Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin slot
Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin is a Pragmatic Play slot on six reels, with three extra rows that unlock at random along the top of the board and up to 147,456 ways to win. It carries two separate bonuses: free spins opened by three or more scatters, and a Hold & Spin round of three respins that reset with every cash award. Golden toads, lanterns and red envelopes set the Lunar New Year festival scene.
Editorial note: this guide explains how Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin works. Rules, features and payout figures are set by the studio and can differ between operators and game versions, so check the game’s information panel before you play. Slots are games of chance, and nothing here predicts results. Availability at Fortune Games can change.
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Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin: key facts
| Studio | Pragmatic Play |
|---|---|
| Reels and ways | 6 reels, plus three extra rows above them that unlock at random; up to 147,456 ways |
| Top line payout | Golden toad: 50x stake for six of a kind |
| Wild | Substitutes for the paying symbols |
| Mystery symbols | Turn into one matching symbol |
| Tumbles | Winning symbols are removed and new ones cascade into the gaps |
| Free spins | Three or more scatters; up to 25 free spins |
| Lady symbols | Unlock a retrigger and a multiplier that increases each time |
| Hold & Spin | Three respins; every cash award that lands resets them |
| Cash awards | Up to 2,000x stake |
| Autoplay and turbo | Not available at sites licensed in Great Britain; UK rules require at least 2.5 seconds between the start of one game cycle and the next |
| Stakes | From 20p a spin in the studio’s range. UK rules cap online slot stakes at £5 a spin, or £2 if you are 18 to 24 |
| RTP | Shown in the game’s information panel |
| Series | Floating Dragon (compared below) |
All values (Bet Levels, Maximum Wins etc.) mentioned in relation to this slot game are subject to change at any time.
How Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin plays
The base board is six reels wide, and above it sit three more rows that the game unlocks at random. Each row that opens adds symbol positions, which is why the ways count is quoted as a ceiling rather than a fixed number. Card royals fill the lower end of the paytable. Red envelopes, lanterns and bonsai trees sit above them, and the golden toad pays the most.
A wild stands in for the paying symbols to complete wins. Mystery symbols can also land, and when they do they all reveal the same symbol. Every win clears its symbols away and a cascade refills the empty places, so a single paid spin can keep paying until a refill produces nothing new.
The free spins and the lady symbols
Three or more scatters open the free spins, and the round can award up to 25 of them. The lady symbols are what make the round grow. Landing them unlocks a retrigger, and with it a multiplier that steps up each time it is earned again, so a round that keeps finding ladies plays on with a larger boost than it started with.
The Hold & Spin bonus
The Hold & Spin bonus is the second route to a feature, and it plays separately from the free spins. It starts with three respins. Each cash award that lands sets the count back to three, so the round lasts as long as new awards keep arriving and can run well past its first three respins. The size a single cash award can reach is listed in the key facts.
Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin compared with Floating Dragon and Floating Dragon Megaways
The series began with Floating Dragon in April 2021, on a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines, and its Hold and Spin needs a stack of three coins on the middle reel. Floating Dragon Megaways moved to a 6x6 layout, with collect symbols gathering instant wins in the free spins, and its maximum win is higher than the original’s. The New Year Festival edition keeps six reels but adds three rows on top that unlock at random, and in its free spins the lady symbols unlock a retrigger and a multiplier that grows with each one, while its Hold & Spin opens with three respins that every cash award resets.
| Game | Grid and lines |
|---|---|
| Floating Dragon | 5x3, 10 paylines |
| Floating Dragon Megaways | 6x6 |
| Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin | 6 reels plus three extra rows, up to 147,456 ways |
All values (Bet Levels, Maximum Wins etc.) mentioned in relation to this slot game are subject to change at any time.
Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin at Fortune Games
Look for the festival edition among the slots in the Fortune Games lobby (18+), next to other Floating Dragon games shown in the tiles above. The UK caps in the table apply to every player. There is no autoplay or turbo mode, as at every site licensed in Great Britain. Fortune Games has an app on the App Store and Google Play.
Frequently asked questions
What is Floating Dragon New Year Festival Ultra Megaways Hold & Spin?
It is the Lunar New Year version of the Floating Dragon series, built by Pragmatic Play around tumbling wins rather than fixed lines. It pairs a free spins round, where lady symbols unlock a retrigger and a rising multiplier, with a Hold & Spin round built on cash awards, and it sets both on a board that can grow by three rows at the top.
How do the Megaways rows work in Floating Dragon New Year Festival?
The six main reels are joined by three rows along the top that open at random from spin to spin. Those extra rows sit above the six reels rather than beside them, so the board changes shape from one spin to the next. Pragmatic Play lists the game at up to 147,456 ways to win, the figure for the board at its fullest.
Is the Floating Dragon New Year Festival slot the same as Floating Dragon Megaways?
No. Both come from Pragmatic Play’s Floating Dragon series and use six reels, but the festival edition has its own theme of toads, lanterns and red envelopes, its rows on top unlock at random, and its free spins rely on lady symbols to unlock a retrigger. Each game also has its own paytable and settings in its information panel.
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Checked on 2 November 2026 against Pragmatic Play’s game pages for the New Year Festival edition, Floating Dragon and Floating Dragon Megaways, Pragmatic Play’s 2021 Floating Dragon launch announcement, the Gambling.com and VegasSlotsOnline game records, the casinos.com Floating Dragon record, the SlotCatalog Floating Dragon Megaways record, and the Gambling Commission’s stake-limit guidance and remote technical standards. How we research and check our guides: our editorial policy.