Burning Dice Pokie Machine
Casino games developer EGT love their dice-themed pokies and one of the newest in the range is Burning Dice, which may look very similar to others in their collection but can spin up some reliable winning combinations and even reward players with a couple of bonus features. It’s got 5 reels, 5 fixed paylines and symbols over 3 rows, so there’s nothing radical about the layout, and while typical features like free spins and multipliers are not available, the Burning Dice video pokie has expanding wilds, plus the Jackpot Cards progressive round as well as the optional gamble game that EGT specialise in.
Simple gameplay is emphasized by the simple design of this game, where a plain green backdrop sits behind the reels. Payline indicators to either side of them are also in green, and even the control panel is in a shade of this colour. The controls allow players to bet from the low limit of 0.05 per spin, although free Burning Dice video pokie games are offered by most casinos, giving them a chance to review how it all works before they play for real money.
To get a winning combination, players will want to land 3 or more matching dice symbols across any of the paylines, although a couple of scatter symbols can result in a prize payout wherever they appear, and the wild symbol can act as any dice if it’s then able to complete a line.
Playing Burning Dice
To see what each of the different dice is worth, players should review the paytable by clicking the ‘I’ button below the reels. A look at this reveals that the red, green, light blue and pink dice are the least-rewarding symbols, returning wins of 10x, 30x or 100x the value of a coin when they stop on 3, 4 or 5 reels. Next up, we see a dark blue dice that’s worth 20x, 50x or 200x, and then the yellow dice pays out 40x, 100x or 500x for the same combinations, which is the same as a white one with a red number 8 on it.
Moving away from the dice, the image of a laughing Joker returns the best wins when he stops across a line, only needing to be on 2 reels from the left side to pay out 10x and a full line of 5 across a payline will be worth a very nice 3000 coins. There’s a good reason for the name of this pokie, as any dice that make up a win-line will get surrounded in flames, which is a bit of a visual treat that several other games from EGT also have.
Unlike most similar dice games in the EGT range however, there’s a second Joker in this pack, and this one is a female, although she doesn’t look particularly happy to be here. Players will certainly be happy to see her though, as she’s a wild symbol and when landing on reels 2, 3 or 4, she becomes and expanding wild, filling a reel and making it a little easier for her to complete win-lines by acting as any other dice or her Joker friend. She will even double the value of any win that she completes, so even if she looks a bit melancholy, this is one of the best symbols to have landing on the reels of the Burning Dice video pokies.
A couple of scatter symbols complete the line-up, with the yellow Chinese letter paying out 15, 100 or 500 coins when stopping in any 3, 4 or 5 places, and the green symbol paying out 100x.
Burning Dice
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Gamble Round
If a win was for less than 175 coins, players have the option to gamble it in a double or nothing mini-game. If they correctly choose if a playing card will be from a red or black suit, they can either cash out the win, or go again to double it over and over, but if they get it wrong at any point, the triggering bet and gamble gains will be forfeited.
Jackpot Cards
The Jackpot Cards round is a randomly-triggered progressive feature where player need to click on a series of 12 playing cards to scoop any of the jackpots displayed above the reels. Each jackpot is connected to a card suit, and the first 3 matching suits revealed, will see the corresponding prize paid out immediately, and once the round has been awarded, players will be guaranteed to win any of them.
The Verdict
The Burning Dice online casino pokie is a pretty basic game, enriched by the expanding wilds and potential for some big payouts from the right combinations of symbols. This is definitely one for fans of nostalgic pokies, although the potential to scoop a progressive jackpot could attract lots more online gambling players as well.