Bullion Dash: a free Gold Blitz alternative

FAQ

Is this slot played for real money?

No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.

What is the RTP of Bullion Dash?

96.21% if you always choose the free spins and 96.09% if you always choose the Vault Run. The page quotes the lower of the two, 96.09%, so the machine keeps 3.91%. The base game's share is counted exactly from the reel strips and the two bonuses are simulated with the same code the machine plays with. At the smallest bet of 10 chips that works out at about 39 chips per 100 spins on average, with wide swings around it in any one session.

How often does it pay?

30.0% of spins pay something, about 1 in 3. But 15.6% of spins pay less than the bet, which is a net loss that looks like a win. Only 12.7% of spins, about 1 in 8, pay more than they cost. A key collects nuggets on 5.2% of spins, and the bonus choice opens on 0.57%, about 1 spin in 175.

Is Bullion Dash a free alternative to Gold Blitz?

Yes. It is built like Gold Blitz: six reels, four rows, 4,096 ways, cash and jackpot symbols that pay only when a collect symbol lands on reel 1 or reel 6, three fixed jackpots at 25, 250 and 2,500 times the bet, and three or more scatters that pay and offer a choice between free spins and a bonus with a guaranteed collect on every spin. It has a bonus buy at the same three prices in bets. It is free, it needs no account, and it is played with chips that have no value. It is not Gold Blitz itself, which is made by Fortune Factory Studios and published by Games Global, and it is not made, licensed or endorsed by either.

How is it different from Gold Blitz?

The mechanic is the same family and everything else is our own: the name, the art, the sound, the reel strips, the nugget values and the pay table. So the numbers are different too. Bullion Dash returns 96.09% with a 30.0% hit rate, and those are this machine's figures only. They say nothing about Gold Blitz's. Some rules here are our own choices, stated as such: wild multipliers multiply together, two keys collect twice, each lamp count plays a bonus with its own parameters, and a round is capped at 5,000 times the bet. The other difference is what sits beside the reels: the figures for both bonuses on the choice screen, a price and a return on every buy, a status line that calls a payout smaller than its cost a loss, and a session coach.

What does the bonus choice change?

The spread, not the average. Each lamp count's two bonuses are tuned to be worth about the same: at every lamp count their averages are within 1.0 bets of each other. With three lamps the free spins average 46.7 bets and the Vault Run 46.5. What differs is the spread. 47% of those free spins pay under 10 bets, against 0.4% of Vault Runs, and the free spins' deviation is 168.5 bets against 122.2. The free spins are often small and occasionally very large. The Vault Run pays something every spin and gets its top end from the jackpots.

What does the bonus buy cost?

About the same per chip as spinning, in a far bigger piece. The 4 lamp buy costs 75 bets (750 chips at the smallest bet) and returns 96.1% of its price with the free spins and 95.9% with the Vault Run; 78% and 77% of those buys pay back less than they cost. The 5 lamp buy costs 120 bets (1,200 chips at the smallest bet) and returns 96.1% of its price with the free spins and 96.0% with the Vault Run; 76% and 79% of those buys pay back less than they cost. The 6 lamp buy costs 150 bets (1,500 chips at the smallest bet) and returns 95.9% of its price with the free spins and 95.9% with the Vault Run; 74% and 79% of those buys pay back less than they cost. Spinning returns 96.21% or 96.09% of each bet, depending on the bonus you take. So a buy does not change what the machine keeps of each chip. It changes how many chips go in at once: the cheapest buy is 75 spins of stake in one press, and a starting stack of 2,000 chips covers 2 of them at the smallest bet. Most buys pay back less than they cost, and the average is carried by the few that pay far more.

How often do the jackpots pay?

They are fixed prizes of 25, 250 and 2,500 times the bet. Nothing is pooled and nothing grows. If you always take the free spins, a paid spin collects the Minor about once in 990 spins, the Major once in 15,688 and the Mega once in 156,847. If you always take the Vault Run, where every spin collects, those become once in 429, 6,367 and 63,391. Jackpots collected in the base game return 5.9% of the chips bet.

Does autoplay change the odds?

No. Every spin is drawn the same way and the return stays 96.09%. What it changes is speed: more spins fit into an hour, and the cost of an hour is the number of spins times the 3.91% the machine keeps on each. That is why autoplay here will not start without a loss limit, and why it hands the bonus choice back to you instead of making it.

Can I tell when a win is coming?

No. Each reel stops on its own, every stop on a strip is equally likely, and a spin starts from nothing. Nuggets in view with no key are not a sign that a key is close: they pay exactly what a blank screen pays. Two Signal Lamps do not make a third more likely on the next spin.