Gold Digger Megaways slot is the latest addition to the iSoftBet portfolio, and it comes with 6 reels and up to 117649 paylines. The slot that features not only Megaways but also Hold&Win mechanics with the miner’s theme that is taking you deep down, below the earth to mine for precious treasures. The shaft for this mine can be found here for fun, or at any iSoftBet Casino and do it for real.
How to Play Gold Digger Megaways Slot
Set your bets and join an eccentric miner in his endeavour to rake in some serious treasures.
- Hit the Casino Chip button and it will open a panel where you can choose the bets.
- Spin will set the reels into a moving motion once you choose your bets.
- Autoplay will open up a panel and offer to choose the number of automatic spins to take, the loss limit and define a stop point when wins reach certain amount.
- Gold Bet On/Off will give more chances to trigger the Hold & Win Respins and Mining Modifiers.
- Hold & Win Bonus Buy button will let you buy your way into the bonus feature.
Slot Features
The game is using cascading mechanics that increases your chances of forming win combos. Once a win gets formed, the winning symbols from the combo will get removed from the reels and new symbols will roll onto the grid possibly creating more win combos.
Wilds & Nuggets
Wild symbols in the game can substitute for all the symbols in the game to help form win combos, except for the Gold Nuggets. Wild symbols can appear only on the top tracking reel.
Gold Nuggets, on the other hand, serve as bonus symbols that can trigger the Gold Hold & Win Respins round if you land 5 or more Gold Nuggets on the same spin.
Top Tracker
Horizontal top reel with 4 positions is called the Tracker reels. Its purpose is to add one symbol to each of the reels 2 through 5.
Gold Hold & Win
The feature is triggered with 5 or more Gold Nuggets in the base game. Once triggered, you will get awarded with 3 respins. During the round, you will see only Nuggets on the grid, and special reel booster symbols. Each time a new symbol lands, the count of respins will get reset back to 3. Gold Nuggets will have values assigned from a predefined set between x1 and x20 plus jackpot values – Mini x25, Major x50 and Mega x100.
Reel Boosters
Boosters serve the purpose of boosting your winning, and it gets triggered simply by landing on the reel. Blue Booster will increase grid by adding a new space on the reels based on the number of symbols. Only the reel with the Booster will increase. Green Booster will increase the values on the Nuggets for the reel to next possible value.
Red Booster will award and Store an Extra life awarding an extra spin at the end of the round. You can store up to 3 lives at once. Purple Booster will boost the win multiplier level by x1 each time. Multipliers get applied to total win at the end of the round.
Boomer’s Boost
On top of all the regular booster’s there’s a cute little puppy called Boomer that will be your helping hand. Booster can be called onto the grid totally random, and once he does, he will add Extra Nuggets or Boosters.
Mining Modifiers
During the base game, on any spin, a modifier can be randomly triggered, and there can be only 1 modifier per spin although there are 4 of them.
Max Megaways is one of them and when active, the reels will spin with the max number of paylines for one spin. Mystery Blast is the second and the when active the reels will land with Mystery TNT boxes that Gus the Miner will explode to reveal one symbol of one kind.
Boomer Bonus Add and Boomer Lose to Win are the remaining two. When Gus summons Boomer to sniff out the grid in Boomer Bonus Add, you can see Boomer revealing an Extra Nugget. In Boomer Lose to Win, when Boomer appears, he can change any losing spin into a winning one, or trigger a Bonus.
Summary
It’s true that all iSoftBet has been doing lately is launching releases with Hold & Win feature, and they’ve packed it into Gold Digger Megaways, as well. However, when we’ve seen what it does in this particular slot, we’ve been pleased, because it gives you a whole new experience. Overall, this seems like it is going to be one very successful remake.
