Play Golden Winner Bonus Cherries

Golden Winner Bonus Cherries by Inspired Gaming takes the fruit-machine route, then starts attaching rather more machinery to it than the cherries initially suggest. The 5x3 slot uses 10 paylines, familiar fruit and BAR symbols, mixed cherry wins and wild Collector bells, while three coloured Special Cash Symbols lead into Pots, Reveal and Spins bonus mechanics. A progressive bonus trail can also extend the feature and raise collection multipliers. So much for cherries keeping things simple. 

Golden Winner Bonus Cherries sits firmly in retro fruit-machine territory, with watermelons, grapes, plums, oranges, strawberries, cherries, BARs, sevens and bells filling the reels. The presentation gives these old-school symbols a cleaner digital treatment, using saturated colours, gold borders and brightly lit feature icons rather than trying to disguise the game's arcade roots. 

Among modern online slots, this one looks deliberately traditional at first glance. The busier details sit around the reels, where jackpot labels, coloured Bonus panels and the three Pots, Reveal and Spins indicators hint that there’s considerably more going on underneath. Animations become more prominent when Collector bells and Special Cash Symbols interact, but the visual identity remains recognisably fruit-machine based throughout. It’s classic casino imagery with a surprisingly elaborate control panel bolted onto the side. 

Wins use 10 fixed paylines and are formed by matching symbols across adjacent reels from left to right. Most symbols require at least three matches, although the highest-paying regular symbols can also create potential wins from two. 

Mixed Cash Symbols also pay when different coloured cherry symbols appear together, with five paying 15x the stake, four paying 5x and three paying 1x. 

• The regular Wild substitutes for line-win symbols except the Bonus Scatter. 
• The Collector Bell acts as a wild during Bonus games and collects eligible Cash and Special Cash Symbols. 
• Bonus Scatters can appear on all reels in the base game and activate the Bonus when at least three land. 
• Special Cash Symbols appear in green, purple and blue versions, each tied to a different bonus mechanic. 

Special Cash Symbols 

Three coloured Special Cash Symbols can appear during play. The green version is linked to the Pots mechanic, purple to Reveal and blue to Spins. When one appears in the base game, there is a chance that its corresponding Bonus game is activated. The symbol may also increase in size, although its size does not alter the chance of triggering the feature. 

A triggered Bonus always includes the colour responsible for activating it. Different colours can therefore produce different combinations of mechanics during the same round. 

Bonus Scatter Symbols 

Landing three or more Bonus Scatter symbols triggers the Bonus game. Three scatters activate one colour of Special Cash Symbol, four activate two colours, and five activate all three colours. 

When at least three Bonus Scatters are already present, Special Cash Symbols cannot independently trigger their associated Bonus on that spin. The scatter trigger takes priority and determines which coloured mechanics are included. 

Bonus Game and Collector Bell 

The Bonus begins with 10 spins. Collector Bell symbols can appear across the reels, acting as wilds while also gathering the values attached to Cash and active Special Cash Symbols in view. 

Each collection also advances a 12-step trail above the reels. Three enhanced stages sit along that trail. Reaching one does not interrupt the current set of spins; once that set finishes, another 10 spins are awarded and the collection multiplier increases. The first enhanced stage raises it to x2, the second to x3 and the final stage to x10. 

Pots 

When the green Special Cash Symbol is active and collected by a Bell, it reveals a mystery fixed prize. The available values are Mini at 10x the stake, Minor at 25x, Major at 50x and Grand at 100x. 

Reveal 

Purple Special Cash Symbols first award their displayed cash value, then transform to reveal another Cash or currently active Special Cash Symbol. The newly revealed symbol is collected immediately. If another Special Cash Symbol appears, its own effect is also activated, allowing a chain of reveals to develop. 

Purple cash values depend on the symbol size. A single cherry carries 1x or 2x, a double cherry 5x and a triple cherry 8x the stake. 

Spins 

The blue Special Cash Symbol also awards its cash value when collected, but its additional effect is extra spins rather than another symbol. It can add 2, 3, 4 or 5 spins immediately. 

Its cash values follow the same structure as the purple version: 1x or 2x for a single cherry, 5x for two cherries and 8x for three. 

Golden Winner Bonus Cherries keeps its standard reel game straightforward: 10 paylines run across the 5x3 grid, wins travel from the leftmost reel across adjacent positions, and only the highest potential payout on an individual line is counted. Wins occurring on different paylines are added together. 

The unusual part is how much of the game sits outside those ordinary line calculations. Special Cash Symbols may initiate bonus mechanics, Collectors can gather several visible values at once, and the progressive trail changes both the remaining number of spins and the multiplier applied to future collections. 

There are also reel announcements and modifiers that can appear at the beginning or end of spins. These can potentially produce direct wins, upgrade winning symbols or cause a Collector interaction when a Bell is active. Compared with many conventional games found at online casinos, the result is a fruit slot whose old-fashioned reel setup hides a surprisingly involved feature structure.

The nearest thematic neighbours are other games that build around fruit-machine symbols rather than trying to disguise them behind dragons, pirates or whichever deity has drawn the short straw that week. 

• Fruit Shop Frenzy: A slot that also centres its visual identity on straightforward fruit-machine imagery, with cherries, citrus fruit and familiar casino symbols doing most of the decorative work. 
• Fruit Shop Grand Re-Opening: This sequel heads in a much brighter direction, but the reels remain dominated by oversized fruit symbols and colourful arcade-style presentation. 
• Fruit Heaven: A game that continues the same fruit-heavy theme while adding a busier modern format, making it a useful comparison for players who prefer classic subject matter with newer mechanics. 

Golden Winner Bonus Cherries is rather deceptive. A quick glance suggests an uncomplicated fruit machine, then the rule pages start producing coloured cherries, Collector bells, feature combinations and a 12-step upgrade trail like somebody discovered a spare drawer full of mechanics. 

We think that contrast is the strongest part of the game. The familiar fruit presentation keeps things easy to read, while the Pots, Reveal and Spins mechanics give the Bonus enough variation to prevent every collection from feeling identical. Reveal is particularly useful for creating chains, while Spins can stretch a round and the trail gives collections a longer-term purpose. 

There is a lot happening for a game dressed this traditionally, though, and players wanting a genuinely simple cherry-and-seven experience may find the feature system more complicated than the artwork suggests. Still, Golden Winner Bonus Cherries does a decent job of making a very old theme feel considerably busier without completely burying it.