The Cricket Road to Riches online slot is a game developed by Microgaming, one of the leading software providers in the iGaming industry. Released in 2017, this five-reel, twenty-five-payline slot offers an exciting cricket-themed experience for players worldwide.
Theme and Design
Cricket Road to Riches immerses players in Road Cricket the thrilling world of professional cricket, as its designers aimed to recreate the atmosphere of a live match. The game’s design is engaging and colorful, featuring iconic symbols such as batsmen, baller, umpires, stumps, wickets, and balls. The background images showcase vibrant graphics that simulate a stadium ambiance, with waving flags and cheering fans in the stands.
The slot machine itself boasts an elegant interface, providing easy navigation for players of all skill levels. Convenient features like Auto Play and Quick Spin enable users to play at their own pace without any interruptions.
Symbols and Payouts
As mentioned earlier, Cricket Road to Riches is a twenty-five-payline game with various symbols that contribute different payouts. The standard paytable consists of high-paying icons (Wicket Keeper, Bowler, Batsman), medium-value pictures (Cricket Ball, Umpire’s Decision), and lower-paying emblems like the standard 9-A lettering. For every winning combination, a payout is awarded based on the player’s chosen bet level.
High rollers will find solace in this slot since maximum bets can be placed for potential high-stakes winnings.
Wilds and Scatters
Cricket Road to Riches incorporates two special symbol types: wilds (represented by the cricket ball) and scatters (iconized as an umpire).
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Wild Symbol: The cricket ball is a substituting icon, acting like any other standard sign in helping create winning combinations. When substituted into a sequence of symbols on paylines 1-25 to produce winning combos with higher paying icons, wild multipliers will get activated up to 10 times the player’s stake.
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Scatter Icon: Umpire stands as a scatter symbol that initiates an exciting cricket-themed bonus game or award cash prizes when appearing at least three on reels during any spin. When landing multiple scatters, players can enjoy multiplying their winnings with different factors for each appearance up to four times.
Bonus Features
When the umpire appears in view and two batsmen are involved, a ‘Six Hit’ round initiates – providing the user’s choice of either 20 Free Spins at quadrupled payouts or three bonus spins where the highest value symbol wins. Moreover, when you hit six with any reel combination, this will start another "Hit Six" feature which lets users play up to twenty more free games.
In addition, cricket ball symbols turning Wild as part of a Wicket Keeper + Bowler icon on all reels during normal game play enables maximum multipliers worth 1000 times player stakes to occur on each activated win.