Golden Dice 3 Slot Machine
A quick announcement to players looking for modernity and in-depth playing: leave now, for Golden Dice 3 is not the real cash slot for you.
This is an old school game that should be the primary example of what retro slot means, for it takes you way back in time, with both its gameplay and sound effects. By all means, give it a go if you must, but maybe don’t play for real until you’re satisfied that the computerised sounds and 2D icons are for you.
Zeus Play is known for its classic slots, for a vast majority of its titles fall into that category, however none seem to have encompassed the ideology behind old school gaming quite as well as this gem of a slot right here. Golden Dice 3 is everything that contemporary slots are not, and we’re loving the amusement it gives us from that fact alone.
Delivering only a bare minimum of a paytable, with only the gamble option able to be classed as a special feature, this is what it truly means to get back to basics. Our guide can help you get a sense of what to expect, but to feel the 5 reels, you’re going to have to get hands on for yourselves.
Fruity Dominoes
The imagery used here is as plain and unexciting as it can come, with dominoes being the primary inspiration. But Zeus Play, not content with giving users a colourless grid, decided to not only brightly colour code the symbols, but to apply some fruit stickers to them as well. Hardly the epitome of creativity, but for the theme of the game, it works out well.
It isn’t only the matrix that lacks impact visually, for the backdrop of Golden Dice 3 is also very underwhelming. This is because the majority of it is in shadow, no doubt trying to focus attention on the game in the foreground rather than distract you; as courteous as it is, it looks very unappealing and murky. Almost like a smoky gambling den.
Put these two elements together and it should spell disaster, and yet what should be so boring that it hurts becomes something that intrigues us - it’s not a combination of aesthetics we often see these days. Consequently, Golden Dice 3 wins on the design front, even though it can’t begin to compare to many slots around nowadays.
Three Stars
The only way you can make it big in this online activity is if you can the three stars, and to do that you can do one of two things. Wait for the trio to turn up themselves, or get a colour combination of the four other stars poking about on the grid. Even though you could argue this doubles your chances of getting the 1,000 credits win, we never found the stars once, which in turn demonstrates the level of volatility you’re dealing with here.
Should you want to increase the challenge presented to you, you can up your bet to 300 credits in total, which works out at $3.00 and €2.84. This minor sum of money can change that base win of 1,000 to a much more welcome reward of 20,000. It might not be a high roller slot, but it gives money where it’s due.
The reason we say the game becomes more taxing? You’re risking more money, in a game that’s already tough to beat, and so the level of difficulty skyrockets further, as does the tension placed on every missed win.
A, B, C
How Zeus Play has highlighted the 15 winlines here is different, to say the least – instead of being numbered they’re left blank, with the reels lettered a, b, c, d and e. What this means is that different groupings of those letters equate to a different number of paylines, are you following? We didn’t at first either.
Basically, a, b and c have five winlines, b, c and d do, and so do c, d and e. Why the company felt the need to do this (frankly) pointless design feature, we’ll never know, but there is it, and it’s worth knowing. We can only hope we made it easier to understand rather than harder, though if not, can you blame us – look what we had to work with!
