Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz

Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz: Slot Overview

If you're the sort of player who's had a gut full of fishing and/or leprechaun-themed slots, now would be a good time to look away. The reason why is Game Global associates Gameburger Studios has mashed both things, leprechaun and fishing, together into one outrageously unoriginal place. And we're not just saying unoriginal because of battling through a stack of fishing slots recently. No, even when ignoring the game's outer wrapper Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz is utterly devoid of any creative originality whatsoever as it's a digit-for-digit clone of fellow developer Fortune Factory Studios' slot Gold Blitz (by extension linking it to Mask of Amun and Blazing Bison Gold Blitz).

Hey, some gamblers might be enthused by that prospect, so let's reel up and head in to see what we can find. For starters, Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz is held in a green green part of the woods, next to a wee stream where the fish are caught. Visually, there's nothing of particular note to report back on. This doesn't stop Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz from being a sparkly, bright, colourful, leprechauny-looking slot, though, that sits comfortably within the Emerald Isle gaming category. Moving on.

Next on the agenda is the mathematical side of Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz. As mentioned, it's a digit-for-digit reskin of Gold Blitz, so all the same stats apply. That means a highly volatile online slot with a default RTP of 96.25%. These are the return values when betting 20 p/c to $/€50 on individual spins; the return increases to?96.95% when buying the bonus round.

Fishin' Pots of Gold: Gold Blitz's gaming setup consists of 6 reels holding 4 symbols each, providing 4,096 ways to win. Regular ways wins occur when matching symbols land on adjacent reels from the left-hand side of the matrix onwards. The paytable is a real mix of the two themes as well, where on the low side are Celtic-ish designed 9-A card royals, then a dragonfly, a lure, a fishing jacket, a tackle box, and a top-hatted fish as the high pays. A low pay 6 symbol win will get you 1 to 1.5 times the bet, whereas a 6 premium symbol win awards 2 to 5 times the bet. Mushroom-adorned wild symbols help out here by substituting for any regular pay symbol. In the base game, wilds appear on reels 2 to 6. In free spins, they land on reels 2, 3, and 4.

Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz: Slot Features

Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz is capable of triggering the Collect feature in the base game and the Gold Blitz. The other features to look out for are free spins and a bonus buy.

Collect Feature

The Collect symbol appears on all reels in the base game and the Gold Blitz. When a Collect symbol hits, any Cash symbols or Jackpot symbols in view are collected. The three Jackpots are the minor, major, and mega, worth 25x, 250x, and 2,500x the bet, respectively.

Scatter Symbol

Landing at least 3 scatter symbols on the reels triggers a payout, plus players get to choose one of the two bonus rounds:

• 3 scatter symbols – 1x the bet, and either 8 free spins or 2 Gold Blitz spins.
• 4 scatter symbols – 2x the bet, and either 12 free spins or 3 Gold Blitz spins.
• 5 scatter symbols – 3x the bet, and either 20 free spins or 5 Gold Blitz spins.
• 6 scatter symbols – 5x the bet, and either 30 free spins or 7 Gold Blitz spins.

Free Spins

In free spins, an x2, x3, or x5 multiplier is randomly awarded for every wild in a way win. Each wild multiplier will multiply the win awarded on the applicable way. Hitting 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters awards an additional 5, 8, 12, 20, or 30 free spins, respectively.

Gold Blitz

During the Gold Blitz, only Collect, Cash, and Jackpot symbols land in the feature. At least one Collect symbol will land on each spin, meaning a win is guaranteed on each spin. Gold Blitz cannot be retriggered.

Bonus Buy

By using the bonus buy, players can trigger the bonus round with 4, 5, or 6 scatters for 75x, 120x, or 150x the bet, respectively. Once triggered, it is possible to choose free spins or Gold Blitz spins as if they were triggered naturally. When buying 4 or 5 scatters, a chance exists for extra scatters to land.

Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz: Slot Verdict

Gameburger Studios is starting to feel like that kid in class who said something hilariously witty on the first day, which got everyone's sides splitting but hasn't really spoken up since. 9 Masks of Fire was the team's breakthrough, adding a significant amount of fuel to the scatter symbol/instant prize win style of play, which has seriously blossomed over the following years. Games like 9 Pots of Gold and its ilk have found success too, yet it feels like the provider has peaked, or at least is yet to repeat the same level of success it had in the past.

Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz doesn't do the studio a lot of favours either. Being a clone, not just of a previous slot, but someone else's previous slot doesn't exactly scream raging originality. Maybe if it wasn't a leprechaun game, or a fishing game, or a mashup of both, and an inventively new thematic concept had been used, it might have freshened the whole experience up. But no, as if we didn't have enough leprechaun or fishing slots bobbing about the place, here's another soulless clone to add to the heap.

Still, humans thrive on familiarity, so perhaps Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz will be a hit? Stranger things have happened in the gambling sphere, and it's 5,000x the bet top prize isn't shabby. On a less positive note, let's wrap up by saying all of these multi-layers of recycling meant that for our money, Milli Vanilli lip-syncing live had more artistic merit than Fishin' Pots of Gold Gold Blitz does.