Easy Gold

Easy Gold: Slot Overview

Easy Gold is an online slot from provider Red Tiger, and despite having an encouraging name, the getting of gold IRL is probably anything but easy. If it was, we'd all have gold teeth, gold hair dryers, and be sitting on golden karzis when performing bowel movements. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, regular people don't have such a Midas touch, so amassing hordes of the yellow metal ain't as easy as all that. However, the word easy, in this case, may refer to Easy Gold's rules and set-up, which are pretty basic, and function with minimal mechanical props.

Easy Gold is a bank vault-themed slot, with a base game taking place just outside the room where the rich stuff is stored, where a big, thick, solid, metal, forbidding door lies between players and loot. Opening the vault door requires landing a decent-sized win or triggering Vault Spins – more on these later. What might have caught your eye from a screenshot is Easy Gold's one-row gaming grid. Upon this grid, land number symbols which you want and valueless diamond/blank symbols which you don't want. Plus, keep an eye out for a scatter present on the fourth reel. So far, yeah, so easy.

Attempting to crack the vault begins by picking a stake where options range from 10 p/c to $/€8 per game round. Highly volatile, Easy Gold generates a return to player value of 95.73% at its default level and packs a fair wallop in terms of winning potential. How it works is that when the spin button is pressed, the four reels spin to land diamonds, digits, or the scatter. The fourth reel is separated from the other 3 reels by a decimal separator, meaning it is dedicated to decimals.

• Reel 1 may land the numbers 1, 2, 5, or 10.
• Reel 2 may land the numbers 0 or 5.
• Reel 3 may land the numbers 0, 00, or 5.
• Reel 4 may land the numbers 5, 7, or 8.

The numbers which land on the reels equate to a bet multiplier. For example, if 5-0-blank-8 lands, players win 50.8x their bet. A blank-blank-blank-5 result equates to 0.5x the bet, and so on.

Easy Gold: Slot Features

To mix things up, Easy Gold is capable of firing off Cash Respins, Second Chance Respins, and Vault Spins.

Cash Respins

The Cash Respin bonus triggers at random after a winning spin. Any reels which do not contribute to the win may respin to reveal an award that is greater than the one from the initial spin. When this happens, a second respin can even trigger at random to reveal an even greater reward. Only the prize after respins have been completed will be awarded. Cash Respins may only trigger if at least one of the first three reels displays 1 or a greater number. Cash Respins cannot occur on the same spin as a Second Chance Respin.

Second Chance Respin

After a non-winning spin with at least one reel displaying a zero or a double zero, The Second Chance Respin may trigger. Any reels that do not have a zero or a double zero may respin once. If the respin does not produce a win and any of the reels that participated in the respin display a zero or a double zero, any remaining reels will respin once more. The Second Chance Respin bonus ends after any winning respin or a non-winning respin with no additional zero or double zero symbols landing. Second Chance Respins cannot occur on the same spin as a Cash Respin bonus.

Vault Spins

Vault Spins are triggered when a Vault Spins scatter lands on the fourth reel. For this feature, 3 spins are awarded, and whenever a win hits, the spin count resets to 3 again. The round ends when 3 consecutive non-winning spins have occurred.

Easy Gold: Slot Verdict

Red Tiger does like these 1 payline/experimental concept slots. Other games which could be lumped alongside Easy Gold's, though not necessarily solo payline games, are slots like HarleCoin, Viral Spiral, Forever 7's, Multiplier Riches, and Golden Cryptex. We say slots, but some of them bend, prod, and pull at the definition of the word. Easy Gold does, too, to a degree. It's still got 4 spinning reels, yet unlike a regular slot, you are not looking for matching symbols to line up in such a way that a payout is triggered. Instead, you just want numbers to hit in the most conducive spots possible. That's about it.

Cash Respins and Second Chance Respins may help in the process, plus hitting a Vault Spin scatter on the fourth reel to trigger the bonus round adds variety. There sure is a lot of gold in the vault room… The bonus round helps give Easy Gold a bit of depth, too and is quite a simple yet smart feature that doesn't bust up the flow by adding much in the way of complexity. All there is to it is land wins to keep the round going. Numbers people might have figured this out by now, but if you can get just the right digits on just the right reels, Easy Gold appears technically capable of landing wins as high as 10,500.8x the bet, though its actual max win figure is 11,059.6x. While the rules are easy, hitting this level of moolah, probably not so much.

At the end of the day, Easy Gold is a novelty slot, but its novelty isn't a bad one. It's a game that may take patience to battle through the dead spins, and a bit of imagination to pretend you're an actual vault cracker might help keep the game more interesting or engaging. Rewards are definitely here for lucky players, and the game has more depth than was initially suspected, but like novelty slots, in general, Easy Gold probably either resonates or comes across as a bit weird.