San Fa Fortune Tigers
About this machine
San Fa Fortune Tigers is a 5 reel, 40-line video reel game with three growing characters plus two new enhancer pots. The base game contains a wild symbol and a scatter symbol. The game contains a ‘Sticky Wild Free Games’ feature, a ‘Jackpot Free Games’ feature and an ‘Extra Free Games’ feature. And the two enhancer pots include Expanded Reels and More Spins.
Description sourced from the manufacturer's public product page.
San Fa Fortune Tigers on video
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Artwork & cabinet
Where San Fa Fortune Tigers sits in Ainsworth's range
San Fa Fortune Tigers is part of Ainsworth's San Fa Fortune line, which runs to 4 documented titles. Manufacturers ship a hit as a family rather than one box, so entries in a series share branding and often a bonus structure while carrying different maths.
It is listed on the A Star Raptor 32 cabinet. The cabinet is the hardware — screen geometry, button deck, chair and speakers — and the same title is frequently released on more than one, which is why a game can look and feel different at two properties.
Why San Fa Fortune Tigers doesn't have an RTP in the usual sense
This machine is designated HHR — historical horse racing. Despite the reels on the screen, it is not running a slot maths model at all: each play is a parimutuel wager settled against the archived result of a real horse race that has already been run, with identifying details stripped out.
That distinction is what lets these machines operate in states that never legalised slot machines — Kentucky, Virginia, New Hampshire and Wyoming among them. It also changes where the money comes from: payouts are funded from a wagering pool shared with other players, not from a fixed theoretical return set by the manufacturer.
So the honest answer is that the return depends on the pool and the takeout rate the operator applies, not on a par sheet inside this cabinet.
Reels, symbols and bonus animations on an HHR machine are a presentation layer over the race result. Ainsworth builds the cabinet and the presentation; the wagering system underneath is regulated as parimutuel racing.
Where to play
We don't yet have verified floor placements for this machine. Our casino cross-reference covers 442 properties, but only through IGT's public linked-progressive data — which doesn't reach Ainsworth titles. We would rather show nothing than guess.
Rest of the San Fa Fortune line
All 4 San Fa Fortune machines →4 titles carry this branding. They share artwork and usually a bonus structure, but each ships its own maths.
Other Class II machines from Ainsworth
Class II titles run on a shared bingo draw rather than an independent RNG — a different product category, not just a different game.
