Black gold and Texas tea are colloquial expressions associated with oil, and this valuable commodity features in the theme of Rival Gaming’s latest 5 reel 20 pay-line i-slot, dubbed Gusher’s Gold.
The scene is a Texas oilfield, and it is depicted with relevant graphics like longhorn-adorned cars, expensive cigars, hard hats, land deeds, bundles of greenbacks, oil barrels and hard drinkin’ Texas tycoons.
The latter is the jackpot symbol, delivered when at least five appear on the pay-lines, whilst the oil barrels serve as Wilds, enabling the development of winning combinations. A tiara-crowned Texas princess is the other rewarding icon to look out for, delivering up to 15 free spins, dependent on the number that appear, where wins are tripled.
Oil derricks are at the centre of all oil drilling, and in this game these are appropriately the bonus symbol – get three across the pay-lines and a second screen bonus opens up in which the player has a single choice from three oil rigs. Having chosen the rig, the player then interacts with the software in selecting the depth of the drilling…and the subsequent reward, which can include repeat bonus rounds.
A secondary bonus is randomly awarded by the software and is centred on a jackpot meter on-screen, which if filled with crude will deliver a reward.