Nian Nian You Yu

Nian Nian You Yu belongs to Playtech's most durable product family: the fixed-frame progressive. The studio fields 653 games in our catalog view, and the jackpot-linked Asian titles among them tend to stay in service for a decade. This koi-and-prosperity build follows the house recipe exactly.

The recipe

Five reels, fixed paylines, a pooled progressive layer on top. The cash ceiling is listed at 500,000 — an absolute figure, not a stake multiple. Stakes run 0.01 to 50, the wide-but-cheap band Playtech favors for jackpot vehicles: low floor for volume, moderate cap for control.

Who the pool attracts

Progressive chasers are the core audience — players who accept whatever base game carries the ticket. The 0.01 floor makes the long campaign affordable, which is precisely the design intent. Between the penny floor and the 50 cap there is room for both the patient and the impatient version of that chase.

Math behind the lanterns

No RTP for this title sits in our records, and on progressives the omission carries extra weight: pooled prizes are normally funded from base return, so the sensible default is below our catalog median of 96.08% until a citable source says otherwise. We show the gap, not a guess.

Prosperity themes don't change bookkeeping: the pool is paid by the players filling it. Set the yearly-luck budget first. 18+.