Giant Panda™
About this machine
Play on 20 seperate reels and 50 lines in this very wild Far East gaming experience! At dusk the Giant Panda™ will transform for the free games feature that brings increased prizes and ‘FIXED WILDS™’.
Description sourced from the manufacturer's public product page.
Giant Panda™ on video
Real footage of this machine — 6 clips whose title names it. We index them; the videos live on YouTube. More on YouTube ↗
Artwork & cabinet
Where Giant Panda™ sits in NOVOMATIC's range
It runs on NOVOMATIC's CoolFire™ II-s platform. The platform is the cabinet family — screen geometry, button deck, seat — and it is what you recognise from across a floor before you can read the title.
Mechanically it is a 20 reels / 50 pay lines game. Pay-line games award only on defined line patterns, which typically means fewer but larger hits than an equivalent ways-to-win title.
What "Giant Panda™" actually refers to
NOVOMATIC sells the European way: a cabinet ships with a mix of dozens of titles behind one menu, and the operator licenses the pack rather than the individual game. So this entry is a game inside a mix, not a machine you will find standing alone on a floor.
That matters for payback. The theoretical return is configured per game per installation, and operators in most European jurisdictions choose from a set of approved percentages. Manufacturers ship the same title in multiple par versions — commonly spanning roughly 85% to 96% across the industry — and nothing on the machine tells you which one you are sitting at.
Numbers you find quoted for this title elsewhere are almost certainly from its online version, which is a separate product with its own certified maths and typically a higher published return.
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 NOVOMATIC titles. We would rather show nothing than guess.
Also on the CoolFire™ II-s platform
The platform is the cabinet family — same screen geometry and button deck. If you can spot one of these across a floor, you can spot all of them.
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