Aztec Gold Mines Slot Machine

Aztec Gold Mines is not your typical slot machine. In this game, provider iSoftBet wanted to create an experience that's extremely faithful to the title: there are no reels to spin, but instead you must pick squares on the grid trying to find as many paying symbols as possible. It feels like digging in a real mine, consisting of a 5x5 layout hosting 25 icons. The RTP varies from a minimum of 96% to 98.88% and the volatility is considered high.

Aztec Gold Mines slot: features

Anyone who tries Aztec Gold Mines is invited to venture into a prize-rich mine and attempt, by digging, to find as many winning squares as possible. The background is wild: you find yourself in a forest with a snake ready to strike and a hungry jaguar lurking beside the reels. The music is pleasant, composed with typical Mesoamerican melodies and, while not invasive, can be turned off at any time using the icon at the bottom left.

How to win at Aztec Gold Mines

As mentioned, this game doesn't follow typical slot machine mechanics, but feels more like a "Scratch Card", as you need to click on icons arranged on the grid and try to hit only those that return a prize. There are indeed two possibilities:

• Win multiplier;
• Montezuma Mine.

For each multiplier discovered, the win increases by the amount shown in the table on the right: this announces the amount of the next win and the number of squares already uncovered.

On the left side of the screen are options that allow you to customize not only the bet but also the number of winning squares: fewer Montezuma Mines means a lower maximum prize can be obtained by uncovering all winning squares.

Increasing the number of mines naturally increases the game's difficulty: this explains why the return to player (RTP) value in this slot is considered variable. Selecting the minimum possible number of mines, which is 1, the RTP is 98.88%. Selecting the maximum number of mines on screen, which is 15, and taking the spin to the highest possible difficulty, you can get a maximum prize of €61,200.

Symbols and combinations

In each game, players can decide to vary the number of mines present on the screen and, based on these, obtain a maximum number of squares to uncover. The options offered by the game are:

• 1 mine and 24 clicks - max RTP 98.88%;
• 2 mines and 23 clicks - max RTP 97.52%;
• 3 mines and 20 clicks - max RTP 97.68%;
• 5 mines and 15 clicks - max RTP 97.60%;
• 7 mines and 12 clicks - max RTP 97.20%;
• 10 mines and 8 clicks - max RTP 97.20%;
• 15 mines and 5 clicks - max RTP 96.80%.

The betting range goes from a minimum of €1 per game to a maximum of €300. Based on the bet and selected mines, the maximum prize changes. With just 1 mine and the lowest bet, you can win a maximum of €24 by uncovering all winning squares; with 15 mines and the highest bet amount, you have the chance to win up to €61,200.

Prizes obtained can be withdrawn at any time by clicking the "Cash Out" button on the left. This, of course, ends the game. Continuing to play gives you the chance to multiply the coins already obtained, but if you uncover a Montezuma Mine square, you'll lose the entire bounty.

Pros and cons of Aztec Gold Mines slot

As always, iSoftBet proves to be a software house capable of surprising its users, offering original and innovative game mechanics that eliminate any risk of boredom or banality. This, of course, is also the case with Aztec Gold Mines, which features gameplay more similar to a scratch card rather than traditional slot machine dynamics. The slot's strengths, besides graphics and sound, are the multiple betting possibilities: each player can freely choose to increase the game's difficulty level, which makes each game particularly exciting.

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