Mine and Melt

Quickspin is back with a gold rush-themed slot titled Mine and Melt. In this gold mining adventure, you will be diving into the wilds for gold nuggets and smelting gold down with the extra features. The base game of the slot features exciting wilds that expand and have multiplier values attached to them. But the real excitement hides in the Hold and Win bonus feature. Here is where the big payouts hide.

Speaking of payouts the maximum you can win is 5504x the bet. This is a pretty decent value with a likewise worthwhile RTP value of 96.09%. The game is played on a square-shaped board with 4 reels and 4 rows. There are no paylines, instead, you will be scoring on up to 256 winning ways. High volatility hides in this slot as you mine for gold so get ready for some variance. Let us dive into this Mine and Melt slot review for more details.

Once you dive into the Mine and Melt slot, you will be immersed in the gold rush period. You start in the mountains and move into the mines once you trigger the Hold and Wins feature. The base game consists of scoring winning ways with the aid of expanding wilds. So let us start at the beginning.

To play the game you place a bet and then spin the reels. There are 4 reels and 4 rows in total. To win you need to arrange at least 3 identical symbols on consecutive reels. The winning combination must start from the leftmost reel but the vertical position of the symbols is irrelevant. The game pays from left to right.

Regular symbols are your best friends and main sources of payouts as there are not a lot of extra features. There are 10 of them in total. The 5 low-win ones are standard card royals. The 5 high-win ones are in the form of a miner hat, lantern, pickaxe, gold sifter, and finally gold bars.

You can enable autoplay if you wish by clicking on the button below the spin button. Quickspins are also available with the button above the spin icon.

When it comes to betting, you can bet anywhere from $0.2 to $100. The maximum amount you can win is 5504x the bet with high volatility in payouts. The RTP value of the game is calculated to be 96.09% which is a decent number for modern online slots.

All of the base game payouts will come from regular symbols either by themselves or multiplication from wilds. The highest-paying low-win symbol will get you 1x your bet for 4 of them in combination. The highest-paying symbol overall is the gold bar with 15x your bet for 4 of them.

Another betting option players have is to buy the bonus for 60x the bet. Additionally, payouts in the base game will be boosted by multiplier wilds. Let us see how they work.

The Mine and Melt slot is all about triggering that Hold and Win bonus game or the super bonus game. The Merge and Smeltdown features can offer quite exciting payouts if the player is lucky enough to last a while. Let us explain how the extra features work one by one.

• Three Lucky Swedes – During the base game, before the reels stop, reels 2-4 can randomly convert to wild miner symbols. These are wilds that expand to cover the entire reel. Furthermore, they have a multiplier value attached for an extra prize. The multipliers range from x2 to x4.
• Bonus Game – Land 3 bonus symbols to trigger the Hold and Win bonus game or 4 for the super bonus game. The player is transported to a new reel setup inside a mine. You start with 3 lives or 4 with the bonus game and the only symbols that land are gold nugget symbols. These have random multipliers to the main bet attached to them. If no symbols land you lose a life but if at least one lands your lives are reset. The goal is to get as many gold nuggets as possible before lives run out as they are all combined for a grand multiplier reward to your bet at the end.
• Merge – Any time two gold nugget symbols of queal multiplier value are adjacent on the reels, a random such pair is chosen to be merged. This creates more space for additional gold nuggets to land.
• Smeltdown – Any time a smeltdown symbol lands on the screen, all gold nugget symbols are multiplied by the value of the smeltdown multiplier. Any future gold nuggets also have increased values. Smeltdown symbols range from x2 to x4.

As you can see, there are not a lot of extra features in the base game. That is why the player is highly dependent on triggering the bonus for higher payouts.