Why one game
Where’s the Gold is one of the Aristocrat machines Australians still search for by name, years after it first went onto club floors. The questions people type are specific: what the feature does, what each symbol pays, whether there is a free version, where a machine still stands. A site that covers one game can answer each of those on its own page, with the source next to the answer.
Who we are
Goldpan Pokies is written and edited by Callum Barwick. We are an independent site. We are not Aristocrat, we are not a casino and we are not a venue, and nothing here is an official page of any of them. Where’s the Gold, the prospector character and the game’s logo are Aristocrat’s trademarks; we show them to identify the game we write about.
What we check before we publish
- The game’s rules and numbers come from Aristocrat’s own pages first. Where Aristocrat publishes nothing, we say so and tell you which third-party figure is circulating and how far it can be trusted.
- Venue information comes from the venues’ own websites, with the date we read them.
- Law and support services come from Australian government and regulator sites: ACMA, the ATO, BetStop, Gambling Help Online.
The full method, including what we don’t test, is on how we test pokies.
What we never publish
Player counts, invented reviews, “hot machine” tips and any promise of a win. No strategy changes the result of a pokie spin, and we don’t pretend otherwise.
Money
The site is free to read. How it may earn money, and why that never changes what we write, is set out on how we make money.
Get in touch
Found a mistake or a machine we should know about? Contact us and we will check it and correct the page with the date.