Pragmatic Play · 2022 · mining collect / free spins
Drill That Gold on a phone
Holds portrait, 1.5 s from tap to a board that takes input, tight buttons. That is the whole verdict before any of the reel talk.
The phone check
Upright, the spin button shrinks and the bet stepper crowds it. A wide thumb hits the wrong one. The demo pulls about 7 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 1.5 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.
This title ships in more than one return build
Pragmatic Play licenses 3 configurations of Drill That Gold. The spread from top to bottom is 4.17 points, which is about C$42 in expected cost per C$1,000 staked. Same reels, same features, different maths.
| Configuration | Return | House edge | Cost per C$1,000 vs the top build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highest build the studio licenses | 96.5% | 3.5% | baseline |
| Middle build | 94.87% | 5.13% | C$16 |
| Lowest build | 92.33% | 7.67% | C$42 |
How to see which one you are on, in three taps
- Open the demo and tap the burger or the ⓘ in the game's own toolbar, not the casino's.
- Scroll the info panel to the bottom. The return figure is printed in the rules footer.
- Compare it to the table above. If it is not the top row, that is the build you are being served.
123 of the 306 titles on this board carry more than one build, so this is worth doing once per game rather than once ever.
Where it sits on the board
That puts it 112 of 306 on our phone score, which weighs orientation first, then how long you wait, then whether the buttons are a sensible size. The load beats the board median of 2.1 s by 0.6 s.
Across the 71 Pragmatic Play titles here the median is 1.9 s and 52 render upright.
What the game is
A 2022 release from Pragmatic Play. Board is 5x4, the mechanic is mining collect / free spins. Mining slot on 20 paylines where full vertical miner stacks drill out money values and jackpot nuggets.
Swing is high. Plan the demo around that and not around whatever the first ten spins do. Twenty dollars buys around 100 spins at the C$0.20 floor. The studio does not publish a capped maximum for this one.
The rest of it
| Studio | Pragmatic Play |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022 |
| Board | 5x4 |
| Mechanic | mining collect / free spins |
| Volatility | High |
| Top licensed return | 96.5% |
| House edge on that build | 3.5% |
| Max win | not published |
| Minimum stake | C$0.20 |
| Spins on twenty dollars | about 100 |
| Free demo | yes, no account needed |
| Tags | bonus-buy |
Done with the demo?
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