Avalanche Wins and Multiplier Wilds
Central to the gameplay in Ryze is the classic Avalanche Wins mechanic often associated with cluster pays slots. After each win, winning symbols are removed from the grid. Those symbols that remain drop into the spaces left behind. In this case, because of the offset nature of the reels and rows, they may bounce left or right, adding an element of randomness to the process. The spaces left above are then filled by new symbols dropping down.
This process may repeat if new clusters are formed.
In addition, a multiplier wild is ALWAYS added in one of the spaces left when the avalanche occurs. The multiplier starts at 1x and increased by 1x every time it is used in a cluster, moving to a new position each time.
A wild multiplier on reel 6This is an exciting prospect if you get a run of consecutive avalanches, and things get even better if you can include more than one multiplier wild in a cluster because the multiplier values are added before being applied to the win value. Then, once the payout is made, the multiplier wilds all merge into one before the next avalanche, multiplying their values together to create the new multiplier wild value.
For example, if you had a 2x and a 4x, they would become an 8x multiplier wild. This is a powerful feature when you have several multiplier wilds in play at once.
Coins Payouts
As well as standard pay symbols there are also special coin symbols that carry values displayed as multipliers of your stake. They payout when 5 or more appear in a cluster in the same way as pay symbols do. But in this case, after the win they merge like the multiplier wilds, adding all their values together for the new coin.
NOTE: You can also form coins clusters with multiplier wilds in them. Where more than one multiplier wild is involved, their values are added together before being applied to the win.
Burst Symbol Creates Clusters
There is also a Burst symbol, represented by a fire-y ball. If there is one on the grid at the end of an avalanche sequence then it will activate and transform itself and any adjacent pay symbols into the SAME pay symbol or coin, effectively creating new clusters.
Keys, Bonus Games and Super Bonus Games
The mechanism for unlocking the free spins / bonus game is a clever one here too.
Under each of the 5 reels you will see a key mould. If you spot a bonus symbol on the grid, represented by liquid gold in a pot, watch it drop down with each avalanche and hope it makes it to the bottom row. If it does, the gold is poured into a key mould and the bonus round is triggered.
If it’s a standard Bonus key mould then you get 7 free drops where multiplier wilds are STICKY, giving you the chance to build some big value there.
If it’s a Super Bonus key mould you also get 7 free drops, but now multiplier wilds AND coins are sticky throughout.
You’ll, also get 3 extra spins if another bonus symbol reaches a mould during the bonus game.
