Where's the Gold still slaps at the local
Give it a slap most arvos at the club and it's still one of the few Aristocrat machines that keeps me interested. Free games hit twice in one session last week which never happens, usually you're grinding through the base game waiting on those scatters and they just don't come.
On the volatility, mine seems to sit in that mid range where you can leak A$50 quick or get a feature that actually pays. Worth remembering the same machine can play different pub to pub since each venue sets its own return within the state minimum, so the one at your local might be tighter than mine. Watch your bankroll on it either way.
Twice in a session, you lucky bugger, I've gone months between features on that one 😄. Remember turning twenty bucks into a few hundred off the free games at the club years back, the old slots hit different back then but this one's still got legs. Funny thing is it can play tight as a fish's proverbial at one pub and looser up the road, Aristocrat lets the venue set the return so your local might be kinder than mine. Ah well, we grind on.
Lee you absolute menace, twice in an arvo 😂 I've had stretches at mine where the scatters just ghost me for weeks. Still love this one ngl, the wilds during the free games can go OFF when it wants to. Depends heaps on the venue too, plays totally different club to club for some reason. Ah well, keep slapping it, this slot pays 🙌
One slot, one love 🎰
Where's the Gold ghosts me for weeks then pays for my slab in one feature 😂 mine at the local plays ice cold compared to the one up the road, reckon venue settings are real.
One more spin, promise.
Gramps is bang on about venue settings, mine plays completely different to the pub near me 🔥 where's the Gold is still my go-to at the club though, free games landing twice in an arvo like Lee had is unheard of, I'd be shouting the round 😱 usually I'm waiting weeks for those scatters too but when the feature hits it really pays 💰🎰
DiamondGG's right about the venue thing, no myth there. I had a stretch on Where's the Gold at a pub out near the Adelaide hills where the free gamesPoint came twice in a week, then the club one nearer me went months cold as a morgue. Same Aristocrat cabinet, totally different animal. Go figure 😉
I remember the old slots first-hand.
FreoDad's story matches mine, the one at my club runs cold while the pub near the station seems loose. Worth remembering they can set the RTP per venue, so "hot machine" is mostly just comparing two different settings.
Licence first, deposit after.
RngGod's got it right, believe me. Been on Where's the Gold since the reel days and the same machine two clubs apart can feel like two different games entirely. There's one near me that eats you alive on the base game while the pub version up the road actually lets the free games breathe a bit. Same Aristocrat cabinet, deadset different animal. Which is why I never judge the game till I've had a few slaps on that specific machine 😄
It's all hit and busted before, folks.
MissFortune summed it up nicely, the one at my local near the city plays like a dead machine for weeks then coughs up the feature twice in one slap 😂 I put twenty in last month and got nothing, mate reckons the pub down the road is loose but I'd bet they just set it different. Where's the Gold still my favourite regardless 🤡💸
Here to argue, not to clap for your profit.
Used to feed coins into Queen of the Nile for years before Where's the Gold took over the room, and I swear the same rule applied then too. The one in my club up the coast has been quiet for ages, yet I got both features inside half an hour on the pub version near Southport last month. Same cabinet, chalk and cheese, so the venue setting theory rings true to me 😉
I remember the old slots first-hand.
Dead right about the per-venue setting, explains why my club one swings wild some arvos then dies for weeks. Still my all-time favourite though, free games hitting twice is a rare treat 🔥🎰
One slot, one love 🎰
Dead right about the per-venue setting, explains why my club one swings wild some arvos then dies for weeks. Still my all-time favourite though, free games hitting twice is a rare treat 🔥🎰
@DeadSpin_Survivor that wild-then-dead pattern you're describing is basically the volatility doing its job. Think of it like rain in a drought, nothing for weeks then a storm dumps a month's worth in an arvo. Where's the Gold has a hit rate built for the long run, so a club machine on a tighter venue setting will happily starve you through a whole fortnight of A$1 spins and still be perfectly within its expected behaviour. Your spin sample over one visit is tiny, and the per-venue config just shifts where along the swing curve you happen to land.
The double feature in one session is the part I'd clock properly though. If free games triggered twice in a single arvo on your club machine, that's a genuinely good run for this game, whatever the setting. I keep a note of feature frequency at my two regulars and the gap between their best and worst stretches is easily the widest of any pokie I track.
@DeadSpin_Survivor that wild-then-dead pattern you're describing is basically the volatility doing its job. Think of it like rain in a drought, nothing for weeks then a storm dumps a month's worth in an arvo. Where's the…
@ReelMaster the drought-then-storm framing is fair for volatility, but it cuts both ways. A storm that dumps a month's worth into one punter means a hundred others fed the same machine for nothing, and the RTP is set so the house wins the ledger no matter how the rain falls. HobartNorth's "kind to me lately" story means nothing until there's a cashout screenshot attached.
Royal77 nailed it, the pub versions of Where's the Gold seem to live on a different planet to the club ones. My own local one's been quiet since before the Cup, yet the one two suburbs over gave me free games twice in one arvo last month. Ben's probably right that the settings just differ venue to venue, no point hunting a "loose" machine really.
RTP doesn't lie, win screenshots do.
Funny how everyone's local Where's the Gold has gone quiet while the pub two towns over is paying. Same experience here, my club machine has been a grave for a month, but I got the feature twice in one slap at a pub near the city a while back and banked enough to cover the whole arvo. Given there's no single published return figure and each venue sets it within the state minimum, the swings between rooms make sense, even if it feels rough when your local one's dead.
Volatility wise I treat it as a grind in the base game with the free games doing the heavy lifting. Bet small, wait for the feature, walk if it doesn't show after a decent run. Works for my bankroll anyway 💸🎰
Bankroll discipline wins 💸
Funny how everyone's local Where's the Gold has gone quiet while the pub two towns over is paying. Same experience here, my club machine has been a grave for a month, but I got the feature twice in one slap at a pub near…
@MikeRoller cover the whole arvo ey, or did the pokie eat it back before you walked out? Half these "banked enough" stories never make it past the door 😂 Every pub Where's the Gold I've touched pays sweet F all, reckon the machine just remembers who's due a hiding 🤡💸
Show me the withdrawal first 😏
SlotQueen called it, everyone's got a "banked enough" story until you ask what the checkout receipt said 😏 My local Where's the Gold at the RSL has been a money shredder for months, the pub one up the road ate a hundred of mine in twenty minutes last Friday. So where's the profit, Mike? Did you even withdraw or did the wilds just rent your cash for an arvo 🤡
The house always wins.
Where's the Gold at my club has been kind to me lately ngl, hit big last night on a slap after weeks of feeding it 😅 reckon it just runs hot and cold in cycles, no machine "remembers" anything... though try telling my heart that when it's been dead for a month. Ah well, still my favourite on the floor 🐷💰
The hit is close, I can feel it.