JL29: How to Read a Paytable Using Paylines and Features

Paylines are the first field worth checking on any slot’s paytable screen, before stake size or features. This slice runs both systems side by side — Boxing King fixes 88 paylines, while Super Ace and Mahjong Ways are read as 1,024 ways to win instead. Reading a paytable in order, rather than skimming for the biggest number, is what separates a stake that matches the game from one that does not.

Reading a Paytable in Order: The Steps

1. Open the info screen. Every game in JL29’s lobby carries an icon that opens its paytable, symbol values and feature list in one place.
2. Check paylines or ways to win. Fixed lines and ways-to-win coverage price a spin differently, and mixing the two up is the single most common paytable mistake.
3. Read symbol values against the stake. A payline game’s displayed stake is per line, not per spin, so the real cost multiplies by the line count.
4. Find the wild and scatter entries. These decide how a combination completes and whether a feature round can trigger at all.
5. Check the free-spins and multiplier fields. They usually sit just below the wild and scatter entries on the same screen.
6. Look for max win and RTP. Read a blank RTP field as JILI’s own record, not a missing step on this page’s part.

Paylines: What You’re Actually Checking

Paylines are fixed routes across the grid, and a win counts only when matching symbols land along one of those set paths, almost always read left to right.

Game	Paylines	Studio
Boxing King	88 fixed lines	JILI
Wild West Gold	40 fixed lines	Pragmatic Play
The Dog House	20 fixed lines	Pragmatic Play
Gates of Olympus 1000	Scatter pays, no fixed lines	Pragmatic Play

More paylines is not better odds by itself. An 88-line game simply distributes the same underlying return across more possible combinations than a 20-line one, at a proportionally higher per-spin cost.

Ways to Win: The Alternative to Fixed Paylines

Ways to win drops the fixed path entirely — adjacent matching symbols pay regardless of which row they land on, and the headline figure counts combinations rather than lines.

Game	Ways to win	Max win
Super Ace	1,024 ways	10,000x
Mahjong Ways	1,024 ways	25,000x
Mega Ace	46,656 ways	1,500x
Golden Empire	Up to 32,400 megaways	2,000x

A large way-count does not automatically mean a large maximum win, as Mega Ace’s 46,656 ways against its 1,500x ceiling shows plainly. See ways to win, defined in full for the underlying mechanic.

Wilds, Scatters and Free-Spins Fields

Wild Ace’s wild symbol changes on the grid rather than simply filling gaps, which is the one thing that separates it from JILI’s other 1,024-ways titles. A scatter symbol generally pays or triggers a feature no matter where it lands, unlike a payline win. Boxing King’s free spins come from its feature round and carry a multiplier, printed on the same paytable screen as its 88 paylines.

Max Win and RTP: The Last Two Fields

Money Coming publishes a 10,000x maximum win from a single-payline, wheel-feature format, with no RTP figure beside it — that pairing repeats across every JILI title in this slice. RTP and volatility covers why that field stays blank for JILI specifically and what it means for choosing between titles. The ranked slot max win list covers every published ceiling across all sixteen games at once.