4 Gold Carts

4 Gold Carts Slot Review

Four loaded ore carts sit parked on a ledge above the reels, gold heaped to the rim, and they never tip a nugget into the game below. That’s 4 Gold Carts in miniature: a slot that displays its wealth everywhere except the paytable. The cavern behind it glows like a furnace, the gems are polished to a shine, and the reels underneath are carrying pocket change.

Kendoo has built the game around its jackpot ladder rather than the four feature banners cycling overhead: a 5×3 grid, 25 fixed paylines and a 95.72% RTP carry the basics, while a 3,000x Royal sits at the top of a five-step prize ladder. The base pays are modest, the bonus game strips the reels down to three symbol types, and the feature banners are named without being explained. Those carts stay loaded; nothing in the rules tells you how to empty them.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across the 25 lines, and the line count is fixed, so there’s no adjustable ways system to think about. Coinciding wins on different lines are added together. Only the highest combination on each line counts.

It’s a traditional setup, played out against a glossy 3D mine scene with embers drifting up through the dark. The paytable is dynamic, which means the payout figures it shows you are calculated for the stake you’ve set rather than being fixed credit amounts. Change the bet and every displayed value moves with it.

The winning amount appears in the WIN field only when the last round was a winning one, so the display keeps quiet about losses. Symbols can also arrive stacked on the reels, including the miner, which is how the bigger base wins get built on a grid this size.

Symbols and Paytable

The paytable scales with your bet, so these values hold at any stake as multiples of it:

• Donkey: 0.1x, 0.5x, 2x and 6x for two, three, four and five on a line
• Green Cap, Lantern, Backpack: 0.3x, 0.8x and 2x for three, four and five
• Pickaxe, Gold Pan: 0.2x, 0.4x and 1.5x for three, four and five

That’s a shallow table, and it tells you early where this game’s money actually lives. Note that the Donkey is the only symbol that pays for a two-of-a-kind, so the low end of every other line starts at three. The drops between tiers are steep too.

Five Donkeys on a line returns 6x the stake, which won’t move a balance much on its own. The mid-tier equipment symbols, the Green Cap, Lantern and Backpack, all share one pay schedule, and the Pickaxe and Gold Pan share another below them. Two symbols per rung keeps the table compact rather than deep.

The wild stands in for everything except the Bonus and Jackpot symbols, which is its whole job here. It can complete any standard paying line. It won’t help form bonus triggers or jackpot wins.

The Four Feature Banners

Above the reels sit four banner labels that cycle through play:

• EXPAND
• POWER
• COLLECT
• MULTI

What any of them actually does is never explained anywhere in the game. The names suggest the usual toolkit: something grows, something strengthens, something gathers, something multiplies. That’s reading the labels, not the rules.

Four named hooks with nothing written behind them leaves you to discover the mechanics spin by spin. For a game that otherwise documents its behaviour carefully, it’s a strange gap. The banners are also the only visible sign of variety in a base game that, on paper, is a wild and a paytable.

Jackpot Ladder

The ladder runs down the side of the screen, and it’s the biggest set of numbers this game puts anywhere:

• Royal: 3,000x the bet
• Grand: 1,000x the bet
• Major: 75x the bet
• Minor: 30x the bet
• Mini: 15x the bet

A gem marked MAJOR appears on the reels and ties into that ladder, so the prizes aren’t just decoration on the frame. The credit amounts on screen scale with your stake, which is why the multiples above are the figures worth remembering. The Royal is the game’s maximum win, and it’s a serious ceiling for a 5×3 grid.

The shape of the ladder matters as much as its top. There’s a big gap between the Grand at 1,000x and the Major at 75x, so the two headline prizes stand well apart from the three beneath them. Minor and Mini, at 30x and 15x, are the kind of steps a decent session can realistically brush against.

4 Gold Carts Bonus Game

The bonus game rebuilds the reels around three symbol types only: Bonus, Jackpot and Feature symbols. Everything else drops away. Bonus symbols carry printed values of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5x the total bet, so every one that lands is worth reading.

Random Bonus

Random Bonus is triggered through the feature purchase rather than by landing scatters. It plays at the bet you triggered it with, and you can’t buy it without the balance to cover it. There’s no retrigger rule stated, so what you buy is what you get.

Super Bonus

Super Bonus follows the same rules: bought, not triggered, played at the triggering bet, and unavailable if your balance can’t cover the purchase. The name implies a step up from Random Bonus, though the game doesn’t spell out what separates the two.

Presumably the Super version loads the stripped-back reels more generously, but that’s inference, not rule. What’s certain is that both rounds run on the same three-symbol reels with the same jackpot ladder in play. The difference, whatever it is, shows up in how those reels behave once you’re inside.

The Feature Purchase

Both bonus rounds enter through the same route, and a cart-shaped button in the control panel is where it happens. No price is displayed for either purchase, so the cost of buying your way in is only visible once you’re at the menu itself.

Because both rounds play at the triggering bet, whatever you paid for the buy doesn’t inflate or shrink the values inside. The Bonus symbols still read 1 through 5x the total bet, and the jackpot ladder still steps from Mini up to Royal at the stake you were holding when you pressed the button.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.1/10

Playing this is mostly waiting in a very pretty mine. The spins come, the embers drift up, and the line wins that connect are small enough that the ladder is the only reason to be here at all. If you’re the sort who checks the prize steps before anything else, that reason is a good one.

The strength is the ladder itself: a 3,000x top step on a 5×3 grid is generous, and the Major at 75x is close enough to feel reachable, which most ladders never manage. The weakness is everything holding it up. The banners carry no rules, the base pays barely register, and the two bought bonuses are sold without a word on what separates them.

So it suits jackpot hunters who don’t need their mechanics explained, and it will leave anyone who reads paytables first feeling short-changed. The carts stay loaded either way, glowing over a game that puts its real money somewhere other than the reels. For the right player, that somewhere is exactly the point.

4 Gold Carts FAQs

• What is the RTP of 4 Gold Carts?

  4 Gold Carts runs at 95.72% RTP. It’s a single stated figure, with no alternate configurations mentioned for different bet modes or purchases.
• How many paylines does 4 Gold Carts have?

  There are 25 paylines, and the number is fixed. You can’t reduce the line count to lower your stake, so every spin covers all 25 lines.
• What is the grid size of 4 Gold Carts?

  It’s a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with wins paying left to right across the fixed lines.
• Who makes 4 Gold Carts?

  4 Gold Carts is made by Kendoo, a studio whose releases appear alongside other Games Global suppliers.
• Can you buy the bonus on 4 Gold Carts?

  Yes. Both the Random Bonus and Super Bonus are triggered through a feature purchase, reached from a cart-shaped button in the control panel. No price is shown until you’re at the buy menu, and you can’t complete a purchase without the balance to cover it.
• What does the wild substitute for in 4 Gold Carts?

  The wild substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus and Jackpot symbols. So it can complete any of the standard paying lines, but it won’t help form bonus triggers or jackpot wins.
• Which symbols appear during the 4 Gold Carts bonus game?

  Only three symbol types appear during the bonus game: Bonus symbols, Jackpot symbols and Feature symbols. Everything else is removed from the reels, and Bonus symbols carry values of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5x the total bet.
• What are the jackpot tiers in 4 Gold Carts?

  The ladder has five steps, expressed as multiples of your bet: Royal at 3,000x, Grand at 1,000x, Major at 75x, Minor at 30x and Mini at 15x. The Royal is the game’s maximum win, and the credit amounts shown on screen scale with your stake, so the multiples are the figures that matter.