Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz: Slot Overview

If you’ve already had your fill of fishing slots and/or leprechaun-themed games, you might want to avert your eyes. That’s because Game Global partner Gameburger Studios has bundled both ideas—leprechauns and fishing—into one spectacularly unoriginal package. And it’s not just review fatigue talking after wading through a pile of fishing titles. Even setting the theme aside, Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz offers virtually zero fresh ideas, as it’s a digit-for-digit clone of fellow developer Fortune Factory Studios’ slot Gold Blitz (which also ties it to Mask of Amun and Blazing Bison Gold Blitz).

That said, some players are perfectly happy with a familiar formula, so let’s cast a line and see what’s here. Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz is set in a very green woodland scene beside a small stream where the fish are supposedly caught. From a visual standpoint, there isn’t much worth reporting. Still, it’s undeniably a shiny, bright, colourful, leprechaun-styled slot that fits neatly into the Emerald Isle category. Next.

Up next is the maths behind Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz. As noted earlier, it’s a straight reskin of Gold Blitz, so the numbers are identical. You’re looking at a highly volatile slot with a default RTP of 96.25%. Those figures apply when staking 20 p/c to $/€50 per spin; the RTP rises to 96.95% when the bonus round is purchased.

Fishin’ Pots of Gold: Gold Blitz uses a 6 reels setup with 4 symbols per reel, creating 4,096 ways to win. Standard ways wins land when matching symbols appear on adjacent reels starting from the left of the grid. The paytable also blends the two themes: lower-value symbols are Celtic-styled 9-A card royals, followed by a dragonfly, a lure, a fishing jacket, a tackle box, and a top-hatted fish as the premium icons. A low-paying 6-symbol hit returns 1 to 1.5 times the bet, while a 6 premium symbol win pays 2 to 5 times the bet. Mushroom-decorated wild symbols lend a hand by substituting for any regular paying symbol. In the base game, wilds can land on reels 2 to 6. During free spins, they appear on reels 2, 3, and 4.

Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz: Slot Features

Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz can activate the Collect feature in both the base game and the Gold Blitz. Beyond that, the key additions are free spins and a bonus buy option.

Collect Feature

The Collect symbol can show up on every reel in the base game and the Gold Blitz. When a Collect symbol lands, any Cash symbols or Jackpot symbols currently visible are collected. There are three Jackpots—minor, major, and mega—valued at 25x, 250x, and 2,500x the bet, respectively.

Scatter Symbol

Hitting at least 3 scatter symbols on the reels awards a payout, and players get to choose between the two bonus rounds:

• 3 scatter symbols – 1x the bet, and either 8 free spins or 2 Gold Blitz spins.
• 4 scatter symbols – 2x the bet, and either 12 free spins or 3 Gold Blitz spins.
• 5 scatter symbols – 3x the bet, and either 20 free spins or 5 Gold Blitz spins.
• 6 scatter symbols – 5x the bet, and either 30 free spins or 7 Gold Blitz spins.

Free Spins

While in free spins, an x2, x3, or x5 multiplier is randomly awarded each time a wild in a way win occurs. Every wild multiplier boosts the win on the relevant way. Landing 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters grants an extra 5, 8, 12, 20, or 30 free spins, respectively.

Gold Blitz

In the Gold Blitz, only Collect, Cash, and Jackpot symbols can appear. At least one Collect symbol will land on each spin, so a win is guaranteed on each spin. Gold Blitz cannot be retriggered.

Bonus Buy

With the bonus buy feature, players can start the bonus round with 4, 5, or 6 scatters for 75x, 120x, or 150x the bet, respectively. After it triggers, you can pick free spins or Gold Blitz spins exactly as if the feature had been won normally. When purchasing 4 or 5 scatters, there is a chance that extra scatters may land.

Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz: Slot Verdict

Gameburger Studios is starting to resemble that student who delivered one killer line on day one, had the whole room laughing, and then never quite matched it again. 9 Masks of Fire was the studio’s big moment, giving a major boost to the scatter symbol/instant prize win style of gameplay, which has continued to flourish in the years since. Titles like 9 Pots of Gold and similar releases have done well too, but it still feels like the provider has already hit its high point—or at least hasn’t yet recaptured the same impact it once had.

Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz doesn’t exactly help the studio’s case. Being a clone—not only of an earlier game, but of another developer’s earlier game—hardly signals bold creativity. If it weren’t a leprechaun slot, or a fishing slot, or a mashup of both, and instead used a genuinely new theme, the overall experience might have felt more refreshed. But no: as if there weren’t already enough leprechaun and fishing games floating around, here’s yet another hollow copy for the pile.

Even so, plenty of players like what they already know, so maybe Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz will find an audience. Stranger outcomes have happened in gambling, and its 5,000x the bet maximum win is nothing to sneeze at. On the downside, we’ll finish by saying that with all the layers of reuse on display, for us, Milli Vanilli miming live had more artistic value than Fishin’ Pots of Gold Gold Blitz manages.