Provider:
Inspired Gaming
Eight Free Spins with the low symbols stripped out sounds modest until one of them pays 252x the stake. Two such rounds in 310 spins at 1.00 carried 71% of my winnings and pushed a 95.00% game to a 150.0% return, from a low of 900.80 to a close of 1,155.10.
Inspired Gaming's Gold Cash Free Spins is a monster of a slot. I played 310 spins at a stake of 1.00, starting from a balance of 1,000.00.
The gameplay unfolds on a 5x4 layout. It employs 40 set paylines, and wins award left to right from reel 1. Of my 310 spins, 65 paid something, and 34 of those returned less than the stake.
Punters kick off by choosing stakes from 0.20 up to 100 per spin, and RTP is below par on 95.00%. My session returned 150.0%, with 465.10 won on 310.00 wagered. The pay symbols are composed of Small, Medium and Large Gold Bars, Money Stacks and J, Q and K. They end in a win as long as 3 or more of the identical symbol drop on a payline from reel 1. Five Large Gold Bars on a line pay 25x the stake, the top line win on the paytable, while five of J, Q or K pay 2.5x.
The Wild is really the secret to netting huge with Gold Cash Free Spins, and in its plain wild function, it appears on reels 2 to 4 solely. It substitutes for any of the pay symbols except the Free Spins Scatter. After a win of 5x the total bet or more, a Gamble option offers one wheel that multiplies the win and another that plays for up to 30 Free Spins.
8 Free Spins are activated when 3 Free Spins Scatters show up on reels 1, 3 and 5, and the rules of the bonus round are mostly the same as the base game’s. The single exception is that low-value symbols are removed, retaining merely the Wild and the Small, Medium and Large Gold Bars. Inspired Gaming also puts gold bar symbols on the reels of Bullion Bars Gold Collector and Scarab Gold. The mode cannot be retriggered. I triggered it twice in 310 spins, on spin 29 and again 243 spins later on spin 272.
Our Minty Verdict: 71% of what I won came from two Free Spins rounds, so a 95.00% game handing back 150.0% over 310 spins says more about spin 272 than about the maths sheet.
The slot touts a max win of up to 2,500 times the stake, and my best spin reached a tenth of it. That 252.00 round took the balance from its low of 900.80 to 1,151.80, and the two Free Spins rounds together paid 328.00, or 71% of everything I won.
The free spins are where the genuine magic occurs, and either route, I was in for a hell of a journey with Gold Cash Free Spins. The longest dry run lasted 15 spins, ending on spin 95, and the session closed at 1,155.10.