The Golden Colts slot from Play’n Go is a wickedly wild western-themed video slot machine. It’s a dark and stormy night in a dusty one-horse town and as you make your way through the game you’ll encounter everything from rough and tumble gunslingers to ghostly sheriffs ready for a showdown. Packed full of bonus features, there’s a little bit of something for everyone on this slot.
It was a dark and stormy night (most likely) at the Murder at the Manor. It certainly isn’t taking place on a beach. Because this Vista Gaming slot is all about murders taking place in a remote manor house where anything could be used as a weapon.
Golden Colts is a five-reel, four-row slot with 40 fixed pay lines. Symbols on the reels are divided up into four higher-paying characters and six lower-paying playing card values made up of nine through ace, plus wild and scatter. The highest regular payout you’ll get is for matching five wild symbols on a pay line, which is a bit over 12 times your bet. The lowest payout you’ll hit is for one-tenth of your bet when you land three nines.
Even though these prizes might not seem too high, there is still some impressive money to be won on Golden Colts. When the bonus features kick in, and if your luck holds up, it’s possible to win up to 2,500 times your bet on just one spin.
Setting up your bet on Golden Colts, as with most Play’n Go titles, is about as easy as it gets. You can choose from one of 11 different preset betting amounts and once you do so you’ll be ready to start spinning. The minimum wager on this game is £.20 per spin and the maximum you can drop on a single spin is £100.
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Yes – Why To Play The Golden Colts Slot
- If you like western themes, this slot is sure to become a favourite. Play’n Go has done an excellent design job on the audiovisual elements of this game. Symbols are drawn with great detail and the animations when you hit winning combinations brings everything to life.
- If you like bonus features, you’ll absolutely love Golden Colts. The scatter symbols on this one don’t just trigger free spins. Whenever you land three scatters, you’ll be taken into one of seven different bonus features, some of which are interactive.
- Select from 20 different wanted posters in one of the bonus games and you can win up to 2,500 times your bet. Not a bad payday for just a few moments of work.
No – Why Not Play?
- There are a lot of bonus features available in this game, but quite a few of them only give you one spin with some extra options enabled. When you hit a few of these in a row it can get a little frustrating.
- The somewhat lopsided division of symbols creates a game where you’re much more likely to match low-paying symbols. It feels like this one would play better if the symbols were divided more evenly. The return to player (RTP) rate is 96%, however, so players are not being cheated by any means. 96% is actually a very good return to player rate.
- Although the 2500 times bet award is there, it seems extremely difficult to actually win based on how many correct picks you’d need to make on the wanted poster bonus feature to get there. Still, there are some significant prizes to be won there.
Golden Colts Bonus Features
There are seven different bonus features on the Golden Colts slot, some of which can combine with one another to build up some impressive wins. All bonus features are triggered by landing three scatter symbols on the reels and then one of them is chosen at random.
Ace-High Gang Feature
The Ace-High Gang feature will award three free spins. During these spins, there will be 4×4 mega symbols placed on reels two, three, four, and five.
Wild Bull Feature
The Wild Bull feature will also award three free spins. During this feature one or two of the reels will become completely wild on each spin.
Law of the Wild
Law of the Wild awards one free spin, but if the sheriff symbol covers reels two, three, and four, or creates a 3×3 block anywhere on the reels, a second free spin is awarded.
The Gunslingers Features
The Gunslingers features awards one free spin with a random multiplier of up to 30 times activated.
Poker Play
During Poker Play, one free spin is awarded and a 2×2 gambler symbol sticks on the reels. If an additional gambler symbol lands, another free spin is awarded, and all gambler symbols are wild.
Furies Feature
The Furies feature is another that awards one free spin. Two 2×2 female gunslinger symbols will appear and stick on the reels. You’ll continue to get free spins until you hit a winner.
Most Wanted Game
And finally, in the Most Wanted game, you’ll be presented with 20 posters to choose from. Posters can contain cash rewards or game symbols. Some of the symbols will take you into the bonus games listed above and then bring you back to let you choose again, others will end the round and force you to collect your reward. Making the right choices will surely lead to some celebration.
Bottom Line
You can play this online slot at most UK online casinos. But the best option is to choose a fast paying online casino, to avoid issues with delayed withdrawals. Most casino brands catering to European players offer fast payouts, but there are some gambling sites that may take longer processing your payment. We listed the best sites for you, so you can enjoy the best of both worlds.
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Cheers!
Guy Mawle, Usk
'It was a dark and stormy night. Heavy clouds scudded across the sky...'. So begins Chapter 28, 'The Trial' in Part 2 of 'The Three Musketeers', originally published 1844, translated by Lord Sudley and published by Penguin Books in 1952. Was Dumas a fan of Bulmer-Lytton? What was it in the French original?
Ken - Huddersfield
No it went like this;It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to Antonio, 'Antonio tell us a tale', so Antonio told us a tale and the went like this.It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to Antonio.. ... ..etc
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Galia Forshaw
Just to mention a pleasingly rhythmic version of the above that we were told as children by my Father. It was another story 'from your mouth' as they became known. 'It was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to the mate, Tell us a story mate, and this is the story. It was a dark and stormy night......etc' Recalling this has made me wonder about the difference between the oral tradition of ‘stories from your mouth’, as opposed to the written word? Might the professor agree that the chance of a story teller’s success if he or she had started a tale with such dreadful lines as he lists would mean that they would get relegated to the back of the cave or sent out for firewood in the rain and would never have been heard of again? Where as if you can pay for printing the world is your pulping machine? Many thanks for a brilliantly enlightening and engaging program. Now that I have slightly more time to listen in the mornings I am beginning to appreciate the non-political slots very much. The Intelligence is out there!Sorry I did not catch this item on the program but came across it on the website from which I regularly send links to others so they can enjoy the gems that you report. I did not see when the item was broadcast. (Is this information listed anywhere?) Also loved the discussion of control of your God, sorry Dog this morning. Tell them in Gaza!Kind regards, Galia
Eric Mawer
Sharon absent-mindedly picked her nose and sucked her finger.
Dark And Stormy Night
Mary Crockett
'Laura's eye fell on the bed and her mood changed.' I came across that line in one of my mother's 1930s schoolgirl annuals when I was nine and it still makes me chuckle. What a wonderfully rich and complicated thing the English language is - so easy to get just a little bit wrong.
Ruth Wade
I agree with J Elliott that Amanda McKitterick Ros was the finest worst first line writer that ever lived. My offering from Irene Iddlesleigh (not a bad worst title either): 'Sympathise with me indeed! Ah, no! Cast your sympathy on the chill waves of troubled waters, fling it on the oases of futurity: dash it against the rock of gossip: or better still, allow it to remain within the false and faithless bosom of buried scorn. Such were the few remarks of Irene as she paced the beach of limited freedom, alone and unprotected.' I think her use of exclamation marks adds a particular touch of class.
Dave
It was a dark and stormy night.Name of and beginning of a Percy the Park keeper story. Nick Butterworth .One good reason for having kids is an excuse to go to pantos. The other is to read Percy.The animals get scared and in various ways come into Percy the Park Keepers hut. Sheer magic.
Paul Smith
My father was a scout leader and his version was: 'It was a dark and stormy night and the brigands were gathered round the fire. The Captain said 'Antonious, Antonius, tell us a tale'. And this was the tale he told'. 'It was a dark and stormy night...'
Dave Nicholson
It was a dark and stormy night; Brilliant start to brilliant story , not boring at all. Percy the Park Keeper! All the animals seek shelter in Percy's Hut.
Sally Stapleton
My father's bedtime story is similar but has a certain rhythm to it :It was a dark and stormy nightand the wind was blowing a gale, and the captain said to his shipmate'Shipmate, tell me a tale'.And this was the tale he told him.T'was a dark.
J Elliott
Nobody seems to have mentioned County Down's finest: Amanda McKittrick Ros This is her opening for her novel, Delina Delaney (1898) Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness? A poet as well as a novelist, Ros wrote 'Poems of Puncture' and 'Fumes of Formation'. The latter contains 'Visiting Westminster Abbey,' which opens:Holy Moses! Have a look! Flesh decayed in every nook! Some rare bits of brain lie here, Mortal loads of beef and beer, Some of whom are turned to dust, Every one bids lost to lust; Royal flesh so tinged with 'blue' Undergoes the same as you. When she read about a new prize for literature (the Nobel) she asked 'Think ye I should make a dart for it?'.Ahh they don't write like that any more.
Chris Mortimore
I consider this to be both the best and worst opening line I've come across. Worst because of how it in no way relates to the story, and best because it has stuck with me all these years, even though I made no effort to memorise it.From Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' (1932):'A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.'.
paul ancill
I believe that the original of “It was on a dark and stormy night“ is the Circular story: - “It was on a dark and stormy night as this that the captain said to his mate tell us a story Joe and he began as follows”: “It was on a dark and stormy night as this that the captain said to his mate tell us a story Joe and he began as follows”: and so on ad infonitam!This certainly predates Snoopy’s version.
Ann from Cardiff
Why do we keep thinking everything comes from America? Long before we ever heard of Snoopy, my brother came home from school (this is early 1950s)with this gem - endlessly repeated - 'It was a dark and stormy night; the captain stood on the bridge and he said:'Cook, tell us a story' and the cook said 'It was a dark and stormy night; the captain stood on the bridge and he ...etc
Gay Pirrie-Weir
Not an opening line, but one I memorised from Women's Illustrated when I read it, thinking I would never find a worse paragraph.'Oh God, Sir Jasper, she cried, turning from the window and recognising him now for what he was, her true enemy.'Now my secret lies naked and bleeding on the mat'
Julia Davenport
My father told me this years ago. It goes like this: 'It was a dark and stormy night. The Captain said to the mate, 'Tell us a story'. And so the mate began, 'It was a dark and stormy night and the captain .....' It used to drive us mad.
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