Fortune Pike Gold

Fortune Pike Gold: Slot Overview

If you're anything like us, your metaphorical pick 'n shovel might still be warm from the last mining slot that came along. But, for players who just can't spend enough time pretending they're beneath ground, here comes Fortune Pike Gold from Games Global pals Foxium. Like one or two other subterranean mining slots you may have played, Fortune Pike Gold comes with a hold 'n win round as one of its central features. This one is a little bit different, however, as it involves merging adjacent Dynamite symbols in hopes of creating larger shapes and, hopefully, larger payouts. Other features include free spins, and a couple of random modifiers slung onto the board by a friendly chap called Lucky Dinky.

Deep in the bowels of the earth is where we find ourselves for Fortune Pike Gold. According to a BBC Future article, one of the deepest holes human beings have dug so far is in Bavaria, where the German Continental Deep Drilling Program reached 9 km down. Dutch artist Lotte Geevan lowered a microphone into the hole and picked up an unexplained rumbling sound which caused her to 'feel very small; it was the first time in my life this big ball we live on came to life, and it sounds haunting.' Scientists were at a loss to explain what the sound was.

One thing's clear, we aren't diving as deep as that in Fortune Pike Gold, which is a fully decked-out mining space with a track for carts, and all. With a cartoonish vibe, the audiovisual presentation is quite impressive and includes high-quality animations as well as fine little extras like screen shakes triggered by in-game events. Mathematically, Fortune Pike Gold is a medium volatile game, available in four RTP configurations – 96.02% is the highest value possible. Available on tablet, mobile, or desktop gadgets, players are able to load up wagers of 20 p/c to $/€25 per game round. Switching on the Boost function increases the bet by 50%, which, in turn, increases the chances of the Lucky Dinky Random Wilds and top awards in the Dynamite Rush round.

Played on a 5-reel, 3-row gaming matrix, 20 paylines are provided to land winning combinations over along with a hit rate of 22.73%. Wins are created when matching symbols fall along a bet line over consecutive reels, beginning from the leftmost side of the board. Hit a five-of-a-kind line win to collect 2.5 times the bet for the gemstone low pays or 5 to 12.5 times the bet for five lamps, tools, maps, gem bags, or gold carts. Wilds are present on all reels too. That means they can trigger payouts worth up to 12.5x the bet for five or substitute for any other paying symbol.

Fortune Pike Gold: Slot Features

Fortune Pike Gold's showpiece is the Dynamite Rush game, but other extras you may come across while playing are free spins, and Lucky Dinky modifiers.

Lucky Dinky Modifiers

These two modifiers may trigger at random in the base game or in free spins;

• Lucky Dinky Random Wilds – 3 to 10 wilds are added to the reels to create winning combinations. During free spins, Cave Bats boost the wilds with x2 to x5 multipliers.
• Lucky Dinky Cart Ride – may add Dynamite symbols to the reels.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatter symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5 in the base game awards 10 free spins. Other than the Cave Bat bit mentioned above, nothing else really changes in free spins. However, +2 additional free spins are awarded should 2 scatters land on reels 1 and 5.

Dynamite Rush

Getting 6 or more Dynamite symbols on the board in the base game or in free spins triggers the Dynamite Rush game. Here, 5 bonus spins are awarded, where all triggering Dynamite symbols and any new ones that land on a bonus spin are held. As Dynamite symbols hit, they form shapes from a premade list known as the Dynamite Shapes Table. When the round ends, players receive awards based on the shapes on the board and their possible values.

Fortune Pike Gold: Slot Verdict

Barely a week or two passes by without another online slot mine shaft popping up somewhere, burrowing its way beneath the earth for keen players to traipse down in search of paydirt. Funny, they quite often come with hold 'n win style features tacked on as well; see games like Gold Digger (or its offshoots) or Fire in the Hole xBomb as two competing examples. Fortune Pike Gold fares fairly well against much of the competition too. Foxium has laid the scene well, populated it with a charismatic lead character who isn't your stereotypical prospecting type, and lined up a few features to accompany him.

As for features, they fired, at times, with noticeable regularity during testing, whether the Boost button was switched on or off. Well, the Lucky Dinky modifiers were noticeable, at least, with the Lucky Dinky character swinging or rolling in with reckless abandon. Not always wowing with his results, yet he helped keep the pace up, and occasionally an okay payout may occur with his assistance. Free spins aren't wildly different to the base game in many respects, but those Cave Bat wild multipliers are a possibility, which can technically do good things to a regular line win, so no complaints about them. That leaves Dynamite Rush, which is a simple round of landing as many Dynamite symbols as possible (hopefully), though with the added challenge of forming shapes, and then crossing fingers those shapes generate the highest prize they can from their set list of values. At best, prizes of up to 10,000x the bet are possible.

For a nice-looking mining slot with neat animations, a personable companion, flowing features, and decent winning potential, Fortune Pike Gold is a fine game. If you need a break from a heavy-weight mining slot like Dead Canary but are determined to stay underground to search for potential glory, Fortune Pike Gold could be an ideal fit.