Golden Retriever Slot

A slot from Pragmatic Play and it has a friendly golden retriever dog theme with 5 reels, 3 rows and just a min bet of super low 0.05 per spin. How friendly is that just like a golden retriever. The max win cap is a decent 5000x too.

The slot has a free spins feature that you can trigger with 3 or more scatters that awards 10, 15 or 20 free spins, the slot was made well because the more scatters you trigger with the more free spins you start with and you can get more free spins during the feature by collecting wild symbols and with higher multipliers. When a feature starts it will do a random spin of an arrow to indicate if the feature is a free spins feature or a hold and spin feature. That is something different for sure having a decision like that instead of giving the player the choice. While my session wasn’t able to deliver a feature it was able to deliver some base wins so I had at least that to show for it.

The graphics show a very nice scenery of some country side with trees and a friendly tail wagging golden retriever on the left side looking very happy and reactive to some wins on the reels too.

The music is of a fast tempo with harmonica and guitar it does get a bit too much as it goes so fast that after a while you gotta give yourself a rest and turn the music off for a while and just keep the sound effects on. The sound effects do include the golden retriever making noises too whenever a win occurs which shows he is paying attention. I assume the dog is a he but that is not known for sure.

One way to skip the base game grind is by going for a bonus buy and here it is and will cost 120x but other than that there is also a ante bet for 100% extra per spin! Oh and the super bonus will cost you a super heavy price of 500x!

I played the 94.52% R.T.P. version which is not the max R.T.P. because the Max R.T.P. is actually the 96.52% which goes to show my casino was having the slot 2% under the max R.T.P. but I still had a go on it.

The sound effect for the reel spins when the reels stop sounds like farts so they could have used a better sound effect. The ante bet costs 100% more not 25% or 50% but a hefty 100% so that is overpriced and the super bonus is locked behind a paywall and can’t be triggered naturally.

Golden retriever is a 5 reel 3 row slot from Reel Kingdom which is a subsidy of Pragmatic play. The slot has 10 pay lines and the minimum bet you can do on this game is 5 cents. The game has a very boring base game where you can get over 20 to 30 dead spins with an occasional 40x to 50x base game hit. The premium symbols pay 200x to 50x your bet size. The card symbols and the money symbol pays from 20x to 10x your bet size.
Landing three scatters triggers a bonus wheel and you can win free spin or Hold and spin feature. In some cases you will land only two scatters but a random feature will give you 2 or 3 scatters and activate bonus. The Free spin feature gives you10 free spins where you need to collect the dog Symbol and every fourth symbol will upgrade your feature. During these feature you will also get some money symbols with possible values from 2x to 500x which will enhance your wins provided you have the dog symbol present. On the first 10 spins all your wins are multiplied by two and you have a chance to activate the ‘Win Fetch” feature where random symbols on a pay line are changed to the same symbol. If you manage to reach the second stage all your wins are multiplied by 5 and you have a chance to activate the ‘can’t lick it’ feature where some symbols will change to one same symbol. The third and final stage will see all your wins multiplied by 10 and you have the chance to activate the ‘Can you dig it’ feature where random symbols turn to money symbols. Landing this bonus with 4 or 5 scatters will start your feature with 15 or 20 spins in the first stage.
The second feature is the hold an spin feature where you will start your bonus with 5 money symbols with possible values from 0.4x to 10x an every time you land a new symbol in under three spins you will stay alive. Filling the whole grid will refresh the grid and all your wins will be multiplied by 2. If you manage to do this multiple times your wins will be multiplied by 3x, 5x 10x and finally 25x.

The slot has the ante bet feature but even after using it you get bonuses in over 150 to 200 free spins. Most bonuses pay lower than 20x. The hold an spin feature can end even without adding a single coin.