Regal Riches

Our next look at an AP opportunity in slots is Regal Riches. The gist of this one is every time the player gets a wild symbol on a paid spin, then not only does it serve as a wild symbol for that spin, but it gets banked for a future time. There are four different banks of wilds, according to the color of the wild -- blue, green, purple, and yellow.

The bank of blue wilds triggers at random on an initial spin. It usually hits when there 8 to 12 wilds in the blue bank. This feature happens a lot, about every 20 spins.

The other color banks trigger when you get a free spin bonus. For example, let's say you trigger a bonus with 50 free spins. Free spins bonuses are 10 spins. Over those ten spins, you will get 50 wilds. How they are distributed across the ten free spins seems largely random.

I think there is not much long-term value in chasing games with more than so-many blue wilds banked. Rather, if the yellow, purple and green banks get above a certain point, or perhaps two are close to these individual break-even points, then the game becomes +EV.

In an effort to gather data to help find these yellow, purple, and green breakeven points, I recorded over half an hour of play and uploaded it to this video.



Direct link: https://youtu.be/bkXz8xSBTeo

The question for the poll is how many green wilds would you need to see before playing?

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<snip>The other color banks trigger when you get a free spin bonus. For example, let's say you trigger a bonus with 50 free spins. Free spins bonuses are 10 spins. Over those ten spins, you will get 50 wilds. How they are distributed across the ten free spins seems largely random.
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Wizard,

I have played this game numerous times. My experience is that the 10th spin in the bonus round is almost always very lucrative, because the machine seems to "save up" the Wilds so that the final spin has a more-than-average number of them.

Another version of this game with a Chinese theme is called "Prosperity Pearl": other than the symbols, the two games are identical.

Hope this helps!

Dog Hand

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Another version of this game with a Chinese theme is called "Prosperity Pearl": other than the symbols, the two games are identical.
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I've also heard Scarabs and Diamond Mania are skins of Regal Riches. Can anyone confirm or deny?

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Another version of this game with a Chinese theme is called "Prosperity Pearl": other than the symbols, the two games are identical.
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I've also heard Scarabs and Diamond Mania are skins of Regal Riches. Can anyone confirm or deny?
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I'm familiar with Scarab and from the description you give it's not the same.

Scarab is more like Golden Jungle Grand with a ten spin cycle. Only wilds appear on the screen in various positions instead of being saved up as GB. On the tenth spin, the Scarabs turn wild but not entire reels.

If anything I would call Golden Jungle Grand a cross between Golden Egypt and Scarab.

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Quote: DogHand

Another version of this game with a Chinese theme is called "Prosperity Pearl": other than the symbols, the two games are identical.
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I've also heard Scarabs and Diamond Mania are skins of Regal Riches. Can anyone confirm or deny?
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Diamond mania is another skin of scarabs but neither game has any similarities to regal/prosperity pearl.

Wiz I must disagree. There is a lot of value chasing blue wilds. 8 seems to be the minimum entry point at my main shop. However, frequently find 9&10’s. Highest I’ve ever caught was a 16.

The wild spin triggers quicker the higher the count. You will rarely spin more than a few times if you catch a machine at 10+ blue wilds.

Of course you still need to catch a good symbol and screen with the wilds. It can definitely line up poorly at times.

As far as the green wilds - 85 entry

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Wiz I must disagree. There is a lot of value chasing blue wilds.

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He did use the qualifier “long term.” Makes sense with the qualifier.

I recently played this game on a Carnival cruise. The purple wilds were at 68 or 69, but once it hit 70, the wording "must hit by 75" came up. Not sure if it was random or not, but the green wilds went from 70-82 while I was playing but never had the "must hit" line come up, so I dont know if it there are different numbers that come up where it shows a "must hit" number or not. For reference, the Gold wilds were at 92 at the time as well. The blue wilds seemed to random when they hit, I saw anything from 8 to 15 when they hit.

Edited to add: I played until the purple hit (at a lower level bet, I forget how much, I think $1.50). From what I remember, each bet level had a seperate set of wilds accumulating.

Here is my understanding of the reset and must-hit-by values of the bonus wilds:

Purple: 30, 75
Green: 40, 100
Yellow: 50, 125