Gold ‘N’ Rocks

Get your pickaxe ready as you are about to go prospecting on the slot from Golden Rock Studios powered by Microgaming. Gold ‘N’ Rocks is taking you to the Wild West where a dashing explorer will lead you into the mine for an explosive reel digging tour. She will reward you with cascading symbols, adjacent pays, expanding reels, wild substitutions and a free spins round that can lead to wins of up to 6,094 times your bet.

Update 4th September 2020: The game is exclusively available at brands from the GVC Holdings PLC group including bwin, PartyCasino, Coral and Ladbrokes. It will be released globally across the Microgaming network on 1st October 2020.

Slot Details

Gold ‘N’ Rocks is a grid slot in a 5×5 format as default, featuring tumbling reels and adjacent pays. Throughout the gameplay, the size can grow up to 10×5. Wins are awarded for 3 to 10 matching symbols landing horizontally or vertically connected. You can go prospecting on desktop or mobile from 0.50 to 50 credits per spin. The game has medium volatility with an RTP of 96.06%.

A Wild West town in the vast American plains is in the background of the dynamic reel set. A dashing blond miner girl will guide eager reel prospectors on their digging tour while typical mining items dominate on the reels. A country soundtrack provides the main audio.

The pay symbols start at the low end with oil lamps, pickaxes&shovels and gold nugget pouches, awarding 10x your stake for five adjacent symbols and 500x when 10 land connected. They are followed mine carts, the entrance to the mine, the slot logo and the wild symbol. Hitting five adjacent symbols will yield 15x to 50x your bet while having 10 on a vertical reel pays a whopping 600x to 1,000x your stake. A bundle of dynamite sticks acts as the scatter.

Gold ‘N’ Rocks Slot Features

The young studio has shown with the Volatile Slot and Star Gods that it has what it takes to create entertaining games with big win potential. Plus, they focus on quality over quantity as they do not release more than a handful of slots in a year. Reason enough to take a closer look as to what Gold ‘N’ Rocks has to offer.

Core to the gameplay is the tumbling reels mechanic. At the start of a spin, 25 symbols drop onto the 5×5 grid and landing three or more matching symbols vertically or horizontally adjacent will be a winner. All symbols in a combo explode and the remaining ones drop towards the bottom. Should you have a win with exactly three matching symbols, then a wild symbol is placed in the middle of the combination once the symbols have been removed. Wilds are persistent until they become part of a win with four or more symbols, at which point they will explode with all other winning symbols.

And that’s not all. For each winning sequence, one row is added to the grid until it reaches the maximum of 5×10. Keep an eye on the side of the meter while watching symbols explode. Each win will award feature points based on how many symbols were in the combo, which will be added to the meter. The number of points ranges from 1 to 40 for winning combos from three to 10 of a kind. The features will activate once you reach the respective level:

• 4 points – Win Multiplier: All following wins are multiplied by x2.
• 12 points – Random Wilds: Two single 1×1 wilds are placed on random reel positions.
• 20 points – Win Multiplier: The multiplier increases to x3.
• 28 points – Random Wilds: Three single 1×1 wilds are placed on random reel positions.
• 36 points – Win Multiplier: The multiplier increases to x5.
• 44 points – Mega Wild: A single 2×2 Mega Wild is placed on a random reel position.

A spin sequence continues as long as new winning combinations occur. It ends once now more wins are possible and the game grid resets to the default 5×5 size, ready for the next reel prospecting round.

Having three dynamite scatters in view at the end of a spin sequence will trigger 8 Free Spins which can be indefinitely retriggered. Any additional scatter will add +1 free spin to the tally. The round is played with enhanced features – the multipliers are now x3, x5 and x10 respectively. Plus, clearing the grid within a single free spin will award a coin win of 250x your total bet.

Lastly, during any spin the game may randomly award you 100 Rollercoaster Spins. These spins will be played at the triggering bet level and it is possible to re-trigger additional spins and/or any bonus features within the game.

Final Verdict

We have seen plenty of grid slots appearing in the casino lobbies in the last years as the format has proven very popular with the player community. Jammin’ Jars, Reactoonz, Golden Glyph and Moon Princess are just a few examples. Golden Rock Studios did a pretty good job at adding their own twist to the genre and also gave it ample win potential. Lucky prospectors can walk away with wins of up to 6,094 their bet.

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