Rainbow Riches

For frequent visitors to UK pubs and clubs (and it has been known for the BestSlots team to partake of the odd pint ourselves), the name 'Rainbow Riches' may already be familiar. A fruit machine with the same name can often be seen propped against the wall of a British boozer, and often with an avid fruit fan - pint in hand – trying his luck with it (and possibly with the barmaid too after a few more pints of Dutch courage!) So has this Irish-themed pub favourite been given an online makeover to bring some fruity fun to online casino punters? Well yes and no, as we'll explain...

The online version of Rainbow Riches is a game from Barcrest, the original developers of the real-world machine and a giant in the world of UK fruit machine games. However this Rainbow Riches is a different beast from that you'll find in a boozer, and had been rejigged (or should that be Irish jigged?) from a three-reel, single payline fruit machine format into a five-reel, twenty payline casino slot. Gone are the Nudges and Hold features of the pub fruity, but the online slot game gains Wild and Bonus Scatter symbols to compensate. What remains consistent for all the Rainbow Riches machine games is the Irish theme, with a splendidly ginger-bearded, pointy-eared Leprechaun as its mascot, bidding you to chase the pot of gold at the end of his rainbow.

The Irish theme is actually pretty restrained, so the seven standard symbols on the reels are 10,J, K, Q, A, Game Logo, and Gold Coin – not a pint of Guinness, Shamrock or Riverdancer in sight! The Gold Coin is Rainbow Riches' Wild symbol and can substitute for any other standard symbol to create a winning combination across an activated payline. It cannot substitute for the three Bonus Symbols this game has, which brings us neatly to the extra feature games this themed slot brings to the online casino player's party.

The Rainbow Riches online slot machine packs in three possible bonus features, triggered by three different Bonus Symbols on its reels. All these Bonus Symbols act as Scatters, so you only need three or more of a kind in view on the screen to activate the relevant bonus feature. The three feature games are:

Wishing Well Bonus
With three or more Wishing Well symbols in view on the player must click one to claim their bonus prize. Each visible Well conceals a bonus multiplier and all are revealed once the player has made their choice.

Pots of Gold Bonus
Three Pots of Gold must be in view across the three middle reels to trigger this bonus round, whisking the player to new screen to play the feature game. This is a simple Wheel of Fortune style game. A circle of pots, gold sliver and bronze surround the little Leprechaun fella who dances a wee jig as they spin around him – the pot that stops at his feet awards the bonus multiplier marked on it.

Road to Riches Bonus
With three or more symbols of the Leprechaun gurning at you from the reel, you're off to travel his path paved with gold (well, increasingly large multipliers to be exact). The Leprechaun host spins a number wheel to determines how many moves along his Road to Riches you make, and this is repeated until you either get to the maximum award or the wheel stops on one of its two 'collect' segments.

Rainbow Riches pays 'n plays very well, so if you feel like you're blessed with the famed 'luck of the Irish' this Irish themed slot machine could be the road to riches you're after... g'wan, g'wan, g'wan!