TNT Tumble Dream Drop

TNT Tumble Dream Drop: Slot Overview

Ever wanted to bash your way through virtual bedrock for the chance of hitting paydirt worth as much as €10,000,000? With the arrival of Relax Gaming's TNT Tumble Dream Drop, here's your chance. This is an upgrade of an older slot, modified for inclusion in Relax Gaming's Dream Drop jackpot network. As well as offering five progressive jackpots, TNT Tumble Dream Drop features drilling wilds, TNT blocks, and free spins with possible win multipliers.

As with most of these Dream Drop slot conversions, nothing much has changed aside from the added jackpots and some statistical shakeups. Certainly, the main game area view is as majestic as it was before, where players tackle TNT Tumble Dream Drop in an alpine location, complete with mountains, grassy meadows, trees, and misty clouded skies. A mining contraption sits in the middle of the screen, holding a 5-reel, 7-row game grid. Hitting the spin button drops in four rows of active symbols and three rows of dark stone blocks containing 0-3 bundles of TNT. The non-jackpot goal of the base game is to destroy all of the dark stone blocks to gain access to the free spins bonus round.

Stone blocks are destroyed when a win occurs next to them. Winning lines must contain at least three matching symbols and can be horizontally or vertically aligned. After a win has paid out, it is removed from the grid and the remaining along with any new symbols drop down to plug the gaps. If a new win is created from the cascade, the process is repeated. This system feeds into a theoretical return to player value of 94%, with 12% of that going to the jackpots. A highly volatile slot, TNT Tumble Dream Drop can be played on any device and provides stakes of 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin – the higher the bet, the greater the chance of triggering a jackpot win.

Six pay symbols appear on the grid – silver ore, gold ore, blue gems, green gems, orange gems, and red gems. Landing a 3 of a kind win pays out from 0.2 – 0.5x the bet, while seven-of-a-kind wins are worth 4 to 15 times the stake.

Wild drill symbols are instrumental in TNT Tumble Dream Drop. Unlike regular pays, wilds are not destroyed when used in a combination until they fall to the bottom row and are included in a win. According to the paytable, wilds are likely to be in stacked segments on columns and are worth 50x the bet for seven of a kind. To finish this section off, a word about the TNT blocks. When TNT blocks are destroyed by adjacent winning combinations, they explode and destroy any other dark stone blocks on their row.

TNT Tumble Dream Drop: Slot Features

As mentioned, when all dark stone blocks are destroyed in the main game, 6 free spins are awarded. Players get to choose which type of round they would prefer:

• Multiplier – special stone blocks contain multipliers of x1, x2, or x3, which are added to a persistent global multiplier when they are destroyed. This is the most volatile option.
• Extra Spins – special stone blocks award 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 extra free spins when they are destroyed. This one is medium volatile
• Multipliers & Extra Spins – special stone blocks contain multipliers or extra spins. Highly volatile.

One of the differences between base and bonus mode is that the lower rows of blocks do not reset between free spins, so players can chip away at them. Each stone row contains either TNT, a multiplier, or extra free spins, depending on which round type was selected. Players move deeper into the mine as stone rows are destroyed, and for every third row of stone blocks destroyed, +2 free spins are awarded.

Dream Drop Bonus

On any base game spin, the Dream Drop panel can light up gold, indicating that a Jackpot Spin has been awarded. The game grid is covered in stone blocks with TNT on each row. The rows explode one at a time, and when all have been destroyed, if 5 x DD symbols are revealed, players move to the Dream Drop Bonus.

The Dream Drop Bonus game has 5 reels, one for each jackpot prize. The size of each reel is 2 for the Rapid and the Midi, 3 for the Maxi, 4 for the Major, and 5 for the Mega. Only blocks or DD symbols can land on the reels. When a spin has finished, blocks are removed, letting DD symbols fall to the bottom of the reel. Spins continue until one of the reels is filled with DD symbols, awarding its corresponding jackpot.

Each jackpot is progressive, possessing starting values of €1, €5, €100, €25,000, and €500,000 for the Rapid, Midi, Maxi, Major, and Mega, respectively. The two biggest jackpots are set to drop before reaching certain thresholds, and the Mega will increment its threshold until it reaches €10 million, where it will stay from then on.

TNT Tumble Dream Drop: Slot Verdict

One of the hazards of being in mountainous regions is the danger of avalanches, which, when triggered, roll through in a seemingly unstoppable path. The same feeling is starting to mount over Relax Gaming's Dream Drop saturation. It's like no slot is safe from the Dream Drop conversion process, which is occurring at a prodigious pace. The studio has latched onto the idea and is off to the races with it. It's unlikely there will be too many players complaining, though, well, those that go for jackpot slots. The hard part may be deciding which Dream Drop slot to choose.

So why pick TNT Tumble Dream Drop over the others in the DD range then? One interesting thing about TNT Tumble is that it's not quite a cluster pay slot, and it's not a payline slot either. It does its own thing, which can be quite special when it hits a particularly lucrative vein of precious ore. This usually means a stack of wild symbols is boring their way through symbols, binding together a series of consecutive wins. It can be even better when more than one wild stack is smashing their way towards the bottom of the grid. As well as the monetary rewards possible when this happens, the muscular way drills slam downwards, stone blocks are destroyed, and TNT explodes can be extremely satisfying. The bonus game is potentially even more so, and non-jackpot wins of circa 10,000x the bet is up for grabs.

And so, if bashing your way through rock, for the chance of possibly scooping what can be massive jackpots sounds tempting, TNT Tumble Dream Drop is probably an ideal choice. Similar to real mining, not every swing of the pickaxe is likely to reveal paydirt, but the chance is there for jackpot chasers to try their luck.