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Ripe Rewards Slot Overview

Once there were little three-reel fruit machines with the kind of basic graphics that these days would be called retro. Now the fruit has ripened into Ripe Rewards, a great addition to the stable of Pragmatic Play slots.

It has a modern 5x5 layout where the 40 paylines are joined by features including random multipliers that attach themselves to wilds and a free spins bonus. It’s set in a very different world to Sticky Bandits Unchained, though both have some layers to their features.

Graphics and Theme

Maybe Ripe Rewards can be retro in another way. Jukeboxes are the most fashionable machines these days, but there’s a definite resemblance in the machine that holds these reels. Or perhaps it’s meant to be more like a traditional land-based cabinet, the kind that all the slots used to need, though that’s not quite right either.

What is certain is that modern and retro sit side by side in the strange, almost computer-generated purple room of the setting, complete with 3D fruit symbols.

If you’ve played fruit-machine-style slots before, you probably have certain expectations regarding the fruit. Cherries are a popular choice, as are lemons and oranges. You’ll probably see some plums and grapes, maybe some watermelon.

Apricots? A little rarer. Pomegranates? Not unless you’re retelling the story of Hades and Persephone. It’s an interesting way to make this particular fruit machine a little different. 

Ripe Rewards RTP and Variance

The Ripe Rewards slot has an RTP of 96.02%. The variance is high.

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How to Play

Welcome to the world of fruit machine slots, though with a twist:

1. Some things may have been modernised, but you still can’t play until you’ve made a bet. Use the plus and minus symbols to modify it from its 20p minimum.
2. For your other settings, including sound effects, music and battery saver, you need to check out the menu (there is a sound button on the main screen, but it’s mute/unmute only).
3. You’ve already read our Ripe Rewards slot review, but for the full lowdown on rules, payout potential and features, turn your eyes to the info page.
4. Don’t hit spin until you’re ready. 
5. Have fun, but be sensible about things. When the fun stops, stop.

How to Win 

The 5x5 layout of Ripe Rewards, noticeably different to the three rows that accompany most five-reel slots, may throw you off at first, but the winning mechanisms here are still pretty standard.

Find three to five identical symbols across one of the 40 paylines, starting on the left. Winning symbols must be adjacent and consecutive. The other way to win is to trigger the Ripe Rewards bonus features with their multipliers and free spins.

Top Wins

• Like most slots, card symbols aren’t worth as much as themed symbols.
• Also as you might expect, it’s combinations of five-of-a-kind that offer each symbol’s biggest possible payout.
• For the 10 at the bottom of the paytable, the top win is 1.25x your wager.
• That increases through the other cards, then the fruits, until you reach 15x at the very top. 
• Wilds can pay up to 15x on their own too, but you may be even more interested in the random win multiplier that they might carry, up to 5x in the base game.
• Overall, the max win is x10,000.

Max-win 10,000x

Volatility High

Top RTP 96.02%

Ripe Rewards Bonuses 

There are basically two bonuses in Ripe Rewards. They’re multipliers and free spins, two of the most common types of feature in the modern video slot, but their mechanics are specific to this game. 

Wild Multipliers

In most slots with wilds, they’re there to act as a substitute for the regular paying symbols. In some slots, they can also pay in their own right. Both of these thing are true in Ripe Rewards, but there’s also a third potential function.

Each base game wild can be randomly assigned one of three win multipliers: x2, x3 or x5. That multiplier will be applied to any win containing that wild. 

Free Spins

At its most basic, this looks like a standard free spins round, at first at least. Find the scatter symbol three times at once, be awarded seven free spins. It’s once the round is under way that things become interesting.

For one thing, your wilds become sticky and remain on the reels throughout the feature. For another, more scatters can be collected in a meter. They mean not just more spins but more multipliers to boost your total win:

• 2 scatters: x2 win multiplier for all wilds + 3 free spins.
• 4 scatters: x3 win multiplier for all wilds + 2 free spins.
• 4 scatters: x4 win multiplier for all wilds + 1 free spin.

Ripe Rewards Review - Summary 

Just when you think they can’t do anything else to make a fruit machine seem modern, along comes a game like the Ripe Rewards slot. In some ways, it’s fairly standard for slots of this kind, with card and fruit symbols plus multipliers and free spins as the main features.

Then you look at the 5x5 layout, the addition of pomegranates and the mechanics of the bonuses, and you realise that it is doing its own thing. Don’t forget that timeout, self-exclusion and other responsible gambling features are available.

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