Gold Digger Slot – Free Demo

480 spins down the Gold Digger shaft

Lock up your animals, fasten down the hatchways, double tie your laces. Do whatever you have to do to become mentally and physically ready for a reel-bound behemoth, because I'm chatting about none other than iSoftBet's Gold Digger. To hold the tension to a minimum, let's head forth and see what condition I'm in when I come out the other side. I came out after 480 spins at 2.00 credits a spin, with the balance down from 1,000.00 to 798.20, a session return of 79.0%.

On a 5-reel, 3-row game grid with 20 fixed paylines, the base game activity unfolds. Each spin costs 20 times the selected coin value, and only the highest win on each line is paid.

Line wins may not be the chief draw around here. They are boosted by the Gold Digger Modifiers, though, so let's have a look. Over my 480 spins, 120 paid something, and 48 of those returned less than the 2.00 stake. Whereas the slot's low pay symbols are A, K, Q, and J royals, the top pays are prospector, mine cart, lantern, and pickaxe symbols worth 5 to 25 times the stake for five of a kind. Four of a kind pays 12.5x the stake on the prospector and 7.5x on the mine cart, and three of a kind pays 7.5x and 5x respectively. Finishing off this segment is the wild symbol, which substitutes for everything except Gold Nuggets and Gems. The biggest win I had without the respins was 40.00 credits, or 20x the stake, on spin 297.

Dynamite, pickaxe and a TNT plunger

Here's where things begin speeding up. There is a heap to cover, beginning with the base game Gold Digger Modifiers. These are Gold Diggin' Gus's tools, and when triggered, the dynamite turns 3 to 5 symbols Wild. One of my spins with dynamite Wilds on the reels paid 13.00 credits across three lines.

The pickaxe can transform symbols into Gold Nuggets, and it is also possible for the TNT plunger to explode and upgrade the royals A, K, Q, and J to picture symbols. The upgraded royals become the prospector, mine cart, lantern and pickaxe.

Gold Nuggets, Gems and a 256-spin wait

Landing at least 5 Gold Nuggets in the base game triggers the Gold Link Respins, and once triggered, 3 respins are awarded. I triggered the round four times in 480 spins, on spins 161, 417, 422 and 456, and at least two other spins stopped at four Gold Nuggets.

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Fresh Gold Nuggets stick when they land, and they reset the spin count. The 256 spins between the first two triggers took the balance down to its low of 669.40 before spin 417 paid 56.00. Up to 3 additional rows open up should you manage to land 3 Blue Gems. During the round, it's possible to land Gems. These also reset the respins, and 3 of the same type trigger these Reel Boosters:

• Value$ Boosted – Green Gems raise all landed values.
• Spins+ Boosted – Red Gems award an additional respin.
• Multiplier Boosted – Purple Gems lift the multiplier level. x2, x5, and x10 are displayed.

The Gold Link Respins draw to an end when respins run out. The four rounds I played paid 80.00, 56.00, 92.00 and 84.00 credits, between 28x and 46x the stake each.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Four respin rounds brought in 41% of what 480 spins won, and the other 59% came from line wins that never topped 20x the stake. Gus can blow up as many rocks as he likes; the 79.0% I finished on was decided by whether five nuggets turned up, and for 256 spins in the middle they did not.

Gus against the 8,230x quote

The Gold Link Respins are the headliner of the performance. Together they returned 312.00 credits, 41% of everything the session won. iSoftBet hasn't rested on its laurels in this area, and there are Gems, a few Reel Boosters to uncover, and a whole heap of good old-school Gold Digger devastation to undergo if it all goes according to plan, which mostly boils down to landing the right symbols. The best of my 480 spins was 94.40 credits, or 47.2x the stake, on spin 422, so the ceiling iSoftBet quotes is one this session had no way to test. iSoftBet has slammed on the throttle to drive the max win up to 8,230x the wager.