HOW TO PLAY RABID RANDY
The base game is a fairly standard slot machine with 5 reels and 20 fixed paylines. That said, the rows are slightly unusual with a 3-4-5-4-3 layout – nothing we haven’t seen before, but it does impact the overall flow of the game.
In our experience, the hit rate is relatively low and the base payouts tend to be unimpressive. The focus of Rabid Randy is to build up the bonus round by collecting Paw symbols. Eventually, these translate into a big multiplier that can help you get to that sweet-looking 19,000x max payout.
Despite all of that, the goal is the same as it always is. Your job is simply to try and land matching symbols on 3 or more adjacent reels, starting with the leftmost reel, along one of the 20 paylines.
Paws, Hot Paws, Frames, and Wilds
There are several main game features in this slot. However, they’re all interconnected, so we’ll cover them at the same time.
First, we have the Paw symbols. They’re fairly common in the base game and can hit anywhere. Whenever they do, they’re collected into the Paw counter at the top left. More on that later.
Paw symbols also leave behind Frames, which mark their previous positions. Every Paw leaves a Frame, which then sticks around for another spin.
Some Paw symbols appear as Hot Paws, which are easily distinguishable by their bright colours. Hot Paws leave behind Active Frames. Active Frames turn into Wilds after another spin of the reels.
Any Frames connected to Active Frames at the moment they turn into Wilds also turn into Wilds, and this effect also spreads to any adjacent Frames. This often results in a chain reaction that turns a bunch of clustered Frames into Wilds.
Collecting Paws
Let’s circle back to Rabid Randy’s progressive feature.
Collected Paws fill up a meter you can see in the upper left corner. Once you collect 200 of them, the Win Multiplier in the right corner is increased by one level. This Win Multiplier is then applied to any wins you hit the next time you trigger Free Spins.
Additionally, Paws that land on Frames or Active Frames are collected instantly and awarded between +1 and +4 points to the counter. Once the counter reaches 200 it resets back to 0, allowing you to collect Paws again and increase the Multiplier by another level, up to a maximum of 1,000x.
Free Spins
Despite its name, the bonus round in Rabid Randy works more like a Hold & Win bonus round than classic free spins. It’s triggered by hitting 3 Scatter symbols on reels 2, 3, and 4 in the base game.
During this round, all regular symbols are removed from the game. Every reel position acts as its own reel and spins individually to reveal either a blank position or a Trophy symbol. Trophy symbols carry payouts ranging from 0.5x to 50x the stake.
You initially get 3 free spins. However, this resets back to 3 spins every time you hit any winning symbol during the bonus round. If you spin 3 times in a row and don’t hit anything, the round ends. Similarly, it ends if you fill up every position on the reels.
Once it ends, all of the Trophies on the grid are collected and paid out as one lump reward. Any Win Multiplier secured by collecting Paw symbols in the base game is also applied to the total win. Also, an additional multiplicative 2x is applied to the payout if you fill every position.
