Golden Winner Grand Chance Slot – Free Demo

What the bell is for

Cash tiles land on the reels with their own values printed on the face, and the bell is the symbol that turns them into a payout. Golden Winner Grand Chance is the creation of Inspired Gaming.

Golden Winner Grand Chance is a 5-reel, 3-row video slot with 10 fixed win lines. Wins run left to right from the leftmost reel across adjacent reels, only the highest award on a line is paid, and wins on separate lines are added. It is playable between 0.10 and 45.00. The four pot meters above the reels are printed in cash at the current stake, so at 3.20 they read Grand 800.00, Major 320.00, Minor 160.00 and Mini 96.00. This cash collecting slot benefits from an alternative base game as well as a free spins game with a multiplier trail. Inspired Gaming runs the same cash collector idea through Bullion Bars Gold Collector and Gold Cherry.

Reading a pot tile before the bell arrives

Cash symbols bear the mixed pays, awarding 15 times the stake for 5 on a line, 5 times for 4 and 1 time for 3. Those line pays apply to any combination of cash tiles, whatever values the tiles happen to carry. The bell is the collector, and the Grand Chance symbol carries a mystery cash value of 30x, 50x, 100x or 250x. It can land in every game mode, but its pot prize is only paid when the bell collects it in Fortune Spins or a bonus game, and it can be pressed to reveal the outcome. The pots the bell collects run Mini 30x, Minor 50x, Major 100x and Grand 250x, with loose cash symbols at 1x/2x, 5x and 10x/20x, and the Wild symbol substitutes for everything except the bonus scatter. Pot tiles carry their label on the tile face, so a cherry tile printed Major is readable as one before the bell turns up.

The wheels label their own offers

There are other modes contained in the game to compensate for the monotonous gameplay, and Fortune Spins is an alternative base game played with only cash, bonus and collector symbols on the reels, playable at any bet. The bell is wild there and in every bonus game, and appears on all five reels in both. Spin Chance is an automatic last-credit wager for one more spin. It fires on its own when the credit falls below the price of a spin but is still above zero. The gamble provides two wheels, cash up to x2500 base bet or free spins up to 30, at 100% expected payback. Each offer is labelled on screen in the terms it pays out in, Gamble to 6.40 on the cash wheel and Gamble to 5 free spins on the other, and a red segment loses the winnings and drops back to the base game.

The trail runs twelve steps

The free spins game is what it's all about in Golden Winner Grand Chance. In it the bell pays the cash values of every cash symbol in view and adds them to the trail above the reels. It is also where the dull wait for the free spins to arrive can pay off. In the logged session it arrived on spin 86 and again on spin 100, fourteen spins apart. To activate it, players need to land 3 or more bonus symbols anywhere in view, and that awards 10, 15 or 20 free spins for 3, 4 or 5 symbols, while the free spins game is played on the same reel set as in the main game. Neither of the two triggers in the session retriggered. Collected cash values now fill a 12-step trail with 3 enhanced stages, meaning each win is subject to a multiplier of x2, x3, or x10. The extra spins and the raised multiplier only take effect once the set of spins already running has finished.

Moreover, each enhanced stage adds another 10 free spins, and the Gold Bar Stack Bonus provides a choice of 15 spins at x1, 10 spins at x2 or 7 spins at x3. That stack builds from bonus symbols landing in the base game or Fortune Spins, and it can grow or explode. The Fortune Bet at 1.5x stake awards 10 free spins per full super sized bonus symbol and 5 per partial, up to 50 initially. Cash symbols in a bonus reached that way pay multiples of the original base game bet rather than the raised one.

The Minty Breakdown: The two bonuses paid 492.80 between them, a third of everything the session won, and neither retriggered; the single largest payout of the run was a base game 189.0x on spin 214, with no bonus behind it.

270 spins at 3.20

Wins in a single game are limited to 250,000.00 excluding jackpots, and the gamble ceiling is x2500 base bet or 250,000.00, whichever is lower. The rules add that the cash limit may not be reachable in a single game from every bet configuration.

The additional modes did little to help sustain the game. It felt sluggish and monotonous to me, but the figures came out on my side. Over 270 spins at 3.20 I wagered 864.00 and won 1,480.32, a session return of 171.3%. The low point was 804.16, the balance going into the first bonus. The balance moved from 1,000.00 to 1,616.32, with a high of 1,698.88 on spin 216. The five biggest wins ran 189.0x, 110.0x, 44.0x and two at 11.0x the stake. Only 70 spins paid anything, and 36 of those paid less than the stake. So the stretch to 15 dead spins ending on spin 213 was in character. Both bonuses landed early, 20 free spins on spin 86 for 44.0x and 15 free spins on spin 100 for 110.0x, 492.80 between them or 33% of everything won. Nothing more triggered across the remaining 170 spins. But the largest hit of the session was a base game 604.80 on spin 214, 189.0x the stake. It left the balance at 1,696.32. Golden Winner Grand Chance is far from the worst cash collector I've seen.