Black River Gold

Most providers create a series of slots related to each other and most times you will find them extremely volatile. Here we have the 4th installment of Elk's Gold series Black River Gold. This slot starts with 6 reels and 4096 pay ways up to 262 144 pay ways as you create wins and unlock more rows. This game has massive potential but what you need to keep an eye out for is how volatile it is, in terms of triggering the free spins.

A western-based theme slot set in the icy mounts with a river running between you will find royal symbols ranging from J up to A's and your highest paying symbols come in form of a crystal, guns, diamonds, whiskey glass, and the cowboy himself. Now the symbol has very low paytable values which are not surprising but with the number of ways this slot can pay, you will for sure benefit from this slot.

The base game has 2x2 or 3x3 colossal symbols that come in form of a spin barrel from a gun, which can land from reels 3 – 6. When these symbol lands and an opening is on the row below it, this will crush the symbol and collect it in the barrel and more symbols drop from the top of the reels. When a symbol is missing, the barrel will spin and release the symbol to create a winning combination. If this colossal symbol land on the base reel it will act as a sticky symbol or wild symbol and try to create another winning combination.

There is a compass with arrows in the exact opposite directions of each other. Should the directions of the arrows have the same symbol on that spot, it will turn them wild creating a winning combination, if this continues until the compass land on the base row, it will act as a wild symbol and disappear if substituted in a win.

Landing 3 Bonus symbols will trigger the free spins feature. More bonus symbols award more spins and you can win up to 25 free spins when you land 6 bonus symbols anywhere on the reels. The base game features or the colossal symbols and compass take place during free spins and occur more often for big wins.

This game is not a balance-eater like the rest of the gold series of slots, but triggering bonus is very hard and my biggest win was just over 300x.

If you like high variance, then Black River Gold is for you!