Ghosts N Gold Slot – Free Demo

Reels of three, then four of six

The ways-pays concept is long since settled, and iSoftBet has constructed a grid that extends to 3,888 of them. Ways games count every adjacent combination separately, so one symbol landing across several reels at once can be paid many times over in a single spin. I was a bit more eager than usual when starting up Ghosts N Gold for this review. I played 200 spins on it at a coin value of 0.05.

Ghosts N Gold is a 3x6x6x6x6, 3,888-ways video slot. The first reel carries three symbol positions and the four behind it carry six each. It features a Wild Ghost Spins feature and Free Spins with additional wilds, and a spin costs 30 times the coin value. Payouts in the table are quoted in coins, and the coin value you select is what turns them into cash.

Regarding volatility, it's probably somewhere in the middle part of the scale, resting at 3 out of 5. In my run only 24% of spins paid anything back. But with iSoftBet it's been difficult to judge with ways games like Hot Zone Wild and Bounty Belles, as they've been known to act like high variance games yet with payouts more in common with low to medium variance games. My longest stretch with nothing at all was 14 spins, ending on spin 100. The RTP of 95.95% is a touch below the 96% par of most games. My balance at the start was 998.52.

The green ghost tops a short paytable

The paytable is quite simple. Card suits fill the low end, and a witch, a bowl, a locket and a set of ghosts sit above them. I'm grateful for that on a warm summers day like this when the brain is roasting.

The green ghost is of the highest value, worth 100 coins for 5 of a kind, and wins are paid left to right on neighbouring reels. What a symbol collects is its coin figure multiplied by the number of ways it has landed in, and only the highest win per way is awarded.

Aside from the standard symbols, you'll also find a Bonus symbol and a Wild in the shape of a Treasure Chest. The Bonus is the horned pumpkin ghost. It substitutes for everything except the Bonus. It is also the symbol the Wild Ghost Spins feature puts more of on the reels.

The Wild Ghost drops chests as it drifts

Wild Ghost Spins can hit at random on any base game spin, adding between 3 and 8 additional wilds to the reels, and it appears more frequently during Free Spins. On screen the ghost drifts across the reel set and drops Wild Treasure Chests onto it as it goes.

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Three or four pumpkins open the round

3 or 4 Bonus symbols showing in view in the main game triggers 8 or 18 Free Spins. The round came in once across my 200 spins, on spin 26. During Free Spins, the Wild Ghost Spins feature appears more often. That round ran through without a retrigger and took my balance from 963.72 to 1,031.22.

The Minty Summary: Under a quarter of my 200 spins paid anything at all, and the one Free Spins round that landed — 46 times the stake on spin 26 — was still not enough to keep the balance off its low.

The lone bonus carried 47% of the winnings

The 3,888 ways keep the reels busy, but my 200 spins told a grimmer story: 300 credits wagered against 147.15 returned, a session return of 49.1%, with only 47 spins paying and 30 of those paying less than the stake. Outside the bonus my best single spin was 6.90 on spin 76, 4.6 times the stake, with 6.60 on spin 49 close behind it. The lone Free Spins round was 18 spins landed on spin 26, and it paid 69.00 or 46 times the stake and made up 47% of everything I won. The balance peaked at 1,031.22 on that spin and ended at 845.67, the lowest point of the 200. That says plenty about where the cash in this game rests.