Luck O' The Irish Fortune Spins

The ‘Luck O' The Irish Fortune Spins’ slot, from Blueprint Gaming. This coloured video slot with 10 Paylines, featuring an innovative feature where players can spin, not only the regular reels but also opt for the ‘Fortune Spins’ reels for more ways to win.

The main theme, is based on Emerald Isle - Irish theme. The scenery begins, with a beautiful Irish field and a Leprechaun, with his Pot of Gold. The Pot of Gold, pays the highest reward of 500x bet, for 5 of them.

The ‘Fortune Spins’ reels, can be activated to give 4 extra reels and multiple winning chances. Each of the 4 screens of reels spins to reveal your rewards, spinning one at a time to increase the tension. During these spins the Irish music plays while you are looking out, for the special leprechaun symbol. If 4 Leprechauns appear during this round you win a mystery Prize.

In conclusion, the ‘Luck O’ the Irish Fortune Spins’ is a very simple game, with only a small collection of symbols and one special feature. Also there are no Wild symbols or Scatters, in this game, to add extra interest.

I tried this game in my local William Hill shop when I had less than £1 left on the machine so couldn't continue playing blackjack. I had two spins at 40p to play and as the second one finished up I started walking away from the machine when the bells went off - it looked like a dead spin to me but I'd actually won over £10! When the machine began to highlight my winning paylines I realised this game only requires winning symbols to be adjacent to one another, so essentially the game pays both ways AND for matching symbols on the three centre reels as well. An interesting design for sure and after a balance saver like that it seemed rude not to give the game a few more spins!

I don't recall if the in store machine version had the same "Fortune Spins" system as this on-line version, but I can definitely say I much prefer to play with this feature on than off. Enabling this mode makes the slot function a lot like Playtech's Sunset Beach, three additional reel sets appear on screen and roll in sequence each time you spin the reels. Any wilds that appear on one set are automatically transferred onto the next set which makes much easier to get a large number of wilds onscreen at once by the time you get to the fourth machine. There are no wilds on the reels at all if you don't enable the "fortune spins" mode, so I don't recommend playing this game if your not willing to pay the minimum £2.00 per spin required for the fortune mode.

It's a simple game and I'm pretty bored of the whole "happy lucky leprechauns" theme - it's simply been done to death by now. The paytable isn't fantastic either although the transferring wilds mean it's possible to hit a great many wins on a single spin which definitely goes a long way towards compensating, but I still regard this as being a fairly average game overall. I still like to throw a few spins through it now and again though as tribute to it's timely balance saving intervention all that time ago!