Wings of Riches Slot Review
The meadow at the bottom of the garden looks like the quietest place in slots, but Wings of Riches is really a game about one seed head. Strip the dandelion wild out and what’s left is a tidy, even paytable that rarely pays much; put it back and a single ordinary spin can convert half the middle reels at once. That tension, a placid surface resting on one volatile symbol, is the entire design, and it’s the reason this little fairy slot holds attention when prettier ones don’t.
It’s a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed bet lines, 96.63% RTP, a top prize of 800x the bet, and wins landing on roughly 38% of spins. It belongs to the soft-focus corner of the studio’s catalogue, closer to Butterfly Staxx and Secrets of Atlantis than to anything with a jackpot meter. The meadow looks calm. The dandelion has other ideas.
Symbols of the Meadow
Four fairies lead the paytable, colour-coded red, orange, green and blue, with a ladybug, two beetles, two flowers and a butterfly filling out the lower end. Every one of them is drawn from the same painterly palette as the backdrop, so the reels and the meadow behind them read as a single scene rather than a grid pinned onto a picture.
Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on each bet line counts. Where several lines win at once, the payouts add together, and any applicable multipliers apply on top of the paytable value. A bet line win is always the paytable figure multiplied by whatever multipliers are in play, nothing more.
All values below are multiples of the total bet for three, four and five of a kind:
- Red fairy: 2x, 7.5x, 75x
- Yellow/orange fairy: 1.5x, 6.25x, 60x
- Green fairy: 1.25x, 5x, 35x
- Blue fairy: 1x, 3.75x, 25x
- Ladybug: 0.5x, 2.5x, 7.5x
- Gold beetle: 0.4x, 1.5x, 6.25x
- Blue beetle: 0.3x, 1.25x, 5x
- Red flower: 0.25x, 1x, 3.75x
- Yellow butterfly: 0.2x, 0.75x, 2.5x
- Blue flower: 0.15x, 0.5x, 1.25x
The ladder steps down gently and evenly. Each tier is worth roughly two-thirds of the one above it at the five-of-a-kind mark, and there’s a clear gap between the fairies and everything else: the blue fairy’s 25x for a full line is worth more than the ladybug pays at the top of its own range, so the fairies are the symbols worth watching.
At the bottom, five blue flowers pay 1.25x, barely more than the stake back. Three-of-a-kind wins among the lower tier run from 0.15x to 0.5x, so a line of beetles or flowers is a nudge rather than a payout. That’s the shape of the table: four symbols that can genuinely move the balance, and six that mostly keep it ticking over.
Stakes run from 0.2 to 100 per spin, adjusted through the coin value setting. The game can be played with cash or coins, switching between the two in the settings, and the balance display shows whichever you’re using. Some Autoplay settings are mandatory in certain jurisdictions.
Spreading Wilds
The dandelion Wild is the game’s signature symbol. When one lands, it spreads across the reels, turning two to four nearby symbols into additional Wilds. In the main game it appears only on reels two, three and four, and it substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter.
The spread is what makes it interesting. A single wild sitting on reel three is worth whatever line it completes. A wild that converts two, three or four of its neighbours into more wilds can complete several lines at once, and because the converted symbols cluster around the original, they tend to land in the middle of the grid where the most bet lines cross.
The count matters, too. Two conversions produce a tidy three-wild patch; four produce something that can stretch across the middle reels and turn a mediocre board into a stack of simultaneous line wins. Every wild created by the spread behaves like the original, substituting for everything except the Scatter.
It’s the only real engine the base game has. Ordinary line wins are modest and the fairies pay best, so a spin’s ceiling is mostly decided by whether a dandelion shows up and how generously it spreads.
Free Spins and the Multiplier
Land three or more Scatters, the purple dragonflies, and 10 Free Spins begin. The round changes two things: every free spin carries a guaranteed Wild on reel two, three or four, and a Multiplier symbol joins reel five.
Both changes stack. The guaranteed wild still spreads, so each free spin opens with a cluster of substitutions somewhere in the middle reels, and each Multiplier that lands on reel five pushes the win multiplier up by one, from x1 to a maximum of x5. Free spin bet line wins pay at whatever multiplier is current when they land.
Once x5 is reached, the Multiplier symbol is removed from reel five, so the multiplier holds at its ceiling for the rest of the round rather than resetting. The Wild’s substitutions narrow slightly here: it covers everything except the Scatter and the Multiplier symbol.
The round’s rhythm follows from that. Early spins pay at x1 or x2 while the multiplier is still climbing, so the guaranteed wilds do their work at low value. The spins that matter are the later ones, once two or three Multiplier symbols have stacked up and every line win lands at three, four or five times its face value. A retrigger arriving late in the round is worth far more than the same retrigger at the start.
Retriggers work like this during the round:
- 2 Scatters award 5 extra free spins
- 3 Scatters award 10 extra free spins
- Extra spins are added flat, not multiplied by the running multiplier
That last line matters more than it looks. The retrigger awards are fixed amounts, so a lucky stretch of Scatters extends the round without inflating it, and the multiplier’s climb is reserved entirely for bet line wins. A long round with the multiplier parked at x5 is where this game does its best work.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
This is a game that sits still for long stretches and then moves all at once, and that swing, not the fairies or the flowers, is the reason anyone picks it. You drift through the meadow collecting small change until a dandelion lands mid-grid and suddenly half the board is wild. Sessions here are patient, unhurried and occasionally startling.
The free spins round is the best thing in it. A guaranteed spreading wild on every spin, a multiplier that climbs to x5 and then stays parked there, and retriggers that extend the whole thing while the ceiling holds: late in a good round, every win lands at four or five times its face value, which is a genuinely satisfying build. The weakness is blunt. The 800x cap sits low enough that even a perfect round bumps its head against it, so the big one never gets properly big.
It’s a lovely, well-drawn slot for players who enjoy the wait between dandelions, and the wrong choice for anyone who measures a game by its ceiling. The meadow rewards a slow wander, but the tall trees are elsewhere.
Wings of Riches FAQs
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What is the RTP of Wings of Riches?
Wings of Riches runs at 96.63% RTP. -
How do you trigger free spins in Wings of Riches?
You need the purple dragonfly Scatter symbols. Getting three or more of them anywhere on the reels starts a round of 10 Free Spins. -
What does the Multiplier symbol do in Wings of Riches?
It appears on reel five during Free Spins and increases the win multiplier by one each time it lands, up to a maximum of x5. Once x5 is reached, the Multiplier symbol is removed from reel five. -
Can free spins retrigger in Wings of Riches?
Yes. During the round, 2 Scatters award 5 extra free spins and 3 Scatters award 10 extra. The extra spins aren’t multiplied by the running multiplier. -
What is the maximum win on Wings of Riches?
The maximum win is 800x the bet. -
What is the hit frequency of Wings of Riches?
Wins land on roughly 38% of spins. -
How many paylines does Wings of Riches have?
The game is played with 20 fixed bet lines. -
Who makes Wings of Riches?
Wings of Riches is a NetEnt slot.
