Warriors Gold Slot
There’s 243 different ways to line up symbols across the 5 reels of Playtech’s Warriors Gold video slot game, which hits online casinos with another take on the Asian theme. Anyone who likes this subject is going to love the iconic images of Samurai, paper fans, koi carp and jade rings which feature across so many slot machines of the genre, although a free spins bonus game where players get to choose the number of spins and any multipliers, is just one of the reasons why it looks certain that Playtech has another hit game on the market.
It’s mobile optimised and formatted to work on the small screens of smartphones and tablet computers, although the desktop version has a slightly compact set of reels, surrounded by an over-sized background image. At least it’s a nice-looking setting, where players will see pink blossoms and green water lilies peeking through a misty garden. Like most Playtech online casino games, the graphics are top-notch and of course, it’s all fully certified for fair play and reliability.
The 243 Ways to Win system removes paylines, but also removes the option to test games out with just tiny bets, so Playtech have provided free Warriors Gold video slots for practicing on, although with the minimum stake being just 0.25 per spin, most punters will opt to play for real cash awards anyway. Coin values can be raised from 0.01 all the way to the high limit of 100.00, and when you land 3 or more of the same symbol on adjacent reels from the left side, you win multiples of however much coins are worth.
Searching for Gold
Stylised playing card symbols, made to look vaguely Japanese, will tend to fill much of the reels in any spin. You win 5, 10, or 100 coins if the number 9 is seen on 3, 4, or 5 reels, while 10, J, Q, and K will be worth more and more, until we have the A symbol that pays out 10, 30, or 200 coins. Joining these, we have five unique symbols that are directly related to the topic, starting with the Rising Sun fan that’s worth 15, 35, or 300 coins when seen on 3, 4, or 5 reels.
Koi, a jade green ring and lucky coin symbols filling out the top of the paytable, with the best prizes in normal games awarded if the golden dragon appears. This mythical statue will pay out 50, 100, or a magical 1,000 coins when it’s across the reels.
A Samurai warrior is able to act as any high-card or picture symbol, completing a continuous sequence or extending a winning run of matching symbols if needed. He will only be on the middle 3 reels however, so isn’t worth anything other than as a way to create extra winning combinations. The wild won’t be able to act as the golden bowl either, as this is a scatter symbol that triggers the main bonus features of Warriors Gold.
Scatter Awards and Special Free Spins
Although it’s called a scatter symbol, implying that it can be scattered in any places to be worth a prize, in this case, players will need to land a golden bowl across sequential reels to win anything from it. But the other common features, such as wins being a multiple of the total stake, and a bonus round being triggered by a scatter symbol are still here, with 5x, 10x and 50x the bet being won whenever 3, 4, or 5 of them land.
A special Samurai Feature will then begin, which is a free spins game where you get to pick from 5 options. You can choose just 5 free spins, but any wins created with the help of the wild symbol will be multiplied by 10x, 15x, or 30, while the second option is for 8 free games and any wild wins multiplied by 8x, 10x, or 15x.
A further choice is for 10 bonus games and multipliers of 5x, 8x, or 10x, or you could go for 15 spins and 3x, 5x, or 8x multipliers. Lastly, if you want lots of spins, but smaller wild multiplier values, then you can choose to have 20 bonus games, and if the wild completes a line, the amount won will be 2x, 3x, or 5x the base amount.
As if that’s not enough of a reward, the fan symbol will pay random prizes of between 2x to 50x the total bet if it appears on reels 1 and 5 at once during the free spins games, and you can retrigger the round, over and over, if any 3 or more scatters land in a single bonus spin.
Gold Worth Fighting For?
The Warriors Gold video slot is in many ways, a fairly standard game. The 243 Ways to Win format is quite popular, but nothing unique, and in the normal run of things, fairly basic playing card symbols, or picture symbols that are similar to those seen on other Asian-influenced casino slot games, will fill the reels.
What sets this slot apart, and makes it well worth a try, is the free spins bonus feature, which can lead to some huge rewards to cash out for anyone who manages to land winning combinations and has chosen the higher win multipliers.
