Free slot: Tahiti Gold

How Tahiti Gold works

ELK Studios has taken advantage of the success of its Ecuador Gold slot to offer a version with a new look: Tahiti Gold. This time you are in a more tropical climate, on the edge of a huge waterfall on the island of Tahiti, where gigantic totems house an incredible treasure that is just waiting for you!

As previously explained, Tahiti Gold is a slot machine with the features of Ecuador Gold, a creation of the online game provider ELK Studios. Its payout ratio to the player is quite high at 96.1%, while its volatility is average and its maximum winning potential is up to 5,000 times the starting bet. The starting grid keeps the usual format of this short slot series with 6 reels of 4 rows each. Connections are made adjacent to each other and each symbol used in a payline connection is removed from the grid to drop new symbols and potentially create new connections on the same spin through a system called Avalanche. Each Avalanche increases the height of the grid by adding a row, increasing the number of ways and making connections easier. The maximum number of rows is set to 8, which represents a grid of 6 rolls of 8 rows each.

In addition to the free spins bonus, Tahiti Gold offers several original features:

• Wild Forge : this Wild can appear on reels 3, 4, 5 and 6. It keeps its position and turns every symbol below its position on the reel into Wilds;

• Eye of Tiki: When two triangle eye symbols appear on the grid on the same spin, a link connects these two symbols. Each symbol that touches this link is removed from the grid and a row is added above the grid in the same way as an avalanche;

• Large Symbols: as the name suggests, this feature is simply the fact that a symbol occupies several cells on the grid. Large symbols can appear in 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 format.

The different symbols in Tahiti Gold

In addition to the Wild Forge, Eye of Tiki, Single Wild and Scatter, there are 12 pay symbols in Tahiti Gold and they fall into two different categories depending on their rarity:

• The high value symbols are recognizable by their particular style. They are represented by the explorer and colored totems. Often called premium, they are rare and pay more;

• Low value symbols have a more simplistic visual. They are represented by animals and colored symbols. Usually called common symbols, they appear often, but pay much less.

Above are the potential payouts for each symbol in relation to a €1 bet.

The different connections in Tahiti Gold

Many connections are possible in Tahiti Gold. There are no predefined paylines in this slot. You have to line up identical symbols on adjacent reels. This way system is becoming more and more common and is quite simple to understand. The connections are made from left to right with a minimum of 3 reels having an identical symbol. As with Ecuador Gold, the Avalanche system is present in Tahiti Gold: each symbol used in a paying connection is removed from the grid in order to make new symbols fall in a cascade and potentially link several connections in a single game round. With each avalanche, a row is added to the top of the grid for a total of 8 rows for a maximum of 262,144 possible ways.

The image above can help you understand this connection system with a paid example and an example of no valid connection.

How the Tahiti Gold bonus works

Getting 3, 4, 5 or 6 Scatter symbols on a single pay spin triggers 10, 15, 20 or 25 free spins in the Tahiti Gold bonus respectively. During the free spins, each Wild is sticky, which means that it will keep its location until the end of the bonus.

The features available in the base game can also appear during the bonus, but the real advantage of the free spins lies in the system of blocking the number of rows called: safety level. This is a level of grid height that will be maintained for the duration of the bonus. As soon as a paying connection occurs after an avalanche, an extra row is secured. Just like its big sister, Tahiti Gold allows you to retrigger the bonus by getting at least 3 Scatters during a single free spin.

Our review of Tahiti Gold

ELK Studios has managed to keep the soul of its first hit Ecuador Gold while revisiting mainly visual with Tahiti Gold. The graphics are still of great quality and the animations remain fluid while the particular functioning discovered in the first version remains unchanged. The Ghost Wild becomes a kind of incomplete Expanding Wild and remains the only notable change in this graphic redesign. The universe is well mastered, the gameplay is still as pleasant as ever and the winning potential allows you to aim for the jackpot. Tahiti Gold is an excellent sequel to the already very appreciated Ecuador Gold!