Floating Dragon app guide

Floating Dragon app: two features on a simple grid

Floating Dragon comes from Reel Kingdom, the studio best known for the Big Bass series, and reaches casinos through Pragmatic Play's distribution. That is why lobbies usually list it under Pragmatic Play. There is no separate download: you play it inside a licensed casino's app with your normal account.

The theme is a Chinese dragon-boat festival, with festival-style artwork around the reels. Underneath, the game is built on two ideas Reel Kingdom uses often. Money symbols can trigger a Hold & Spin respin round, and scatters open free spins where wilds collect the cash values on fish symbols, much like the fisherman in Big Bass Bonanza.

Volatility is rated high, so most of the game's larger returns come from those two features, with lean stretches in between.

How Floating Dragon looks and plays on a phone

Pragmatic Play's games generally include a dedicated portrait layout. Held upright, the five reels sit centrally with the logo and feature information above, and the spin button, stake control and menu below. The 5×3 grid leaves enough room for the money values on symbols to remain legible, which matters in a game where you need to read the amounts.

Landscape gives the background artwork more space and puts the controls on the right. During Hold & Spin, the respin counter and collected total appear above the grid in both orientations. If the game seems slow to respond after an iOS or Android update, our guide to updating casino apps explains how to make sure the app is on its newest version.

How to play Floating Dragon in a casino app

1. Log in to a UK-licensed casino app with your password, Face ID or fingerprint.
2. Search Floating Dragon; you may see related titles, so choose the Hold & Spin original.
3. When the game opens, tap the i or menu icon and read the RTP and the feature rules.
4. Set your total stake per spin using the plus and minus buttons beside the spin button.
5. Tap spin for each round. Hold & Spin respins play out automatically once triggered.
6. Watch the balance and net position along the bottom, and leave via the home or back icon.

New to apps? Our casino apps for beginners guide covers registration, verification and the first deposit before you reach the game.

Floating Dragon Hold & Spin explained

Money symbols carry cash values shown as multiples of your stake. When enough of them land in the base game (the in-game rules give the exact trigger), the Hold & Spin round starts. All other symbols are cleared, the money symbols lock in place and you get three respins. Every new money symbol that lands locks too and resets the counter to three. The round ends when the respins run out, and all the visible values are paid.

Pragmatic Play's description adds that higher-value special symbols can also appear during the round. Here is a simple illustration: on a 50p stake, five locked symbols worth 2x, 3x, 5x, 1x and 10x pay 21x, or £10.50. The values are fixed multiples of the stake, so the same symbols on a £1 stake pay £21. For more on how this type of round usually works, see our hold and win entry.

Floating Dragon free spins and collecting wilds

Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. During the round, fish symbols carrying money values can land, and when a wild lands alongside them, it collects those values. Pragmatic Play's description also says that collecting wilds advances the feature: every fourth wild retriggers the round with extra spins, and later retriggers apply a multiplier to collected values. The exact multiplier steps are set out in the paytable inside your app.

Promotional spins from a casino offer have nothing to do with this in-game round, and they usually apply to selected games only. If you are using such spins, the how to claim free spins in an app guide shows where to find them.

Floating Dragon RTP and volatility: what the numbers mean

Pragmatic Play lists 96.71% as the default RTP, which is also the top figure Reel Kingdom uses on several of its games. Pragmatic offers lower versions of many titles to casinos, so check the rules screen in your app. Our guide to finding a slot's RTP in an app explains where it is.

High volatility means the game can go a long time without a feature. To put numbers on it: 250 spins at 20p is £50 staked. At 96.71%, the long-run theoretical cost of that is about £1.65, but because so much of the return is concentrated in Hold & Spin and free spins, a real 250-spin session could end well below or above that. It would take at least 10 minutes and 25 seconds under the UK's 2.5-second rule.

Losses over time are the most likely outcome. A smaller stake doesn't change the house edge, but it does give the budget more spins and more time.

Floating Dragon max win of 5,000x

Wins are capped at 5,000 times the stake: £500 at 10p, £5,000 at £1, and £25,000 at the £5 maximum for players aged 25 and over. It is reached through rare combinations in the features rather than in normal base-game play. Once the cap is hit, the game ends the round and pays the capped amount.

UK rules that shape Floating Dragon on mobile

• Stakes are capped at £5 per spin from age 25 and £2 per spin for 18 to 24-year-olds.
• Each spin, including respins, takes at least 2.5 seconds; there is no autoplay or turbo.
• The bonus buy that appears in some markets isn't offered in Great Britain.
• Wins smaller than the stake can't be shown with celebratory effects.
• The free-play demo opens only after age verification.

Our UK stake limits on mobile slots guide explains how the age bands are applied.

Floating Dragon compared with similar collect and respin slots

Floating Dragon combines two mechanics that feature separately in many other games. Big Bass Hold & Spinner also mixes a collect feature with respins, while Dancing Drums offers a different take on an East Asian theme.

Floating Dragon on mobile: pros and cons

Where to play Floating Dragon on a UK casino app

Pragmatic Play titles are widely stocked, but search for Floating Dragon in a licensed app and check its RTP before you deposit. The offers below come from UKGC-licensed casinos and aren't tied to this game; PlayOJO's spins are on Big Bass Bonanza. 18+, new customers only, terms apply. Our no wagering casino apps page explains how no-wagering spins are paid.

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