Scrooge's Bah Humbucks: Workshop Riches Slot Review

If you're looking for a holiday slot, Rival's Scrooge's Bah Humbucks: Workshop Riches (released Nov 2026) might catch your eye. At its core, it's a pretty standard Christmas-themed hold-and-win game, but there's one specific mechanic that really makes or breaks the whole experience.

Getting into the bonus round happens one of two ways naturally: you either land six gift boxes anywhere on the board, or just four if you manage to land the "Money Machine" (a red safe) dead center on the third reel. There's also a 50x bonus buy (96.20% RTP, against 96.13% for the game overall) if you prefer to skip the base game.

Once you're in, it's your classic 3-spin setup that resets every time a new box lands. The boxes aren't huge, usually 1x to 10x your bet, and there are three fixed jackpots capping at a 200x Major. The real chase is the 10,000x max win, which you only get by completely filling all 15 spots on the board.

Here's where the game gets interesting. If that Money Machine is sitting right in the middle when the bonus starts, it turns into a "Money Magnet." It sucks up the value of every new box that drops, applies a multiplier up to 4x, and still lets the original boxes pay out at the end. It sounds awesome, but standard "dead" symbols keep landing during the respins, taking up valuable space but paying nothing.

In practice, it's a bit of a mixed bag. I gave it a quick test run (about two dozen base spins) and hit one natural bonus that ultimately paid out 38x. I also tried the 50x bonus buy once, which returned a somewhat disappointing 20x. Both bonuses fizzled out after five or six spins.

Crucially, I never managed to get the Money Machine in that center spot, so the magnet feature completely passed me by. Without that magnet active, the bonus round feels a bit hollow. You're just slowly adding up small 1x to 10x boxes, knowing the game's real potential is locked away.

If you play a lot of Rival games, this one will feel very familiar. It's basically a sibling to Wildcat Fury (same 10,000x max win and 50x buy, but Scrooge lacks the cascading reels) and Cheetah Chase (which has bigger jackpots but a lower 5,000x max win).

The best comparison for the magnet feature, though, is Crimson Castle. In that game, the collector symbol can drop during the respins, keeping the suspense alive. In Scrooge's Bah Humbucks, the magnet only switches on if one specific symbol lands in one specific spot before the bonus even starts.

It's a decent holiday slot if you like the hold-and-win style, and the 50x bonus buy is reasonably priced. Just be aware that unless you get that Money Machine perfectly centered right at the start, you're playing a very basic bonus round.

• Affordable 50x bonus buy.
• Two ways to trigger the bonus naturally.
• When it does switch on, the Money Magnet collects every new box and multiplies its total up to 4x.

• Dead symbols during the hold-and-win round are frustrating.
• The best feature requires a very specific setup before the bonus begins.
• Standard bonus rounds feel a bit underwhelming without the collector.