- Joined
- Aug 25, 2004
- Location
- Bexhill on sea, England
Here’s my brief review of Rival’s latest offering;
First off I was very disappointed to see someone at Rival has seriously cocked-up again, because this is what it says in the information:-
It looks like somebody has ‘cut & pasted’ that from the Future Fortunes info, only changed 5 words and unfortunately forgotten to take out the "Can't lose" bit!
The free-spins are NOT no lose – the first reel does not have a fixed wild symbol!
If it did then it might be a very good slot, but as it is I think they’ve slightly missed the mark again.
During the free spins, the wild only appears on reels 1, 2 & 3, but it becomes an expanding wild filling all three positions. And that’s not all, the wilds also have an increasing multiplier; 1 = x2, 2 = x3 & 3 = x4.
This should give the potential from some pretty mega payouts if you can hit all three!
This was close...
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But if you don’t hit many wilds it’s a bit of a damp squib, because in making this probably the highest variance slot Rival have ever produced, the low end of the paytable is VERY low.
Bearing in mind this is a 20-line slot, if you play all lines then 7 of the three-of-a-kinds, and even 3 of the four-of-a-kinds only return a fraction of the cost of your spin!
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In my very brief trial, I played just 134 spins and hit the free-spin feature 3 times;
1. Paid back bet x 21.65
2. Paid back bet x 1.3
3. Paid back bet x 25.0
But despite getting those features my overall return was only 54%
In summary; Like the other recent Rival releases, superb graphics & sounds and a very good concept, but for me this one falls short of the others in playability because getting the feature should be an exciting event, not something you watch in fear of hitting diddly-squat. I think they’ve maybe got the variance a bit too high. A paytable tweak could probably sort this out, hopefully Rival will realise this and make some changes in the not too distant future....
First off I was very disappointed to see someone at Rival has seriously cocked-up again, because this is what it says in the information:-
Scary Rich is a 5 reel, 20 payline, 10 coin Slot game. Scary Rich has one wild icon.
The Frankenstein (scatter) Icon is a Scatter Icon which triggers the Can't Lose Free Spin feature. If 3 of these icons appear on the Reels you will receive 10 free spins. The game will enter a Can't Lose mode for the duration of the spins. See below for more information on this feature.
These Free spins are Can't Lose free spins! For the duration of the free spins, the first reel will always be wild and additional 2-icon payouts will be added to the paytable. The end result of this is that all big wins will be easier to achieve, and you will win at least your original bet back for each spin. The payback of the free spins is thus at least 10X your bet but the possible payouts are limitless!
It looks like somebody has ‘cut & pasted’ that from the Future Fortunes info, only changed 5 words and unfortunately forgotten to take out the "Can't lose" bit!
The free-spins are NOT no lose – the first reel does not have a fixed wild symbol!
If it did then it might be a very good slot, but as it is I think they’ve slightly missed the mark again.
During the free spins, the wild only appears on reels 1, 2 & 3, but it becomes an expanding wild filling all three positions. And that’s not all, the wilds also have an increasing multiplier; 1 = x2, 2 = x3 & 3 = x4.
This should give the potential from some pretty mega payouts if you can hit all three!
This was close...
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But if you don’t hit many wilds it’s a bit of a damp squib, because in making this probably the highest variance slot Rival have ever produced, the low end of the paytable is VERY low.
Bearing in mind this is a 20-line slot, if you play all lines then 7 of the three-of-a-kinds, and even 3 of the four-of-a-kinds only return a fraction of the cost of your spin!
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In my very brief trial, I played just 134 spins and hit the free-spin feature 3 times;
1. Paid back bet x 21.65
2. Paid back bet x 1.3
3. Paid back bet x 25.0
But despite getting those features my overall return was only 54%
In summary; Like the other recent Rival releases, superb graphics & sounds and a very good concept, but for me this one falls short of the others in playability because getting the feature should be an exciting event, not something you watch in fear of hitting diddly-squat. I think they’ve maybe got the variance a bit too high. A paytable tweak could probably sort this out, hopefully Rival will realise this and make some changes in the not too distant future....
One last thing – it was very nice to see they included a video of our new moderator MaxD in the opening credits….
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