Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day Online At Finn’s Golden Tavern
Gov. Murphy ordered all nine Atlantic City casinos to close as of 8 p.m. Monday, March 16. And celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at your favorite local Irish pub is also out. What a bummer! But here’s another great way to get in the party mood–visit Finn’s Golden Tavern online and win CASH!
Finn’s Golden Tavern never closes
So you’re welcome to stop by, join the fun and maybe have a big helping of Irish luck rub off on you, not just on St. Patrick’s Day but anytime.
Where can you find Finn’s Golden Tavern?
Finn’s Golden Tavern is ready to serve you 24/7 on any of the following NJ gambling websites. The game can be played either on your desktop or on iOS or Android mobile devices.
This online slot is so much fun it will be hard to tear yourself away. And surely you can use all of the cheering up you can get in these uncertain times. So whether you’re Irish or not, leave your cares and worries behind and get ready to party. You might even win a big pot of gold!
Also, don’t forget that at Finn’s Golden Tavern, the fun and festivities never stop. This game could become one of your favorite slots on NJ Gambling Websites.
Finn’s Golden Tavern picks up where Finn and the Swirly Spin leave off
NetEnt, the same world-renowned gaming manufacturer that brought you Finn and the Swirly Spin, a March 2018 Barb’s Best Bet, has recently released a sequel, Finn’s Golden Tavern, that is equally entertaining, if not more so.
Finn, the lucky leprechaun with flame-red hair whom many of you have come to love in Finn and the Swirly Spin is back to welcome you to Finn’s Golden Tavern. While he’s not as prominently featured in the newer slot, he is still taking in all of the action from the sidelines. As your biggest cheerleader, he wants your visit to be enjoyable and profitable, and he’s always looking out for you.
But if you’re expecting to find the usual five reels, three rows, and a fixed number of paylines, a big surprise is in store for you. In both of these games, all of the action takes place inside a 5×5 grid with 25 spaces and a cluster pays feature.
Another thing the two games have in common is that they are filled with exciting bonus features. But you don’t have to wait until you trigger a special bonus to make the game worth playing. There’s nonstop action from the get-go in the base game, too. Every time you win, the winning symbols explode and set off an avalanche!
Finn’s favorite tavern serves up nonstop fun
The setting for the two games is different and so are the symbols. Instead of the lush green Irish countryside setting the stage for the action, this time the fun takes place inside a bustling local tavern. So you won’t see any four-leaf clovers. Instead, the screen is filled with gold coins and jugs, bottles, and tankards of ale.
On non-winning spins, the music playing in the background is relatively quiet–nothing to get too excited about. But once you start winning, especially if it’s a big win, then it’s cause for celebration. The music becomes much livelier, and everyone in the bar including Finn is celebrating along with you. If you want to prolong the party vibe, simply wait a minute or two before your next spin. The rousing soundtrack won’t stop until you resume playing.
Finn’s Golden Tavern basics
Finn’s Golden Tavern is a new video slot from NetEnt, one of the most recognizable and highly regarded names in the online casino gambling industry. This company is not only at the forefront of online and mobile slot technology but has been making innovative and highly entertaining games for online casino players in New Jersey and around the world for a long time.
However, this particular slot bears little resemblance to the games you’re used to playing. Most recently released online slots contain five reels, three rows, and a specific number of paylines. Furthermore, much more often than not, winning combinations are formed only when three or more matching symbols show up adjacently on consecutive reels, starting with the reel furthest to the left. Winning combinations in Finn’s Golden Tavern are formed completely differently.
Innovative 5×5 grid layout
The layout for the game is a 5×5 grid consisting of 25 spaces. Each space is occupied by a symbol. Winning combinations for the ale-related symbols are formed whenever three or more of the same symbol line up in adjacent spaces either horizontally or vertically. However, coin symbols will pay you even when only one of them shows up. With all symbols, the greater the number (up to 5 for each winning combination), the greater the payout.
You will frequently get winning combinations simultaneously in multiple places on the grid, which also increases the amount of your win. Sometimes you will see big clusters of winning symbols.
But the winning doesn’t stop there. Whether you get just three winning symbols or a bunch of them, all of them explode. Each space on the grid formerly occupied by one of those symbols is then empty, This sets in motion an avalanche whereby other symbols move to fill the empty spaces and frequently form more winning combinations to trigger another avalanche. These avalanches can last a long time and give you big wins.
You’re going on a treasure hunt!
Finn has a super exciting challenge for you–a treasure hunt. The direction is all mapped out for you, and lots of rewards are waiting to be scooped up. All you need to do is to find them is to get lucky.
Spin Mechanic feature
Each time you win, the winning symbols are destroyed and get replaced by other symbols. The way this happens is that symbols move from higher-numbered spaces to the next lowest numbered space in the directions of the arrows, as depicted in the diagram below.
You will also notice that at the start of each spin, a treasure chest always occupies square No. 25 at the bottom. The game contains only one treasure chest so, unlike the other symbols, forming a winning combination of three or more is impossible. But that’s a good thing because this symbol never gets destroyed. Instead, every time you win, the treasure chest is on the move.
Unfortunately, as soon as the grid ceases to display any new winning combinations, the treasure chest will return to its original position in square No. 25. That can be frustrating.
Multiple wins in succession are best because with each consecutive win, the treasure chest will move closer to the center square marked “1”. Once the treasure chest lands in the center, that triggers the Free Spins game with five free spins and a Free Spins Multiplier.
What makes Finn’s Golden Tavern Barb’s Best Bet?
As a NJ slot player, you want every playing experience to be fun, and while winning is never a sure thing, at least you want to have a good chance to win without undue risk to your bankroll. But where do you start? With hundreds of slots to choose from, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of slots.
Barb’s Best Bets can help you make better choices. I use very stringent criteria in deciding which slots make the cut. While I can’t guarantee a winning outcome, what I can guarantee is a highly entertaining playing session, great bang for your buck, and a better chance of winning than most slots offer.
Here are the specific reasons why I chose Finn’s Golden Tavern as Barb’s Best Bet this week.
The perfect slot for St. Patrick’s Day
Probably the last place you thought you would be spending this joyful holiday is at home. You would much rather be hanging out at your favorite casino, bar or restaurant. This year it’s impossible, so instead of moping around feeling sorry for yourself, put some extra fun in your life and do something that is not only different and exciting but could be financially rewarding, too.
The online slot game Finn’s Golden Tavern is a new release, so the chances are you never played it before. And the Irish tavern setting makes it the perfect choice for St. Patrick’s Day (or any day you can’t go out and would like to play a game that is certain to cheer you up).
Lots of special features
When it comes to special features, the more the merrier, and this slot is filled with them. Even in the base game, there’s never a dull moment. Best of all, even though you don’t have to travel anywhere and can enjoy all the comforts of home while playing on your desktop, smartphone, or tablet, you get the opportunity to go on a treasure hunt. How exciting is that!
Wide range of bet sizes
This game gives you a very wide range of coin sizes, so you can adjust the size of your bets up or down to your liking. The cost per spin is the coin size multiplied by 10. You can choose a coin size from 1 cent all the way up to $50. This makes the minimum bet per spin 10 cents and the maximum bet per spin $500.
Created by NetEnt, a name synonymous with quality
If you play NJ online slots frequently, the name NetEnt should already be very familiar to you. There’s a good chance some of your favorite slots are NetEnt slots. And by the way, you have all of March 2020 to keep earning entries for the NetEnt $250,000 Giveaway, and Finn’s Golden Tavern is one of the slots where your play qualifies.
It is also no coincidence that many slot games I select as Barb’s Best Bets are NetEnt slots. This manufacturer pays as much attention to ensuring that every game it releases offers an excellent chance to win as it does to the myriad of special features that make gameplay so enjoyable.
Exceptionally high return to player (RTP)
One of my criteria for Best Bet status is an RTP of 96 percent or higher. That immediately rules out the majority of online slots but not NetEnt slots because every online slot game that NetEnt releases has an RTP of at least 96 percent.
Finn’s Golden Tavern has a published RTP of 96.10 percent.
Keep in mind that your results for any given playing session might deviate considerably from this figure in either direction. This is especially true in a game like Finn’s Golden Tavern due to its medium-high volatility.
The RTP is simply the theoretical estimate of the amount of a player’s starting bankroll that the player can expect to receive back after a great many sessions. However, no one’s bankroll is infinite. Playing games with a high RTP will not only give you better odds of winning but greatly minimizes the likelihood that an extended early losing streak will wipe you out before you have a chance to recoup.
Finn and Swirly Spin
All of the above NJ online casinos mentioned above also offer Finn and the Swirly Spin.
You can also play Finn and the Swirly Spin at these NJ online casinos which do not currently offer Finn’s Golden Tavern:
Finn’s Golden Tavern symbols
Regular symbols
Lower paying symbols
Finn’s Golden Tavern includes a total of eight regular symbols. The four lower paying symbols are as follows:
- Jug of ale
- Bottle of ale
- Silver tankard
- Wooden tankard
Each of these symbols pays the same: 1x your bet for three symbols, 5x your bet for four symbols, and 50x your bet for five symbols.
Higher paying symbols and Coins Ahoy feature
The remaining regular symbols are coins. Each coin is marked with a different value: 5, 10, 20, or 50. The following pay table shows the bet multipliers for each coin, depending on how many of them appear together.
| Coin Symbol Bet Multipliers | ||||
| Type of symbol | One
symbol |
Three symbols | Four
symbols |
Five
symbols |
| 5 coin | 5x | 15x | 20x | 25x |
| 10 coin | 10x | 30x | 40x | 50x |
| 20 coin | 20x | 60x | 80x | 100x |
| 50 coin | 50x | 150x | 200x | 250x |
As you will see, any three or more matching coin symbols of the same value pay out the sum of the values of all of the matching coins. In other words, it’s Coins Ahoy!
Special symbols
Wild symbol
A yellow star is the game’s wild symbol just as it is in Finn and the Swirly Spin. As such, it can help to form winning combinations when there otherwise wouldn’t be any as well as add to the value of existing winning combinations.
When a winning combination does not include the wild symbol, a wild symbol will appear after the win and possibly contribute to another win.
Treasure chest
In Finn and the Swirly Spin, the ultimate goal is to move the key from its No. 25 starting position in the bottom left-hand corner of the grid all the way to position No. 1 in the center of the grid. In Finn’s Golden Tavern, instead of a key, you hope to accomplish the same result with the treasure chest. You must get the treasure chest in the center square to unlock the Free Spins bonus game, where if your good Irish luck continues, you have a chance to win a fortune.
Finn, who is continually rooting for you but rarely makes an appearance, finally will after the treasure chest lands in the center square to trigger the Free Spins. He will personally appear in the center of the grid and raise his jug of ale to toast your good fortune.
Finn’s Golden Tavern additional special features
We already described the Spin Mechanic, Avalanche, and Coins Ahoy features. But those only begin to describe the multitude of exciting extras you are likely to experience playing the Finn’s Golden Tavern slot game. The others are listed below.
Fist Slam feature
In the main game, this feature can be randomly activated on a non-winning spin. Finn slams his fist on the table, and a coin symbol moves to create a win!
Random Coin feature
This is another special feature that can randomly occur in the main game. If the Free Spins chest symbol lands in the immediate loop of symbols around the center position, this can activate the Random Coin Feature whereby the winning low paying symbols turn into higher paying coin symbols!
Free Spins
After all wins or Avalanches have occurred, if the Free Spins chest symbol is in the central position, this activates the Free Spins game with five free spins and a Free Spins Multiplier.
Free Spins Multiplier
A Free Spins Multiplier Meter appears on the screen while the free spins are in progress. It goes up 1 step for each wild symbol that is involved during an Avalanche.
For every 5 steps up the meter, the Free Spin Multiplier increases by 1.
Free Spins Coin Bonus feature
During the free spins, if a Free Spins chest symbol lands in the center position on the grid upon the completion of an Avalanche, this activates the Free Spins Coin Bonus feature. Multiple coin symbols appear with randomly assigned values.
No progressive jackpot, but you can still get a mega-size win
Finn’s Golden Tavern doesn’t offer a progressive jackpot. That is probably just as well because in most progressive jackpot games, the trade-off is playing with a lower RTP so other meaningful wins are harder to come by. Instead, the plethora of special features both in the base game and during the Free Spins, but especially in the latter, can add up to not just a meaningful win but a ginormous win. According to the manufacturer, you can win up to 1,000x your bet–for a maximum payout of $500K!
How I fared playing Finn’s Golden Tavern in demo mode
My winnings in my free sessions in demo mode were far from earth-shattering. But I was a winner nonetheless.
Session 1: +$250
For my first playing session, I selected a coin value of 50 cents, which had me betting a hypothetical $5 per spin
During the base game, I had a mixture of small wins and larger wins. So my bankroll went up and down but not by much either way. Then, sooner into the game than I expected, the treasure chest symbol landed in the middle, so I was awarded 5 free spins.
At the start of the free spins, I was up $64. During the free spins, the Multiplier Meter never climbed higher than 1, leaving me with an additional win of $186 and a total win for the playing session of $250.
Session 2: +$27
This time I doubled the coin value to $1.00, which made the cost of each bet $10.
However, I did not fare as well in the base game. As a result, even though, once again, I triggered the Free Spins, by that time I was already down by $194.
I won $221 during the Free Spins, which was slightly more than I won in Session 1 but not as much as I would have expected since my bet size was doubled. After concluding the Free Spins, not wanting to put the medium-high volatility to the test further, I ended the session.
Session 3:+$5,500
For my final playing session in demo mode, I decided to get bold and raise the stakes. I increased the coin size to $5, which made the cost of each bet $50. I would not have done this if I were playing with real money, but with an imaginary starting bankroll of $5,000, I felt I was sufficiently capitalized.
On my very first spin, I won $585, with multiple coins contributing to the big win. Another big win of $450, with the help of wild symbols, followed shortly thereafter. However, the good luck didn’t continue and the game turned ice cold on me. Despite being up $755, I lost all of my winnings. So I was back to square 1 while the treasure chest, which I was hoping to land on square 1 on the grid, kept reverting back to square 25.
My bad luck continued, and my loss mounted to $980. Then, finally, on one spin, I not only won $585 but triggered the Free Spins. From then on, the grid went crazy wild with winning symbols exploding all over the place. The treasure chest even landed in the center square to trigger the highly lucrative Free Spins Coin Bonus. Everything was happening so fast, I couldn’t keep up with it.
When all was said and done, the Multiplier Meter had risen to 4, and with the Free Spins winnings added to the win on the triggering spin, my total win on my last $50 bet came to $6,480. After subtracting $980 (the amount I was behind just before the Free Spins), that left me with a net win for the session of $5,500.
The bottom line
My results playing in demo mode show that the degree of volatility or variance associated with this online slot can be quite high. For this reason, it is imperative to select a bet size that you can comfortably afford.
I highly recommend Finn’s Golden Tavern. The many special features not only make playing great fun, but combined with the very high RTP, contribute to many ways to win. This Irish-themed slot is especially appropriate for St. Patrick’s Day. If you can’t go out to celebrate, all the entertainment you could ask for is a click away on your computer or smartphone at Finn’s Golden Tavern!