Golden Stallion Ultraways
Golden Stallion Ultraways
Golden Stallion Ultraways slot from Northern Lights Gaming and Microgaming is turning out to be a huge game. But why?
Well it’s all to do with their Ultraways mechanic that is competing with BGT’s Megaways…
Let’s head to the Wild West to see what this game is made of.
The Graphics
A deep dusty canyon is home to your reel set with ponies in the background (including the golden stallion) and fluffy clouds in the blue sky up above. Dangling above the reels you’ll notice a golden Sheriff Badge, while the soundtrack is a banjo-twanging melody that you will have heard before.
Golden Stallion Slot Game Play
Golden Stallion slot comes with 5 reels and 3 rows and 20 pay-lines – although this opens up to almost 200,000 Ultraways if you get to the bonus round.
Place your bets from 0.10 to 50.00 credits per cowboy spin.
Let’s turn our attention to the pay table, shall we? Your premium icons are the Golden Stallion game logo and 4 fillies in black, brown, white, and palomino. Meanwhile, the low-paying reel symbols are represented by the J, Q, K & A playing cards done up in wood.
Your Wild is the gold and red ‘Wild’ symbol, while the buffalo’s skull is the game’s scatter icon.
Each reel icon has a ‘Golden’ version which is worth 6x more than the standard symbols – they will hit the reels in the Golden Spins bonus.
Free Spins and Bonuses
Golden Spins
During play, mystery symbols will hit the reels on every 10 to 20 spins – and the Golden Sheriff’s badge will tell you how many spins are left until the round will trigger.
Next, the mild mannered ponies will rear up at the reels designating hot spot positions that are marked with a green frame. Now these marked spots will become Mystery Symbols transforming into the same randomly selected icon.
You could potentially end up a whole screen full of the same symbol – and don’t forget they are worth x6 more than the standard versions…
Free Spins and Horseshoe Bonus
Land 3x or more of the buffalo skull scatter icons on reels 1, 3 and 5 and you will receive 10 Free Spins! But to determine how many Ultra Ways you’ll be playing with, you must have a go on the Bonus Horseshoe round.
Now, you’ll get 3x free spins on a new reel set. If you hit a horseshoe icon, the reel will highlight in that position and landing another horseshoe in the same position will split the symbol into two. Get another horseshoe icon on the same space and it will split into four. And so on.
After the 3 horseshoe spins, all the icons that are highlighted will be added up, giving you the number of Ultraways you’ll play with. It can go up to 196,608!
Now you’ll get take your free goes with icons landing as normal size, x2 or x4. Plus, the Golden Spins are active, too – which can lead to some very big wins indeed.
The Monkey Verdict
Golden Stallion slot is a first-rate game and it’s hats off to Northern Lights for coming up with such original play.
The Golden Spins keeps the base game both entertaining and lucrative – making it a welcome addition to the world of Wild West themed slots.