Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic Slot Review
A rainbow drops out of a blue sky onto green Irish hills and lands, as it must, behind a heap of gold coins. A yellow brick path winds up to a cottage with a round wooden door, all painted in a glossy cartoon storybook style. It’s a familiar postcode, and Barcrest has been delivering letters there for decades.
Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic hides most of itself from you. The full board is 8 columns by 8 rows, but only a small central patch plays at the start; the rest sits locked until cascading wins break it open. That’s the whole game in one design choice, and it works better than it sounds.
Wins come from clusters of five or more connected symbols, and there’s a free games round on the full grid. There’s no RTP or volatility rating to lean on here, so the shape of the game does the persuading.
Base Game & Features
Wins need five or more matching symbols, touching horizontally or vertically to form a cluster. That’s the only pay mechanic: no lines, no ways count, just connected groups of five or more. Only the highest winner is paid per combination, and everything won in a game adds together into the total.
On the face of it you’re playing a small central area of the 8×8 grid, with the rest of it shown as locked blocks. The locked area isn’t decoration. Every cascading win in a game breaks a section of it off and reveals more symbols, and a larger reel area plays out for each cascade, up to a maximum of six.
Cascades are the engine of the whole thing. Winning symbols are removed, new ones drop into the gaps, and a chain of wins literally grows the board under you. Six consecutive cascades is where the free games live.
The wild substitutes for all symbols, and that’s its whole job here. There’s no scatter, because the bonus isn’t triggered by a symbol at all: it’s triggered by the cascade chain itself.
The paytable is short, and it pays as multiples of the total bet:
- Pot of Gold: 1x for a 5-symbol cluster, 2x for 6, 5x for 7, 10x for 8, 20x for 9
- Pot of Gold, 10 or more in a cluster: 250x
- Clover/Mushroom: 0.25x for 5, 1x for 6, 2x for 7, 5x for 8, 10x for 9
- Clover/Mushroom, 10 or more: 50x
- Gems (purple, blue, green, orange): 0.1x for 5, 0.25x for 6, 1x for 7, 2x for 8, 5x for 9
- Gems, 10 or more: 10x
Those figures are what makes the locked grid matter so much. Small clusters in the starting area pay fractions of your stake, and the 250x top prize needs a ten-symbol cluster of the best symbol. The full grid makes that far more reachable than the opening frame does.
The paytable also reflects your current bet configuration. So the base game is a build. Each cascade is worth little on its own at the low end, but each one buys a bigger board for the next drop, and the sixth cascade is the one that matters.
Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic Free Games & Bonus Features
Chain six cascades together in one game and the feature fires. Free games always play on the full 8×8 grid, so the locked area you spend the base game breaking open is simply handed to you here.
The round works like this:
- 8 free games to start
- The whole 8×8 grid in play throughout
- A maximum of six cascades per free game
- A wheel spin that adds one of three extra features
- Total bet held at the level of the triggering game
The wheel decides which of three features rides along, and each one changes the round’s character completely:
- Persisting Wilds: wilds stick to fixed positions and build through the round
- Infinity Spins: winning spins add spins and climb an unlimited multiplier
- Wild Rain: the third outcome, named but not detailed by the game
Persisting Wilds
Two persisting wilds appear over fixed positions on the reels for each cascade, laid out on a fixed pattern. They stay in place for the duration of the free game and don’t cascade. After each free game completes, they reset.
The ceiling is 6 cascades and 12 persisting wilds on the reels per free game, and reaching it awards an additional 4 free games. An alternate set of reels is used for this feature. The build is the point: by the back half of the round, the board is studded with sticky wilds.
Infinity Spins
The feature begins with 8 free games and a multiplier of 1x. Every winning free game adds another one, and the multiplier ticks up by 1 after each winning cascade, applying to subsequent wins. It never stops climbing for as long as the feature runs.
Up to 250 free games are available this way, with the multiplier unlimited, and this feature guarantees a win of at least 10x the total bet. An alternate set of reels is used here too. Of the three wheel outcomes, this is the one with the long tail.
Wild Rain
The third wheel outcome. It shares the free games structure of the other two, but the game doesn’t detail its mechanics beyond the name, so there’s nothing more to say about how it plays. Raining wilds is the obvious reading, and given what the other two features do with wilds and multipliers, it fits.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this is a long walk up a green hill: quiet for a while, with the promise that the road keeps growing the further you get. You pick it for the growing board, because almost nothing else in cluster slots makes a losing spin feel like progress.
The wheel is the best thing here. Three features that play nothing like each other, all hanging off one trigger, and Infinity Spins can genuinely run away with itself in a way the base game never hints at. The weakness is the front door: the starting patch pays badly and the feature needs six cascades in a row, so there are long stretches where the walk is all you’ve got.
It suits patient players who enjoy a build and can sit through a lean opening act without flinching. Anyone after quick, regular hits from the first spin will be waiting by the fence. For those who like the slow reveal, though, there’s a full pot waiting over that hill, and it’s an enjoyable climb.
Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic FAQs
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How do you win in Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
Wins are awarded for clusters of five or more matching symbols, as long as the symbols are touching horizontally or vertically. Only the highest winner is paid per winning combination, and all wins accumulated in a game are added together to the total win. -
How do you unlock the full grid in Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
Each cascading win in a game breaks off a section of the concealed area of the grid, revealing more symbols. A larger reel area is played for each cascade win, up to a maximum of six cascades. Free games run across the whole 8×8 layout from the first spin. -
What triggers the free games in Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
Six consecutive cascades in a single game trigger 8 free games and a wheel spin for an additional feature. The total bet during the free games remains the same as the game that triggered the feature. -
What does the wheel pick in the Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic free games?
The wheel spins when the feature activates and randomly applies one of three extras to the whole round: Persisting Wilds, Infinity Spins, or Wild Rain. -
How do Persisting Wilds work in Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
For each cascade, two persisting wilds land over fixed positions on the reels in a set pattern. They hold their positions for the whole free game and don’t cascade, resetting once the free game finishes. The maximum is 6 cascades and 12 persisting wilds per free game, at which point an extra 4 free games are awarded. -
What is the Infinity Spins feature in Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
You start with 8 free games at a 1x multiplier. Every spin that wins adds another spin, and the multiplier climbs by 1 after each winning cascade, so it grows for as long as the round keeps paying. It can run to a maximum of 250 free games with an unlimited multiplier, and it guarantees a win of at least 10x the total bet. -
What is the grid size of Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
The full grid is 8 columns by 8 rows. In the base game, only a smaller central area is actively populated with symbols at the start, with the rest shown as locked blocks that break away with each cascading win. -
Who makes Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic?
Rainbow Riches Cluster Magic is made by L&W/Barcrest. Its release date is 30 July 2020.
