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Black River Gold

Black River Gold

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RTP96.10%
VolatilityMedium
ProviderElk Studios Software
Reels6

Black River Gold Specifications

Launch Date2020-05-05
SoftwareElk Studios Software
Type of SlotVideo slot
ThemeCowboy/Western
RTP96.10%
VolatilityMedium
Reels6
Paylines TypeFixed
Min Bet£0.20
Max Bet£100.00
Max Win500,000x
Bonus FeaturesFree Spins
Scatter SymbolsYes
Bonus RoundsYes
Free SpinsYes
Wild SymbolsYes
Max Jackpot500,000
Progressive JackpotNo
Practice PlayNo
AutoplayYes

Black River Gold from software developer ELK Studios is a Western themed slot which has a Wild compass feature which will give you 4×4 symbols and a Revolver feature as well as sticky wilds.

About the slot

Black River Gold  is a 6 reel video slot offering 4,096 ways to win, which can expand up to 262,144 ways to win, it can be played across all devices from 20p per spin up to £100 per spin.The reels are inside a metal and wood frame which sits on a backdrop of the snow -capped Rocky mountains and a valley filled with trees.Symbols are the Jack to the Ace Royals, a whisky glass a choker, a sherriff’s badge, a  gold nugget, a gun, a diamond,  an emerald and Kane  the adventurer, the latter has the highest value and  landing 6 on a payline will give you x3 of your wager.The red rose is the wild symbol and the scatter is the bonus symbol.

Gameplay

Any winning combination of 3 or more matching symbols will trigger the avalanche feature, these symbols will explode and new symbols will drop into their place.Each successive win will add another row to the grid up to a maximum of 8 rows and you can have symbols ranging from 2×2 up to 4×4.The revolver feature comes into play when the big symbols absorb the smaller symbols which are below them on the reels and  filling all 6 bullet spaces will turn it will transform into a giant wild symbol.When a wild compass symbol appears on the reels it will transform matching symbol into wilds.Landing 3 or more of the bonus scatter symbols will trigger the bonus game, 3 will give you 10 bonus spins, 4 will give you 15 bonus spins, 5 will give you 20 bonus spins and 6 will give you 25 bonus spins.The rows will also increase in the bonus feature and will also have a safety feature, where any wild symbol that lands will be transformed to sticky wilds kept at the bottom of the grid until they form part of a winning combination. Landing  another 3 or more bonus symbols will re-trigger the feature.Black River Gold was fun to play  and has really good graphics and animations and  the western soundtrack went well with the theme.  You have the potential to win up to x5,000 of your wager on this high variance slot which comes with an RTP of 96%.

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