Play Wags To Riches for Free

In a bid to give players more control over how much money they wish to risk each spin, Merkur Gaming have made Wags To Riches a fully adjustable slot that can be customised in terms of both active paylines and the bet amount placed on each. With 1-20 lines available for the former and line bet sizes between $0.01 and $1, the game can be played up to a maximum wager of $20 per spin.

For this investment, players will not only have a shot at winning a massive 500x their total bet for matching five of the game’s jackpot icons, but will also be able to pick up a series of regular wins starting from 2x their line bet for hitting two-of-a-kind in any medium value symbol. Any regular winnings can also be doubled by the presence of super wilds, which substitute for all standard icons.

Beyond that, a number of unique scatter symbols also feature in Wags To Riches, with each one triggering a special bonus round whenever three or more icons appear anywhere on the gameboard.

As you’ve probably gathered from the name, Wags To Riches focuses on the partners of the super wealthy and what they get up to in their free time – and in Merkur Gaming’s opinion, this involves throwing shapes at trendy nightclubs and going on impromptu shopping sprees! While it is admittedly a slightly clichéd theme, it is executed with good humour and plenty of graphical flourish.

The reels in Wags To Riches are trimmed with gold and appear on a pink cityscape background, with all manner of luxury items denoting the game’s higher value icons. Perfume bottles, shopping bags and sports cars all feature alongside the standard ace-through-ten playing card symbols, with winning paylines triggering a short animation for each different symbol as the payout is calculated.

Of particular note in terms of visuals are the slot’s Disco Inferno and Shopping Spree bonus rounds, both of which will transport players to a different screen with entirely new graphics. Featuring a light up dance floor in the former and a Wag’s Boutique in the latter, this adds considerable variety to the appearance of Wags To Riches and ensures players won’t get bored of staring at the standard reels.

As mentioned earlier, the gameplay in Wags To Riches gains significant depth thanks to the presence of three very different bonus rounds. The first is your bog-standard free spins feature, which begins whenever three or more free spins icons appear on the main reels. Depending on how many icons are present, players can win between 50 and 200 turns, though this feature cannot be re-triggered.

The other two bonus features, however, can be triggered during free spins and are activated whenever three or more dancing girls or shopping bag symbols appear respectively. The first takes players to the Disco Inferno bonus screen, which is essentially a pick and click game where players advance through spaces on a dance floor until they uncover a cash prize, which ends the feature.

The second, meanwhile, takes you to an entirely separate set of reels known as the Wag’s Boutique. This 3x3 grid features 5 paylines and will award cash prizes whenever a three-of-a-kind combination appears, with winnings mounting up indefinitely until a non-winning spin brings the game to a close.

Although it’s difficult to tell if Wags To Riches has been designed to attract female players with its “girlie” graphics or repel them with its slightly sexists stereotyping, the fact is that if you look beyond the theme there’s actually a pretty good game lurking underneath. The features are rewarding and varied and the presence of super wilds can really help boost your winnings in the regular base game.