Rich Roll: Lust for Gold Slot by Playtech

Rich Roll: Lust for Gold is a bright cartoon pirate slot from Playtech's Rare Stone studio, its 5x3 reels floating on turquoise water between rocky islands. The base game is plain enough, 30 lines of treasure maps, compasses, anchors, cannons and a swashbuckling parrot over wooden royals, with a grinning captain as the wild. What makes it tick is the board game arcing across the top of the screen.

That's the Rich Roll feature. It needs two things on the same spin: a ship, which only lands on reel one, and at least one die, which appears on reels two to five. Get both and the galleon sails to the start of a winding River Trail, and each spin now rolls a die that moves the ship one to six spaces up the trail. You collect whatever prize you land on, and every die symbol you triggered with gives you another roll.

The trail is dotted with different rewards. Most tiles are straight multipliers of your total bet, but some open sub-features: a Treasure Chest where you pick one of five cards for a multiplier, a Bell that launches Free Games with expanding wilds that fill whole reels, and a Volcano at the very top that pays a random multiplier for every roll you have left. Extra-roll tiles keep the feature going, so a lucky sequence can carry the ship a long way up the river.

It's a high-volatility game with a healthy 33% hit rate on the base reels and a 95.89% RTP, though some operators run it as low as 94.9%, so check the paytable. There's no jackpot, and the max win is a fairly modest 2,080x your bet, so this is more about the fun of the pirate board game than a giant top prize. Worth a demo run to see the trail play out, since you won't trigger it on every visit. It's a nicely built Playtech feature slot.