Wild Lepre'Coins Pokies
Players hoping for the luck of the Irish flock to pokies based on the Emerald Isle and Australian games developer Aristocrat have hopped on this particular bandwagon with their Wild Lepre-Coins game that sees cash, drinks, lucky horseshoes, lots and lots of clover and a friendly leprechaun across its reels.
Anyone who doesn’t like the colour green should probably avoid this game, as it’s dominated by every shade imaginable, from the rich patterns of the background image to the four-leaf clovers decorating the symbols. But that’s what people expect from a game that follows the Irish theme and this one plays safe with the style and choice of images, with all that’s missing being rainbows and wishing wells to complete the cliché.
It comes complete with a couple of bonus features including a free spins game where players unlock extra wilds and even a multi-wild that will be more than Dublin’ the money of anyone who sees it.
Field of Greens
This pokie has been designed with care and features some highly detailed images over 5 reels. It has 30 paylines, all of which are permanently active, with a minimum stake per spin of 60 coins. Players win money back whenever 3 or more of the same symbol lands across adjacent reels on any line running from the left, with wins from the scatter symbol paying in any positions.
At the start of each spin, the reels contain stacked symbols which are transformed into random mixes across each one and a payout table lists what each winning combination will be worth.
The ever-present 9, 10, J, Q, K and A symbols are all here, although many have been decorated with lucky clovers to make them a little different to those found in other pokies. Wins from landing the 9 or 10 across a line are between 5 and 50 coins, while the K and A pay between 10 and 100.
Higher payouts come from the unique pictures that give Wild Lepre-Coins its distinct appearance and these include barrels of beer, the pint glass, horseshoe and sacks of coins, but the friendly, if slightly crazed-looking leprechaun is the most valuable of the standard symbols.
Anyone seeing just 2 of these on the left side reels will win 5 coins and 3, 4 or 5 pay out 30, 100 and 500 respectively.
Wild Lepre'Coins
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Bonus Features
The wild symbol is simply a decorative coin and when this appears it can act as all except the scatter to help complete a winning line, while on its own it pays from 25 to 1500 coins when landing across a line.
After any random spin, either in the base game or bonus round, players can be treated to the Extra Bonus Wilds feature which sees between 1 and 15 additional wild symbols added to the screen, plus Multi-Wilds that award even more. Once the wilds have stopped accumulating, payouts are calculated, added to the balance and normal play resumes.
An over-sized blue pot of gold coins, surrounded by clover is the scatter symbol and when this stops in any 3 positions players win 3x their total stake per spin, while 4 or 5 of them will return wins of 10x or 50x. This will also launch a free spins bonus game, with 7, 10 or 20 spins playing out depending on how many scatters triggered them. If a purple pot was among the scatters, the number of spins is multiplied by 2, 3 or even 5 times over.
More scatters can appear during the free spins to re-trigger the round and players will see the new ones start as soon as any from the current game have finished.
The Verdict
Wild Lepre’Coins is nothing original, but that doesn’t make it a bad game. Far from it, as it follows what is perhaps the most popular theme and comes with some interesting bonus features for good measure.
Standard gameplay doesn’t throw up any surprises, with the playing card symbols being used across pretty much the whole Aristocrat range of pokies, although it’s nice to see that a little effort has gone into customising them with the clovers attached to all but the 9 and 10.
Picture symbols are just what players would expect from an Irish themed pokie, although the beer looks a little pale for local tastes. Each symbol is exceptionally well detailed, giving this a pleasing appearance.
While the free spins game is a nice extra, the reels are standard throughout, with nothing extra to help players win more during the round, so perhaps the best feature is the Extra Bonus Wilds game, which should see some decent rewards without even needing a spin of the reels.