Gold Party Slot – Free Demo

Leprechauns pay from two, everything else from three

Gold Party slot is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 25 fixed paylines in the base game. Only the highest win counts on any one payline, and wins on separate lines are added together. It pays left to right from the leftmost reel and it has a 96.50% RTP. Five Leprechauns are the best line win at 4x the stake. It is playable on all devices from 0.25 to 250.00. The Money symbol turns up on every reel, in the base game and inside the feature alike.

The Wild symbol comes in the form of a Tree of Life. The Leprechaun is the top symbol, and it is the only one in the game that pays from two of a kind. It shows up on reels 2, 3 and 4 only and substitutes for everything except the Money symbol, and it is missing from the feature. Everything else needs three or more on adjacent reels from the left.

But hold on, there's more, because there is also Copy Reels, where a complete stack of the top symbol on reel 1 duplicates onto one or more additional reels. The copied stacks replace whatever would otherwise have landed below them.

Six Money symbols and the four grids they fill

6 or more Money symbols in the base game triggers the Money Respin, granting 8 respins. The Double Money symbol counts as two towards that six, and it appears in the base game only. There is a Buy Money Respin available here at 100x the total bet. A bought round starts with a random number of Money symbols on the spin that begins it. The respins are a distinct matter from the base game that precedes them, so let me clarify...

Four 3x5 matrices are shown during the feature. The ordinary symbols fade away and the Money symbols from the triggering spin are distributed at random across those four grids. The symbols that land lock in place, and the round begins with 8 respins. Only Money, Multiplier and Extra Spin symbols sit on the reel strips for the rest of the round. Each Extra Spin symbol landing on the reels adds one respin. That is the only way the round is extended. Multiplier symbols show 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or 25x and apply to one Money symbol. The Money symbol it applies to is picked at random from the filled positions on any of the four matrices. The Money values themselves range from 0.2x to 100x the total bet. At the end everything on screen is added up, jackpots included, and paid as one figure.

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The Grand needs all 15 positions of one grid

Filling an entire matrix grants a jackpot. That means all 15 positions of one 3x5 grid. It is Grand 5000x, Major 200x, Minor 50x or Mini 20x the total bet.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: 340 spins at 6.25 came back at 61.7%, and two Money Respin rounds 196 spins apart carried 687.50 of the 1,311.94 that came back, which leaves 624.44 for every other spin in the run. Wild Streak Gaming publishes 96.51% on both Congo Cash and Queenie against 96.50% here, so whatever separates the three of them is not on the RTP line.

Two rounds carried 52% of everything I won

The Gold Party slot is yet another high variance beast. Of the 340 spins I played, 60 returned anything at all. It is rated 5 out of 5 on the game's own meter, something that is more or less anticipated by now, and the base game is not that exciting to be honest. Thirty-two of those 60 paid less than the 6.25 they cost. In other words, Gold Party is all about the Money Respin. The 5,163x ceiling runs through the feature too, and a round that reaches it ends there and then with the remaining respins forfeited. That of course raises the variance.

The bonus is not simple to trigger. At first I decided to write a 100 bonuses article, but I dropped the idea after having played 340 spins at 6.25 a spin that produced two bonus rounds. That came to 2,125.00 wagered against 1,311.94 won. When the first at last landed on spin 86, it paid 59x. In credits that was 368.75, taking the balance to 99,876.90. The second one required another 196 spins and paid 51x. It arrived from 99,132.56, the lowest point of the session, and paid 318.75. Between them the two rounds accounted for 52% of everything I won across the session, which still finished at a 61.7% return with the balance never once above where it began. The closing balance was 99,186.94.

Forty-one spins with nothing

The base game can admittedly be a bit sluggish. Outside the two bonus rounds only two spins cleared 7x the stake, at 9.4x and 7.6x. My longest stretch without a win was 41 spins. It ended on spin 85, one spin before the first bonus landed.

The lock-and-respin money collecting feature is not a novel thing in the world of iGaming.