Rabid Randy (Netent) Slot Demo & Review

Rabid Randy is NetEnt’s latest fictional character with a hillbilly-meets-Wild West vibe, which I gathered from his fashion sense, a folksy cowboy theme tune and his rather large shotgun. He kind of reminds me of Yosemite Sam, if any of you remember this old-school Looney Tunes character, or maybe that’s me showing my age. Moving swiftly to the slot’s graphics, there is a retro theme, artwork, and colours that remind me of the Play’n GO slot, Charlie Chance in Hell to Pay.

As for the payouts, you would probably expect more from the paytable during the base game, but as this is a highly volatile slot game, combination wins are modest to make up for the bonus game’s free spins multipliers. The Wild and Bear symbols share Rabid Randys’ highest payout, landing you 5x your bet for 5 symbols. The mean-looking Wild Boar and Fox are next in line, paying 2.5x, while the Rodent and Squirrel symbols pay 1.2x each. Last of all, we have the low pays with the Ace and King sharing returns of 0.9x, the Queen and Jack with awards of 0.6x, and finally, the Ten paying 0.4x for winning combo of five.

That leaves with just the staking options to cover in this section. Budget players can start playing from a low minimum of €0.10 per spin, while high rollers can choose to bet as high as €25.

Rabid Randy is played over a more unorthodox reel matrix of 3x4x5x4x3, with 20 paylines in play. Landing winning combinations requires you to line up 3, 4, or 5 symbols across any of the ways to win, starting from the leftmost reel first.

The Paw

Each time a brown paw symbol lands, it will mark the position on the real with a trap. It will also add points to the Paw Counter in the top right of the game. A standard paw results in 1 point, while a paw landing in a position with a frame or an active frame adds a random amount of points between 1 and 4. Once this total reaches 200, the free spins multiplier counter will increase in the top right, while the Paw counter will reset to 0.

Free Spins Multiplier Collector

When the Paw symbols upgrade the multiplier, the value increases progressively, starting from 1x to 2x, and as upgrades continue, the multiplier can reach up to 1,000x. However, this is not permanent, as after you trigger free spins, the multiplier resets to 1x.

Hot Paw Wild Symbol Conversions

Any paw symbol could change into a Hot Paw at random, converting the position into an active frame, which will convert to a wild symbol at the end of the next spin. When this happens, all adjacent positions on the same reel as the active frame and any other frames on adjacent reels will convert to wild symbols.

While the base game’s only trick is the wild symbol reel modifier, which doesn’t exactly inspire big wins, landing 3 or more scatter symbols will trigger a free spins game where multipliers can turn a tame session into a multiplier feast.

Free Spins Feature

In case you were wondering where Rabid Randy features in all this, he’s the scatter symbol triggering 3 free spins when he lands on reels 2, 3, and 4. Before free spins begin, all reel positions with Frames or Active Frames convert to Trophy symbols worth 0.5x to 50x your spin bet, and they remain sticky.

Only Trophy symbols can land on the reels, with every new one that appears remaining sticky and resetting the free spins counter to 3. The bonus will end when 3 consecutive spins do not produce a Trophy symbol or when all positions are filled. At this point, the multiplier on all Trophy symbols will have the free spins multiplier from the base game applied. If all 19 positions are filled, Rabid Randy will double the final multiplier amount.