Gold Fish Feeding Time Treasure Slot – Free Demo

Three bowls above the reels

Light & Wonder's expanding Gold Fish slots are a lineup of plainly crafted games. This one is built around three fish bowls that sit above the reels and fill up as the round goes on. They are constructed around a single well-known cast of characters, and so far they've all been fairly charming playable slots with more grit to them than you might initially anticipate. The cast here is split three ways, into Gold, Red and Green, and that split runs through every feature in the game. The pattern continues in Gold Fish Feeding Time Treasure. Each colour has its own Feeder scatter, and the colour that lands decides which bonus opens. It is another slot which appears modest at first, but it packs four jackpots, and there are other features such as free spins and special symbols keeping players amused while chasing the big one. Let's have a look.

Placed in a vivid aquarium, Gold Fish Feeding Time Treasure is played on a 5x6 grid with 50 fixed paylines. Line wins have to begin on the far left reel and run across consecutive reels. Of all the Gold Fish games so far, the theme of Treasure is the simplest one to understand. The feeding is literal: a Feeder landing fully in view can make the matching fish in the bowl above the reels grow bigger. Fish get fed, fish pay out, and the symbols do the same work, with Gold, Red and Green Fish rising four rows tall and Feeder symbols rising two. Only two of the three Fish types can appear on the reels in any one spin. Never mind the plainness. While the base game runs the three bowls sit above the reels, with the four jackpot meters stacked beside them. The game is agreeable enough, and it works as well on mobiles as it does on a desktop.

Gold Fish at the top of the paytable

The base game values are modest, so it can be a grind, especially attempting to land those scarce Feeder symbols. I wagered 500.00 over the session and won 1,378.60 back.

The paytable is composed of standard pay symbols plus a couple of special symbols, and pays are divided between the low-value card ranks and the three distinct kinds of Fish. The wild pays the same as the Gold Fish at the top. Only the largest win per combination is paid. A, K, Q and J fill out the bottom. Wins on multiple lines are summed together, and the wild rises two rows tall and substitutes for everything except the Feeder symbols.

Which Feeder lands decides which bonus

The jackpots are by far the chief attraction. A jackpot is only ever paid by a Jackpot Coin, and its value is added to the Bonus Win meter. Players also collect coins, free spins, and Small Wilds, and underneath all of it sit the Feeder symbols. Small Wilds are confined to the Green Fish Bonus, the Red and Green Super Bonus, the Green and Gold Super Bonus and the Extreme Bonus. Gold, Red and Green Feeders are the scatters. How big a fish has grown in its bowl makes no difference to whether a bonus triggers. Any combination of them landing entirely in view may grant the matching Fish Bonus, and which bonus you receive hinges on which Feeders showed up: 6 free spins for the Red Fish Bonus, 8 for the Green, 10 for the Gold, then 14, 16 and 18 for the three Super Bonuses that combine two colours, and 24 for the Extreme Bonus. When one triggers the fish grows, the bowl smashes open and the matching round starts.

The coins that ride above the free spins

Keep a watch out for the coins, which rest above the reels during Free Spins. Each one runs along the top of the reels with its prize shown on either side, and a coin is collected when a Feeder lands fully in view beneath it. They arrive in four kinds. Bet Multiplier Coins are the only kind that every bonus round carries. There are Bet Multiplier Coins worth x1 to x40 of the current bet, Bonus Spins Coins worth 2 to 4 additional free spins, Wild Coins that add 6 to 9 Small Wilds before winning lines are evaluated, and Jackpot Coins. An awarded coin drops into its meter below the reels; if nothing is collected, the coin above reel one is removed, the rest shuffle left and new coins join the queue.

Where the Mini, Minor, Major and Grand come from

The Jackpot Coins are the key to the game's jackpots - Mini, Minor, Major and Grand - and they only surface in the Gold Fish Bonus, the Red and Gold Super Bonus, the Green and Gold Super Bonus and the Extreme Bonus. Money Link Moon Goddess and 5 Treasures Jackpot Festival are two more Light & Wonder titles on the site. So the Gold Feeder is the one that opens them. Pairing Gold with Red or Green keeps the jackpot coins in play across a longer round.

Free Spins run at the same total bet as the triggering spin. Awards and winning combinations carry over from the base game unchanged. They finish when no spins remain.

What the colours settle before the round starts

The four jackpot values sit on the game panel and scale with the stake. Then again, if you know about Light & Wonder, they are no strangers to large jackpots.

My balance closed the session at 1,878.60, up from 1,000.00. It's not poor. None of my four bonus rounds retriggered. It's standard Gold Fish, and the series is an amusing one.

For one, the bonuses do mesh with the theme, and each Feeder sensibly builds towards a bigger whole. The coins follow the same logic: bonus spins coins ride with Red, wild coins with Green, jackpot coins with Gold. The colour you land informs you instantly what kind of round you're in for. It also settles which Feeders are pulled from the reels for the duration, and the Gold Fish Bonus runs without the Red and Green ones at all. Sure, who cares when you're spinning for a jackpot, but details matter. The Extreme Bonus and its 24 spins need all three colours in view on the same spin.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Three of the four rounds I opened came in at counts only the Gold Feeder deals, two of 10 free spins and one of 18, which is the side of the bonus set that carries Jackpot Coins, and the four together still paid 150.40 — 11% of everything the session won. What a round is worth here is settled before its first free spin runs, by which colours were in view when it triggered.

Four bonus rounds across 250 spins

Another detail is the repetitive character of Gold Fish Feeding Time Treasure. Of my 250 spins, 60 paid anything, and 28 of the 60 came back under the stake. Bonus games can be a long time coming. The other gaps between them ran 46 spins and 18 spins. Across 250 spins at a 2.00 stake I opened four of them, and one gap stretched to 112 spins, while the four together paid 150.40, just 11% of everything won, which makes the base game do most of the work. The largest of the four paid 56.00, on spin 192. A single spin 12 line hit of 1,028.00, 514 times the stake, was worth almost seven times all four bonuses put together and carried the entire session to a 275.7% return. The balance peaked at 2,017.20 on spin 17 and bottomed at 981.20.

Gold Fish Feeding Time Treasure is another playable Gold Fish game. The longest dry run was 17 spins, ending on spin 58.