Honey Hive XL

Honey Hive XL Overview

Honey Hive XL is a bee-themed slot from Rival Gaming, released on 24 May 2023. Its three reels are laid out 3-4-3 inside a honeycomb, which gives room for 36 paylines. SlotCatalog lists a 95.06% RTP, low volatility and stakes from 0.20 to 60.

The Hive Grid

The reels sit in a round wooden hive in a sunny forest. The symbols are classic ones – a golden 7, a watermelon and single, double and triple BARs. The wild is a cheeky bee, and the scatter is a honey pot marked SCATTER. Beehives hang from the trees around the grid, honey drips along the bottom of the screen, and a cartoon bee flies in to present the prize wheel and the big wins.

Paytable

According to the published game description, wins run left to right on adjacent reels. The 7 pays 4x the bet for three, the melon 1.50x, and the BARs 0.50x, 0.30x and 0.10x. The wild bee replaces every symbol except the honey pot, but pays nothing itself.

In the base game we saw a wild on the middle reel help a spin to $4.20 at a $1.00 bet. The smallest line win in that spin was $0.10 – exactly the 0.10x a line of single BARs pays.

The Prize Wheel

The published description says that two honey pots start the Honeypot Prize Wheel. Our screenshot shows its seven sectors at a $1.00 bet: $5, $7, $10, $15, $20 and $30, plus one sector with 15 free spins. That makes the cash sectors 5x to 30x the bet.

Free Spins with Expanding Wilds

Three honey pots give 15 free spins directly, and the round can be retriggered, per the game description. In the free spins, a bee wild that completes a win expands to fill its whole reel.

Our round shows it clearly. With 14 spins left, two scatters paid $0.30. One spin later the bee covered the middle reel from top to bottom, and the screen called a Big Win of $8.40 – 8.4x the bet – taking the round total to $8.60.

Stakes, RTP and Settings

SlotCatalog gives a range of 0.20 to 60 per spin, while its written review mentions a minimum of 0.10. The 95.06% RTP sits a little below the usual 96%, which the low volatility partly makes up for: the published review says almost every spin returns something, though not every win covers the stake. The same review lists an Autoplay mode and a three-step speed setting.

Maximum Win

SlotCatalog lists no maximum win. The published description says Rival has not capped the game, so the limit is whatever the casino’s terms allow.

Who It Is For

Honey Hive XL suits players who like frequent small wins and a simple bonus. The wheel gives a second route into the free spins, and the expanding bee is where the bigger payouts come from.

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