Gopnik Slot (Sneaky Slots)

The Gopnik slot begins with 5 reels, 4 rows and 30 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are formed when 3 or more matching symbols appear from left to right, beginning from the leftmost reel, on adjacent reels and across any of the 30 paylines. Only the highest award per payline will be paid.

Playable with a 10p minimum bet per spin, the most you can play for in the UK is £5 a spin (or £2 if under 25). Use the plus and minus buttons to change your bet or click/press the ‘Bet’ amount to see all available options (up to £500 a spin outside the UK). Non-UK players can make use of Autoplay.

The Gopnik RTP rate is 95.64%: lower than the 96% average, 55.44% comes in the base game and 40.2% from the bonus features. Sneaky Slots has also produced 94.24% and 92.29% alternative RTP settings so check within the Paytable at your chosen site. For reference, the Gopnik demo above uses the highest setting.

Marked as extreme volatility (10/10), a winning combination will land every 1 in 4.82 spins as the hit frequency rate is 20.75%. When it comes to triggering the free spins, it will occur every 1 in 135 spins (on average). Finally, Gopnik comes with 6,666 x bet max wins: your chances of winning this (the max win probability) is 1 in 244,798 spins. Winning 100 x your total bet or higher will occur every 1 in 1,047 spins.

With a Soviet theme, the Gopnik slot is inspired by the juvenile, delinquent urban subculture in Russia and former Soviet republics. According to a quick search on Google, a gopnik is a type of hooligan that poses and hangs out in large groups, in a squatting position oddly enough.

Sporting Adidas and Nike tracksuits, the setting is a rundown, urban town which is very grey and bleak. With a harrowing soundtrack, you’ll hear dogs barking as you brave the gloomy scene. On the reels, you’ll see 5 letters of the Russian alphabet (known as Cyrillic) as well as 4 Gopnik characters: Maxim, Yuri, Svetlana and Vlad. Vlad is the highest-paying symbol, awarding 20 x your total bet for 5 in combination.

Gopnik benefits from 3 wild symbols: there is a Babushka Wild, Baseball Bat xNudge Wild and Sergei Gas Masked Wild. They all substitute for all paying symbols. Other symbols include a Burner Phone Scatter, Bonus Scatter and Super Bonus Scatter.

Gopnik Mobile

All Sneaky Slots games use HTML5 technology, allowing for play on mobile, desktop and tablet devices. Compatible with iOS and Android smartphones, you’ll play in Portrait Mode.

The Gopnik slot benefits from multiple bonus features: there are instant bet multipliers, random wilds, expanding xNudge Wilds with increasing multipliers, a Scratch Card game where you get access to more features and the chance to win the max win, free spins with a unique Cheeki Breeki Dice game and a respins bonus with plenty of modifiers.

Babushka Wild

Look out for the Babushka Wild symbol: substituting for all paying symbols, it only appears on reel 1 in the base game. The Babushka Wild marks between 1 and 4 positions on the other reels: if a Gopnik symbol lands on a marked position, it awards an instant bet multiplier from 5x up to 50x.

Burner Phone

When the Burner Phone Scatter lands on reel 5 in the base game, it can ring. When it rings, 2 to 4 random symbol positions turn into wilds.

xNudge Wild

The Baseball Bat xNudge Wild is stacked and always nudges to become fully visible on the reel. Substituting for all paying symbols, every step the xNudge Wild nudges increases the win multiplier by 1. The win multiplier applies to all winning combinations the xNudge Wild is part of. Several xNudge Wild multipliers are added together.

The xNudge Wild can appear in the base game, Street Roll and Super Street Roll features, but not on reels 1 or 5. Up to 2 xNudge Wilds can land on the same spin in the base game and Street Roll feature: up to 4 can appear in the Super Street Roll feature.

Scratch Card Bonus

If 2 Bonus Scatters land during a base game spin, they transform into wilds. Landing 3 Bonus Scatters will trigger the Scratch Card Bonus feature. A scratch card with 5 scratch-able positions displaying car wheel rims appear: scratch them out for an instant result.  This includes entry to 1 of 2 free spins features:

• Kiosk Raid feature: reveal 3 calcaulators
• Street Roll feature: reveal 3 dice

If you reveal a golden car symbol, the max win bet multiplier prize of 6,666 x your total is awarded immediately.

Super Scratch Card Bonus

Landing 3 Bonus Scatters plus 1 Super Bonus Scatter (on reels 4 or 5) will trigger the Super Scratch Card Bonus feature. Here, you can trigger the Super Street Roll or Super Kiosk Raid features. If you reveal the golden car symbol, you’ll win the game’s max win of 6,666 x your total bet.

Street Roll

In the Street Roll feature, you get 7 free spins which are played on 6 reels. Gopnik symbols on reels 1 and 5 can land with a dice token: if a Gopnik lands with a dice token on both reels, you’ll activate the Cheeki Breeki Dice feature.

Super Street Roll

Awarding 7 free spins, this plays like the Street Roll feature. However, if a win multiplier is awarded from the Cheeki Breeki Dice feature, it stays for the whole round and is stacked up with each new multiplier awarded.

Cheeki Breeki Dice

In the Cheeki Breeki Dice feature, 2 dice are thrown. If the left dice wins, you’ll get a win multiplier equal to the winning number on the dice, which then applies to any wins in that spin. If the right dice wins, you get a number of wilds equal to the winning number on the dice, which are placed on random positions before the reels stop.

If you manage to roll a pair, the dice are thrown again up to 2 extra times or until any of the dice wins. If after 3 rolls of the dice you have 3 pairs, 5 extra free spins will be awarded. Below are the payouts if the 3 pairs reveal 1 number:

• If all 3 pairs are made up of 1s = 1,111 x bet prize
• If all 3 pairs are made up of 2s = 2,222 x bet prize
• If all 3 pairs are made up of 3s = 3,333 x bet prize
• If all 3 pairs are made up of 4s = 4,444 x bet prize
• If all 3 pairs are made up of 5s = 5,555 x bet prize
• If all 3 pairs are made up of 6s = 6,666 x bet prize

If you land a Super Bonus Scatter on the last reel, you’ll upgrade to the Super Street Roll feature. Another Scratch Card mini game will then be activated: scratch 1 of the wheel rim symbols to reveal between 2 and 10 free spins.

Kiosk Raid Spins

The Kiosk Raid Spins feature begins with 3 spins. With only label symbols landing, the spins tally resets each a label symbol lands.

The top row displays new random bet multiplier values on each free spin. When a new label symbol lands below a multiplier, it receives that multiplier, which is then held until the end of the feature. Multiplier values range from 1x to 100x.

With the top row also revealing modifiers, modifiers only affect labels with a bet multiplier below it. Labels appearing together with a modifier on the same free spin on that line will receive a random multiplier. Possible modifiers include:

• Upgrade: upgrades the Multiplier on the label it affects to a higher value
• Collect: collects the affected label and adds its value to the total bet multiplier again
• Double: doubles the value of a random label symbol below it
• Super Bonus: upgrades the Bonus to Super Kiosk Raid feature

The total bet multiplier is tracked above the grid, consisting of all landed label symbos with a multiplier, along with the contribution from the Collect modifier. Once the feature ends, all total bet multipliers are awarded.

Super Kiosk Raid Spins

The Super Kiosk Raid Spins feature works like the normal version but with 2 extra rows: 1 of them makes it possible for more label symbols to land. The other appears at the bottom and shows added values between 1 and 100 on every new free spin.

When a new label symbol lands above an added value, the value is added to all label symbols on the line above it. The bottom-most row can also reveal unique modifiers:

• Upgrade All: upgrades the multipliers of all labels on the same vertical line above it to a bigger value
• Collect All: collects all labels on the same vertical line above it and adds their value to the total bet multiplier again.
• Double All: doubles the value of all labels on the same vertical line above it

Sneaky Boost & Buy

Like other Sneaky Slots titles, there are Sneaky Boost and Buy features for non-UK players. Below are all the details:

• Sneaky Boost: Costing 2 x bet, there is an increased chance of a Bonus feature. RTP is 95.53%.
• Super Sneaky Boost: Costing 5 x bet, there is an increased chance of a Super Bonus feature. RTP is 95.93%.
• Kiosk Raid: Costing 100 x bet, you will trigger the Kiosk Raid feature. RTP is 95.76%.
• Street Roll: Costing 100 x bet, you will trigger the Street Roll feature. RTP is 95.69%.
• Super Kiosk Raid: Costing 380 x bet, you enter the Super Kiosk Raid feature. RTP is 95.76%.
• Super Street Roll: Costing 380 x bet, you enter the Super Street Rollfeature. RTP is 95.84%.
• xNudge: Costing 7 x bet, you are guaranteed a Baseball Bat xNudge. RTP is 95.7%.
• Babushka & Burner Phone: Costing 15 x bet, you are guaranteed a Babushka Wild and Burner Phone. RTP is 95.66%.

Gopnik Slot

Rating: 4.2/5

Gopnik offers a full-on experience with plenty of bonus features including NLC’s xNudge Wilds, free spins and a Hold ‘n’ Win game for an anarchic and quirky slot well worth ‘squatting’ for.

Chris Taylor

Superbly designed, I do see Nolimit City’s influence in the Gopnik slot. The theme is edgy, different and engaging: the soundtrack is particularly good.  When it comes to the gameplay, you have Babushka Wilds in the base game that will mark positions and awards bet multipliers if a Gopnik symbol lands. If the Burner Phone Scatter lands and rings, up to 4 positions are turned wild.

Then Sneaky Slots has added the xNudge Wild mechanic from Nolimit City: it expands to take over the whole reel with the multiplier increasing with each nudge. You can find xNudge Wilds in plenty of NLC slots such as Mental 2, Home of the Brave and Kenneth Must Die. I like that they chose a baseball bat to represent the xNudge Wild to tie into the theme perfectly.

With the Scratch Card Bonus and ‘Super’ variant, you scratch car wheel rims to win access to the 2 main bonus features: if you uncover a golden car, you’ll win the game’s max win.

With the Street Roll and Super Street Roll features, the key are Gopnik symbols with dice tokens. Activating the Cheeky Breeki Dice feature, you get win multipliers and Gas Masked Wilds. If you roll 3 pairs, you can win up to 6,666 x your total bet.

In the Kiosk Raid Spins feature, label symbols land. Like a Hold ‘n’ Win bonus, modifiers are the key as bet multiplier values are upgraded, collected and doubled. In the ‘Super’ version, you can upgrade, collect and double all bet multipliers for even higher win potential.

With 6,666 x bet max wins, the only disappointment is that Gopnik doesn’t offer higher max win potential. That said, I like how Sneaky Slots has managed to include a popular xMechanic seamlessly into a game that has a unique and fresh theme.

If you like the story and theme, Nolimit City’s Remember Gulag and Tsar Wars as well as Big Time Gaming’s Rasputin Megaways offer more Russian/Soviet action.

The Gopnik slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades.

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Chris Taylor is an industry veteran originally from Gibraltar. Having worked in the online gambling industry since 2004, Chris loves slots and has reviewed over 10,000 online slot games. Running a slots-focused website for 13 years, Chris is the go-to guy for everything slots-related.