Tahiti Gold

Explorer Kane trades his original outfit for war paint and a gold crown in Tahiti Gold, ELK Studios' 2020 follow-up to an earlier expedition-themed release, now set against a tropical bay lined with carved totems, distant mountains and a half-sunken shipwreck. A tribal-influenced soundtrack plays throughout, and the presentation leans more detailed and elaborate than the game that came before it.

Tahiti Gold's reels use a tumbling, avalanche-style system rather than fixed spins: six columns start at four rows and 4,096 ways to win, and every winning combination clears its symbols to let new ones drop from above. Consecutive avalanches expand the grid one row at a time, up to 15,625 ways at five rows, 46,656 at six, 117,649 at seven and a maximum of 262,144 ways once it reaches eight rows. Stakes run from 0.20 to 100 per spin.

Four low-value symbols carved from wood sit at the bottom of the paytable, with lizards, hammerhead sharks, turtles and toads forming the middle tier. Three totem face masks rank above them, and Kane himself pays the most for a full combination. A standalone wild substitutes for every regular symbol on the grid.

Super, Mega and Epic symbols can appear during any avalanche at sizes up to 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4, and are large enough to crush smaller symbols on their way down and set off further avalanches. A Wild Forge symbol, found only on reels three through six, locks in place for the avalanche it lands in and fills any empty spaces beneath it with wilds. Two or more Eye of Tiki symbols connect with a beam of light that clears every symbol between them and adds an extra row at the top of the grid. A bonus symbol can land up to twice per reel, and collecting three, four, five or six anywhere triggers the Free Drops Bonus for 10, 15, 20 or 25 free drops, with three or more bonus symbols during the round adding further drops on top. The bonus resets the grid to its smallest size but can expand all the way back up to eight rows and 262,144 ways, with the Wild Forge lock and the Eye of Tiki beam still active throughout the round.

RTP for Tahiti Gold is set at 96.1% with high volatility, a hit frequency of 22.5% and a maximum win of 5,000x the stake.

The expanding-grid structure means early spins in any sequence pay out from a smaller pool of ways, with the potential climbing sharply once a run of avalanches pushes the grid toward its full eight-row size, and the Free Drops Bonus offering the clearest route to that larger structure.