Yanaha's Rite Slot by Light & Wonder

The 4x6 grid is shaped like a totem pole on purpose. Every winning combo pays in two directions on the same spin - left to right across the rows AND top to bottom down the columns - which means a tight cluster of matching symbols in one corner can collect on both axes simultaneously. There's no fixed payline count and no right-to-left evaluation; just two perpendicular reads stacked into a single math pass. The mechanic is rare enough that 'dual pays' isn't really a category yet.

Scatters work on a persistent counter rather than the usual all-on-one-spin trigger. The first scatter that lands lights up a quarter of the on-screen totem pole and starts a 20-spin window. Collect three more inside that window and 8 free spins fire. Drift past 20 spins without finishing the set and the meter wipes. The counter is also bet-level locked - bump your stake up or down mid-session and your scatter progress resets, which makes session pacing matter more than most L&W titles. A Buy Bonus button skips the collection entirely if you'd rather just pay for entry.

The free spins themselves are where the math actually pivots. Before the round starts, the Spirit Drummer cuts in and locks one of four animal modifiers for the session. BEAR slaps a flat 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x or 10x multiplier on every win for the entire round. EAGLE seeds extra Wilds across random positions every spin. HARE drops mystery symbols that flip into matching pay icons on resolution. WOLF is the swing-for-the-fences pick - it expands the grid sideways, adding reels until you're playing on up to 8 reels wide instead of 4. More reels means more ways and longer top-to-bottom paylines, which is why the 250,000-coin / 5,000x bet ceiling is only really reachable through a hot Wolf session. Additional scatters during the round add 5 spins each, and only the active modifier stays - you don't get to swap to a friendlier animal if the dice landed on Hare and you wanted Bear.

Wilds don't exist in the base game at all. They only show up when Eagle is the active modifier in free spins, which makes them a feature-only mechanic rather than the substitute-everything default most slots run with. The single optional gamble step sits behind any win for a one-round double-or-nothing if you want it.

The art runs Southwestern American canyon country - red mesa formations under a bright sky, a feathered headdress sunburst emblem in turquoise and copper sitting above the wordmark. Yanaha is a Navajo girl's name meaning 'she meets the enemy' and the four spirit animals are the prairie set you'd expect, but the math underneath is unique enough that the theme almost reads as decoration on top of the dual-pays engine. SG Digital shipped this in February 2021, just before the rebrand to Light & Wonder, which is why some operator lobbies still file it under the legacy studio name.