RagingPop

Avatar UX moves its PopWins series away from the Japanese setting of MonkeyPop for RagingPop, its eleventh entry in the mechanic's line-up, trading that backdrop for open African grassland. Acacia trees, distant mountains, a running stream and golden grass fill the scene under mostly blue skies, and the game switches to a downpour once the bonus round begins.

Six reels and four rows make up the starting grid, capable of expanding to seven rows through the PopWins mechanic in free spins or through the separate Raging Rhino feature. Ways to win begin at 8,196 in that base state and can climb as high as 235,298 once the grid is at its tallest, with matching symbols paying both left-to-right and right-to-left from their respective outer reels. Stakes run from 20p/c up to $40 a spin, and the game carries a 96.34% RTP at high volatility.

Rhinos occupy the top of the paytable, paying 15x the bet for six of a kind, with crocodiles, buffalo and leopards a tier below worth 5-6.25x for a six-symbol line. Butterflies, fish and birds fill the middle of the table at 3x for six, and J through A card symbols form the bottom rung at 1-1.5x. A wild substitutes for any paying symbol but only appears once free spins are underway.

PopWins itself only runs during free spins: each time a winning combination lands, the symbols involved are cleared and replaced by two new ones apiece, growing the reel height, and any new win created by that growth repeats the process until the grid tops out at seven rows.

Raging Rhino can fire randomly in either the base game or the bonus round. When it does, the reels jump straight to five, six or seven rows and a multiplier of up to 500x is applied to whatever win triggered it.

Free spins need three, four, five or six scatters to land, awarding 10, 15, 20 or 30 spins respectively. The feature starts each round at four rows high, can grow to seven through PopWins during a spin, but resets back down to its starting height between spins — except that every ten consecutive free spins adds a permanent extra row that stays for the rest of the round. Before the bonus actually begins, a gamble wheel can push the starting spin count from 15 up to 30, though losing the very first stage sends the round back to the base game rather than the bonus.

A standard buy costs 100x the bet and leads into that same gamble wheel, while paying 500x outright skips straight to 30 free spins with no gamble step. The maximum win across RagingPop is capped at 20,000x the stake.