Valhall Gold

Each spin starts Valhall Gold’s playing field with dimensions of 6×4, but it is possible to expand the number of symbols per reel during the game to 9. As a result, the number of ways to win grows from 4,096 to a whopping 531,441.

You can make a winning combination in Valhall Gold by spinning an identical symbol on at least 3 consecutive reels starting from the 1st reel. As a result of the waterfall mechanism, these winning symbols are then removed from the playing field and new ones take their place. With each cascade, a row of symbols is added each time until the playing field reaches the maximum 9 rows. No winning combination? Then the playfield resets back to standard.

Like many other slots, you can play this one with a bet of $20 and a maximum bet of $100 per spin. Volatility is high and the payout percentage is calculated at 94.00%. At most, you can win 25,000 times your stake in Valhall Gold. That RTP just could have been a bit higher!

Amazing combination of various features

Special symbols

Almighty Thor symbols: special sticky wild symbols of 2×2.
Spike frames: special frames that land around regular symbols. The framed symbol copies itself in the direction the attached arrow points.
Odin’s Ravens symbol: this so-called blocker symbol blocks the possibility of making winning combinations. In case two Odin’s Ravens symbols land, the two turn into wilds.

Trickerster Loki symbols

Tricker Loki requires a bit more explanation. This symbol appears in the format of 2×2 and blocks making winning combinations. Trickster Loki symbols you can activate, however, simply by making a winning combination anywhere on the playing field. The Trickster Loki symbol then triggers 1 of the following 4 features, which remains active for the rest of the spin:

• Loki both ways: causes the pays both ways mechanism to become active. This means that you can now make winning combinations from right to left, instead of only from left to right.
• Loki spike storm: causes a random number of spike frames to be added to the symbols on the playing field.
• Loki axe fury: causes any number of symbols to be turned into units of the same pay symbol
• Loki multiplier: causes a multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10 to be applied to the total winnings you have played to that point during the spin

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Free Spins

Now that we’ve covered all of Valhall Gold’s special symbols, it’s time to get busy with the free spins feature. This is the feature you want to see active when playing in a legal online casino! You can activate it by spinning 3 or more scatters. The number of free spins increases as follows the more scatters you spin:

• 3 scatters bring 10 free spins
• 4 scatters bring 15 free spins
• 5 scatters bring 20 free spins
• 6 scatters bring 25 free spins

Similarly, you can earn additional free spins while playing Valhall Gold’s free spins feature. The free spins feature of Valhall Gold simply starts with the standard size of the playfield. So there will be 6 reels and 4 rows.

However, every time you finish a free spin winning, the safety level of the playfield increases by +1. By safety level we mean the dimensions to which the playfield is reset when a free spin has ended. So you only need one winning free spin to reach safety level 1 of the playfield. This means that the level of the playfield literally increases by +1. In other words, from the next spin, the minimum dimensions are thus 6×5. This continues until safety level 4 is reached (dimensions 6×8). As in the base game, you need a mega symbol that rises above the playing field to unlock the 9th row of symbols.

During the free spins feature, Loki collects his own features, which can be activated in the same way as in the base game. You must first activate that collect feature per feature by triggering that feature once.

Valhall Gold compared to 3 other slots from ELK Studios

The next time you trigger that same feature, it is collected by Loki. So this applies to all 4 Trickster Loki features. If a feature is collected by Loki, it means that this feature remains active for the remaining duration of the free spins feature. So it could end up being the case that you have collected all 4 features, allowing you to take advantage of them every spin. With the Loki both ways feature, this speaks for itself – since the pays both ways mechanism only takes effect once – but with the other 3, some additional explanation is needed.

Collecting Loki spike storms logically means that you are guaranteed a spike storm every spin. Besides this fixed spike storm, additional spike frames can be added to the playfield during a spin if you manage to trigger the Loki spike storm in the regular way as well
Exactly the same applies to Loki axe fury.

With the Loki multiplier, the obtained multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10 is stored. That multiplier is active every spin, but you can earn an additional multiplier via a Trickster Loki symbol. The value of that multiplier is then added to the fixed multiplier collected for the active spin.