Paylines
Scatter pays (4+ symbols anywhere)
Picture a 5×5 grid where the top half does one job and the bottom half does another, and the two never overlap. That’s the gimmick at the heart of Digger’s Dough, Relax Gaming’s mining cascade from April 2026. The top two rows hold only Block symbols. The bottom three rows hold only paying symbols. You can see what’s loaded above before the spin even resolves, which gives every round a kind of pre-game tension you don’t usually get on cascading slots.
Wins are scatter pays, position-independent. Get four or more matching symbols anywhere on the bottom three rows and you score, with cascades replacing the cleared icons. The catch? Whenever a winning symbol lands directly under a Block, that Block fires. Empty Blocks just shatter and waste your activation. Multiplier Blocks stamp values from x2 up to x500 onto a Total Multiplier counter that grows through the round. Bonus Blocks worth 1, 2 or 3 stack toward Free Spins. Three or more activated Bonus Blocks in a single round triggers the bonus, and the count is summed (so 1+1+3 gives you five spins, not three).
Then there are the destroyers. Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, plus three colored gem variants. The Red Gem Block detonates every red-class symbol on the reels, then forces the next cascade to drop only red-class symbols. Basically a guaranteed follow-up hit. Brutal in the best way.
Free Spins inherit the Total Multiplier from the trigger spin, and crucially it does not reset between spins. Super Free Spins is a rarer randomly-awarded variant where only Multiplier, Bonus, and Gem Blocks land up top. No empties, no destroyers. Five spins of pure value.
Worth flagging: this is the 94% RTP variant of the gameref. Operators can deploy a 96% version too, so check before you commit. Buy Bonus runs 71x for the standard route or 256x for guaranteed Super Free Spins. Cap is 10,000x. The setting’s a cheerful daytime mining camp with a bearded prospector and gold-filled carts. Not gritty. Not edgy. Just a charming dig.