Drill That Gold Slot Review

Drill That Gold is a brand new online slot from Pragmatic Play that is themed on mining for gold. The game has exceptional graphics and animations and is available for both free practice play and real money play. Play this game for a chance to win up to 5,000x your total bet.

Score wins with the wild symbol and triggers the free spins bonus round by landing at least 3 scatter symbols. Other features include the Spin Modifier which enables you to pick up a reward even if you didn’t land a winning hand, and the Drill feature. 

• Pragmatic Play slot with 5 reels and 20 fixed paylines

• 3D quality graphics and realistic animations

• Maximum win of 5000x your wager

• Win up to 10x your bet with the randomly triggered Spin Modifiers

• Win 100x your wager with the randomly triggered Drill feature 

• Win up to 10 free spins with the Gold Bonus feature

• Wins of up to 1000x your wager during the free spins bonus

Drill That Gold is themed on, as is apparent from the title, a hunt for gold. The analogy is quite apparent – you help the miner drill for gold and simultaneously seek out rich rewards and treasure for yourself as you play. 

The higher value symbols include a grumpy-looking miner, a trolley, a huge uncut diamond, a pickaxe and a lamp. The lower-value symbols are the numbers 10 to Ace from a standard card deck.

The WILD symbol replaces all other symbols except the BONUS scatter and helps you put together winning combinations more frequently. The BONUS scatter helps trigger the Gold Spins feature. 

Like all other games from Pragmatic Play, Drill That Gold boasts exceptional 3D quality graphics. The animations are brilliant too, especially the ones that launch the game and the free spins bonus round. 

Pragmatic Play is known for providing games that are loaded to the brim with features, and you see this in this game too. We list and discuss these briefly in this section.

The Drill Feature

Land a full stack of miner symbols vertically on a reel to trigger the Drill feature. The stack of symbols transforms into a silver drill that expands to cover the entire reel. 

The silver screw symbol now acts as a wild and offers a reward of up to 100x your total bet, along with any other wins that you may score with the arrangement of the slots on the reels.

The casino gives you the option of upgrading your bets to convert the silver drill symbol into a gold drill symbol, thereby guaranteeing bigger wins when it materializes.

Spin Modifiers

Drill That Gold offers you the opportunity to win rewards even if you didn’t land a win with the Spin Modifier feature. This feature triggers at random at the end of a winless spin and gives you the opportunity to win one of the following 2 things: 

• Up to 10x your total bet
• Sufficient BONUS scatter symbols to trigger the Gold Spins bonus feature

Gold Spins Bonus

Land a minimum of 3 BONUS scatter symbols to trigger the Gold Spins bonus feature and win free spins. The number of free spins you win depends on the number of BONUS scatter symbols you land:

• Land 3 BONUS symbols to collect 6 free spins
• Land 4 BONUS symbols to collect 8 free spins.
• Land 5 BONUS symbols to collect 10 free spins.

There is an exciting feature embedded into the free spins bonus – along with the silver drill you also get the golden drill, and it expands to cover the entire reel and function as a wild to give you some really big wins. Between the silver and the golden drill, you could win rewards of up to 1,000x your total bet!

While the free spins are on, whenever you land a miner symbol on a reel it stacks up to cover the whole reel and then transforms into a silver or golden drill and acts as a wild symbol to give you some good wins.

You can re-trigger the free spins by landing the BONUS symbol again while the feature is active. The number of free spins you are able to re-trigger depends on the number of BONUS symbols you land:

• 4 free spins for 2 BONUS symbols
• 6 free spins for 3 BONUS symbols
• 8 free spins for 4 BONUS symbols
• 10 free spins for 5 BONUS symbols

Drill That Gold is available in both free practice and real money play modes. To play for real money, here is what you do. 

Once you have signed up with the casino and funded your account, click the Drill That Gold game icon to launch it. Then, set your bet amount. 

To set your bet, click the ‘-‘ or ‘+’ sign on either side of the Spin button to open the Coins and Wager menu and set your bet. To set your bet, choose the number of coins you wish to bet per line and then the coin value. 

The minimum coin value in Drill That Gold is €0.01 and the maximum is €0.50. This means a minimum bet of €0.20 and a maximum bet of €100 (€125 if you consider using the Ante bet).

Once you have chosen your coin size and the number of coins and decided on your wager for the spin, hit the Spin button. Landing the right combinations of symbols will not only reward you with wins but will also trigger the bonuses that we discussed earlier.

Play Drill That Gold in Demo Mode for Free

Whenever you come across a new slot, ensure that you play it in the demo mode for free first so you get a feel of the game-play and the features in the game. Drill That Gold is available for play in the free practice demo mode. 

To play this slot in the free practice mode, click the game icon that you see in this review. Doing so loads the game – courtesy of one of the casinos offering it that we are associated with – complete with dummy casino credits. Use these credits to place your wagers.

Another way of playing it in the demo mode is to visit the Pragmatic Play website, confirm that you are above 18 years of age, and click the game icon to load it. 

Remember, though, that when you play in the free demo mode you will not be able to claim any of the winnings you earn.

How to Win

To win at Drill That Gold, ensure that you land the symbols in the right positions on the reels. The symbols pay only one way – from left to right – on specific paylines only per spin. Each win is multiplied by the wager per line and you receive only the highest win per line.

The amount you win depends on the symbols you land. The maximum win in the base game is about €1,250, by landing 5 miner symbols across the reels. There are bigger wins possible of course; trigger the Drill feature to win up to 100x your wager, or the Gold Spins bonus, to win up to 1,000x your wager. 

Drill That Gold has an excellent theoretical RTP value of 96.49% in the standard play mode. If you choose to use the Ante Bet feature that the casino offers, the RTP value drops marginally to 96.45%. 

This is a game of high volatility so you may not land the bonus features and big wins too soon or even too frequently. We had to play for more than a couple of hours before we were able to land the Gold Spins bonus.

Why South African Players Enjoy Playing Drill That Gold

• Excellent gold mining theme

• Fabulous 3D graphics and animations

• Loads on desktop as well as mobile platforms

• Maximum win of 5000x your bet

• Loads of features to help you win including wilds, multipliers, Drill feature, spin modifiers and the Gold Spins bonus round

Similar Slots 

Drill That Gold is a great slot to get your hands on if you love games with a mining or gold mine theme. However, it is not the only one; this is a popular theme and quite a few other providers have games based on this theme. We list the best of the lot here:

• Gopher Gold: Games Global slot with 5 reels and 5 paylines

• Gold Rush: Pragmatic Play slot with 5 reels and 25 paylines

• More Gold Diggin’: Exciting BetSoft Gaming slot with 5 reels and 25 paylines 

• The Gold Mine: Slot from IGT with 5 reels and 30 paylines

• Super Diamond Mine: RTG slot with 5 reels and 9 paylines