Honey Rush slot review

Why the Honey Rush slot hex grid plays differently

Honey Rush arrived on 31 October 2019 as Play’n GO’s first hexagonal cascading grid. Instead of rows and columns, 37 six-sided cells form a large hexagon, like a honeycomb. Clusters of five or more matching symbols that touch each other pay, and they can take any shape.

Geometry matters here. On a square grid, a symbol away from the edges touches four neighbours. On a hex grid it touches six. More neighbours means more ways for matching symbols to connect, and a single transformed cell can join two separate groups into one bigger cluster.

How to play Honey Rush

1. Open the game rules and check the RTP your casino runs; lower versions than 96.5% exist.
2. Set a stake and spin to fill the honeycomb.
3. Clusters of five or more touching symbols pay, disappear and are replaced by falling symbols.
4. On a losing spin, watch for Worker Colony, which can turn the cells around the centre into a cluster.
5. Winning clusters fill the Rush meter; reaching its levels starts and powers up the Rush feature.
6. When the feature ends, check the net position display against your session limit.

Cascades in Honey Rush work the same way as on square grids. Our guide to how cluster pays works walks through a full cascade sequence.

Worker Colony: the base-game helper

Worker Colony can activate at random on a spin that would otherwise lose. It looks at the symbol in the centre cell and transforms the six symbols around it to match, creating a seven-symbol cluster on the spot. That cluster pays and cascades like any other, and it also adds to the Rush meter.

It is a small but useful feature for a high-volatility game, because it turns some dead spins into modest returns. It doesn’t change the overall RTP, which already includes it.

The Rush meter and its four levels

Every symbol in a winning cluster adds to the Rush meter, which has four levels. Reaching them unlocks the Rush feature and builds it up as it continues:

On top of those rewards, a Drone Colony is banked each time the meter enters a new level, ready for when the wins dry up.

The feature keeps going while wins keep forming, and ends only when no more clusters can be made and every stored Colony has been used. That is why a Rush round can run for a long time on one stake.

Honeypot wilds and their multipliers

Honeypot wilds are sticky wild symbols that move around the grid during the Rush feature to help build clusters. Each one is randomly given a x1, x2 or x3 multiplier. When more than one honeypot is part of the same cluster, their multipliers combine.

A worked example at a 40p stake: a cluster that would pay 80p, touching a single x3 honeypot, pays £2.40. With x1 it pays the plain 80p. Because the honeypots stay on the grid and move, a strong one can boost several clusters in a single Rush round.

Drone Colony and Queen Colony

Drone Colony is held in reserve and used only when the Rush feature has run out of wins. It transforms five symbols around the centre symbol to match it, which can restart the chain. You collect one each time the meter enters a new level.

Queen Colony unlocks at level four. It transforms symbols to create a cluster of at least 20 matching symbols, with a chance to turn the whole grid into one symbol. A full-grid result with honeypot multipliers attached is the route to the top of the game’s range.

Honey Rush max win: 9,000x and how realistic it is

The max win is 9,000 times the stake: £900 at 10p, £4,500 at 50p, £18,000 at £2 and £45,000 at £5. Reaching it needs a Rush feature that climbs to level four, a Queen Colony that fills most or all of the grid with a high-paying symbol, and strong honeypot multipliers in play.

That combination is very rare. Most Rush rounds stop at levels one or two and pay a modest multiple of the stake, and plenty of sessions end without reaching level four at all.

Honey Rush RTP and volatility for your budget

A top RTP of 96.5% means a theoretical cost of £3.50 per £100 staked. A 250-spin session at 20p (£50 staked) has a theoretical cost of £1.75, and 100 spins at £1 costs £3.50 in theory. Lower RTP versions push those figures up.

High volatility means the Rush feature carries much of the game’s value. Base-game clusters and Worker Colony soften the gaps, but long losing stretches are normal. Choose a stake that gives you enough spins to see several Rush rounds rather than one.

Honey Rush and UK slot rules

In Great Britain the Rush feature can’t be bought, autoplay and turbo are off, and each spin takes at least 2.5 seconds. The stake limit is £5 per spin from age 25 and £2 from 18 to 24. A long Rush round counts as one spin’s worth of stake, however many cascades it contains. Demo play requires age verification first.

Honey Rush vs other cluster pays slots

Play’n GO later returned to the hive with Honey Rush 100, which has its own rules and figures. Among reviewed cluster games, these are the closest comparisons:

Jammin’ Jars is the closest match in spirit, with moving multiplier wilds of its own and a higher ceiling. Reactoonz shares the studio’s charge-meter thinking. More are listed on our cluster pays slots page.

Honey Rush pros and cons

Honey Rush suits players who like grid games and enjoy watching a feature build, and who can accept long quiet spells. It is less suited to small budgets looking for regular returns.

Where to play Honey Rush in the UK

Search any UKGC-licensed casino’s lobby for Honey Rush and confirm the RTP in the game rules before staking. The offers below are 18+ and terms apply; none of them is tied to Honey Rush, so check which games each covers.

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