Play Treasures in Varna for Free

All symbols are directly related to the theme, so there’s none of the playing card icons that seem to fill the reels of so many slot machines. Small win-lines are created by the brown rocks, a hard hat, lumps of gold and a minecart stuffed with even more gold while green, red, blue and white crystals will line up to award the higher prizes.

A rustic signpost acts as a wild symbol, so when players land matching symbols across the reels, but there’s a gap in the run, the wild is able to substitute for the missing piece and a prize is still won. It’s also able to extend a winning line of 3 or 4 matching symbols further across the reels for a bigger reward. The signpost also points to the best prizes when it makes up a wining combination on its own, returning up to 2,500x the line bet, although it won’t be able to act as the scatter or jackpot symbols.

Our friendly prospector turns up as a scatter symbol who can land in any places to firstly award scatter prizes and then to launch a free spins bonus round. If 3 scatters appear at once, players win 2x the triggering bet, while 4 of this symbol are worth 10x and any 5 or more will pay out 25x the total bet amount.

Once these have been awarded, the free spins begin, and if the prospector appears in enough places in a single bonus spin, the round is retriggered, with a whole new set of 10 games added on to the end of the current ones.

If 3 bundles of dynamite appear anywhere on the middle 3 reels at once, players head down to the darkest reaches of the mine, where 10 diamonds are glinting in the tunnel walls. Many GamingSoft slots share a progressive jackpot feature and each wager made on these games, across all casinos that carry them, is put aside in the Mini, Minor, Major and Grand jackpots, which are always displayed above the reels.

With the Treasures in Varna video slot, all that’s needed is for players to click the diamonds in whatever order they want, revealing a jackpot level with each, until 3 of the same are found. Winning these jackpots isn’t so straightforward though, as only gamblers at the maximum stakes claim 100% of the find, and at the minimum wagers, just 10% of any prize is paid out, but it’s better than nothing, and the Grand jackpot can still be worth a decent amount.

There are a surprising number of mining-themed slots available, probably because there’s opportunities for developers to add pictures of gold, diamonds and jewels to the reels. Some of the most popular include Gold Mine, from Microgaming, and Lucky Miners, by Spinomenal, but our favourite is without doubt the crazy 3D antics that go on in the Boom Brothers video slot game.

This beautifully-designed slot has unique features, such as bombs giving you second chance wins, up to 50 free spins, and a minecart bonus that leads to some of the top prizes.

We enjoyed spinning the reels of this real money online slot, and while the theme is nothing new, mine-based games have plenty of shiny symbols and colourful images with this one being no exception. If there’s anything we didn’t like about it, it’s the fact that players will need to be at desktop PC’s to get the full effect, as the Treasures in Varna video slot isn’t mobile-optimised, while the way progressive jackpots are awarded encourages high bet levels.

But the nice graphics, wild substitutions that lead to extra winnings and the free spins bonus games are all features that we found quite easy to trigger, so anyone who likes this style should dig in and see what treasures await them.