Free slot: Hit the Gold!

How Hit the Gold works

Hit the Gold is a slot machine developed and published by the online game provider Booongo. This slot was released during May 2021 and is available at many online casinos. Head to the United States, during the Gold Rush, in the Hit the Gold slot! Join the prospectors on their quest for treasure and try to win the jackpot in this slot! This online game features a classic online gambling format, with 5 reels containing 3 symbols. When the reels of Hit the Gold are triggered, the aim is to make identical symbol connections on the 25 specially designed paylines.

A gold digger symbol is present in this slot. It serves as a wild, which means that it has the ability to substitute for any symbol except the scatter and gold symbols. This gold digger will be a great help in making connections more easily.

Hit the Gold offers players trying their luck on this slot access to an original feature, which can be triggered both in the base game and as a bonus. This feature is called Bonus Game and it is triggered when at least 6 gold symbols containing a sum of money appear on the same game round. When this feature is triggered, all other symbols disappear to leave empty slots and only gold symbols or jackpot symbols can appear and will be sticky. You will be awarded 3 free spins and as soon as a symbol appears, you will get 3 free spins again. This feature stops as soon as 3 consecutive free spins yield no symbols or the 15 slots fill up.

Special symbols, called jackpots, may appear during this bonus:

• Mini = you win 20x your original bet;

• Minor = you win 50x your original bet;

• Major = you win 150x your starting bet;

• Dynamite = one of the three jackpots listed above will be revealed at the end of the bonus. You will win the associated prize.

At the end of the free spins, all values will be added up and you will win the total prize. If you manage to complete the entire grid, you will win the Great Jackpot, which is 2,000 times your original bet.

Hit the Gold Symbols

There are many symbols present in Hit the Gold, and these are the ones you need to connect to win. The value of each symbol is attributed according to its rarity. There are two categories in this slot: classic symbols and premium symbols.

The first named are the ones that pay the least but appear the most often. They all pay the same and are represented by the highest values in a pack of cards, i.e. Jack, Queen, King and Ace.

The following image shows the payout range for each of the classic symbols in Hit the Gold. The values shown below are for a bet of €1.

Also present in Hit the Gold are symbols that are much more difficult to connect but have a much higher payout. They are represented by objects or characters reminiscent of the Gold Rush, including:

• The pickaxe ;

• The container ;

• The bag of gold;

• The gold-digging dog;

• The gold digger (wild).

The infographic below allows you to view the payout range of each premium symbol present in Hit the Gold (€1 bet).

Hit the Gold's different connections

As previously explained, to win on this slot machine, you must make connections of 3 to 5 identical symbols. Please note that for a connection to be valid, it must be made on one of the paylines provided for this purpose. The paylines are read exclusively from left to right, and only the maximum win per line is paid out. The following image shows the 25 paylines on Hit the Gold.

How the Hit the Gold Bonus Game Works

In addition to the base game bonus game, Hit the Gold offers its users a second bonus feature in which free spins are awarded. These free spins are obtained by seeing 3 scatter symbols, represented by a gold mine, appear on the same pay spin. These can only appear on reels 2, 3 and 4, and allow you to win 5 times your original bet.

You will be awarded 8 free spins and have the chance to get 8 extra free spins if 3 scatters appear simultaneously during the bonus.

During the Hit the Gold bonus, the paylines are always active and the classic symbols are removed from the reels. This allows the premium symbols to be much more prominent and you will have the opportunity to make huge wins when connected.

If 6 golden symbols appear in the same free spin, the second bonus game pauses and the Bonus Game with Jackpot symbols is triggered.

Our opinion on Hit the Gold

Hit the Gold is the latest creation from slot provider Booongo, and this slot is a real success! Even if the graphics are a bit unpolished and slightly dated, the gaming experience is still satisfying, thanks in particular to the two different bonuses present on this slot. The possibility to hit the Jackpot at any time is a great asset for this very volatile slot.

Hit the Gold has a payout ratio (RTP) of up to 95.88% and a maximum payout of up to 2,000 times your original bet.