Golden 7s Slot – Free Demo

The whole return lives in the base game

Golden 7s is a medium volatility traditional style 5x4 fruit themed slot with 40 fixed paylines, and players are permitted to bet from 0.20 to 100 a spin. Line wins run from the leftmost reel to the right and need three matching symbols before anything is paid. The 94.00% RTP sits well below the market norm. Of the 340 spins I played, 105 paid something back, and 61 of those paid less than the 1.20 stake.

It's very straightforward in both arrangement and gameplay, as fruit slots normally tend to be. The fruit runs through cherry, watermelon, lemon, plum, grape and orange. It arrives with the same sort of gleaming gold and fruit theme that I've observed quite a few times by now in traditional slots. Inspired Gaming keeps going back to the same well, and Stacked Fire 7s and Super Hot Fruits are stablemates of this one from the same studio.

Sevens, fruit and one gold Star

The game is composed out of sevens, fruit and a gold Star. The red and gold sevens are the highest paying of the regular symbols. There is a Wild that stands in for all standard symbols and can land stacked. The Stars pay anywhere, and landing five of them produces a 2,500x win, while three of them produce merely 10x, so there is not much potential to speak of in the main game; hence, on to the gamble... Four Stars sit between the two at 50x the total bet, and in 340 spins the most I saw at once was three, for 12.00 on spin 320.

A ladder instead of free spins

There are no free spins here and no bonus round whatsoever; what you receive instead is an optional gamble after any win. It is a higher/lower ladder you ascend or lose on, collecting when you please, and there is also Spin Chance. That lets you gamble a remaining balance too small for the present bet for a chance at one spin at that bet. Over my 340 spins the longest gap without a win of any size ran to 12 spins, ending on spin 296.

Our Minty Verdict: A 94.00% label is the whole argument here, because with no feature to carry anything the base game has to do all of the work, and across 340 spins it handed back 232.32 of the 408.00 I put through it. Five Stars for 2,500x is the one number that could rewrite that, and I got three of them once.

340 spins at 1.20

The fruit thing and gold sevens are growing a little bit repetitive by now, and it would probably not have hurt to attempt something a little different; the biggest drawback, however, is the dreadful payouts. Over 340 spins at a 1.20 stake I bet 408.00 and received 232.32 back, a return of 56.9%. The lowest the balance reached was 782.44, and it closed at 824.32. The balance never once rose above the 1,000.00 I began with, and the best spin of the lot paid 50.40, or 42x. Behind it came 15.60 on spin 65 and 10.32 on spin 25.