WBC Ring Of Riches Slot – Free Demo

Twenty fixed lines under the arena lights

BGaming has been on a bit of an inventive bender lately, and WBC Ring Of Riches might be the most peculiar one of the bunch; at first look you'd be excused for believing you've strayed into a pay-per-view undercard where the entire arena has been dunked in gold. Bonanza Billion and Lady Wolf Moon come from the same studio. But no. Don't fiddle with your set, all of the symbols and pictures here are licensed boxing furnishings, straight from the World Boxing Council itself, and for plenty of players that will be a positive thing too. The boxing gloves are the one symbol with work to do beyond the paytable, since they are what sets the Wild frames going. Genuine boxing can be brutal. With the bruises, the weight cuts, and predawn roadwork, it all sounds like gruelling work, and certainly it's preferable to play a sanitised ringside version with a cluster of tidy and smartly-dressed characters. Across my 310 spins, 71 of them paid something, a shade under a quarter. Or is the resulting slot a shade too tidy, let's find out.

WBC Ring Of Riches can be a shock when it first loads, if you haven't been forewarned. I opened it at a stake of 1.00 with 999.00 on the balance. It's not merely large, vivid and colourful. The game world is additionally constructed entirely out of championship gold, or bling, as it is also called, and there is a Saturday night title bout mood going on, like a Las Vegas main event, or something equally off-centre. Yet, on the other hand, the arrangement is as ordinary as it gets with 5 reels and 4 rows in operation, and paylines are not adjustable at all with 20 fixed and in play at all moments, another quirk you don't spot much anymore. Every line win is multiplied by the bet per line rather than by the total stake. All wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and only the biggest win counts per line, while wins on distinct lines are summed together.

Gold leaf over a 94.96% return

It's frequently the case that glossy licensed games have a catch lurking nearby, and with WBC Ring Of Riches the RTP could qualify, since it's down a fraction from the usual norm at 94.96%. Over my run the balance dipped as low as 811.90. That's not the kindest return to player rate I've observed lately. It finished the 310 spins at 836.20, from 999.00 at the start. It revives the downward drift, which seems to be cropping up more often.

The trophy cabinet, priced per line

On a more encouraging note the game has a colourful paytable, and it feels like surveying the trophy cabinet of a champion; WBC Ring Of Riches begins with some gilded 10-A royals. Five of any royal is worth 30 times the line bet, and four of them 10 times. They are trailed by a bell, a ring girl, a dollar sign and a VIP ticket. Five of any of those four pay 60 times the line bet. Those compose the middle pays, and the high pays carry on with more silverware such as the WBC belt and the trophy. Five belts or five trophies are worth 75 times the line bet apiece. The ringside king, however, is the boxer himself. He pays out a chunky 200 times the line bet for five of a kind. Four boxers pay 50 times the line bet and three pay 20 times.

Three of the low and middle pays are needed on a payline when it comes to winning combos. Three of the 10, J, Q or K return 2 times the line bet, and three aces return 5. The boxer requires just two or more. Two of them return the line bet itself. Assisting winning combinations is the wild, which stands in for any of the pay symbols except the scatter, and it pays the identical 200 for five of its own. It tracks the boxer the rest of the way down as well, at 50 for four and 20 for three.

What the boxing gloves actually do

The Ring of Riches logo is useful as a scatter that pays from the total bet. It counts from any part of the display rather than along a line. But it has another job too: in this role, when 3 scatters are in sight they launch the Free spins feature, and landing 3 scatters will trigger 10 free spins. My first trigger came on spin 31, with the base game paying 0.20 on that same spin. What enlivens free spins is that every wild landing during the round sticks in place until the round finishes. Between them, my two rounds accounted for 61.00 of the 147.20 I won. The free spins run at the bet and lines of the triggering round. It also means the feature cannot be retriggered.

The second bonus game bulking out WBC Ring Of Riches is the Wild frames feature, and it runs in the main game across a cycle of 10 spins. Every boxing gloves symbol that lands sets golden frames around its cell when it is active. Those frames remain sticky for the remainder of the cycle, and this process carries on to play out until the cycle is finished. At that point all the framed cells convert into wild symbols. A cycle can reach that point with the Extra multiplier standing above 1, and it is applied to the winning combinations on the spin.

Finally a few remarks about the Extra multiplier. It is the portion of the frames business that is beginning to count most, and one tidy aspect about this feature is that it keeps accumulating. In this case, when a gloves symbol lands on a cell that is already framed, the multiplier for that spin climbs by 1. It applies to every winning combination, free spins included, before resetting to 1 when the next 10-spin cycle starts. My balance peaked at 1,007.70, on spin 31.

Minty’s Closing Thought: 310 spins returned 147.20 from 310.00 staked, which is 47.5%, and 61.00 of that arrived in two free spins rounds sitting 255 spins apart. A licensed belt on the reels does not change the 94.96% printed underneath it.

310 spins with the WBC belt

You've got to hand it to these licensed slots: they often conceal what is going on beneath the surface, as I noted before. In the case of WBC Ring Of Riches, this applies to potential. Reaching the top of it asks for several things at once: framed cells turning wild, sticky wilds through a free spins round, and the Extra multiplier sitting above 1 when the line lands. It goes without saying that the boxer is the symbol you want to land, and wins can mount up quite quickly with the frames quietly piling wilds. My best base game hit was five Bell on line 7 for 13.0 times the stake, on spin 198.

For example, a line of boxers is worth 200 times the line bet right there, and you're looking at something rather more substantial if you happen to strike that during free spins with the sticky wilds filling in behind it. Sticky wilds hold their cells to the end of the round, so a late boxer can land against wilds that arrived on the first spin. The odds of that occurring will be stratospheric, sure. The largest single win in my 310 spins was 47.00, on spin 286. BGaming has hauled it down to earth to a degree. Still, with max win potential of up to 3,165 times the stake up for grabs, these gloves are able to dish out hefty wins.

On the not so great side, the RTP is underwhelming. My longest run without a win was 23 spins, ending on spin 237. Over 310 spins at a stake of 1.00 I got 147.20 back from 310.00 wagered, a return of 47.5%, with two free spins rounds 255 spins apart paying 14.0x and 47.0x between them. Of the 71 spins that did pay, 44 gave back less than the stake. Those sorts of feature used to arrive as standard on slots back in the day. But when paired up with the gloves and the Extra multiplier, it gets an extra jolt with WBC Ring Of Riches.

To sum up, WBC Ring Of Riches won't please everyone. No game on the outer edges of the bell curve ever could.