Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home Slot Review
Four little doors with straw welcome mats sit built into the treeline of a sunlit Irish clearing, a leprechaun lounging beside his pot of gold with nowhere better to be. Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home hides its sharpest idea behind the cosiest artwork Barcrest have put on this series: rather than running two separate bonuses, this one hands its winnings from the first straight to the second, and the whole game rewards you for catching that.
It runs on a 5×3 grid with 50 win lines, and the interesting part is how its two bonuses feed each other: symbols revealed by one are carried wholesale into the other. It’s a small twist on a familiar formula, but a well-judged one. No RTP or volatility figure is published for this one, so the reels themselves carry the argument.
Base Game & Features
The reels sit in a gold frame woven like Celtic knotwork rope, with controls carved into a cut tree stump trailing ivy on the right and a barrel and plank bench on the left. Red toadstools dot the grass. Behind it all, dense hedges close off the clearing, leaving a sliver of pale blue sky above distant hills.
Wins pay left to right on consecutive reels across the 50 lines, beginning with the far left reel. Every award is a multiple of the stake per line, which works out as the total bet divided by the lines in play. The wild substitutes for all symbols except the two character icons, and that’s its whole job here.
Paytable
The paying symbols, per symbol per winning line:
- Rainbow Riches logo: 25x, 50x or 250x the line stake for three, four or five
- Mushroom house: 20x, 40x or 200x
- Purple harp or violin: 10x, 20x or 100x
- Gold harp or horseshoe: 5x, 15x or 75x
- A, K, Q and J royals: 5x, 10x or 50x
It’s a conventional ladder, top-heavy towards the logo, with the royals clustered tightly at the bottom. Five of a kind is where the real money sits on any line, and only the logo clears 200x. The gaps between tiers are even rather than stepped, so each symbol up the ladder buys a similar percentage of extra value.
Because every award is quoted per line rather than per total bet, the headline-looking values shrink once they’re spread over 50 lines. A 250x line win on a game where the stake per line is a fiftieth of the total works out to five times the full bet. That’s the arithmetic to hold in mind when reading the list above.
Knock-Knock Bonus
This one answers to a single reel. When the Knock-Knock symbol lands fully in view on reel one, the doors in the treeline swing open, between one and four of them, and each reveals a symbol that transforms into a wild for the spin in progress. The triggering symbol itself stays out of the free spins round.
Four open doors means four symbol types running wild across a 50-line grid, and even one or two can turn a dead spin into a cluster of line wins. Because the transformation hits the current spin only, there’s no build-up to manage. What the doors give, that spin keeps.
One door is the minimum outcome and it’s still worth having: a single symbol type turned wild on every reel can complete lines the base symbols couldn’t.
Fairy Symbol
A Fairy Symbol can sit behind one of the opened doors. When revealed, she picks up to five reel positions and turns them wild on top of whatever the doors already uncovered. Five positions is a wide allowance for a single spin, and she’s the difference between a modest door reveal and a crowded grid.
The positions are hers to choose, so the wilds can stack on top of each other across the same payline or spread across several. Either way the selection happens after the doors open, which means the fairy only ever adds to a bonus already in motion.
Big Bet
Then there’s the Big Bet option, a Barcrest habit that has followed the series for years. It runs over three tiers:
- Big Bet at 20.00, the entry tier
- Big Bet at 30.00, the middle tier
- Big Bet at 50.00, the top tier
Each tier buys incremental advantages over the standard game, and the higher tiers are generally treated as the real version by anyone who plays them with any regularity. It’s a side bet on a better-behaved set of the same mechanics, priced in plain steps rather than hidden in the stake.
Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home Free Spins & Bonuses
The scatter is the Leprechaun, and he only counts on three of the five reels. Get him fully in view on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once and eight free spins follow. During the round he changes character entirely: any Leprechaun symbol, fully or only partially in view, acts as a wild substituting for everything.
That partial-view rule is generous. A Leprechaun peeping over the edge of a reel still counts, so a symbol that would be a near-miss in most games is a functioning wild here. Three scatters is the only route in, and reels 2 and 4 don’t carry him at all, which narrows the landing zone considerably.
The carry-over is what makes the round worth planning for. Whatever symbols the Knock-Knock Bonus revealed are re-applied to every spin of the free spins game, so a strong door outcome immediately before the scatters land keeps paying across all eight spins. Free spins use the same awards and win lines as the triggering game, so nothing is repriced on the way in.
The round can extend itself, too. Three more scatters on the same trio of reels during the feature add another eight spins to the tally, with the door-derived wilds still in force. The Knock-Knock symbol doesn’t appear during free spins, so the wild supply comes from the scatters and whatever the doors handed over beforehand.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
This is a game of patient door-knocking. Most spins are modest, quiet affairs in a very pretty clearing, and the reason to choose it is that rare handover where a strong reveal lands just before the scatters do and the free spins inherit a grid full of wilds. When that clicks, it’s the best this series gets.
The strength is that linkage: two bonuses that improve each other instead of merely coexisting, which is rarer than it should be. The weakness is that the base game pays timidly and the door reveal doesn’t carry over unless the scatters follow, so plenty of good reveals simply evaporate.
It’s one for players who enjoy the slow build and will use the Big Bet tiers to tighten the odds. Anyone after quick, frequent action will find the clearing too quiet. For the patient, there’s a warm fire behind those four little doors.
Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home FAQs
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How many paylines does Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home have?
It’s a 50 win line game, with all line pays made on consecutive reels from left to right. -
What is the grid size of Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home?
The game runs on a 5×3 grid of five reels and three rows. -
How is the Knock-Knock Bonus triggered?
Land the Knock-Knock symbol fully in view on the first reel and the doors open. Between one and four of them reveal symbols that turn wild for that spin. The symbol doesn’t appear during free spins. -
What does the Fairy Symbol do?
It can appear behind one of the doors in the Knock-Knock Bonus, and when revealed it selects up to five reel positions to turn wild on top of the door reveal. -
How do you trigger free spins in Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home?
You need the Leprechaun scatter fully in view on reels 1, 3 and 5 at the same time, which awards eight free spins. During the round, Leprechaun symbols act as wild whether fully or partially in view. -
Can free spins be retriggered?
Yes. Three more scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 during the round add a further eight free spins, and any Knock-Knock wilds stay in play. -
What is the Big Bet option?
It’s a side betting option with three tiers at 20.00, 30.00 and 50.00. The higher tiers buy a better-behaved version of the same mechanics. -
When is Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home released?
Rainbow Riches Home Sweet Home’s release date is 27 November 2018.
