4 Fantastic Vikings Hold the Gold Slot Review

About the Game

4 Fantastic Vikings Hold the Gold is a 6-reel slot with 4,096 ways to win, developed by 4ThePlayer. In “ways-to-win” slots, there are no traditional paylines, making it easier to track your wins. A win is formed by landing consecutive symbols, starting from the first reel.

Spin for big wins: Coins collected during the base game fill the Viking Pots and can trigger the Viking Respin feature! During the Viking Respin, all active Viking symbols lock in place on the reels, paving the way for massive fortunes! Landing 6 or more cash prizes triggers the Cash Respin feature, offering the chance for powerful payouts! Land Bonus scatters to unlock Free Spins, where the Viking Pots are triggered even more frequently!

Buy Bonus

A player can instantly trigger one of three features:

VIKING FREE SPINS: Land 3 or more Bonus Scatters.
RESPINNER: A guaranteed Viking Respinner or Cash Respinner.
SUPER RESPINNER: A guaranteed Viking Respinner with double-stacked Viking multipliers, or a Cash Respinner.

The feature buy option is available only in the base game.

Game Rules

• Wild

The Wild symbol substitutes for any symbol, except for Scatters and Cash Prizes.
Wild symbols do not have a payout and can appear on any reel except the first one.

• Bonus Scatter

3 or more Bonus Scatters in view trigger the “Viking Free Spins” bonus. Bonus Scatters can land on any reel.

• Coins

Coins can appear on any Viking symbol.

For more information, see the “TRIGGERING THE BONUS WITH COINS” section.

Cash Prizes

Cash prizes can land on any reel.
They can appear with the following values:
0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 30x, 50x, 100x
For more information, see the “CASH RESPINNER BONUS” section.

Bonus Triggered By Coins

Viking symbols can land in the base game alongside a Coin.
Above the reels, there is a collection pot for each Viking.
When a Coin lands, it is added to the collection pot corresponding to the Viking symbol that appeared with it.
Each time one or more Coins land during a spin, there is a chance to trigger the “Viking Respin” feature, with the corresponding Viking becoming active.
Only one Viking can be activated for the “Viking Respin” bonus per spin.
The collection pots in the base game are for visual entertainment only and do not indicate how close you are to triggering the feature.

Viking Respinner Bonus

The Viking Respinner can be triggered whenever a Coin is added to the Viking Pot.
When the Viking Pot is activated, the Viking Respinner begins with the corresponding Viking Symbol set as active.
During the Viking Respinner, all active Viking Symbols remain locked in their positions on the reels.
The remaining reel positions spin again; if new instances of the active Viking Symbol land, they also become locked in place.
This continues until no more new instances of the Viking Symbol land on the reels.
Winnings are then calculated and paid out in the usual manner.

Cash Respinner Bonus

The “Cash Respinner” bonus can be triggered when 6 or more Cash Prizes land on the reels.
During the Cash Respinner, any new Cash Prizes that land are locked in place on the reels.
Incrementer symbols may land with an associated cash value during the Cash Respinner. If an Incrementer symbol lands, its cash value is added to all other Cash Prizes currently on the reels. Incrementer symbols do not lock in place and are not themselves added to the final total win.
Incrementer symbols can land with the following values: 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 30x, 50x, 100x.
All other reel positions continue to respin; if new Cash Prizes land, they are locked in place.
This process continues until no further new Cash Prizes or Viking symbols land.
Once the respins conclude, the player is awarded the total sum of all Cash Prizes present on the reels.

Viking Free Spins Bonus

Landing 3 or more Bonus Scatters triggers the Free Spins bonus.
Landing 2 or more Bonus Scatters during Free Spins awards additional Free Spins.
Please refer to the paytable for more information on the number of Free Spins awarded.
Viking Pots appear more frequently during Free Spins.
During the bonus, Viking symbols that land adjacent to each other on the same reel form stacks.
Viking stacks provide a double-stack multiplier. This means that when calculating winnings, they are counted as double the number of Viking symbols.
For example, 3 Red Viking symbols landing adjacent to each other on a single reel form a stack equivalent to 6 Red Viking symbols on that reel.

How To Calculate Winnings With 4,096 Ways To Win

To calculate the total win across all “ways,” add up the winnings for each symbol. All wins from these ways are summed up after a spin. To calculate the win for a specific symbol, count the number of consecutive reels that contain that symbol, starting from the leftmost reel.
If the number of consecutive reels containing the symbol is 2 or more (counting from the left), find the corresponding payout amount in the paytable.
If any of the reels contain more than one instance of a symbol, the win is multiplied.
Multiply the number of symbols on each of the relevant reels to determine the final payout multiplier.
For example, if there are 2 symbols on the first reel, 3 symbols on the second reel, and 2 symbols on the third reel, the value from the paytable is multiplied by 2 × 3 × 2 = 12.
Simultaneous or overlapping wins across different ways are added together.

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