Sherwood Gold

Play'n GO rates Sherwood Gold a 9 out of 10 for volatility, among the more extreme entries in its catalogue, and wraps the mechanic around scatter-triggered instant prizes rather than a conventional bonus spin. A sunlit medieval castle overlooks a 5x3 grid in the base game, while a room stacked with treasure takes over the screen once free spins begin.

Twenty fixed paylines carry the action, and three-to-five-symbol combinations pay across the grid from the first reel onward. Five separate RTP settings are available, 96.20%, 94.20%, 91.21%, 87.20% and 84.20%, with 96.2% the default, and stakes span 0.20 to 80 per spin. Ten-through-ace royals fill the paytable's lower rungs, paying 0.2 to 0.65 times the bet for five in a row, while four Robin Hood-era characters pay 1 to 7.5 times the stake for a full line, the richest of them built around the outlaw himself. A wild worth 25 times the bet for a full line stands in for everything except the two scatter symbols.

Three or more Cash Bag scatters landing anywhere on the grid pay out immediately rather than through a bonus round, scaling with however many are visible at once; the prize climbs from a single times the bet for three showing up to 2,000 times the bet if all nine positions carry one in the base game. A second scatter, the arrow, carries between one and three arrows printed on each symbol; landing three of them opens the free spins round, and the combined arrow count becomes the number of shots available in the Archery Game that follows. That mini-game presents nine targets across a 3x3 board, each concealing either a spin count, a multiplier, or a boost to the Cash Bag payouts, and once every target has been used the totals are tallied before the spins themselves begin.

Free spins boost every Cash Bag prize by a multiplier between 0.2x and 3x, and any multiplier collected carries over onto ordinary line wins for the rest of the round. Arrow scatters landing during the feature add one extra spin each, up to a ceiling of 110.

Sherwood Gold's maximum win reaches 6,500 times the stake.