Spud O'Reilly's Crops of Gold

I don't know who this Spud O'reilly really is, but he certainly is planting some crops of gold, according to Playtech that is. Well, for one thing, I find it rather strange that sheep are included as Spud's crops?! Can sheep can be planted? Only when they are dead, as far as I know, but oh gees, never mind, even those Playtech guys can make some silly mistakes once in awhile, right? Hehehe.

I've played this 20-paylines games several times before, but never getting any good decent wins from it. My best win still remains at just 116x my bet amount, but the paytable and the symbol values certain say otherwise. Spud, the Wild symbol, pays a huge 10,000x line bet for getting 5 of them, whilst getting 5 Clover-leaf Scatter symbols pay 500x the total bet, and those are excellent values indeed! The Sheep is the non-paying Bonus symbol, serving to trigger the Sheep Shearing Bonus game to win cash prizes - not a lot, but additional cash nonetheless. The other symbols pay from a low 500x down to 50x the line bet for getting any 5 of them, but still making the overall paytable a very good one. You can expect to get big wins from this Spud O'reilly, but only if you're lucky enough. I haven't been that lucky at all so far.

The Free Spins game awards 10 free spins with all wins tripled - not to the usual 15 free spins with 3x multiplier standard, but acceptable enough. More free spins can be retriggered, so this is where all those big wins can come from. The more retriggers you can get, the bigger the wins would be. This is typical of most Playtech games, with lots of retriggers in the free spins games, but no other game has yet been able to match Safari Heat's 20 retriggers! Spud only gave me one retrigger, damn! Hahaha.

The Sheep Shearing Bonus game is not too bad in its play. Pick the sheep one at a time to win a cash prize, but the best that I have gotten so far is only 5x my bet amount for a pick, so the total payout potential from this bonus game isn't a lot at all. The best from Spud O'reilly can only come from the Free Spins games, but would need lots of retriggers and lots of winning spins. How big a win can it give? Oh gees, I wouldn't know for sure, but getting 5 Wilds during the free spins would certainly be the biggest single win possible of 1500x the total bet amount.

Spud O'Reilly`s Crops is a very interesting game when it comes to the base game. This is another game that uses Irish theme, just when we thought that we saw all slots with Irish theme Playtech releases a new one. The first time I played this slot I was very lucky since I triggered the bonus features very easy and very fast, but I did not win anything good.

You need 3 or more bonus symbols to trigger the sheep shearing bonus, at the beginning I was confused a bit because I even had 4 symbols once but nothing special happened. Later did I realize that they need to be on an active play line. There are 6 sheep and you need to choose 3 to get a cash prize. I got 5.50 euros only next bonus 5.30 then 7.90. Every time I was choosing the ones in the back, they seem to hide more money, but I know that this is not the rule.

I had to see the free spins potential now, but there was no sign of the free game symbol. Just when I was about to quit I triggered the free spins. I got 10 free games with x 3 multiplier and only 9.65 euros win. This was the last sign from this game and I knew that I will not win anything good from it. I would not say that this is a slot that it is worth trying. The game might be interesting since it is very colorful and cheerful but we are all in for the big wins. And it seems that this game does not have the potential to pay at all.

The maximum amount you can win in this game is for 5 wilds which are worth 10.000 coins but that rarely happens. The other symbols are very weak, for instance the highest paying symbol will bring you only 500 coins.

“Spud O'Reilly's Crops of Gold” is an Irish themed slot that, unlike other slots inspired by stories related to this country, it is not focused on luck revolving around Leprechauns, rainbows, horseshoes, and other elements related to these fairy tales, except perhaps by the image of four-leaf clover used to trigger the free games round. So Playtech wanted to exalt pride originated in the hard work made on Irish fields, where you can see happiness surrounding the farm family and love for their flocks and crops.

About hard work, I think that is what it represents the slot for any player who has already faced this video slot; at least that is what this slot has been for me. I have to admit that wild symbols occur frequently and, often, also massively, however, to deal with low hit average of this game is quite a hassle. At times, it seems there is a chance to recover what it has been lost, especially when the “Sheep Shearing Bonus” feature occurs more often, however, prizes usually awarded for this round are not usually really great, leaving us as the main alternative, the possibility of triggering some free games round where all our wins are multiplied by 3x.

To trigger the free spins round it is enough to get 3 scatters represented with the image of clover that certainly circulate on all the reels; now, at this point, it should be noted that against all odds, this feature is not easy to be triggered at all; I personally think I have made more than a thousand spins before gaining access to my first free games, and to make matters worse, my already low hit average seemed to diminish even more during this round, and this certainly turned into a risky situation for me because at that moment my bet level was already high enough as to pretend to recover lost ground in some other way.

At this point, the defeat was inevitable for me and resignation the only alternative. Sincerely, “Spud O'Reilly's Crops of Gold” is not exactly a generous slot, or at least as I see it, so that the only suggestion I can make is: be wary when betting on this game, and if you ever feel that the situation is out of your control, then leave it; I think in this game is never too early to give up.