Badger Miners Slot Review

Badger Miners Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Badger Miners slot has a 5×3 reel setup and 243 ways to win. All Ways, wins are evaluated from left to right, with 3 required as a minimum for a winning combination.

Stakes range from just 20p up to £50 per spin, thus catering to all pockets. Hit the coins icon beside the bet value to open up a list of predefined values. You can choose from 16 values. Autoplay and turbo spins are also options but only for players outside the UK.

The Badger Miners RTP is a flat 96%, which is around the online average for UK online slots of this type. The game comes with a hit frequency of 24.78%, which means that just under a quarter of all spins on average will result in a winner. In terms of volatility, it’s in the high range.

The maximum win is 10,000 x your total stake. This is best achieved in the Free Spins feature due to the extra free spins and numerous multipliers.

Theme – karts full of precious gold

The mining theme is very popular and Yggrasil has given it a try in the past with the Moley Moolah slot, but that was a long time ago. The provider has really thought deeply about what to produce here, and I can honestly say that it looks great compared to a lot of other mining slots. They’ve stuck with the animal theme, but the mole has been replaced by a badger.

The reels are set underground with mining equipment to the left and right of the reels. The visuals look great and the animations when winners land multipliers change look superb. The visuals don’t change when the Free Spins feature lands, but the audio is more upbeat. The soundtrack in the base game is more mellow and jingly. Is that a word? You’ll know what I mean when you hear it.

On the reels, there are many different coloured gemstones which make up the lower-paying symbols. These are joined by different types of equipment a miner could have – a bag and a flask, a shovel and a pickaxe. There are 2 badger symbols too, one in red and one in blue. The badger wearing the red hat is the most lucrative symbol, paying 10, 20 or 50 x your total stake if 3, 4 or 5 land in combination.

The game’s Wild is a mining cart full of gold. It’s actually called a Cash Wild and they will appear on the middle 3 reels only to potentially reward you with some great cash prizes.

The Scatter is a stick of dynamite, and 5 of those will trigger the Free Spins feature. Any Scatters on the reels are collected in a meter, which resets at the end of a respin. Here’s a list of all the symbols you will come across in the game:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Blue Gemstone	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 4 or 6 x stake
Turquoise Gemstone	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 4 or 6 x stake
Green Gemstone	3, 4 or 5 = 2, 4 or 6 x stake
Purple Gemstone	3, 4 or 5 = 3, 5 or 8 x stake
Orange Gemstone	3, 4 or 5 = 3, 5 or 8 x stake
Red Gemstone	3, 4 or 5 = 3, 5 or 8 x stake
Bag & Flask	3, 4 or 5 = 4, 8 or 12 x stake
Shovel	3, 4 or 5 = 4, 8 or 12 x stake
Pickaxe	3, 4 or 5 = 5, 10 or 15 x stake
Badger with Blue Hat	3, 4 or 5 = 8, 12 or 20 x stake
Badger with Red Hat	3, 4 or 5 = 10, 20 or 50 x stake
Cash Wild	Can land on middle 3 reels + trigger respins
Scatter	Collect 5+ to trigger Free Spins feature

Badger Miners Mobile

Released on the 6th of July 2023, the Badger Miners mobile slot has been produced using the latest HTML5 technology. Detecting what device you play with, it’s compatible with mobile, PC, laptop and tablet devices. Smartphone users can enjoy this game on all iOS and Android devices, and the 5×3 reel setup plays well on smaller screens.

Badger Miners Bonus Features

There are 4 bonus features in the Badger Miners slot game. There’s a Free Spins feature where extra spins are possible. There’s also a Wild Respins feature, a buy feature where you can purchase the Free Spins feature and colour-coded multipliers. Read on as we elaborate on everything so that you can fully understand what’s going on.

Multipliers and Operators

Multipliers are colour coded into 3 categories on the middle 3 reels – low, medium and high. Operators + and * can appear between the multipliers and the values are randomly selected. The operation sequence is always from left to right. Here’s an example:

Wild Respins feature

Cash Wilds can land on the middle 3 reels, and if they’re part of a win, they’ll collect the win amounts in which that Wild was involved in. This will then initiate a Respins where Cash Wilds move up 1 cell.

During the Respins, multipliers do not change. You will run out of Respins as soon as no Cash Wilds are involved in a win.

Free Spins feature

Collecting 5 Scatters in the base game of the Badger Miners slot game will award 7 free spins. Every additional Scatter landing to trigger the bonus round will award 2 extra free spins.

This bonus feature works in the same way as the base game with the following exceptions:

• Wilds that have not made it to the top of the reels over Respins will remain with the collected value for the next spin.
• The are no Scatters at all in this bonus feature.

Non-UK players can purchase the Free Spins feature for 95 x stake.

Badger Miners Review Summary – simple but entertaining gameplay

The gameplay in the Badger Miners slot is pretty simple and easy to understand, but it keeps you entertained with the Cash Wilds and the multipliers that are constantly changing. The visuals are brilliant too, and the bold colours make this a really eye-catching game.

The Free Spins feature doesn’t differ too much from the base game, which is another reason why it’s really easy to follow how the game works. Yggdrasil also states that the Free Spins feature is triggered more frequently than other slots, and I have to agree. I triggered it quite a lot during testing, although a lot of the time my wins by the end of a lot of those bonus rounds were fairly low.

Overall, this is a really nice slot to the never-ending list of mining-themed titles. Feel free to try our demo first before deciding whether to use real money.