Rain Dance

Rain Dance: Scatters That Must Survive a Respin to Count

The free games trigger in this Native American slot has an extra hurdle most games do not impose. Two or more Coyote scatters first trigger a Re-Spin Feature, locking those reels in place while the rest spin again, and only if three or more Coyotes remain after that respin does the Free Games Feature begin.

So the scatters must survive the respin. A board arriving with three Coyotes is not a trigger in itself; it is an entry into a process that will determine whether a trigger occurs. The respin can improve the count, but it is also the gate the count has to pass.

That two-scatter entry threshold is generous, since it converts the most common near-miss into an active attempt. The Coyote scatter pay is applied after the respin regardless, so the feature has value even when it fails to produce a trigger.

What is at stake in that respin is considerable. Three Coyotes award ten free games, four award fifteen, and five award a full hundred, with matching multipliers of 3x, 4x and 5x. The jump from fifteen to a hundred is enormous and out of all proportion to the step before it, which makes the five-scatter outcome a different category of event rather than an increment.

Crucially, round length and multiplier scale together here rather than trading against each other, so the five-scatter result is better on both axes simultaneously.

The respin can trigger again during Free Games, and further qualifying Coyotes extend the round with additional spins at the same multiplier. Note that extensions arrive at the existing rate rather than resetting it, so a strong initial trigger keeps paying dividends.

A Chief wild appears exclusively on reels one and five, substituting for every symbol including the Coyote scatter and doubling any prize he completes. Wild substitution for scatters is unusual and means the Chief can help produce the surviving count.

High volatility is confirmed across the twenty paylines. A Progressive Jackpot starting at $1,000 can be awarded at the end of any spin.

The listed top award is 40,000 times your bet per line. Rain Dance suits players who understand that a promising scatter board here is provisional rather than settled, and who will value the Chief for helping scatters survive as much as for his doubling.