Wild Wild Riches Slot

This video slot is a gambling machine offering 576 ways to win. Ways to win make an attractive alternative to paylines; they appear when a qualified number of matching icons land in any positions on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. In case of Wild Wild Riches, three regular icons of a kind do the magic and make Leprechaun dip into his purse. There are as many as 576 of such instances or ways to win in every spin, this is a fixed number as reels and symbols have constant sizes contrary to, for instance, a Megaways model that creates a different number of ways every spin because of randomized sizes of the reels and symbols.

The Wild Wild Riches slot uses nine regular icons, a wild symbol, a bonus symbol and a money symbol. When two wilds combine their magical powers with a bonus or money symbol, they act as scatters triggering bonus features. This is probably an explanation of a double “Wild” in the title of the online casino game – they indeed may bring fabulous riches. Non-feature icons are 4 suits (Spades, Diamonds, Hearts and Clubs), Amanita mushrooms, Full-Bent Smoking Pipes, Horseshoes, Irish Harps and Beer Mugs. These icons pay between x0.08 and x8 the stake. This paytable looks very low unless one knows how ways to win work and how to calculate wins. Imagine there are 10 harps sitting on three adjacent reels. This is a 3-icon combo which pays x2 the stake, a tiny win. But there is the second aspect, that of the number of ways to win: 3 reels host 10 harps (three harps on reel 1, three harps on reel 2 and four harps on reel 3). It makes 3x3x4=36 ways to win so the total payout is 2×36=x72. Given the fact that the slot accepts bets between $0.25 and $125 and may produce 576 ways to win, it has a decent winning capacity. The developer points at x4,608 the stake as the maximum win and this is a true statement: this win happens when all symbol positions are taken by Beer Mugs awarding x8 the stake for a 5-icon combo. There would be 576 ways to win and the total win would amount to 576×8=x4,608 the stake. Moneywise, it is up to $576,000 making a nice trophy for any casino fan from South Africa who plays Wild Wild Riches for real money.

Players are greatly assisted in making a fortune by wild symbols. These appear on reels 1 and 2 and do the job of any non-feature symbol. A bonus symbol appears on reel 3 only. When a wild symbol hits reels 1 and 2 and a bonus symbol lands on reel 3, they activate free spins. The money symbols are Leprechaun’s pots of gold that may pop up on reels 3–5. Hitting wilds on reels 1 and 3 and at least one money symbol on reels 3–5 triggers the Money Collect bonus provided wilds and money symbols create a way to win. This rule means that wilds and money symbols should sit on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel without gaps. It may look a bit tricky but in fact it is not as wilds and other feature symbols emerge quite often. Given the scale of winning during bonus features, it is certainly worth pursuing them and playing the video slot for real money.

Hitting wilds on reels 1 and 2 and the bonus symbol on reel 3 gives start to free spins. The slot machine awards 10 FS during which the game becomes more generous and throws more special symbols on the reels described above. Wilds increase chances to create more pay ways and money symbols give a chance to launch a Money Collect feature. As soon as free spins are a retriggerable bonus, extra wilds assist players in winning extra free spins. Every time a player hits wilds on reels 1 and 2 and the bonus symbol on reel 3, the slot machine awards 10 extra FS.

This feature looks like a hunt for Leprechaun’s riches translated into the language of the best online casinos. When a player sees wilds on reels 1 and 2 plus money symbols on reels 3–5, the Money Collect feature gets rolling and the magic begins. Money symbols located on reels 3 and 4 offer direct cash awards ranging from x1 to x25 the stake. These awards are displayed on each money symbol. Reel 5 hosts money symbols of two different sorts:

1. x2, x3 or x5 win multipliers applied to money symbol values on reels 3 and 4
2. Jackpot symbols: Mini ( with a payout of x50 the stake), Major (x100) and Mega (x500). Money symbols with titles of any jackpot prize may appear on reel 5 only. It is unclear though whether multipliers coming along with jackpots apply to them. Rules do not explicitly exclude this possibility.

Just like some other slot machines by Pragmatic Play, Wild Wild Riches is equipped with the Ante Bet feature. It is designed to speed up triggering of a bonus feature. It takes a little extra, 20% on top of a normal bet, and considerably increases the probability of wild symbols coming on reels 1 and 2 and, respectively, of launching free spins or the Money Collect feature.

The Wild Wild Riches video slot by Pragmatic Play is a 5-reel online casino game offering 576 ways to win. It accepts bets between $0.25 and $125 per spin and pays up to x8 in the base game, maximum win is x4,608 the stake. Bonus features award prizes between x1 and x25 the stake; x2, x3 and x5 win multipliers along with three jackpots of x50, x100 and x500 the stake.