Gold Party

Gold Party Slot Review

There’s a leprechaun grinning under his top hat, a unicorn, a horseshoe and a mushroom house on these reels, and not one of them can pay your spin back. Gold Party’s paytable is the weakest part of its own game: even a full line of leprechauns returns four times the total bet, so every symbol on screen is really just a placeholder until the pots of gold arrive.

Pragmatic Play have built a 5×3, 25-payline game running at 96.50% RTP, though operators can dial that down to 95.48% or 94.47%. Volatility is low, stakes run from 0.25 to 250 per spin, and the win ceiling sits at 5,163x the bet – comfortably more than stablemates like Rainbow Gold, Pot of Fortune and Clover Gold. The four-matrix jackpot round is where the party actually starts.

How the Base Game Pays

Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost. Only the highest combination counts per payline, and wins across multiple paylines add together. All pays are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet.

The wild lands on reels two, three and four, substituting for every symbol except the money symbol. It doesn’t appear in the respin round at all. Leprechauns pay from two of a kind; everything else needs three.

Symbol pays, as multiples of the total bet:

• Leprechaun – 0.2x for two, 0.8x for three, 1.6x for four, 4x for five
• Unicorn – 0.6x for three, 1x for four, 2x for five
• Horseshoe – 0.4x for three, 0.8x for four, 1.2x for five
• Mushroom House / Harp – 0.2x for three, 0.6x for four, 1.2x for five
• A / K – 0.2x for three, 0.6x for four, 1x for five
• Q / J – 0.2x for three, 0.4x for four, 0.8x for five
• 10 / 9 – 0.2x for three, 0.4x for four, 0.6x for five

The spread tells its own story. The best line in the game returns a fraction of the total bet, and even the royals taper gently from there. This is a paytable built to feed the feature, not to pay its own way.

Copy Reels

The base game’s one flourish is Copy Reels. Whenever a full stack of the top-value leprechaun lands on reel one, that stack gets copied onto one or more further reels – potentially all of them – replacing whatever would have landed beneath.

A full screen of leprechauns is the route to the biggest line pays the game offers outside the feature. It’s also the only thing that makes the top symbol worth watching, since a lone stack on reel one does nothing on its own.

The Money Respin Feature

Land six or more money symbols in the base game and everything else stops mattering. Line wins pay out first. Then the regular symbols fade and play moves to four separate 3×5 matrices, labelled GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR and MINI.

The symbols that triggered the round are scattered across those grids in random positions, and you start with eight respins. The round runs until the respins run out or every position is filled.

Only three symbol types appear during the round:

• Money symbol – carries a random value from 0.2x up to 100x the total bet
• Multiplier symbol – reveals 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or 25x and applies it to a random money symbol on any matrix
• Extra Spin symbol – awards one more respin

Everything that lands stays locked in place until the round ends. That’s the whole rhythm of it: each respin either adds to the board or burns one of your eight, and the multipliers can land on any of the four grids at once, so a single spin can move several boards closer to full.

Because the reels inside the feature carry only those three symbols, every spin has a job to do. An empty respin is the only genuinely dead result, and even that can be softened if an Extra Spin symbol lands alongside it to replace the one just spent.

In the base game there’s also a Double Money symbol that counts as two money symbols towards the trigger. It never shows up once the feature is underway – the round has its own symbol set, and that set doesn’t include it.

The Jackpot Ladder

Fill all 15 positions on any single matrix and its fixed jackpot pays out as a multiple of the total bet:

• GRAND – 5,000x
• MAJOR – 200x
• MINOR – 50x
• MINI – 20x

The steps between tiers are steep. MINI to MINOR is two and a half times the pay, MINOR to MAJOR quadruples it, and MAJOR to GRAND multiplies it twenty-five times over. There’s no middle ground on this ladder – it’s a long climb to one big prize at the top.

When the feature finishes, every money symbol’s value is summed, any jackpots are added, and the total pays as one amount. The round also ends on its own if the win reaches the game’s cap of 5,163x, at which point remaining respins are forfeited and the win is awarded immediately.

Buy Money Respin

The impatient route costs 100x the current total bet and drops you straight into the respin round. A bought round starts with a random number of money symbols already on the triggering spin, so you’re never buying in cold.

The RTP when buying sits at the same 96.50% as the base game, so the buy doesn’t change the maths – it only changes when you meet it.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 5/10

This is a waiting game dressed in green. Most of a session is small line wins and leprechaun stacks that rarely add up to much, and the one reason to sit through it is the pot at the end: six money symbols open four boards at once, and that round is the only place a 5,000x GRAND lives.

The respin feature is the best thing here by a distance, because the multipliers and extra spins keep all four boards alive right to the last respin instead of letting the round fizzle. Against that, the base game is close to filler – the paytable tops out at 4x, so everything between features is small change.

It suits players who like a long, gentle build towards one dramatic round, and anyone happy chasing jackpots without the brutal dry spells that usually come with them. Players who want the base game itself to pay won’t find it here. The rainbow’s end is real; the walk to it is a long one.

Gold Party FAQs

• What is the RTP of Gold Party?

  Gold Party runs at 96.50% RTP in its default configuration, though operators can choose lower settings of 95.48% or 94.47%.
• How do you trigger the Money Respin feature in Gold Party?

  Land six or more money symbols anywhere in the base game. Line wins pay first, then play moves to four 3×5 matrices with eight respins, where every money, multiplier and extra spin symbol that lands stays locked in place.
• What do the jackpot tiers pay in Gold Party?

  Filling all 15 positions on a matrix awards its fixed jackpot: GRAND pays 5,000x the total bet, MAJOR 200x, MINOR 50x and MINI 20x.
• Can you buy the bonus on Gold Party?

  Yes. The Money Respin feature can be bought for 100x the current total bet, and a bought round starts with a random number of money symbols already in place. The RTP when buying is the same 96.50%.
• What does the multiplier symbol do in Gold Party?

  During the Money Respin feature, a multiplier symbol reveals 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or 25x and applies it to a random money symbol on any of the four matrices.
• What is the maximum win on Gold Party?

  Wins are capped at 5,163x the bet. If a respin round reaches that figure, the round ends immediately, the win is paid and any remaining respins are forfeited.
• What does the Double Money symbol do in Gold Party?

  In the base game it counts as two money symbols towards the six needed to trigger the Money Respin feature. It never shows up once the feature is underway.
• What are the stakes on Gold Party?

  Bets run from 0.25 to 250 per spin across the game’s 5×3 grid and 25 paylines.
• Who makes Gold Party?

  Gold Party is a low-volatility Irish-themed video slot from Pragmatic Play. Its release date is 20 January 2022.
• Can the Money Respin feature be extended?

  Yes. An Extra Spin symbol awards one more respin whenever it lands during the round, and any respins left over keep the round going until they run out or every position is filled.