Rich Rich Chocolate Pokie Machine
Rich Rich Chocolate is part of Aristocrat Gamings’ Sugar Hit progressive jackpot range, that is found across many casinos in the popular Arc cabinet, with a huge 46-inch screen that reveals various delicious-looking chocolatey treats in fine detail.
With 5 reels, symbols stacked 4 high on each one, and a total of 40 paylines to play, it’s packed with vibrant colours along with some mouth-watering bonus features such as scatter wins, whole reels filled with the same type of symbol and a useful Respins round where players get a shot at any of the jackpot prizes.
Playing Rich Rich Chocolate
There’s no missing these games on the casino floor, as brightly coloured sweets appear on the reels and also as a background image to the main game, while above the reels, players will see the current progressive jackpot values that can be won at any stage.
The Mini jackpot starts at just $10, so isn’t really anything to get too excited about, while the Minor goes from $40, but the Major is $400 upwards and the Grand is set at $2,500, rising with each wager until it’s claimed. These are not linked across multiple machines however, so the values won’t rise particularly fast, but it’s also relatively easy to get a jackpot win.
Players get one of these prizes by filling whole reels with the jackpot symbol, starting with the Mini when 2 reels are filled, the Minor with 3 reels, Major with 4 and anyone who sees all 5 reels fully covered in jackpot symbols will instantly win the Grand prize.
Any time these are won, the Jackpot Fairy flutters onto the reels and flies around in a happy dance, which isn’t much to do with the chocolate theme, but this game is part of a whole range of pokies and she makes an appearance across them all and it’s a nicely animated feature, so the fact that she’s a generic figure isn’t really important.
Regular wins come from landing 3 or more of the same symbol across any of the 40 lines, with them needing to be in an unbroken line running from the left side. Smaller prizes are paid when the playing card J, Q, K and A symbols fall into place, while the bigger rewards come when images of minty chocolates, sweets filled with a strange purple liquid, colourful star-shaped treats and gold foil-wrapped candies come into view.
Some of these can be stacked on the reels, which makes it more likely that players will get a line of these more valuable symbols making up a winning combination. Whatever happens, symbols become animated when they are part of a line, which is a typical feature in Aristocrat pokies and adds a lot of visual appeal to the run of play.
Rich Rich Chocolate
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Free Spins and Re-Spins
A big chocolate coin is a scatter symbol, and whenever this appears in any 3 or more positions, free spins are awarded. If 3 scatters landed, 10 free games will commence, 4 scatters equals 15 spins and should the maximum of 5 land at once, then 20 free games will begin.
The jackpots can be won at any time throughout the free spins games, and any 3 or more scatters starts the round over again, as soon as the current ones have finished.
Any reel filling with the jackpot symbol will also trigger a re-spin, which sees that reel held in place while the other 4 spin again, with the playing card symbols taken out of the mix for a better chance at getting a big reward. The number of times they re-spin depends on how much has been staked on the triggering game, with between just 1 and 10 playing out, and if more reels filled with jackpot symbols land, the higher prizes are won.
Sweet or Sour?
Those with a sweet tooth will be like kids in a candy store here, as Rich Rich Chocolate is filled with images that look good enough to eat. To make it even more satisfying, the bonus features are pretty good as well, with the jackpot re-spins being a good way to fill the reels for a big prize, but even a single reel filled with the jackpot symbol is enough for the Mini to be paid out.
Many pokies offer just a single bonus feature, so it’s good to see that this one has a separate free spins round that’s independent of the jackpot games. It’s another reason to take a bite out of these sweet reels at casinos where the popular games from Aristocrat are included in the line up.