Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours Slot Review
A sunlit Irish meadow sits under blue mountains, toadstools dotted along wooden fences while a red rainbow arcs out from behind a gold reel frame heaped with coins. Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours looks like the friendliest game in the arcade, but it’s actually one of the more stratified: the amount of game on offer depends directly on how much you stake, and the full version only exists above 30.00. It’s a 5×3, ten-payline build from L&W/Barcrest, with adjacent pays and a 2,500x top prize on the logo. The cheerful paintwork is genuine; so is the gate in front of it.
Base Game & Features
Play runs across five reels and three rows, with 10 paylines and adjacent pays, so winning combinations count from either side of the grid. Awards are per symbol, per winning line, and every value on the ladder is a multiple of the total stake. That per-line detail matters on a ten-liner: a full screen of one symbol doesn’t pay one prize, it pays every line that symbol completes, which is where the big grids come from.
The full prize ladder looks like this:
- Rainbow Riches logo: 50x for three, 250x for four, 2,500x for five
- Rainbow: 40x for three, 100x for four, 200x for five
- Harp and Mushroom: 20x for three, 50x for four, 150x for five
- A and K: 10x for three, 20x for four, 100x for five
- Q, J and 10: 5x for three, 15x for four, 50x for five
The ceiling is the top of that ladder: 2,500x the total stake, paid for five Rainbow Riches logo symbols on a single winning line. It’s a big number for a ten-liner, but reaching it needs a very specific grid, and the logo has to stack to get there. The gap between the top two tiers is wide, so the logo does almost all the heavy lifting on any serious result.
Stacked logos are what the base game is built around. When they land well, full reels of the top symbol can combine across several adjacent-pay lines at once, and one good grid can pay many times over.
The royal end of the table tells its own story. Three Q, J or 10 symbols return 5x the stake, which keeps the small wins ticking without ever threatening anything substantial. Even five of them only reaches 50x. Everything between the logo and the royals – the Rainbow, the Harp and Mushroom, the A and K – sits in a narrow middle band that mostly serves to soften the quiet spells.
Magic Fairy Bonus
The Magic Fairy is active at every stake level, which makes it the one modifier low-stakes players get to use. The rules of the feature are straightforward:
- Triggers whenever a Magic Fairy symbol is in view at the end of a spin
- One fairy in view transforms into a random mystery symbol
- Multiple fairies in view all transform into the same mystery symbol
- Works at every stake level, standard game and Big Bet alike
The shared transformation is where the potential sits. A single fairy is a modest thing: one symbol becomes one random replacement, and most of the time that’s a small win or nothing. Multiple fairies are different. Every one of them becomes the same symbol, and that symbol is chosen to match the reveal, so a grid with fairies on three reels can suddenly hold three matching columns.
Because wins pay adjacent, that kind of screen doesn’t need to line up left to right. Matching symbols on the right-hand reels count just as readily, and several lines can complete from a single transformation.
The reveal happens after the reels stop, so each fairy in view holds a moment of suspense before the mystery symbol lands. It’s the only surprise the standard game contains.
The Wild
The wild, a gold coin marked WILD, substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus symbol, but only in the Big Bet game and only at stakes of 30.00 or more. Below that threshold, the symbol doesn’t appear at all – the wild is a Big Bet exclusive, not a base game feature with a restriction attached.
Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours Bonus Features
There’s no scatter trigger and no pick screen in this game. The bonus side of the format is the Big Bet, selected deliberately from the game options it reveals, and it works like this:
- Each Big Bet consists of four reel sets played consecutively
- The round concludes after each of the four reel sets has spun once
- The total stake per line in the Big Bet game is 0.20
- All awards remain multiples of the total stake, per symbol and per winning line
- The wild activates at stakes of 30.00 or more, and then across all four reel sets
So a Big Bet is four linked spins rather than a conventional bonus round. Its value comes from concentration: four grids in quick succession, with the wild in play at the higher tier. The stake per line holds steady at 0.20 throughout, so the arithmetic of the paytable doesn’t change between the first reel set and the fourth.
That stake gate is the whole design of the mode. Below 30.00, the Big Bet game runs without the wild and the Magic Fairy carries the action alone. Above it, the wild substitutes across all four reel sets, which changes what the sequence can realistically produce.
The fairy stays live throughout, which matters. Inside a Big Bet, a multi-fairy transformation on any of the four reel sets can pair with wild substitutions on the next, and the two features working across consecutive grids is the closest this game comes to a proper bonus round.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.2/10
This is a gentle stroll through very familiar Irish countryside, and the Magic Fairy is the reason anybody settles in for it: three or four fairies turning into one shared symbol can change an entire grid in a single reveal, and no other moment in the standard game comes close. It works at every stake, too, which is rarer here than it sounds.
The best thing about it is that transformation rule. Where most mystery reveals pick a symbol per position, this one commits to a single symbol across every fairy on screen, so one good spread of fairies can fill multiple lines at once through adjacent pays. That commitment is what gives a ten-liner its big grids.
The worst thing is that most of the game’s real machinery sits behind the 30.00 Big Bet gate. Below it there’s one modifier, a lot of stacked logos and not much else, and the middle of the paytable is thin enough that quiet spells are long. For casual players after a pretty, low-drama spin, that’s honestly fine; for anyone who wants the wild and the four-reel-set sequences working together, the full game only exists at the top of the stake ladder. There’s gold at the end of this particular rainbow, but you have to climb for it.
Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours FAQs
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What does the Magic Fairy Bonus do in Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours?
The Magic Fairy is active at all stake levels. One fairy in view at the end of a spin turns into a random mystery symbol, and several fairies in view all turn into the same mystery symbol, giving a shot at much bigger wins. -
How does the Big Bet game work?
Each Big Bet consists of four reel sets played consecutively. The round concludes once each of the four reel sets has spun once, so you get four linked spins with the stake per line set at 0.20. -
When is the wild symbol active?
Only inside the Big Bet game, and only at stakes of 30.00 or more. Outside those conditions the wild simply doesn’t feature. -
What does the wild substitute for?
The wild substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus symbol. It’s a gold coin marked WILD, and it’s only active in the Big Bet game at stakes of 30.00 or more. -
How are wins paid in Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours?
All wins pay adjacent, so combinations count from either side of the reels. Awards are per symbol, per winning line, and every value is a multiple of the total stake. -
How many paylines does Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours have?
There are 10 paylines, and all wins pay adjacent, so winning combinations count from either side of the reels. -
What is the grid size of Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours?
It’s a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows. -
Who makes Rainbow Riches Fortune Favours?
It’s made by L&W/Barcrest.
