Rainbow Riches Free Spins Slot – Free Demo

The lines are fixed at ten

I chose to test this game. I put 240 spins through it at a 2.00 stake, starting from a balance of 1,000.00. I admittedly started out thinking it was going to be another low potential slot from Light & Wonder, and visually it didn't appear too thrilling either. That run wagered 480.00 in total and won 706.20 back. Let's work through the fundamentals first, however, before I plunge into the potential. All 10 lines are active at every stake level, and the selection cannot be adjusted.

Rainbow Riches Free Spins is a 5-reel, 3-row slot with 10 paylines, and the RTP is 95.17%. The 2009 Rainbow Riches original runs 20 lines at an RTP of 95.00%. Its a fairly basic and uncomplicated slot. The stake is set per line, and every line win is multiplied by that stake per line. It doesn't demand too much mental effort to grasp. Rainbow Riches Megaways, the 2019 build, uses six reels and 117,649 ways at an RTP of 95.90%.

What the Rainbow Riches logo pays

Symbols comprise A, K, Q, J and 10 playing cards as well as the Rainbow Riches logo, which is the most rewarding of all standard symbols. The A comes next at 300x for five on a line, and the K after it at 200x. It pays 500x for 5 across a payline. Four logos pay 200x and three pay 50x. It is the sole symbol that pays for just two. Two of them are worth 5x.

The wild fills in for everything except the bonus symbol. J, Q and 10 sit at the bottom of the paytable, each paying 100x for five. The bonus symbol is itself wild too, filling in for all other symbols, but don't expect it to come soaring in from everywhere as it only lands on reels 1, 3 and 5. So a bonus symbol can contribute to an ordinary line win as well as count towards the trigger. The top award on a line is 500x. It demands a line of logos. A wild can stand in for any of them to complete that line.

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Reel one decides the spin count

The Free Spin Bonus is triggered by landing the bonus symbol on reels 1, 3 and 5, and the bonus symbols are stacked on reel 1. How many of them are visible decides the award:

• 10 free spins with one bonus symbol visible on reel 1
• 15 free spins with two bonus symbols visible on reel 1
• 20 free spins with three bonus symbols visible on reel 1

A different set of reels is employed during the bonus. The rules give no composition for that set, so there is no way to tell from them how it differs from the base reels. The bet per line is fixed to the triggering spin, and retriggers operate the same way, granting additional spins by how many symbols are visible on reel 1. None of the four bonuses I played retriggered. The round concludes at 0 spins remaining, or after 999 free spins. The awards during the bonus are the same as those in the base game.

A single game win is capped to 250,000.00 in cash, not a figure anyone is going to see at a 2.00 stake, but it is the cap the rules specify. The panel adds that it may not be possible to reach that limit from every stake configuration.

Minty’s Closing Thought: The four features I triggered were worth 184.80 together, a quarter of the 706.20 that came back over 240 spins, and the spin that beat all of them was an ordinary base game one paying 188x the stake. The free spins are in the title and they were not where this run was decided.

Spin 208 outpaid every bonus

Rainbow Riches Free Spins is not a giant slot. My four bonus rounds arrived on spins 153, 165, 174 and 184.

The game is rated 3 out of 5 for variance, and when I tested it over 240 spins at a 2.00 stake, the bonuses seemed to performed like Light & Wonder slots are expected to do. The first of them took until spin 153 to appear, leaving 152 spins of base game before it. None of the four features played paid over 36x, and the four combined paid 184.80, or 26% of everything won. The weakest of them returned 4.4x the stake, on spin 174. The largest win of the session came from the base game instead: 376.00 on spin 208, 188x the stake, and I ended 240 spins up at 1,226.20 from 1,000.00, a session return of 147.1%. The balance peaked at 1,273.20 on that spin, after dipping as low as 770.00 earlier in the run. There were 70 paying spins, of which 42 paid less than the stake. The longest stretch without a win was 11 spins, ending on spin 89. In that sense it kind of gave the impression of being just another Light & Wonder slot.