Boom Pirates Fight for Gold Slot – Free Demo
Provider:
Foxium
A Boom Collect symbol on reel five pays out every Pirate Coin on screen at up to 5x, and each coin it sweeps also feeds one of three treasure chests above the reels. Across 300 Boosted spins only the Bronze and Silver chests opened, and neither round found the ten coins a jackpot needs.
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Three hundred spins on the 40 fixed lines
I watch the reels spin in Foxium's slot Boom Pirates Fight for Gold. I played 300 spins at a stake of 18.75 with Boost on, which is a 12.50 total bet plus the 50% Boost surcharge. Kind of stupefied by its mediocrity, I strain to locate words for my opening. Over those spins the balance went from 96,223.75 to 94,876.25. Not that it's dreadful or that it's visually repulsive, it's not, it's merely that the absence of inventiveness is rendering it tough to summon sufficient eagerness to make it through a complete assessment. I wagered 5,625.00 and won back 4,277.50, a session return of 76.0%. Because what is there to state when you've witnessed it all a thousand times previously. Stumpy McDoodles is another Foxium slot, and Pirate Gold from Pragmatic Play is another pirate-themed game. And the payoffs are so absurd that even the paying spins neglect to lift your pulse by a single measly BPM. Of my 300 spins, 90 paid something, and 44 of those paid less than the 18.75 stake.
However, some folks are into this material for motives I will never comprehend, and perhaps it's the medium volatility that floats their boat. My longest run without any win lasted 8 spins and ended on spin 294. So let's gaze at the real game. My balance peaked at 96,235.00 on spin 2, and its lowest point was 94,398.75. Perhaps there's some sorcery there after all. Boost adds 50% to the total bet and in return puts more Pirate Coins in the base game, makes Silver and Gold Coins turn up more often and raises the chance of triggering each Pirate Treasure Game.
Boom Pirates Fight for Gold is 5-reel, 4-row slot with 40 fixed pay lines. When one payline holds more than one winning combination, only the highest of them is paid. The game pays left to right, while the 96.37% theoretical RTP is nothing out of the common. Pirate Coins land on reels 1 to 4, with Bronze Coins worth 1x to 5x the bet, Silver Coins 6x to 15x and Gold Coins 20x to 50x. Boom Pirates Fight for Gold is a rather basic slot with emphasis on Pirate Coins and a bonus game with jackpots.
Buccaneer lady, parrot, barrel and a 25x wild
Glancing at the paytable, I can deduce that Boom Pirates Fight for Gold ships with 9 standard symbols. Every multiple in that paytable is of the total bet before the Boost surcharge, which was 12.50 in my session. Four of them are premiums, and buccaneer-themed symbols constitute the premiums, while the low-value symbols are the A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. A, K and Q pay 2 times the bet for five of a kind, while J and 10 pay 1.5 times. The premier symbol is a buccaneer lady. She is worth 10 times the bet for five of a kind. Below her, the pirate with a bomb pays 5 times the bet for five of a kind, the parrot 4 times and the barrel 3 times.
The wild symbol substitutes for everything except Pirate Coins and Boom Collect symbols. It likewise pays 25 times the bet for five of a kind. On spin 209 five wilds on a line paid me 312.50, which is 25 times the 12.50 bet. Snore.
Boom Collect on reel five, chests above the reels
The Boom Collect symbol acts as the coin collector. It pays when it lands on the final reel. When it does, it pays the total value of every Pirate Coin on the reels, multiplied by its own multiplier of 1x to 5x. To trigger the bonus, players will require Pirate Coins to collect to the Treasure Chest of their colour. The rules describe the chest collection animation as purely visual, with no influence on which features or prizes are awarded. Every collection bears a possibility to trigger that chest's bonus game, and any of the three rounds, Bronze, Silver or Gold Treasure, will grant 3 bonus spins. The 3 bonus spins start from a reset value of 3, and each Dave Hawk-Eye Extra Spin symbol raises that reset value by 1.
In the bonus game, players get a bonus multiplier. Landing 10 Pirate Coins in a bonus game awards the Mini jackpot of 10x the bet, 15 coins the Major of 50x and 20 coins the Grand, and the multiplier does not apply to any of them. It begins at 1x and rises by 1x-5x with every Mary Multiplier symbol, and the bonus features the identical Pirate Coins as the main game but with a stated max win of 20,000 times the wager.
Final Minty Score: 300 Boosted spins handed back 76.0% of the 5,625.00 wagered, and the two Treasure games that did open paid 550.00 between them, 13% of everything won, without either getting near the 10 coins a Mini asks for.
Bronze and Silver opened, Gold stayed shut
If it hadn't been for the meagre payoffs, Foxium could have gotten away with this slothful and uninspired slot. My biggest win came on spin 121, 468.75 or 25.0x the stake, from a Boom Collect at 2x over 15x in Pirate Coins plus 93.75 in line wins. The issue is that the upside in the main game is simply laughable, even for a medium volatility slot. My Bronze Treasure game on spin 203 paid 175.00 and my Silver Treasure game on spin 286 paid 375.00, both with a 2x multiplier and fewer than 10 coins, so no jackpot. After having triggered merely 2 bonuses in 300 spins, it all ultimately began to seem like being trapped on a rusty old Merry-Go-Round.