Gold Fish slots is a legendary slot game actually – it is one of the oldest titles of Williams Interactive. And Williams Interactive is Scientific Games nowadays, which acquired Bally Slots too. With an experience of over 40 years in the industry, they sure know how to produce successful video slot games. This slot is similar to Zeus.
Gold Fish slot machine is a fine example of this, as we mentioned, it is one of the most popular land based casino games around. In fact, it has a small devoted fan base too. Now, Gold Fish is ready to sail into the waters of online casino games – Will it succeed? Competition is hard amongst this industry, Gold Fish has what it takes to be successful? Let’s play and find out.
Gameplay
Free Gold Fish belongs to the video slot category. Which means it has nice graphics & animations and high payout amounts. Transition is near perfect: Gold Fish online is almost the exact replica of the land based title. Game uses little goldfishes as its theme: You can tell that from the title. Each of them has a different color and a feature. Graphically, the game looks nice – cute, even. Symbols look like hand drawn and they are very colorful. Whole game looks like a rainbow in fact. Gold Fish is set on a sea floor and you can see other fishes swimming past in the background. Gameplay is fast and satisfying, only criticism we can say is the soundtrack: Starts to sound dull after a couple of minutes. Other than that, this is a fine video slot machine with a theme of cute goldfishes.
You can play Gold Fish as a free slots of for real money – both are possible. It requires no download and can be played directly within your browser. Game has 5 reels and 25 paylines. Maximum jackpot win is 30.000 coins – so it has nice payout amounts too. As its original land based title, Gold Fish comes with wild symbols, scatter symbols, multipliers, free spins and lots of bonus rounds – which we will explain below.
How to Win
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Free Casino Slot Games Goldfish
As with nearly all video slot titles, Gold Fish has 5 reels with 3 slots on them. Your goal is to match at least two of the same symbols on a payline. You do this by spinning the reels of course, and if you find more than two on a payline, you win more. You need to set the coin value first though: This can be between 0.01 and 3.00. Maximum bet amount equals to 105 coins. Since the game has a multiplier based payout system, we recommend playing always with the maximum bet amount. Only then your winnings will be maximum too. You cannot change the payline amount by the way – it is fixed. So all you need to decide is the coin value you are going to bet with.
There are ten different symbols on the game. Gold Fish does not use any low valued playing card signs, which is a plus. All of the symbols have different payout values, as can be seen in this table:
Symbol Name | 1 Symbol | 2 Symbol | 3 Symbol | 4 Symbol | 5 Symbol |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yellow Fish | - | 0.10 | 1 | 10 | 100 |
Red Fish | - | - | 0.75 | 3 | 10 |
Purple Fish | - | - | 0.5 | 2 | 10 |
Blue Fish | - | - | 0.4 | 1 | 5 |
Green Fish | - | - | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2 |
Turtle | - | - | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.5 |
Crab | - | - | 0.15 | 0.3 | 1.25 |
Coral | - | - | 0.1 | 0.25 | 1 |
Net | - | - | 0.1 | 0.25 | 1 |
Underwater Plants | - | - | 0.1 | 0.25 | 1 |
Only different symbol is the Yellow Fish, it pays with only 2. All other symbols require at least 3. There are other special symbols in the game, which we explained below.
Bonus Rounds and Free Spins
Golden Fish symbol counts as wild. It substitutes for other symbols in the game, except the scatter. And since you can remember from above, it is also the most valued one.
Scatter symbol is shown with a fish food can picture. Three of them activates the “Fish Food Feature” of the game. It doesn’t award with free spins though, this feature is a mini game. You need to open 4 fish food cans and match at least three type of the same food. If you match four, your award gets doubled. If you manage to fins a turtle inside of the cans, you will be taken to another screen and start picking between turtles this time. Each pick awards you with extra coins during these rounds.
But the real special feature of the Gold Fish is randomly activated. During the normal game, if you see a fish bowl sliding into the screen, this means the rounds have started. It is simple and fun: Once you see the fish bowl on your screen, a colored goldfish jumps into it from above. Depending on its color, a different feature is activated. These are:
Gold Fish Bonus Round: This is the free spins bonus. Your screen will get covered with five bubbles. You need to burst one and see how many free spins you get: It can be 5, 8, 10, 15 or 20. After that, another set of 5 bubbles will appear. This time, bursting one will reveal the multiplier value for the free spins you won: this can be x2, x3, x5, x7 or x10. Getting the 20 free spins with x10 multiplier values is the best outcome of course.
Purple Fish Bonus Round: This one require no player interaction. Purple fish will blow three bubbles and each with a number between 0 and 9. These numbers will arrange themselves in a numerical value and that will be your extra coin winnings.
Red Fish Bonus Round: This is a “pick between” feature. You will be asked to choose between a castle, clam and a treasure chest. You will be awarded with extra coins depending on your choice but that is not all: Other goldfishes will “kiss” your reward. Depending on the color of the kissing goldfish, you will get awarded with multiplier levels. Purple fish kisses award between x25 and x200. Blue fish kisses lowers these values into between x20 and x100. For the green fish, it is between x5 and x50. Gold fish kisses only award with x2. Thing is, they do not kiss once. They kiss at least 2 (maximum 10) times so basically you have a chance to win x2.500 times of your winning amount.
Green Fish Bonus Round: Like the gold fish, this will fill your careen with bubbles. You get to burst one only. Award is extra coins, but if you manage to find “All”, you win all of the bubble values.
Blue Fish Bonus Round: This bonus awards with guaranteed wins between one and three. In other words, all symbols on all paylines will start to pay – same or not for the next one or three spins.
Conclusion
Gold Fish is a good video slot game and successfully brings the land base title into the online casino games genre. We liked the bonus features a lot, they were fun, exciting and awarding. It is easy to understand why the game has a devoted fanbase, Gold Fish offers something to all types of players. Highly recommended – but beware, you can become a fan too.
Goldfish scooping in Japan
People playing goldfish scooping
Goldfish scooping (金魚すくい, 金魚掬い, Kingyo-sukui) is a traditional Japanese game in which a player scoops goldfish with a paper scooper. It is also called, 'Scooping Goldfish', 'Dipping for Goldfish', or 'Snatching Goldfish'. 'Kingyo' means goldfish and 'sukui' means scooping. Sometimes bouncy balls are used instead of goldfish. Japanese summer festivals or ennichi commonly have a stall for this activity.
Rules[edit]
Video of a young girl trying to scoop up a goldfish
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Each person plays individually. The basic rule is that the player scoops goldfish from a pool with a paper scooper called a 'poi' and puts them into a bowl with the poi. This game requires care and speed as the poi can tear easily. The game is over when the poi is completely broken or incapable of scooping properly. Even if one part of the poi is torn, the player can continue the game with the remaining part.
At ennichi or summer festival stalls, the game is not a competition. Participation typically costs around 100 yen and players can take the scooped goldfish home in a plastic bag provided by the stall keeper. The game is unlimited, so players can scoop until their pois are completely broken. If they cannot scoop any goldfish, the stall keeper may be kind enough to give them one or two free goldfish. Each stall usually has its own rules. For example, there are some stalls where players can get a stronger poi if they pay more. Other stalls give players presents if they scoop a lot. In some variations, there are also medaka (Japanese killifish) that are faster and harder to catch than goldfish. Usually, for every four goldfish, there is one medaka, so in ennichi, if you catch one, it counts as four goldfish.
Different gambling games. Party casino review. At the National Goldfish Scooping Championship, players follow official rules that are different from the rules listed above.
Pool[edit]
Usually, the goldfish are placed in a small plastic pool about 1 square metre (11 sq ft) and 20 centimetres (7.9 in) depth.
Poi (ポイ, poi)[edit]
The poi consists of a round plastic frame with a hand grip, and paper on the frame. The poi paper can break easily when put into water, so players should not move the poi too quickly. There are different classes of poi paper. No.7 (7号) is weaker, and No.5 (5号) is stronger. In some stalls, staff have unbreakable poi which consist of a net to scoop goldfish instead of paper.
- An unused poi
- A partly broken poi
- A completely broken poi
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Bowl[edit]
The bowl used to store the scooped goldfish is usually made of plastic in a semi-sphere shape with a capacity of about .5 litres (0.88 imp pt; 1.1 US pt).
Bag[edit]
If players get goldfish, they can take them home in bags provided by the stall keeper.
- An unused bag
- A bag with water
Goldfish[edit]
The varieties of goldfish often used in goldfish scooping are 'Koaka', 'Demekin', and 'Anekin'.
History[edit]
This game started in the late Edo period, around 1810. In those days, pois were made with nets, and it was a game played by children. Pois came to be made with paper and stalls were started in the Taishō period, around 1910.
The game became more and more popular, and the National Goldfish Scooping Championship began in 1995. Today it is so popular that stalls can be found at many ennichi 縁日 'summer festivals' in Japan.
Variants[edit]
Various scooping game variants are found, including turtle scooping (亀掬い、かめすくい, kame-sukui), jelly scooping (ぷよぷよすくい, puyopuyo-sukui), which features small jelly-like rubber balls, super ball scooping (スーパーボールすくい, sūpābōru-sukui), which features bouncy balls, and character scooping (キャラクターすくい, kyarakutā-sukui), which features small plastic figurines in the shapes of various cartoon characters, particularly manga and anime.
National Goldfish Scooping Championship[edit]
The National Goldfish Scooping Championship (全国金魚すくい選手権大会) is the biggest official competition managed by the National Goldfish Scooping Association and Yamatokōriyama city in Nara Prefecture (Yamatokōriyama is famous for producing goldfish). It is held on the third Saturday and Sunday in August every year. In 2007, the 13th championship was held and 1116 people participated in it. It consisted of three sections:
- Children section: competition by children who are under 15
- General section: competition by people ages 15 and up
- Group section: competition for the sum number of the goldfish scooped by a team of three people
There are area trials and the first and second in every section can participate in National Championship. Extraordinarily in the Nara trials, 60 people in the child section, 80 people in the ordinary section and 40 groups in the group section can participate. The rules are detailed and include the size of goldfish, poi and pool, and the number of umpires. Contestants compete for the number of goldfish scooped in three minutes. If the paper of poi is completely broken, the game is over and the score is the number of goldfish scooped until then.
In the tenth championship (2004) a player scooped 61 goldfish in three minutes in the semifinal,[1] a new high and averaging one goldfish per three seconds.
In 2011, 2,400 players competed. The team title went to 3 players who scooped 173 goldfish.
Notes and references[edit]
- ^'Record page in National Championship of Goldfish Scooping's official page (in Japanese)'. Archived from the original on 2007-12-27. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
External links[edit]
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