Pragmatic Play · 2025
Five reels, three rows and 25 fixed paylines make up Sleeping Dragon, a high volatility video slot by Pragmatic Play.
Five reels with three rows each spin through a medieval fantasy world of dragons, princesses, shields, swords, money symbols and playing cards from ten to ace. All 25 paylines stay active at the total bet you choose, so there is no line selection to manage. A win forms when at least two matching symbols land on one of those paylines. The game is a video slot built on this 5x3 grid.
Three, four or five SCATTER symbols anywhere on the reels start the Free Spins, which award 6, 9 or 50 spins. In that round, reels 2 to 4 can merge into a Giant Symbol, and a giant MONEY symbol turns the round into a Respin Bonus, a Hold and Spin style feature. The Wild and Prize Symbols complete the list of features.
Sleeping Dragon in numbers
This table shows what each figure means for your stake before you start playing.
| What it measures | Plain reading |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| RTP | 96.50% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid | 5x3 |
| Max win multiple | x15,000 |
| Max win in money | A$3,750,000 |
| Release date | 08/05/2025 |
Before the first bet
After this, you will know how each round moves from your bet to the payout.
Before the reels turn, you pick one total bet between A$0.10 and A$250. All 25 fixed paylines stay active, so that single amount covers every line on the 5x3 grid.
Wins form on the 25 fixed paylines when matching symbols land side by side on one line. Two matching symbols are enough to pay, so short runs count too.
Each spin fills the 5x3 grid with symbols while the jackpot ladder, showing MINI, MINOR, MAJOR and MEGA, stays above the reels. Scatter symbols count anywhere on the grid.
Three, four or five Scatter symbols landing on the grid start the free spins. The spin count depends on how many land, and how often this happens cannot be known in advance.
Every spin on the reels takes the full total bet across all 25 lines, so set your limit before the first spin.
Picture guide
After this, you will recognise the bonus, free spins and win screens shown in the game.
Scatters just landed
This block settles how each mode starts, what happens inside it, and what you gain.
Three, four or five SCATTER symbols anywhere start the round, awarding 6, 9 or 50 spins. Reels 2, 3 and 4 can merge into a giant symbol and the paytable rises. A giant SCATTER retriggers for 3 more spins, and a giant MONEY turns it into the Respin Bonus.
Base gameFree spins
Six or more MONEY symbols landing on one spin trigger 3 respins. Each new MONEY hit resets the respin count to 3. The feature ends when respins reach 0 or the 5x3 grid fills 15/15, which adds a MEGA bonus of 7000x the total bet to the summed coin values.
Any spinThree respins
Five reels and three rows form 25 fixed paylines, and all of them stay active. You set one total bet, with no per-line selection. The jackpot ladder bar, showing MINI, MINOR, MAJOR and MEGA, stays visible above the reels.
Opening the game25 active paylines
On the reels, each bonus buy starts its feature for 100 times the total bet, which is A$1,000 at the A$10 bet in these tables.
| Feature | Cost (A$) | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Free Spins with guaranteed Scatter | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
| Respin Bonus with six MONEY | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
Spin by spin, the reels return on average A$96.50 of every A$100 staked over a very long run, which is what RTP measures. The version we run is shown in the game rules.
| RTP setting | RTP | Provider standard |
|---|---|---|
| Version 1 | 96.50% | Included |
Sleeping Dragon payouts
The payouts below are in money at the A$0.50 example bet, and more symbols in one win pay more.
| Symbol | 2+ | 3+ | 4+ | 5+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 ScatterScatter | – | A$3 | A$4.50 | A$25 |
 Princess | A$0.05 | A$0.20 | A$1 | A$3 |
 Crown | – | A$0.10 | A$0.50 | A$2 |
 Shield | – | A$0.10 | A$0.50 | A$2 |
 Sword | – | A$0.10 | A$0.50 | A$2 |
 Ace | – | A$0.10 | A$0.40 | A$1.50 |
 King | – | A$0.10 | A$0.20 | A$1 |
 Queen | – | A$0.10 | A$0.20 | A$1 |
 Jack | – | A$0.10 | A$0.20 | A$1 |
 Ten | – | A$0.10 | A$0.20 | A$1 |
Each spin lands a fresh set of symbols across the 5x3 grid, and no spin shows when the Free Spins or the Respin Bonus will come. How often either feature appears is not known in advance. Even with an RTP of 96.50%, the result of one session is random, so a short visit can end well above or well below the expected return.
The reels stop on fresh symbols after every spin, and the RTP version Casino Moons runs is named only in the game rules. Read that section before you compare return figures, because a number taken from another page or from memory may describe a different version.
Symbols on the 5x3 grid can line up for a large payout, but the top figure is x15,000 times the bet, a ceiling that a session reaches very rarely. At the maximum bet of A$250, that ceiling equals A$3,750,000, but nothing on the screen announces in advance when a win of that size could land.
Sleeping Dragon demo
Useful when you want to watch the reels turn before deciding whether to put money down.
The demo buttons give you the reels with no money and no return, so nothing you see there pays out. Playing for real needs an account here and a player aged 18 or over, and every spin is then settled in Australian dollars.
Play nowKnow before spinning
After reading, you will have checked the risk, the RTP and the bonus costs before your first spin.
Sleeping Dragon has high volatility. That means the payouts come in uneven bursts, so a session can pass without a large win and then turn quickly. How often the bonus rounds arrive cannot be known before you play.
Sleeping Dragon is offered in one RTP version, 96.50 percent. RTP is a long-run average over very many rounds, so it says nothing about what one session will return. The table shows the return on A$100 staked.
Both bonus rounds can be bought for 100 times the total bet. A Free Spins buy guarantees three to five SCATTER symbols on its trigger spin, and a Respin Bonus buy guarantees six MONEY symbols on its trigger spin. What the rounds pay afterwards is not known in advance.
Start at the minimum bet of A$0.10 to see how a round runs before you raise the stake. All 25 paylines are active at once, so each spin costs the single total bet you set.
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Many players fear a similar game plays worse, so the other titles sit beside this one.
Only players aged 18+ can play. For help, call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, or join BetStop, the national self-exclusion register.
Decide the amount you can afford to lose before opening the game, and keep that money apart from bills. Once it is spent, the session is over.
Pick your stopping point before the reels start, and treat a big win as the moment to stop rather than the moment to bet more.
Use the deposit and loss limits in your account before you play, so the amounts you set apply to every session.
When the game stops being fun, take a break, and if the urge to keep playing stays, register with BetStop, the national self-exclusion register.
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