Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold Slot – Free Demo

The Accumulation Trail is the only unusual part

Another game emerging from the Microgaming production line - or rather Gameburger Studios I should state, a collaborating studio - and Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold is a traditional cash-collect slot, but with a bit of a quirk to it. There is also a Feature Buy button on the right of the screen, which sells the free spins outright. Everything is precisely what you would anticipate to see from this sort of slot, aside from the Accumulation Trail. The rest is the standard arrangement: lines pay left to right from the leftmost reel, on adjacent reels, and only the highest win pays on each line. It lets every Collect symbol you land remain in place, up to twelve of them, in order to grow the multiplier - over the duration of the feature of course. I did not buy the feature once in 200 spins.

Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold, is a 5-reel slot with 10 paylines. A vertical tab at the right edge of the grid keeps that line count on screen while you play. That makes it accessible on all devices, and as you may have surmised by the title, it's based on a Christmas fishing trip, and it has quite an engaging festive theme going on. The four jackpot meters run down the left-hand side of the screen and stay there throughout. Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold arrives with a cartoonish flourish wrapped up in a snowbound backdrop. I started on 100,000.00 and stopped 200 spins later on 159,910.00.

Cash symbols wear their values on their faces

In typical cash-collect style, the reels carry Cash symbols worth up to 100 times your bet, while the premiums, here depicted by gift boxes, are a bit odd. A banner above the reels reads "Free Spins awards free spins", which is the extent of the explanation the main screen offers. The Collect symbol is the wild and thus replaces all symbols, except for the Free Spins and Jackpot symbols, as you would anticipate, and while most of the potential is focused to the free spins, the base game has worth to offer as well. My 200 spins at 25.00 returned 56 winners, and 30 of those paid less than the 25.00 they cost. Land 5 gift boxes on a payline and you'll win 5,000.00 credits. In one base-game frame at the 25.00 stake, three gift boxes on line one paid 125.00, which is the same figure the pay table prints for three of them, so at that stake the cash column happens to read one to one.

It's a simple old-school slot at its heart. My longest stretch with nothing back at all was 13 spins, ending on spin 96. But it comes with an intriguing Collect feature: following any spin that lands a Collect symbol, it reels in and grants the cash values displayed on every Cash and Jackpot symbol in view. Each Cash symbol carries its own value printed on its face, so you can read what is sitting on the screen before anything reels it in - I caught one mid-spin frame with three Christmas fish showing 500.00, 50.00 and 25.00 on the right-hand reels. This can prove useful if the screen happens to be holding a Jackpot symbol. Those pay one of four jackpots - Mega 125,000.00, Major 12,500.00, Minor 1,250.00 or Mini 375.00 - and in the base game the Collect symbol only lands on reel 5. So in the base game a collect can only sweep whatever is already parked on reels one to four at the moment reel five obliges.

The free spins round, from trigger to trail

The free spins game can, of course, be reached by landing 3, 4 or 5 Free Spins symbols anywhere in view, and this will grant you 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively. The Feature Buy sells those same three amounts at the current bet, and on the 10 and 15 options there is a chance of more spins than the option names. Now, the reels widen to five rows and 20 lines with the Collect symbol landing on all of them, and every Collect symbol you land sticks to the Accumulation Trail. Whatever bet triggered the round is the bet every free spin is played at. Each three collected lifts the Cash symbol multiplier - 2x, 3x, 5x and finally 10x for a full trail of twelve - and awards you 5 more free spins. Four sets of three is a full trail, so twelve Collect symbols is also 20 extra spins on top of whatever the trigger dealt.

Spin 41 paid more than the other 199 combined

Across 200 spins at a 25.00 stake the feature showed up once, on spin 168, and 20 free spins paid 600.00. Twenty is the five-symbol trigger, and the trail added nothing on top of it. That is 24 times the stake and 1% of everything I won. The balance moved from 159,815.00 to 160,390.00 over the round. The 62,500.00 that came out of spin 41 - 2,500 times the stake - had nothing to do with it. That single spin was most of the distance between the 5,000.00 I wagered and the 64,910.00 that came back.

Fishin' Christmas Pots of Gold is a cash-collect slot whose Accumulation Trail genuinely combines the multiplier and the spin count together. Across my 200 spins the balance peaked at 161,840.00 on spin 42, and the low point was 99,290.00. It's out already.

Our Minty Verdict: The Accumulation Trail is the whole design here, and across 200 spins at 25.00 it never got a chance to move - one trigger, on spin 168, twenty free spins, 600.00 back. Gameburger runs the same five-reel, ten-line collect build in Fishin' Bigger Pots of Gold and Fishin' Triple Pots of Gold Power Combo. The 62,500.00 that made my session came off a base-game line on spin 41, and the feature contributed 1% of everything won.