Bonanza TapCards Slot by Big Time Gaming

No reels here, nothing to set going. You buy one stone-tile card at your chosen stake, tap it, and a grid of hidden symbols flips face-up. Each card holds somewhere between 7 and 16 of them. Match three or more and you win, with separate prizes paid for 3, 4 and 5 of a kind. One card can pay several times over, too, since each different matching symbol scores on its own.

The Wild fills in for any symbol, so it can finish off a match that was one short. But the real money sits with the Tap Pot symbols tracked along the meter up top. Match three Tap Pots and the Mini pays 250x your stake. Four takes the Midi at 1,000x. Five lands the Maxi at 25,000x, the top prize the whole card is chasing. Those three fixed jackpot values are printed on the meter before you ever tap, so you always know exactly what the pots are worth.

The world lifts straight from Big Time Gaming's Bonanza, the gold-rush mine that made the studio's name. Orange canyon walls of split rock climb both sides, and a wooden miner's cabin sits up on stilts with ladders and mine-cart rails running past it. The symbols are cut gemstones: a fat purple brilliant, blood-red rubies, a blue crystal, a green emerald, alongside glossy A, K and Q royals. Same gem-hunting setting as the original, rebuilt as an instant-win card instead of a reel game.

No free games, no bonus to buy, no second screen. One card, one tap, and the gems either line up or they don't. High-risk by nature of the format, with all the weight riding on those Tap Pot matches finding their way onto the same card.