There are multiple features in the base game of Golden Shower, as well as within the bonus round, which expand during free spins.
Position Multipliers and Cascades
The major mechanic for Golden Shower involves Position Multipliers. These multipliers are awarded whenever a winning combination is removed from the grid, and each position that was part of the winning combination receives a 2x multiplier. During subsequent cascades, if the same positions are cleared again, the multiplier for those positions doubles until they reach 999x.
Gold Spins Bonus Round
Free spins, also known as Gold Spins, can be activated when a player lands at least 3 Bonus Symbols on their reels. Three Bonus symbols award six spins, four award eight spins, and five award ten spins. During Gold Spins, position multipliers persist between spins rather than resetting. Additional Bonus symbols retrigger the feature by adding extra spins, and higher trigger levels improve the behaviour of modifier symbols.
Buy Extra Spins
The extra spins can be triggered at the end of a round when there are still multipliers active in the game. Canadian players can use their money to buy a single extra spin and retain the multipliers they had from the last spin. The choice to buy a spin will only be offered if its cost is lower than or equal to the player's winnings from the last round. No bonus symbols can appear during the bonus spin.
Wilds, Bonus Symbols and Payouts
Upon a cluster win, all other symbols on the board that match (but are not part of the winning cluster) turn into Wilds. Wild symbols substitute for any other paying symbol. If a spin results in no win but Wilds are still on the board, each Wild takes itself out along with the positions directly to its top, bottom, and either side. Each position taken out gets a 2x multiplier.
There are three special symbols included in Golden Shower. Instead of awarding a payout directly, each of these special symbols will modify the grid in some way.
- Steam: When activated, it will randomly select a single symbol type and upgrade to the next highest value symbol, including the Steam symbol itself.
- Floater: Can only be activated on non-winning spins without any wilds present on the reels. Once triggered, it will select a single symbol type to stay on the grid and remove all other symbol types, except Scatter and Drain. A 2x multiplier is added in each position where a symbol was removed.
- Drain: Will only activate on non-winning spins without either wild or floater symbols present on the reels. After removing all symbols except Scatters, the Drain symbol will randomly upgrade multipliers in positions on the reels that were previously cleared.
