Rising Liner Slot Machine
Line up the fruits all over the 5-reels of this classically themed Merkur Gaming slot machine and you could end up winning the game's top jackpot prize of 2,000 credits.
Rising Liner has 20 paylines, but it allows spinners to create winning connections in many more ways than usual since wins are accepted going from left to right and right to left. You can even find a winning row in the middle 3 reels of the game. Plus, this unique fruit machine features a “Surrounding Wild” feature that will expand whenever it appears to boost winning players' winning chances.
Timelessly classic
If there is one slot machine genre that can withstand the test of time, then it would be the classic fruit machine. This timeless theme has a history that goes back right to the dawn of the slot machine game itself, and it still manages to satisfy the betting appetites of many a spinner.
Rising Liner plays homage to the retro slot machine design with a series of traditional fruit symbols, depicting icons such as cherries, lemons, plums, oranges, grapes and watermelons, all of which are designed to emulate the classic icons that have appeared on one-armed bandits in land-based casino's for more than a century. And of course, the game is polished off with a big glitzy 7 symbol, which is coloured in golden yellow and adorned with a touch of Vegas style sparkle.
Winning potential all over the reels
Even though this game may look like a timelessly traditional slot machine, it does offer up some of the slightly unorthodox gameplay that you would only find in a modern video slot. That is because players can find combinations of matched symbols in anywhere on the reels, as long as they fall in adjacent positions along one of the active paylines. Essentially, that means that you won't just find wins from the first reel on the left going to the right, but also going backwards from the fifth reel to the left and even across the middle three reels.
Place your bets
There are 20 paylines in total available to be played, although spinners can opt to limit their total stakes by only laying down 5, 10 or 15 lines. As for the wagers, each active payline requires a coin as a stake, with options as follows: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1.00, and 2.00. Therefore, punters could end up placing 40 credits as a maximum overall bet in any one spin.
There aren't any scatter symbols involved in this 5-reel classic, meaning that all wins are formed from matching fruits (and 7s) over active paylines. Whenever that happens, a line bet multiplier will be awarded as a prize, as you can see in the paytable below:
Expanding wild
Keeping true to the traditional slot machine format, Rising Liner won't offer spinners with any overly complicated bonus features. That means that there are no free games to play with, no extra multipliers to boost your balance, and no gimmicky bonus games to break up the spinning action. However, there is one special feature, and it comes in the form of a hypnotic spiralling wild symbol. Whenever this mesmerizing symbol appears on the reels, it will expand in all directions to cover every adjacent position. All in all, it will grow to the size of 9 symbols.
Once the spiral was expanded, it will act as a wild icon which substitutes as all other symbols in the game to complete line wins. Plus, considering the fact that winning sequences can be formed all over the 5 reels of this slot machine, there is every chance that punters can end up activating multiple paylines at once for some big prize winning potential.
Worth the risk?
Even if players don't find that big expanding wild icon, they can take matters into their own hands to boost their wins. That is because Rising Liner features two gamble games – a 50/50 card gamble and a prize-ladder gamble – both of which have maximum win limits of 140 credits.
A mesmerising classic
Rising Liner is a bright, bold, and potentially bounteous slot machine. The theme is classic at heart but the gameplay serves up some unique and interesting twists, such as the fact that wins can be formed in any direction as long as identical symbols fall next to each other on a payline. What's more, with an expanding wild spiral icon, spinners might just be mesmerised by some big winning spins.
