Come with us to Finn’s Golden Tavern and have a pint with our mate, the good leprechaun Finn. After a huge success of the Finn and the Swirly Spin video slot, NetEnt decided to release Finn’s Golden Tavern, a 5-reel, 5-row video slot that benefits from Cluster Pays and Cascading Reels. Sit at the table and follow the map to pocket up to 1,000x the bet in a single spin.
Playable from $0.10 per spin, the 2019 release is taking you to a classic Irish tavern, where leprechauns drink beer, vine, all sorts of booze, and even a fist fight might be on the menu. At the table you will see knives, dice, compass, a pint of beer, basically everything you may need in a tavern. Collect Coins to win instant prizes, watch the Leprechaun performs the Fist Slam feature to give you wins, and trigger free spins with increasing win multipliers.
The NetEnt product features the same type of reel grid as the original, 5x5, and offers the same spin mechanics. Thanks to cascading reels, avalanches and cluster pays, players need to form a cluster of three or more matching symbols horizontally or vertically. The winning icons disappear, making room for new ones to enter and make new winning combos. Betting starts at $0.10 per spin, and you cannot wager more than $500 at once.
The control panel is pretty standard, offering all the usual options, including Fast Forward, which speeds the reels up a bit, as well as the Autoplay, where gamers who want to sit back and enjoy the show can activate up to 1,000 automatic spins.
On the reels you will see plenty of Coins, which carry different values that will be instantly paid out to you when you match at least three of them. Star Wild will substitute for all regular symbols and will appear only after a win. The Chest is Scatter that triggers the Free Spins feature. Also, since we are sitting in a tavern where everybody drinks, there will be Vine, Whiskey, Wooden Beer Mugs, and Metal Beer Mugs on the reels.
The First Slam feature is the first feature we will mention. It is triggered randomly after a non-winning spin and will move one Coin symbol to another position where it can create a winning combo. The First Slam feature can only be triggered if there is at least one pair of adjacent Coins on the reels already. Also, there is the Random Coin feature, triggered when the Chest symbol appears in the immediate loop of symbols around the central position. If that is the case, low-paying icons will transform into Coins with a randomly chosen value.
Finally, we have the Free Spins feature, triggered once the Chest symbol reaches the central position on the reel grid. Gamers get 5 freebies with increasing win multipliers. The multiplier meter will increase by 1x every time Wild appears on the reels and also for every five steps you reach during freebies.
It is a common opinion that the original video slot is almost always better than the original, but this time we might make an exception, because, in our humble opinion, Finn’s Golden Tavern offers more than Finn and the Swirly Spin. Excellent visuals, an engaging soundtrack and plenty of additional features will keep you busy at the table in the tavern. Enjoy cascading reels, avalanches and cluster pays and try to get the Chest in the middle position to trigger freebies.
