
Once the player reaches a piece of gold, they will have to reel it back in, the bigger the gold nugget the longer it takes. The crank rotates from left to right and the player must lower it at the right time so that it reaches the gold instead of missing. In each level of the game, the player must dig for gold using the crank and collect enough gold to achieve the money goal.

In Gold Miner, the player controls a miner who digs for gold using a mining crank. Published on any other site without permission from Casual Game Guides.2003 Gold Miner is a puzzle arcade flash game that was developed by GameRival and released in 2003.Īlthough Flash was discontinued on January 12 2021, Gold Miner is still playable through BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint and a mobile app has also been created called Gold Miner Classic: Gold Rush. Play the Slot Machine:You can earn a lot of gold fast, but remember you need those little silver coins in order to play.Ĭontent(s) of this game guide may not be copied or (Hint: Make sure your mouse pointer is below ground or your claw won’t drop.) The animals have very little value unless they are carrying gems. Purchases eat away at your money and make the next level more difficult to beat.īe Careful Dropping Your Claw: You don’t want to waste time missing targets and picking up useless items. He doesn’t like it when you don’t buy anything, but all he does is growl. There won’t be any diamonds on the next level and you’ll be wasting your gold.īe Careful About Your Spending: The storekeeper is crooked! He might charge you one price for an item on one round and then charge you a much higher price the next round. Once you have it, click on it to freeze the moving objects.ĭiamond Polish: NEVER buy diamond polish after a level that had diamonds on it. You have to buy it from the shopkeeper, and it’s usually expensive. Rocks Book: increase the value of the rocks on the next levelīones Book: if you buy this book and there are no bones on the next level, you’ve wasted your moneyįreeze Box: this box may be used to freeze the underground animals and other moving things. Mystery Potion: gives you energy to snag anything much more quicklyĤ-Leaf Clovers: improve your luck with grab bags (Hint: use your up arrow to throw a stick at a boulder.) These stay with you from level to level if you don’t use them. Use the cash you earn to buy items to help you along the way.ĭynamite: allows you to get rid of any boulders you snag that will slow you down. You can grab them to get them out of the way. However, if it’s a gem or a gold nugget, it’s not so good.


Those leprechauns chip away at anything in their path, which is good if it happens to be a boulder. If you grab the barrels of TNT, they blow up everything around them, so be careful. Boulders and bones will not harm you, but they slow you down. You could win more gold, but you pay to play.Īlong the way, you’ll encounter obstacles like barrels of TNT, boulders, bones, and evil leprechauns with pickaxes. Once you have coins, the shopkeeper may ask if you want to play the slot machine. These coins show up ever so often among the other items. If you grab silver coins, you can use them to play the slot machine. (Hint: You may move to the next level without finishing the current level once the Next Level sign lights up, meaning you have reached your goal. You’ll need to collect enough gold to move on to the next level.

Using your claw and reel, you can retrieve gold nuggets, brilliant gems, bags of cash, and anything else you can find (some of these items might be on the back of a rodent). The idea here is to see how much treasure you can unearth.
