ABOUT THIS SLOT
New Year Riches from Play n Go is a simple yet stylish real money online slot, combining an art deco design with famous buildings from iconic cities. The design transports players around the world, celebrating the New Year in each different metropolis. You’ll find Big Ben, The Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal, along with Champagne bottles spinning on transparent reels. Behind the game screen lies a starry sky and a night time city scape. Gold and purple are the dominant colours, giving a luxurious feel.
RTP, VARIANCE AND PAYOUTS
The simple 5-reel 3-row layout of this game combine with 20 paylines to give classic gameplay, while the RTP of 96.48%, 20c minimum bet and medium volatility put this squarely in the middle of the road in terms of payouts. You should receive fairly frequent wins with the best rewards waiting for the Free Spins round.
The top payout is 5,000 x stake, which is good but not thrilling. The Progressive Multiplier boosts the excitement levels up a notch though – this arrives during Free Spins to give up to 20x Multipliers. It’s the design that appeals the most here with the colourful 1920s style, misty city scene, purple night sky and firework explosions all coming together to create drama and perfectly balanced visuals.
SYMBOLS AND PAYTABLE
The symbols in New Year Riches are beautifully designed with the lowest paying icons appearing as cleverly styled balloons in the shape of card suits. You’ll find a red heart, orange diamond, purple club and green spade floating dramatically in the darkness, each awarding 4x or 5x your bet for 5 matching symbols.
For the higher payouts, you’re looking for the classic landmarks – the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, Taj Mahal, Kyoto Temple and St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. These symbols can pay from 50x your bet for 5 of the Statue of Liberty to 5x your bet for 5 of St Basil’s Cathedral.
The clock is the Scatter symbol and 3 of these will trigger the Free Spins round, while the Champagne bottle serves as Wild and pays 250x your bet for 5 matches. This tasty tipple also substitutes for all the other symbols in the game to create more potential winning combinations.
GAMEPLAY AND FEATURES
Wild Champagne
The Champagne bottles are the Wild symbols in the game. These beauties stand in for the other symbols and can also pay the best rewards with 250x stake up for grabs when you hit 5 matches. You’ll also be treated to the sound of a Champagne cork popping whenever this appears in a winning combination.
Free Spins with Progressive Multipliers
If you spin 3 of the Clock Scatter symbols, you’ll trigger 10 Free Spins. On every spin, the Multiplier increases by 2x up to a maximum guaranteed 20x Multiplier on the tenth spin. This is the feature where your payouts will rack up the fastest and hopefully push you towards the 5,000x stake top reward.
Respins
Although you can’t retrigger the Free Spins from within the round, you will receive Respins every time you hit more Clock Scatters with up to 6 Respins available for hitting 3 Scatters. This works to boost your Free Spin count, as plenty of Clocks tend to show up to strike the hour.
OUR VERDICT
New Year Riches is certainly a simple slot in terms of gameplay, but the design elevates it above other similarly basic offerings. It is a visual feast with its perfect balance of vibrant colours, global symbols, evocative purple darkness and sweeping city scape below. The uplifting music powering along throughout the game also adds to the feel of energy and positivity oozing from this little gem. Although the Free Spins with Progressive Multipliers is the only big bonus feature and the 5,000x stake jackpot isn’t the highest out there, the atmosphere and visuals lift the game up, making New Year Riches a pleasure to play on any night of the year.