Original Release: Bally, 2015 (?)
A major swerve of the Quick Hit series that incorporates a more volatile structure with bigger jackpot wins
Quick Hit Riches (Bally, 2015?)
Review by: C. M0use
From the beginning the Quick Hit slot series has been known as a lower-volatility option that is fairly generous with the line wins and free spins, at the cost of not offering huge jackpots and top prizes. The “Riches” branch appears to make the game much more volatile, emphasizing a possibly-very-lucrative bonus feature and much larger jackpots for hitting the Quick Hit symbols over the more regular small wins in the other versions.
I say “appears” because I don’t have hard data to back all this up, as usual in the world of slots, everything is opaque by intent to keep players from easily making informed decisions. But on other versions the Quick Hit jackpots (obtained by landing anywhere from 5 to 9 scatter symbols, same system here) at the minimum bet generally top out at around $8k. Certainly a nice win, but as a top possible prize for a super rare outcome it’s not exactly “life changing money” especially once Uncle Sam takes his 30% bite (or insert your country’s tax scheme here). Riches tunes it up to $30k off the minimum bet and the other Quick Hit scatters are correspondingly larger.
Of course, if the pay table goes up dramatically like that, you HAVE to be paying for it in regular line wins and bonus feature frequency. I don’t have PAR sheets or whatever to prove it but I plunked down $20 (at minimum 30 cent bet) to try the game out and it just ate right through it without remorse like any other sucker slot. Only a paltry amount of three Quick Hit scatter wins that returned the bet, everything else was fractional, including a couple of highly insulting 1 penny “wins”! Didn’t even come close to sniffing the bonus feature.
So I had to read about that somewhere else, and it works like this: when you hit the usual three free spins symbols anywhere in the playfield, you wind up with a random “buff” to your bonus spins a la the original Quick Hit, but this time it’s a boost to the value of your wins (up to 3x). This includes Quick Hit symbol wins. So at a max bet (usually $3 per spin) potentially you could shoot up to the hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single win, if you landed as few as seven Quick Hit symbols with a multiplier on.
To me, though, this kinda seems like a trap and false advertising. The Quick Hit games have spent two+ decades building a reputation as a low volatility option for grinding, so if you knew nothing about Riches when stepping up it would be reasonable to expect that and you might be shocked when your money just disappears. On other Quick Hit games you can spin for quite awhile on just $5 thanks to frequent wins and free spins, odds are you’ll be bounced in 60 seconds on this one. Anyway, I feel like if you want to play a high volatility game there are better and more exciting options.
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