Rainbow Riches – Reels of Gold by Barcrest
The Rainbow Riches brand is one that Barcrest continues to take full advantage of, and we can hardly blame them seeing as it has been the name behind some of the most played pub, club and casino games that the UK has ever seen. Their latest online slot release in the range comes in the form of Rainbow Riches – Reels of Gold and it marks quite the departure from the standard gaming layout. Indeed, it looks like the original Rainbow Riches and WMS’s Spartacus merged together, as this is the first Barcrest game to make use of what we like to refer to as giant reels.
Giant Reels on Rainbow Riches
Basically, this means that players are playing across two linked five reel boards, with a hundred win lines shared between them. The first is pretty standard, with four rows of symbols, while the second sees twelve symbols being displayed on each reel, and virtually anything that can land on this game can do so in stacks. That includes the wild card too, which can fill in for anything other than the balloon bonus symbol, and if a reel on the first board is filled by a stack of wilds, the corresponding reel on the other board will also turn completely wild too!
There’s a Big Bet option on this game and you’ll receive five spins for an increased stake. The higher your stake, the better the additional bonus. It could be a feature that sees wilds that expand to cover their whole reel, transferring to the giant reels in the process, or bonus symbols that are collected over the course of the round to make it easier to trigger free spins. As you go up from their in stake, you will find continually bigger and better pick a win bonuses thrown into the mix too.
If you decide to stick with standard play, you could well find yourself benefiting from the fairy bonus, which will see the fairy flying onto the board before awarding one of several bonus features. She could add magic wilds, which add more wild stacks to the current board before wins are paid again, or the wild burst that will see butterflies entering the field of play and turning any symbols that they land on into additional wilds. There are five more potential features from this too, so there is no shortage of excitement whenever the fairy decides to make an appearance.
While all of that is already huge, we still haven’t made it to the game’s main feature which is the free spins bonus round. This involves landing the balloon scatter on reels one, three and five on both sets of reels at the same time – so it can take a while to hit. Between one and four picks are awarded on a board depending on the number of triggering scatters and each one will reveal a batch of free spins. You can gamble what you find, but do remember that the number can go down as well as up and there is nothing to stop you losing all of them if you gamble too hard!
We’re used to Rainbow Riches games being feature packed but Rainbow Riches – Reels of Gold is right up there with the very best of them thanks to giant reels, great base game bonuses, Big Bets and of course free spins. It does away with some of the better-known features but replaces them with equally compelling action and we love this game as much as every other in the range. You may well love it too – find out for yourself by playing it in full at the top of this page, or trying it for real cash at any of our most highly recommended Barcrest casinos for players in the UK!
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