There’s a suitably festive feel to the sound and visuals in Leprechaun Carol. There’s a chocolate box feel to the imagery and the backing track includes a collection of traditional Christmas songs. It’s nicely done and stays the right side of going OTT.
Joining the A to 10 royal values are pints of stout, pipes and a top hat. The best of the standard symbols is Carol the Leprechaun who offers payouts of 2.5, 10 or 50 times your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 on a payline. Also offering payouts of up to 50 times your total stake per payline is the rainbow wild. This can land anywhere on the reels and substitute for everything bar the scatter.
As we’ve come to expect from Pragmatic Play, there are plenty of extras on offer in Leprechaun Carol - 3 of them can randomly trigger on any spin:
- Raining Wilds feature - extra wild symbols rain down onto the reels and a new payout consideration follows.
- Pick a Fiddle feature - this does exactly what it says on the tin. Simply choose a fiddle to win an instant cash prize.
- Giant Symbol feature - a colossal 3x3 symbol can land anywhere on the reels to greatly boost your chances of landing a winner.
Leprechaun Carol also comes with 3 free spin rounds. To trigger them, you’ll need to land the scatter on reels 1, 3 and 5 on the same spin. If you just miss out on hitting the all-important third scatter, you could get a nudge which brings the final scatter into position (known as the Scatter Nudge feature). You’ll then play 1 of the following features - which one you get is decided at random:
Free Spins Picker feature - an initial allocation of 20 free spins with a 2x multiplier is made. Choose from the toadstools to add more free spins and multipliers to your tally or to turn standard symbols into wilds. Keep on picking until you uncover a collect. The free spins then begin.
Coin Collector feature - you’ll start this round with 15 free spins with all payouts doubled. Instead of scatters you’ll see coin symbols. Each 1 of these that hits is collected in a meter. Collect 5 coins to add 5 more free spins to your total and increase the multiplier by 1, up to a maximum of 6x.
Giant Symbols feature - you’ll receive just 3 free spins here but colossal symbols are in play on each of them. The colossal symbol will appear on reels 3, 4 and 5 on your first free spin. On free spin 2, it hits on reels 2, 3 and 4. On the third and final free spin, it lands on reels 1, 2 and 3.
We found plenty to like in Leprechaun Carol. The jolly design is nicely done and there’s plenty of variety on offer from the features. This slot game should appeal if you like volatile action too as the variance is high – you can win 6,000 times your stake on each free spin! If you’re after a festive slot game that doesn’t overload the sugar, then Leprechaun Carol is a good place to start – you should also play Jingle Spin by Net Entertainment.