Badger Miners - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Badger Miners Slot Review

Did anyone ever tell you that badgers can work in mines? Well, now you know! They dig around the 5 reels of this Yggdrasil slot, trying to uproot gold and gems to fill the 243 ways to win. As our Badger Miners slot review will explain, there are also opportunities to boost your total win with cash wilds and multipliers, or extend your game with free spins. There are no guarantees in slots, so you’ll just have to hope you get lucky.

Unlikely Miners

We’ve seen mining-themed slots before, but when mining slots have miners, they tend to be either humans or dwarves. Badgers make for an interesting variation. Of course, badgers in the real world do dig when making their setts or digging for food, so perhaps it’s not that strange. Anyway, cute and quirky animals in hard hats are the order of the day.

Down in the Mine

There’s only so much you can do when you set your slot in a mine. After all, the shades down there are mostly brown, though gems and gold among the symbols provide an opportunity for different hues. In the Badger Miners slot, you can see above ground, where trees and bushes look like they’re moulded out of clay. They add some greenery, even if several have been cut down. We weren’t expecting a commentary on the destruction of nature.

Down in the mine, there are narrow, rocky tunnels studded with gems, equipment like shovels and pickaxes, and a little train to carry you in and out again, all in the same fun, 3D style.

Badger Miners RTP and Variance

The base game of the Badger Miners slot has a 96% RTP, but it may be lower with some features or in some casinos. The variance is high.

How to Play Badger Miners

Grab those shovels:

1. Like most slots, you can find a help page in game with a paytable, rules and features. Just go to the menu and read through everything we couldn’t fit in our Badger Miners slot review.
2. Also like other slots, even those opened in demo mode, there's a bet adjustor to ensure your bet is suitable for you. Here the button looks like a stack of coins.
3. You’ll find mute down in the bottom corner if the sound effects are annoying you.
4. Then, all that’s left is to spin and have fun. That’s a lot easier if you’re practicing responsible gaming.
5. Keep it under control, don’t chase losses, and know when to stop.

How to Win at Badger Miners

Some 5-reel slots confine you to a narrow set of paylines. Others, like the Badger Miners slot, offer you 243 ways to win. That means that every option is open as long as you get at least three matching symbols starting on the left. Winning symbols might not be guaranteed, but it does slightly improve your chances. A wild symbol can complete winning sequences if they have gaps, and the scatter symbol is there to trigger some Badger Miners bonus features.

Top Wins

• Check out the paytable if you want to know the full payout potential for every possible combination of winning symbols.
• They may be pretty, but the six gems are at the bottom of the paytable. The win multiplier doesn’t rise to more than 8x your bet, even for five of the top colour.
• Then there are the themed symbols, including the titular badgers. At their best, they go as high as 50x your bet for 5 matches.
• The max win is x10,000.

Bet Range

Your minimum available bet in the Badger Miner slot is 0.1. The maximum you can wager is 50.00. You can’t play slots without making a bet, even with virtual money in demo play.

Badger Miners Bonuses

Lots of modern slots have extra features, with the free spins bonus being one of the most popular kinds. In addition to free spins, Badger Miners has random multipliers and cash wilds that you may be lucky enough to find.

Cash Wilds

These are only found on the middle three reels. Not only can the wild add to a regular combination, but then they can move up one position on the reels before triggering a free re-spin.

Multiplier

A win multiplier is one of the simplest ways for slots to increase your payouts, but they’re not always easy to find. In the Badger Wilds slot, they sit above the central three reels displaying random values. They can even be added together when the plus sign appears.

Free Spins

Like in many other slots, it’s finding the scatter symbol the right number of times that triggers free spins. You start with 7 of them, but there are an extra 2 for each additional scatter. Some of the rules are a bit different from those in the base game, such as a wild that hangs around for an extra turn if it doesn’t make it to the top of the reels.

Max-win 10,000x

Volatility High

Top RTP 96.0%

Badger Miners Review - Our Verdict

Yggdrasil seem to have gone for cute and charming when designing the Badger Miners slot. The graphics, particularly the clay model style, are distinctive and allow for colourful, quirky details and lots of character in the badger miners themselves. 

It’s particularly nice to see a less common animal, rather than a more tired theme (one of our few criticisms of the Cleopatra Megaways online slot). The bonus features aren’t entirely original, but there are some little twists.
 

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