Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I see the reels of a game that’s fun. Giant’s Gold is one of the top online casino pokiemachinesfrom WMS Gaming that has golden eggs, magic geese and beanstalks across 2 sets of reels, one of which is, rather appropriately, a Colossal set. While most pokies have 3, or maybe 4 rows of symbols, the Colossal reels are stacked with 12 each, filling one side of the game from top to bottom, while the other set on the left side are a little more conventional, with a 5x4 layout that will be a bit more familiar to players.
All that’s missing from the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk is Jack himself, but he appears to have become Jackie, a beautiful young woman who drapes herself across the beanstalk in a symbol that grows up the reels.
Along with conventional wins in the base game that are created by 3 or more matching symbols landing left to right on adjacent reels across a payline, there’s a wild symbol that will move across from the left reels to the right set and up to 100 free spins can be triggered by the egg, while during these, a multiplier will be attached to each winning spin.
In common with many online pokies from WMS Gaming, Giant’s Gold has a pleasing design, with cartoon style characters. There’s a picture of Jack’s farm, along with the title above the reels on the left side, while below them is a set of control buttons, where players can wager from a low limit of 0.01 per spin to a high limit of 100.00. There’s optional free Giant’s Gold pokierounds to play at many casinos, for anyone who wants to try it out beforehand.
Playing card symbols J, Q, K, and A will land to give out the smaller wins, but like all symbols here, they can be stacked several high on a reel, so it’s a little easier to get a prize that it would first appear to be. A bag of coins a harp, the goose and a cow are the other standard symbols here, but the giant and Jack(ie), are the most valuable, along with the beanstalk wild symbol.
This wild symbol will act as any standard one and by doing so it can complete winning lines, either by filling in the gaps in adjacent reels or extending lines of symbols across the game for a higher payout. Like other symbols, it will also be stacked and any time it appears at least 4 high on the left side set, it will be transferred to the equivalent positions on the Colossal reels, becoming an expanding wild that fills all the reel.
The golden egg can only appear on reels 1, 3 and 5 of either set, so isn’t worth anything on its own, but whenever 3 or more turn up at once, players earn free spins. Although only 5 spins will be awarded when 3 eggs land, because it can be stacked, it’s likely that more eggs will appear and so morespins than this will be triggered, and if a total of 40 golden eggs are laid at once, the maximum of 100 free games will begin.
During these, any winning combination on the Colossalreels will be doubled in value, while the whole round can be retriggered if any 3 or more eggs land after a free spin. The new bonus games will begin once the current round has finished.
This is a popular game in WMS Gaming’s online casinopokierange and like others with Colossal Reels format, such as Zeus II, it’s come with lots of interesting specialfeatures as well. Stacked symbols make things a little simpler, as any reel set with 12 different symbols on each would be very difficult to get a win from, while the pictures of Jackie and the giant will fill each reel that they land on.
The wild can complete plenty of winning lines, and when it moves across to fill the equivalent reel on the Colossal set, players can get 2 wins for the price of 1. The chance of getting 100 free spins sounds quite tempting, but in practice we found it difficult to trigger the bonus games, and having the maximum 40 golden eggs appear at once isn’t an event that players are going to see very often.
However, they shouldn’t let this put them off, as the Giant’s Gold video pokie is a fun game with some well-designed symbols and features to enjoy at the many of the toponline casinos that carry pokies from WMS Gaming.