Raging Rhino Rampage Slot – Free Demo

A sunset tree on reels two to five

From studio Light & Wonder originates this Raging Rhino Rampage. Raging Rhino is the earlier Light & Wonder game, and Raging Rhino Rampage Buy Pass is the version where the bonus is bought for 75x the bet, giving 5 free spins on reels that can expand to 8 rows for up to 262,144 ways.

As you likely realise, there are rather a few creature slots out there. They are obtainable in a broad range of looks, and Raging Rhino Rampage has adopted what seems to be a conventional method at first. The rhino activity can toss up the occasional shock or two on the reels, though. It won't earn too many novelty points. But it does bring a few extras that might fit some punters. Rhinos are the only symbol that pays for 2 of a kind, at 0.625x the stake.

Sitting in around the middle point, the game is not quite so volatile. In my 380 spins, 123 paid something, which is 32%, and 77 of those paid less than the stake. RTP doesn't disturb the boat either. My session returned 67.5%, with 760.00 wagered and 513.20 won.

To get the rampage going, stock up on wagers from 0.40 to 20 credits per spin, and the play is basic. I played at a 2.00 stake from a 1,000.00 balance. It begins with a grid that employs 6 reels, 4 rows and 4,096 ways. The rows can be enlarged. Winning combinations are formed of three or more identical symbols on neighbouring reels. They arrive successively from the first reel onwards.

No major surprises when opening up the paytable. Six gorillas or six cheetahs each pay 5x the stake. Most symbols keep to the creature theme, well, apart from the first six 9-A royals that is, and next up there is a crocodile, a badger, a cheetah, a gorilla, and the rhino. Badger and crocodile each pay 3.75x the stake for six. There are only 11 pay symbols. Yet they do provide reasonably decent worth, with 6 rhinos valued 7.5 times the stake. Six aces or six kings pay 3.125x the stake.

Raging Rhino Rampage has been reinforced by several special symbols punters need to be conscious of, and one is the sunset tree wild. It can show on reels 2 to 5 to perform replacement tasks. That keeps it off the first and last reels. To help form a winning combination, the wild substitutes any other symbol except the diamond scatter.

Rhinos that stampede, and a wheel before the free spins

From time to time, and randomly activated, the game alters the present spin to reshape the reels. This is what the reels can provide:

• Expanding Reels enlarges two or more reels to up to 6 rows. The reels drop back to 4 rows on the next spin.
• Stampeding Reels adds additional rhinos to two or more reels. Those extra rhinos are removed on the next spin.

Keep an eye out for the large shiny diamond scatter symbols, since landing 3 or more diamonds activates the Free Spins feature. The number of spins rises with the number of diamonds, from three up to six. It grants 5, 8, 15 or 20 free spins. Two of my four triggers came with 5 diamonds for 15 spins, one with 4 for 8 and one with 3 for 5.

5, 8, 15 or 20 more spins are granted by landing 2 or more fresh diamonds during Free Spins. Both retriggers in my session came from 2 diamonds and added 5 spins, in the rounds from spin 44 and spin 200.

During Free Spins wilds may also land, and every wild in a win turns into a 2x or 3x multiplier. That multiplier applies to the win the wild is part of. The Bonus Wheel turns until it stops on Start before the spins begin, like so:

• Extra spins - adds +2, +3, +5 or +50 free spins. The wheel adds up every prize it lands on before it reaches Start.
• Mini - a jackpot of 25x the wager. On my 2.00 stake that would have been 50.00.
• Minor - a jackpot of 250x the wager. At 2.00 that comes to 500.00.
• Grand - a jackpot of 2,500x the wager. My one wheel prize was +5 spins on spin 200, and the other three wheels went straight to Start.

The Minty Summary: four free spins rounds brought in 182.00 of the 513.20 the game paid me over 380 spins, and none of them passed 26x the stake, so a round advertised against a 12,500x ceiling behaved like a modest top-up to a balance that closed at 753.20.

156 spins between diamonds

What seemed to be fairly ordinary stuff at first gave way to interest. That was when the Bonus Wheel and multiplier wilds were found on the paytable, and then the waiting settled in. The first free spins came early, on spin 21, and the second followed 23 spins later. In my session, free spins arrived four times in 380 spins. The four rounds paid 42.00, 46.00, 52.00 and 42.00. But one stretch lasted 156 spins before free spins at last staggered out of the darkness. The last trigger, on spin 335, came 135 spins after that one.

But very little else occurs if fortune's not on your side while playing Raging Rhino Rampage, so much so it’s very simple to lose patience and eagerness with the entire rampage. The longest run of spins with no win at all was 13, ending on spin 199. When they did show, free spins proved fine. The best round, 25 spins in all from spin 200, paid 26.0x the stake. They were nothing to write home about, though. Together the four rounds paid 182.00, which was 35% of everything I won.

The maths model behind Raging Rhino Rampage generated surges of empty or low-value spins. The biggest base game win was 36.00 on spin 268, or 18.0x the stake. The game doesn't have a whole lot else to it aside from free spins wins, though. My balance finished at 753.20 from the 1,000.00 I started with.

It might be fine for a bit of low key amusement, and it's far from being a world-beater by any measure.