Super Rainbow Megaways

Super Rainbow Megaways: Slot Overview

Top of the morning all, here's another entry in the busy leprechaun genre for players who can't get enough of these sorts of games to gorge on. This one's called Super Rainbow Megaways and comes from 1X2 Gaming, a developer well versed in Big Time Gaming's Megaways engine. We'll level with you. We weren't massively thrilled about another trip to the Emerald Isle for the umpteenth time. It would be alright if what was on offer was a hotbed of originality, but even the name Super Rainbow filled us with a smidge of dread. However, like a film critic about to sit through the 300th rendition of Godzilla, we professionally collected our clipboard and markers to run Super Rainbow Megaways through its paces to see what makes it tick.

The first impression of Super Rainbow Megaways was pretty much what we were expecting, with one glaring omission. There were no rainbows in sight. These do come in later, though, once a certain feature is triggered. Instead, players get a purpley coloured, rainbow-free sky, blanketing a neon-green grassy valley, with bouquets of posies sprinkled on either side of the screen. In the sound department, Super Rainbow Megaways is as jaunty as you could possibly want. Perhaps the chance to do a Celtic jig is one reason why software providers continually return to this part of the world? To sum up, the audio-visuals are nicely done, generic, but nice.

Super Rainbow Megaways is played on a game panel divided between 6 main reels holding 2-7 symbols each and a 4-position horizontal reel situated at the bottom of the screen between a couple of Bag End style holes. Since symbols on the grid vary between spins, so do ways to win, from 324 up to a maximum of 200,704. The RTP is almost as variable, topping out at 96.13% and dropping as low as 88.05% in certain markets. Highly volatile, Super Rainbow Megaways can be played on any device and accepts stakes of 20 p/c to $/€25 a spin.

Casting our eye to the paytable, we find 9-A symbols at the lower end, worth 0.5 to 0.9 times the stake for six of a kind. Next are a bunch of standard four-leaf clovers, pipes, top hats, and leprechauns as the premiums paying 1 to 25x the bet for six of a kind. Not exactly the most creative icons. Anyway, this section is completed by a puffy clouded wild symbol which can substitute for any non-special symbol.

Super Rainbow Megaways: Slot Features

The special symbol in question is a pot of gold scatter, which is used to trigger free spins, though some players may be able to buy them instead. Other extras include tumbles, and the title piece extra called the Super Rainbow feature.

Tumbles

When a winning way is created, the symbols involved are destroyed, and new symbols tumble down to replace them. If the new symbols create a winning way, they pay, and another tumble is triggered.

Super Rainbows

If a wild symbol lands on reels 2 and 5, a rainbow graphic forms between them, and 1 wild symbol is added to both reels 3 and 4.

Free Spins

Triggering the bonus round happens when 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols land to award 12, 14, or 16 free spins, respectively. If more scatters are in view, each one adds +2 extra free spins. During the bonus round, 1 scatter in view adds +1 free spin; any more add +2 free spins each. Now, a couple of new rules come into play during free spins. One is the introduction of a win multiplier that starts at 1 and increases by +1 following each winning tumble. The second is whenever a reel displays 7 symbols, it is locked at this height for the rest of the feature. Locked reels always display 7 symbols from then on out and award +1 free spin.

Buy Free Spins

If this is an option in your jurisdiction, players may buy their way directly to the bonus round in one of two ways. Buying 12 free spins costs 82x the bet and increases RTP to 96.3%. Or, buying 12 free spins with one reel locked costs 131x the bet and produces an RTP of 96.81%.

Super Rainbow Megaways: Slot Verdict

Look up 'creatively bereft' in a graphical dictionary, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see a picture of execs sitting in a boardroom, brainstorming new ideas in front of a whiteboard with a single word on it saying 'Leprechaun'. It's kind of peculiar how many Irish themed slots pour forth. To be sure, they can be jolly experiences, but still, it's somewhat disappointing when an established company grinds out yet one more leprechaun laden experience. If the game in question sparkles with new ideas, new features, new anything, a trite theme is less of an issue. The problem is Super Rainbow Megaways doesn't really have much of that.

Instead, Super Rainbow Megaways is basically Pirate Kingdom with a couple of tweaks. One tweak is the unimaginative theme change. Another is that players get the Super Rainbow feature instead of wild multipliers. Admittedly, the first time Super Rainbow hit, we were expecting more than a single wild on reels 3 and 4 since the middle of the grid was coated in rainbows. The feature can be fairly effective, though, and you're almost guaranteed a payout when it triggers. Free spins further the action thanks to the progressive win multiplier and locking reels, though as mentioned, this is all essentially Pirate Kingdom with pipes and top hats. As a point of interest, despite delivering a lot more ways to win than the pirate game, potential is slightly less at 35,000x the bet.

As is often the case with these leprechaun slots, if you're not into the theme, you might as well strike Super Rainbow off the bucket list. While technically capable of supplying workable features, and big numbers, the off-fleek ordinariness of the presentation is a potential deal-breaker.