5k Gold Mine Dream Drop

5K Gold Mine Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Golly gee, chew on the dog, y'all, software provider 4ThePlayer has gone done and made 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop, an online slot that fits right on in with Relax Gaming's lumbering line-up of progressive jackpot slots. Okay, enough with the wannabe prospector speak; time to talk shop. As well as 5 Dream Drop Jackpots, 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop is equipped with a board game-ish device called the Gold Rush Trail, free spins, and a bonus buy feature.

If you've played a mining slot before, it'll come as no surprise to find 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop situated deep beneath the earth in a shaft built to dig out the planet's precious metals and minerals. Crates of gold stuff abound, as do sparkling blue crystals and even a canary in this colourful resource extraction-themed slot. Timber beams have been nailed in place to stop the roof from caving in on a 5-reel, 4-row game grid, though that explosive barrel with its fuse poking out the top looks a bit dangerous. Bah, what's a mining slot without the possibility of explosions or an energetic knee-slapping 'Yo da lay hee' soundtrack? 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop checks the latter, though not so much the animated explosions.

Instead, 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop'll provides the bangs through its gaming, which is powered by a highly volatile math model and a return to player value of 94%. If that sounds a little low for your taste, there may be a non-Dream Drop version with a higher value, the trade-off being the exclusion of the 5 jackpots. When picking a stake, the options range from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin, and as usual, the higher the stake, the greater the chance of winning a jackpot is. Making life easy, any device can be used to play 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop.

5K Gold Mine Dream Drop uses a 1,024 ways to win pay system, where matching symbols can land on any row, as long as they start from the leftmost side of the grid and hit along adjacent reels. The game has 10 regular pay symbols, and the first 5 are 10-A playing card ranks as the lows, then mining instruments, a lantern, a hard hat, a bag of gold, and a prospector as the high pays. Landing a 5-of-a-kind winning way means an award of 1x to 1.5x the lows or 2x to 4x the bet for the highs is coming your way. Helping link wins by substituting for every symbol except the scatter is the bundle of dynamite wild symbol.

5K Gold Mine Dream Drop: Slot Features

One thing you notice early on is the train tracks running around the outside of the reel-set overload on various reward squares. This is called the Gold Rush Trail and joins free spins, the Dream Drop Bonus, and a bonus buy as 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop's list of features.

Gold Rush Trail

A single mining cart sits on the Gold Rush Trail, which may be moved when certain scatter symbol modifiers are revealed. When scatter symbols land on the reels, they spin to trigger one of these effects:

• Move X – moves the cart a certain number of squares in a specified direction on the Gold Rush Trail.
• Collect – awards the value of the current Gold Rush Trail prize square. The cart then moves to the Start square.
• Restart – the cart is moved to the Start square. The cash prize on the Start square is awarded.
• Cash Prize – a cash prize is awarded.
• Dream Drop – awards the Dream Drop Jackpot Game.

Scatters are awarded from left to right, and when they display the Collect result, the prizes which may result are – cash prizes, free spins, the Dream Drop Jackpot Game, or a mystery prize. The mystery prize puts 3 gems on the screen for players to choose one to win either a cash prize, Collect X, Move X, free spins, the Dream Drop Jackpot Game, or Restart. The final point is that trail positions are saved at each bet level.

Free Spins Bonus

When this bonus is won, players are awarded 10 free spins. During free spins, when scatters land, they award a cash prize or Move + Pay. Move + Pay moves the cart to a new trail square and instantly awards its value - there is no need to get the Collect result to win the prize, and the cart does not return to the Start following a collect. It is possible to draw out the bonus round by landing on a Free Spins square which awards an additional +5 or +10 free spins.

Buy Feature

Players are able to buy 1 of 2 bonus features which are instantly activated. Buying either bonus has the same RTP values as when playing normally.

• 10 Free Spins – 100x the bet.
• Gold Rush Trail Mega Spin – 150x the bet to land 5 scatters with guaranteed collect.

Dream Drop Jackpots

4ThePLayer does like to do things a little (or a lot) differently than the rest, and the Dream Drop Jackpots sequence is no exception. A jackpot reel spins to move a cart around a trail made up of squares displaying the five different jackpots. When the reel lands on 'Collect', the currently highlighted jackpot is awarded. This could be the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, or Mega Jackpots.

5K Gold Mine Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

Whilst the bulk of the Dream Drop titles have been made by Relax Gaming, the studio has shown an increasing willingness to let other teams make their contributions to the range. As well as 4ThePlayer, other examples have included Volatile Egypt Dream Drop from Fantasma Games, Dueling Jokers Dream Drop from Four Leaf Gaming, and Tsai Shen 10K Ways Dream Drop from ReelPlay. Presumably, saturating the market in an attempt at progressive jackpot world domination is tough work, and enlisting the help of others helps lighten the load. A task shared is a task halved, or however the saying goes.

The Dream Drop games are as diverse as the studios that make them, and 4ThePlayer is one team which really makes an effort to be different, interestingly so. Whatever the final opinion on one of the studio's slots may be, they tend to deliver gaming you struggle to find anywhere else. So it was with 5K Gold Mine Dream Drop, and while mining slots are a penny a dozen, this one chooses to roll in its own singular fashion. One of the main differentiators is the combination of the prize-bearing Gold Rush Trail and the need for scatter symbols to either move the cart around or trigger rewards of their own. It's worth repeating that when scatters reveal a number of squares to move, they also display the direction the cart will travel in. At the beginning of the test session, the cart was heading tantalisingly close to the bigger prizes at the top of the trail, only to be thwarted by an arrow sending it trundling off in the opposite direction.

Collecting the prize smack bang in the middle of the top portion of the track means you're walking away with the non-DD top prize of 5,000x the bet. Not the biggest game 4ThePlayer has done by a fair margin, but a juicy enough cherry on top of a mining slot which might be full of stock-looking mining components yet manages to conduct business in a way that's all its own.