Wagon Willie's Gold Mine - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Wagon Willie's Gold Mine slot review

If you have been looking for the opportunity to try your luck and potentially strike gold, a trip down Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine could be worthwhile. On your search for gold, you may also unlock a series of bonus features including free spins, repeating wilds, and exploding symbols.

If this sounds like a treasure hunt you are eager to embark on, let’s take this opportunity to learn a bit more about exactly what is on offer from this slot.

Are you ready to strike gold?

With a contemporary cartoon style, the bold design of Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine instantly sets it apart from many other similarly themed slots for the right reasons. It has an upbeat almost accordion-style soundtrack and supplementary sound effects that play out when the reels are in motion; in fact, the symbols sound like stone blocks falling into place on every spin.

The attention to detail here is great, particularly as the screen sometimes shakes slightly to represent an explosion deep within the gold mine. The paytable symbols are well designed and, overall, there really isn’t much to critique in terms of the game’s design and delivery.

Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine RTP & volatility

RTP

The RTP of this Silverback Gaming slot is 95.93 per cent.

Volatility

Although Silverback Gaming has opted not to widely publicise the volatility of the Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine slot, our review gameplay indicates that this is a medium/high volatility video slot.

Payout potential

The most fortunate players could land a 1,000x top win when playing Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine.

How to play the Wagon Willie's Gold Mine slot

If you are keen to learn how to get started with your first trip into Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine, here is our quick start guide to the gameplay:

1. Start by clicking the ‘help’ icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. This will open a menu overlay that allows you to explore the rules of the game, the paylines and paytable, and a bit more information about the bonus features.
2. We also recommend utilising the timeout and self-exclusion tools that all responsible casinos provide to players.
3. On the main playing screen, use the up and down arrows on either side of the ‘bet’ box to customise your in-play stake. Bets start at 0.20.
4. When you are happy with everything, you can hit the main spin button to get started.
5. Never chase losses, don’t exceed the upper spend limit you set for yourself at the start of each session, and always stop playing as soon as the fun stops.

How to win at the Wagon Willie's Gold Mine slot

Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine is played on a 5x3 grid with 20 fixed betways.

Top winning symbols

The game’s paytable symbols all relate back to the overall mining theme, which makes for an interesting reel setup. The highest-paying winning symbols include:

• Wild
• Wagon of gold
• Gold nugget

When placing a 2.00 stake, landing five wilds in a winning combination will unlock a 30.00 win. This makes it the highest-paying symbol on the paytable. With the same 2.00 stake, landing five wagons of gold will pay out a 20.00 win, while five golden nugget symbols in a winning formation will unlock a 15.00 win.

Bet limits

Bets start at 0.20.

Wagon Willie's Gold Mine bonus features

In addition to a very playable base game, Wagon Willie’s Gold Mine boasts a selection of additional features that are worth discussing:

Explosive reels

Every base game spin has the potential to trigger exploding symbols on the game’s reels. When the symbols explode, higher-paying symbols will be revealed and could help the luckiest players to increase their playing balance. Explosions cannot affect wilds or the scatter symbol.

Free spins bonus round

The dynamite scatter symbol can trigger the free spins bonus round. Land three or more scatters to unlock three free spins and the mini-game map. The mini-game map has 15 checkpoints, each of which will unlock an additional free game. Every mine that is reached unlocks an additional four free spins.

Win multiplier bonuses are also active during the free spins bonus round. Win multipliers are worth between 2x and 20x and will be applied to every win unlocked during the bonus round.

Repeating wilds

When a wild symbol lands during the free spins bonus round, it will continue to land in the same place on the reel for every subsequent free spin that plays out. The game’s wild can replace all paytable symbols apart from the dynamite scatter.

Wagon Willie's Gold Mine review summary

If you are ready to grab your dynamite and head into Willie’s mine in search of gold, you are unlikely to be disappointed by the gameplay on offer. While there are only a handful of extra features, they are crowd-pleasers and the repeating wilds bonus is on the more unusual side, which is always good to see.

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