Great Rhino Slot
Software | Pragmatic Play |
Slot theme | Animals |
Reel | 5 |
Paylines | 20 |
Progressive | No |
Reviewed & updated:
08.11.2024 By gambling expert
Richard B.
Great Rhino Slot Review
There are only 3 ways to get the best of Africa and all of them are open to players from South Africa thanks to the Great Rhino slots series brought to online casinos by Pragmatic Play. This review discloses all the features and opportunities offered by Great Rhino, a 5-reel 20-line slot machine, a founding father of the series. Happy in spirit, bright in colors, dynamic and energizing in gameplay, the Great Rhino slot may also enrich a lucky online casino visitor with line wins up to $2,500 and 2 jackpot prizes of $37,500 and $50,000. Although the main benefits are brought by an animal as large and fearsome as a rhino, players may relax and enjoy the game using a desktop or a mobile device. It is also quite versatile when it comes to betting options: the slot machine accepts modest wagers of only $0.20 and weighty stakes of $100 so it is a joy to connoisseurs of penny slots, players on a budget and also high rollers.Gameplay, symbols and paytable
The slot has 5 reels with 3 rows and 20 fixed lines. All the images and sounds produce a very comforting air and help focus on achieving the best wins and having the best time. To play the game, players are asked to place a bet.
The line bet as such is not adjustable because all paylines are fixed so players select a line bet by changing the total bet within $0.20 to $100 per spin, the range broad enough to accommodate most diverse betting preferences and habits and very typical of slot machines supplied to online casinos by Pragmatic Play.
Regular symbols are four playing cards from J to A and five iconic African animals including Flamingos, Hyenas, Crocodiles, Cheetahs and the totem animal of the slot, Rhinos. These symbols always pay from left to right starting from the leftmost reel when 3, 4 or 5 symbols of a kind land on any payline. Playing cards award x5 to x125 the line bet, animals pay from x50 to x400 the line bet. This is not too impressive paytable but there are also feature symbols making it look and pay better.
Extraordinary, but one of non-feature symbols has a feature. It is the Rhino of course: Rhinos come in a stacked position and 2 or more full stacks of Rhinos trigger a bonus feature. A stack is full when all positions of a given reel are taken by matching symbols, Rhinos in this case. Besides, during free spins, Rhinos manifest their wild nature, i.e. they work like wild symbols.
A shining huge casino chip is a wild symbol. In the main play it appears on any reel and substitutes for any regular symbol. Wild symbols also pay an award, in fact, the best line award in this online casino game and landing 2+ of them on any line adds x4, x50, x125 or x500 to the player’s balance or as much as $2,500 at the max stake. Wild symbols cannot substitute for scatters.
An icon with a Bonus sign is a scatter. It lands on three central reels only and hitting 3 scatters in one spin pays x2 the total stake and activates free spins.
Free spins
To play the slot machine for free while winning real money, players need to meet two easy requirements. First, they need to play the game for real money and secondly, they need to land 3 scatters in any position on reels 2, 3 and 4. The slot pays all line wins managed in the triggering round as well as the scatter award (x2 the stake or up to $100 at max) and grants 10 FS. Free spins are played on a new set of reels, also highly attractive in terms of design.
The feature cannot retrigger, unfortunately, but players from South Africa should not be upset as there is a special bonus for them, a very special and very big one. Regular symbols featuring Rhinos become wilds during free spins. This change means that hitting 2+ Rhinos on any active line during free spins awards x4 to x500 the line bet. Given the habit of Rhinos to come in stacks, wilds may do a lot of good to a lucky player.
Super Respin bonus and fixed jackpots
When 2 or more herds (or stacks) of Rhinos appear during the base game, the Super Respin feature activates and gives a chance to win one of two available jackpots including Major or Grand, at x375 or x500 the total stake, respectively.
Before playing the bonus feature, the slot pays all line awards won in the triggering round, wipes out all icons except for stacked Rhinos, and grants 3 Super Respins. No other symbols, feature or regular, appear during Super Respins except for Rhinos. Rhinos are made sticky when hit.
The ultimate goal is to collect 15 Rhinos in the course of Super Respins. To make it manageable, the slot awards one extra Respin every time a new Rhino appears and sticks to the reels. Given the feature starts with at least 6 Rhinos, there can be as many as 9 extra Rhinos and, respectively, 9 extra Respins.
When all Super Respins are used and all 15 positions on the reels are taken by Rhinos, the slot machine pays the top award, Grand Jackpot amounting to x500 the total bet.
If the feature results in 14 Rhinos, the online casino slot pays the second best prize, Major jackpot of x375 the total bet. It is still a big deal of money, $37,500 at max (if the game is played for real money, of course).
Any other number of Rhinos collected during the feature makes the slot count and pay wins of all line combinations created by these animals. Given that the Rhino pays the top award as a regular symbol (up to x400 the line bet), this is the third best possible outcome in the feature.
Summary
The Great Rhino video slot by Pragmatic Play is a 5-reel 3-row 20-line game taking bets between $0.01 and $5 per line and paying up to x250 the line bet in the base game and during free spins. The Super Respins feature draws two jackpots of x375 and x500 the total bet. The slot is optimized for mobile devices and allows for bitcoin betting.