free spins, want a second route to a big result through the coin round and can sit through quiet stretches. It does not suit anyone who wants steady base-game wins, a bonus buy or a jackpot. The one thing to check is the RTP in the information screen: only 96.71% has been confirmed, but one review mentions other settings.
96.71% according to Pragmatic Play. One review mentions multiple RTP settings, but no lower figure has been confirmed, so the information screen is worth checking.
Three gold coin money symbols filling the middle reel start Hold & Spin. Three, four or five dragon scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins.
5,000 times the total bet, which is $1,250,000 at the $250 maximum stake. A single Hold & Spin diamond can be worth up to 4,993x.
Every fourth princess wild collected adds 10 spins and lifts the multiplier on collected fish values to 2x, then 3x and finally 10x.
It is an online game with no land-based version. Pragmatic Play is widely carried at offshore casinos that accept Australians, but lobbies vary, and Pragmatic publishes a free demo on its game page.
Floating Dragon Hold & Spin, the 10-line game released in April 2021. Megaways (2022), Dragon Boat Festival (2023), New Year Festival Ultra Megaways, Year of the Snake (2025) and Wild Horses (2026) all came later.
