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Rainbow Riches is a classic game that has successfully bridged the divide between land-based and online, but why has it remained to successful? The best way to find out is to go back to the roots.
Looking back, it is easy to see why Rainbow Riches has been so successful over the years. It was the first game to offer three bonuses when the convention at the time was two, one of those normally being the staid old win spins.
The fact that Rainbow Riches offered three features - and not one of these was win spins - immediately attracted it to the discerning player who wanted to know what was under the bonnet.
The answer was a revelation: three unique feature games, each of which holds great appeal. Firstly, the Wishing Wells game where the player is invited to select one of three (or four or five, if you're lucky) Wishing Wells on display.
This game represents the only one where a choice has to be made by a player; so it is pretty much 50/50 whether the biggest or smallest value (hiding behind the Well) is selected.
The other two games, however, required no user choice but considerable gameplay. The Pathway to Riches feature is perhaps the one that most players refer to. Simply get three leprechauns in view and the fun begins as out ubiquitous leprechaun spins a wheel filled with numbers and 'Stop'. As long as you spin numbers then you progress up the wheel until you hit the top or get the dreaded 'Stop'.
The other feature, the Pots of Gold, is guaranteed to result in a big win; it is just a question of how much. Here, spinning pots rotate around our leprechaun and slowly stop to a halt: if the result is Gold then it's time to dance around the front room.
The trick about these two features is that the game has already pre-ordained the result, meaning that a player win and large (or small) amount is absolved of any feel-bad factor (particularly in selecting a small win!).
It is this aspect that particularly draws players to the game, and one that bodes well for the future of Rainbow Riches as no game has yet usurped it.
At www.rainbowriches.org.uk you are welcome to discover much more about this most enigmatic of slots.
