Honey Rush Black and Yellow

Honey Rush Black and Yellow: Slot Overview

Bee slots regularly buzz in and out of the gambling scene with their cute little faces and furry little bodies, and one that has stuck around for a while is Play'n GO's 2019 release Honey Rush. It's a slot which oozes cluster pay, meter charging charm, and went on to inspire a Honey Rush 100 remake. Several years have passed, and the studio has once again stuck its fingers in the honey pot. What emerged is Honey Rush Black and Yellow, a slot that introduces several changes, but retains the sweetly flowing mix of cluster, charge, clone, and more.

Where its predecessors had peaceful rural settings, Honey Rush Black and Yellow has a hustling, bustling urban one. Perhaps this is to match the Black and Yellow soundtrack, as performed by Wiz Khalifa. An unusual match-up, you might be thinking, an American rapper and a slot about bees, but there you have it. Since the song is about Wiz Khalifa's hometown of Pittsburgh, that would explain the golden bridges in the background, and why gamblers pretend to fly around a city and not the countryside. It'd be interesting to know how the whole project came about. Play'n GO has designed a number of musical slots in collaboration with various artists; maybe Wiz Khalifa was just on its radar. Plus, the title does match a bee's colour scheme.

The honeycomb grid area has been kept, and it has 7 reels landing 4-5-6-7-6-5-4 symbols. Winning combinations are created when 5 or more matching symbols are connected to each other, forming a cluster. Winning symbols drop off the reels, and the gaps they make get filled by a symbol drop. If a new win appears after a drop, the process gets repeated. Honey Rush Black and Yellow is a highly volatile slot that takes bets of $/€0.10 to $/€100 and has a preferred RTP of 96.25%.

The pay symbols are made up of four flowers, bronze, silver, and gold coins, plus diamonds. The largest clusters consist of 35+ matching symbols, and when they appear, they pay 10x to 50x the stake.

Honey Rush Black and Yellow: Slot Features

The gameplay involves Cash symbols, Bee collection, Rush Meter features, and Walking Wilds.

Cash Symbol

Cash symbols land with values of 0.2x to 100x the bet. Landing Cash symbols in a winning cluster of 5 or more awards the Cash Bonus, which is the combined value of the Cash symbols.

Bee

If Cash symbols are not part of a winning cluster, they are collected by the Bee outside the grid that grows in size. When one or more Cash symbols are collected by the Bee, it has a chance to trigger. When it does so, an Instant Bonus is awarded. This could be the 10x Mini, 20x Minor, 50x Major, or the 100x Grand.

Rush Meter

Wins contribute to charging the Rush Meter, which queues features at certain collection levels. If the Rush Meter is charged, then queued features activate when no more wins occur. The Rush Meter resets at the end of the game round.

• Level 1 (30 symbols) Drone Colony - Clones the centre symbol, creating a cluster size of 7+.
• Level 2 (60 symbols) Worker Colony - Same, but the minimum cluster size is 10-15.
• Level 3 (90 symbols) Queen Colony - The minimum cloned cluster size is 20-37.

Walking Wild Multiplier

Walking Wilds land with an x1-x3 multiplier attached. They substitute paying symbols, but are not removed when part of a win. Instead, after any win, whether wilds are part of it or not, they move to a random available position after every cascade, and their multiplier increases by +1. When the multiplier reaches its cap of x3, the Walking Wild is removed after that last cascade or spin occurs. If the initial spin is non-winning, there is a chance of 2-4 Walking Wilds being randomly added to the grid. If multiple wilds are part of the same win, their multiplier values are added together. Clusters of 35+ Walking Wilds pay 250x.

Honey Rush Black and Yellow: Slot Verdict

Judging by the musically related slots it has made, Play'n GO's Spotify playlist is likely to be an eclectic mix of all sorts. From terrifying rockers Lordi to teen heartthrobs NSYNC, the studio flits in and out of musical genres like a hyperactive butterfly, or in this case, that would be a hyperactive bee. For Honey Rush Black and Yellow, the studio has wisely taken a formula which works well and largely left it alone to do its warm, goldeny, sweetly running thing. The theme change fits surprisingly well, going to show that bee slots can thrive in the city as much as the country.

The bee character on the left adds a humorous touch, too, getting progressively bigger and more bloated as he consumes Cash symbols. When he pops, don't be expecting giant rewards though, since the Grand in this instance is worth a 'mere' 100x. But, instead of being jackpot-focused, Honey Rush Black and Yellow is a game that lives on its consecutive win streaks, and they've got the technical ability to flow, then flow some more. It's not a game with a lot of supporting features, but they're designed to work together, to build consecutive wins, multipliers, and form cloned clusters, which they can do well. Or not, depending on how play unfolds.

In short, Honey Rush Black and Yellow is a nice addition to the Honey Rush line, with a hearty 20,000x max win on top (supposedly, given the chance is less than 1 in 1 billion). Instead of reimagining the entire concept, Honey Rush Black and Yellow delivers a smooth third helping, with a pleasant audiovisual update to accompany it.