Rainbow Riches Drops of Gold Slot by Light & Wonder

The trick that gives this one its name sits above the reels, not on them. A drop zone five columns wide and four rows deep holds a queue of gold and silver pots, and they only matter when a Drops of Gold symbol lands on reel five at the end of a spin. When it does, every pot in that zone falls straight down onto the positions below, dropping fresh symbols that can light new lines you didn't have a moment earlier. The reel-five trigger can show up as a double-height symbol, and even a half-visible one counts, so it fires more often than a single-cell symbol would. Silver pots are the sneaky part. A silver pot that drops onto a Bonus scatter flips into a gold pot, and that gold pot then stands in for the Bonus.

There are two wilds doing slightly different jobs. The standard one substitutes for everything except the Bonus. The stronger version covers the Bonus too, which means it can help build toward the free spins on its own. Three Bonus scatters in view award eight free spins, and each extra Bonus adds four more. The scatters stick around through the round and keep handing out spins the same way, so the count can stretch well past where it started. Free spins run on the exact paytable of the spin that set them off, and if a Drops of Gold symbol hits reel five during the round, that spin opens out to a hundred lines of Irish luck instead of fifty.

Premium Play is the optional higher gear, five linked spins at a fixed stake, and you buy in through a little three-reel mini game where matching three symbols on the single win line hands you the run. The tiers stack enhancements as the stake climbs: a Super Rainbow with extra pots, that double-height reel-five symbol making the pot cascade easier to land, low-paying card symbols stripped out of the set, and at the top end up to a hundred lines that double to two hundred in its free spins.

It's the classic Light & Wonder Rainbow Riches look, gold pots and harps and clovers sat among A-K-Q-J-10 royals on a gold-trimmed white reel set, all under a sunny green meadow, leafy trees down both sides and a rainbow arcing up out of the grid into the waiting pots.