Leprechaun's Magic Megaways

Travel to the Emerald Isle in search of the pot of gold on the slot from Red Tiger Gaming. Leprechaun’s Magic Megaways is taking you on a highly volatile adventure across six dynamic reels with expanding symbol pays in the base game and free spins that can lead to wins of up to 20,084 times your bet.

Slot Details

Leprechaun’s Magic Megaways is a video slot with six reels, up to five rows and 64 to 15,625 ways to win. Pays are awarded for two to six matching symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right only. You can travel to the Emerald Isle on desktop or mobile from 0.20 to 4.00 credits per spin. The game has medium to high variance with a default RTP of 96.02% not including jackpot contributions where they are activated. Beware, Red Tiger offers its games with a variety of RTP settings, which could be substantially lower than the default, in this case, anything from 91.11% – 96.02%. A quick peek into the help files will let you find out which version you will be playing.

Loading the game will take you to the leprechaun’s enchanted realm on the Emerald Isle. Lush greenery, ample shamrocks, a meandering creek surround his wooden shack which acts as the frame to the Megaways game window. The mischievous gnome together with his pipe and hat dominate the reels while a traditional Irish soundtrack keeps things lively at all times.

The pay symbols start at the low end with the card royals from 10 through to A, awarding 1x to 1.2x your bet for a single six of a kind. They are followed by the Leprechaun’s pipe, his hat, a golden horseshoe and the Leprechaun himself. Hit six across the reels to win 3x to 25x your stake. The fabled pot of gold acts as the scatter on this slot.

Leprechaun’s Magic Megaways Slot Features

The upgrade frenzy is continuing. Most developers who acquired a Megaways licence are rummaging through their catalogue to find games they can give a new lease of life by slapping them onto a Megaways game engine. Red Tiger Gaming has done it among others with Dragon’s Luck Megaways and Mystery Reels Megaways as well as some from its parent company NetEnt. Leprechaun’s Magic was initially created by their partner studio MaxWin Gaming, so let’s take a look at how the upgraded version will keep us going back to the Emerald Isle.

Core to the gameplay is the Megaways engine with its dynamic reels, although on this occasion there are no symbol avalanches as it usually is the case. Instead, we have straight spinning reels with no further cascades after a win. At the start of a round, the game engine will select a random number of two to five symbols for each reel, leading to anything from 64 to 15,625 ways to win.

Hitting any win will activate the symbol display at the top of the game window. All winning symbols will be highlighted and turn into the special Expanding Symbol for the following spin. Land sufficient and they will expand to cover the entire reel and pay for each way without the need for the symbols to be on adjacent reels.

Every reel can have up to five symbol positions, meaning three scattered special symbols on three reels with five positions will expand and pay accordingly. For example, landing a special symbol on three reels with five symbols each on that spin will pay 5x5x5 = 125 times a three of a kind of the special symbol. All selected symbols are reset before the next spin starts.

Three pot of gold scatters anywhere on the reels will trigger the Magic Wheel with 12 segments displaying 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16 Magic Spins. You get one spin to determine the number of spins for your round. Landing on four will give you one extra spin. Any additional scatter that appeared on the triggering spin will award +4 free spins. During the feature, the selected Expanding Symbols are not reset, thus you could have multiple or even all eight as active expanding symbols.

Final Verdict

Leprechaun’s Magic Megaways is a decent effort to turn the underperforming original into something more playable and suspenseful. And not to forget, the increased win potential, which has grown from about 5,000x to over 20,000x your bet. We have seen the expanding symbol mechanic on Legacy of Ra Megaways from Blueprint Gaming, a highly volatile slot, so do not expect anything less from this creation.

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