Pure Gold Pokie
Free spins, jackpot payouts, wild substitutions and lots of images of the objects that can be bought with the big winnings are features on Aristocrats’ Pure Gold pokie.
It’s a classic 5 reel game with 40 paylines and as the name suggests, it’s got gold, gold, everywhere, from bars of the stuff to a gold sportscar, key and even playing cards. The symbols may all look rich, but it’s the bonus features that carry the real rewards and like most games from this developer, they are all a little different to the usual things found in most pokies.
Going For Gold
The game is set against a nice dark red background highlighted with a checker design, while the actual reels are a contrasting grey, with a simple gold framing. Below the main part of the game is the standard Aristocrat control panel where players set their bet sizes from as little as 0.40 per spin.
Wins come from landing 3 identical symbols across any of the 40 paylines on adjacent reels running from the left side and the payout table shows what is won each time this happens.
The gold playing cards are the least valuable symbols, paying 5x, 25x or 75x the amount staked per line for 3, 4 or 5 appearing and in ascending order we see gold bars, a gold heart, gold key, a badge, (in gold), a gold-coloured sports car and a number 7 that pays 50x, 200x or 500x. Can you guess what colour it is?
Pure Gold
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Bullion Bonuses
A shiny diamond is a wild symbol, appearing only on the middle reel and potentially completing winning combinations by acting as all but the scatters when it does so.
Several scatter symbols decorate the game, with white or gold Poker chips being worth 10x, 50x or 200x the total stake when stopping in 3, 4 or 5 spots anywhere on the reels and these can also be mixed on a line to be worth a prize. The other is a gold $ symbol which takes players to the main bonus game when at least 6 appear at once.
A number of free spins, with richer features are launched and players are awarded 6 spins when 6 scatters land, going up to 40 spins if 13 or more scatters appeared at once. During these, the symbols can appear in a twin spin format, where the same symbol is doubled up on adjacent reels leading to a much greater potential for bigger wins.
More scatters can re-trigger the free spins and once any left to play out in the current round have finished, the new ones will commence immediately after.
Pure Gold has a 3-level progressive jackpot, any of whichcan be won in a single spin, in a couple of different ways.It’s possible to win a Minor, Major or Grand progressive jackpot completely at random following a spin and it doesn’t even matter if it was a winner or loser.
Alternatively, landing the white Poker chip symbol across the reels can bring in any of these prizes. Rather than being on a payline, they need to land in a straight row along the top, middle or bottom of the reels. If 3 appear, the Minor jackpot is won, landing 4 wins the Major and the Grand jackpot is paid out for a full row of 5 across the reels.
Pure Genius Or Fools Gold?
Pure Gold is certainly an attractive pokie, with a nice colour scheme, but of course it takes more than pretty pictures to make a game worth playing. Fortunately, it has some nice payout potentials and a couple of excellent bonus features.
The free spins with doubled up symbols is the clear highlight, as during these games the odds of landing a full line of 5 matching icons is considerably improved.
A progressive jackpot prize that could be waiting at the end of each spin is a very nice proposition, especially as it can be won randomly as well as by landing the right symbols in the right places.
The only real downside is that the wild only appears on the middle reel, so it’s not as easy for winning combinations to be created as you would find in the majority of pokies.
Overall however, Pure Gold is yet another quality game from a quality developer.