Drill that Gold Slot Review

Drill that Gold Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Drill that Gold slot has 5 reels, 3 rows and 20 fixed paylines. All symbols pay from left to right on the selected paylines with 3 or more matching symbols required.

Bet levels vary from 20p to £100 a spin. Either side of the Spin button are plus and minus buttons. These allow you to change your stake easily. You can select the number of coins per payline and the coin value with a few clicks. Not available to UK players, there are Autoplay and Quick Spin functions too.

The Drill that Gold RTP is 96.49% which is high for an online slot game but in line with most Pragmatic Play slots. The variance or volatility is very high (5/5) with less wins on average for the chances of a big win in a short time spin being higher than usual.

Payouts wise, the maximum win is 5,000 x your total stake. The bigger wins will come from the cash prizes that will land during the Gold Spins feature.

Theme – dust off your pickaxe to strike gold

With a gold mining theme, the Drill that Gold slot sees you dive into the world of endless wealth as you dust off your pickaxe. Set in a mining shaft, you’ll see a miner to the right of the reels and a mechanical drill above the play area. With high definition graphics, it does look like countless other slots with the same theme (i.e. Fire in the Hole from Nolimit City).

Symbols on the reels include standard A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. The higher value symbols include pickaxes, lanterns, carts full of gold nuggets, diamonds and the miner himself. The miner symbol is the top paying giving you 2.5, 5 or 12.5 x stake for 3, 4 or 5 across a payline.

The detonator is the wild symbol and substitutes for all symbols except the drill bonus. It appears on all 5 reels and pays like the miner symbol (up to 12.5 x your total stake).

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.25, 0.5 or 1 x stake
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.25, 0.5 or 1.25 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 1.5 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1 or 2 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 1.25 or 2.5 x stake
Pickaxe	3, 4 or 5 = 1, 2 or 4 x stake
Lantern	3, 4 or 5 = 1.25, 2.5 or 5 x stake
Cart full of Gold Nuggets	3, 4 or 5 = 1.5, 3 or 6 x stake
Diamond	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 4 or 7 x stake
Miner	3, 4 or 5 = 2.5, 5 or 12.5 x stake
Detonator Wild	Substitutes for all symbols + pays up to 12.5 x stake
Drill Bonus	3+ triggers Gold Spins feature

Drill that Gold Mobile

With Pragmatic Play creating all their slots using HTML5 technology, Drill that Gold is available to play on all devices including mobiles and tablets. The 5×3 grid is perfect for smaller devices but preferable on a laptop or PC due to more clarity.

Drill that Gold Bonus Features

The Drill that Gold slot comes with 4 bonus features. There are cash prizes to be won from 3 features. The main one is the Gold Spins features where unlimited free spins can be won. Golden drill symbols land which expand and give you cash prizes up to 1,000 x stake.

Drill feature

In the base game, a full vertical stack of miner symbols can land on any reel. When this happens, the Drill feature activates and transforms into a silver drill symbol. After expanding, the silver drill transforms into a wild reel and can reveal a cash prize between 2 and 100 x your total stake.

Spin Modifiers feature

At the end of a non-winning spin, the Spin Modifiers feature can be activated. You’ll win at least 10 x your total stake or land more drill bonus symbols so you trigger the Gold Spins feature.

Gold Spins feature

The Gold Spins feature is triggered when landing 3, 4 or 5 drill bonus symbols. This will give you 6, 8 or 10 free spins respectively.

In the feature, a new type of drill appears along with the silver drill, the golden drill. After the golden drill expands, it transforms into a wild reel and guaranteed to give you a cash prize between 5 and 1,000 x your total stake. This is 10 times higher than from the Drill feature in the base game.

When the miner symbol lands, the reel nudges up or down to give you a full vertical stack which transforms into a silver or golden drill. Landing 2, 3, 4 or 5 drill bonus symbols will give you 4,6, 8 or 10 additional free spins. There’s an infinite number of free spins to play with.

Ante Bet feature

Like with other Pragmatic Play games, there’s an Ante Bet feature. Your stake increases by 25% if activated. As a result, all the drills will be golden drills which guarantee you a cash prize when they land.

Drill that Gold Review Summary – gold nuggets are hard to come by

The Drill that Gold slot is visually quite similar to other mining themed games. With the theme being so popular, the gameplay needs to stand out. Unfortunately, the gameplay is pretty mundane with the Drill feature giving you cash prizes up to 100 x stake.

On each spin or free spin, a screen full of the highest value symbol (the miner and/or wilds) will result in a 250 x stake payout. Even the presence of wild reels doesn’t excite me much.

With 5,000 x stake max wins available, you will need the big cash prizes in the Gold Spins feature to work their magic. The highest cash prize is 1,000 x bet meaning you need this a few times to achieved the advertised top payout. The 5,000 x bet max win can be won in the feature as a whole and not per free spin.

As mentioned, the mining theme is extremely popular but Drill that Gold doesn’t dig deep enough to make a name for itself. Other options like Bonanza Megaways (Big Time Gaming) and Cash Mine (Skywind) have better bonus features and offer more in the way of bonus features.