Take one guess what a slot named Irish Charms might entail. Yep, you got it in one. We’re talking leprechaun hats, pots of gold, horseshoes and four-leaf clovers. We’re talking all the fun you can have on three reels, all the green you can stomach and enough lucky charms to herald 1,000 years of good fortune. Sadly – spoiler alert – not everyone who spins this slot will be able to enjoy oodles of luck, despite the shedload of 7s, clovers and horseshoes floating about. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
It’s astonishing really: a nation of people travel the world, leaving their mark on great countries via the railways and roads they build and major cities they populate from New York to Boston, yet all they’re known for is Guinness, clovers and leprechaun hats. Way to dismiss an entire nation’s culture in one fell swoop. In fairness, that’s not Pragmatic Play’s fault; they’re merely the latest developer to cash in on the Irish meme.
In an era in which every new game is designed to be a 3D, immersive, photo-realistic, over-animated miniature movie of a slot, it’s kind of refreshing to stumble upon a slot like Irish Charms. It’s a proper blast from the plast, provided your idea of a blast is to spin the same three reels ad infinitum until you finally manage to coax a string of 7s into lining up in succession. Thankfully there is autoplay, which can be set as high as 1,000 spins, enabling you to go make some coffee while the game does its thing.
In keeping with the retro theme, Irish Charms has a basic soundtrack that comprises little more than a series of bleeps and chirps. While not particularly Irish, it’s certainly retro, exuding an 8-bit vibe that will elicit feels of nostalgia in anyone who spent their youth playing arcade games. In addition to having 3 reels, Irish Charms has 3 paylines and a line bet that can be set between 0.01 and 5 per spin, making for a max bet of 15.00 per spin.
The great thing about retro slots is that they don’t even require a separate paytable; all the information you need can be found to the left of the reels. There’s no messing about trying to find sub-menus: simply glance to the side of the reels and instantly you know what’s hot and what’s not in Irish Charms. It all starts with the beer pint symbols, which will award wins for one or even two symbols on a payline. Don’t get too excited though; the most you’ll pocket is 2 or 3 credits for this feat.
Things start to pick up once you begin recording three of a kind wins on the reels; beer tankards are worth 10, leprechaun hats are worth 15 and clovers are worth 25. Then there are horseshoes, worth 50, and pots of gold worth 200. That just leaves the 7s – the green 7s to be precise – which are the game’s jackpot symbol. They’re also its wild symbol; any 7 will substitute for other symbols, helping you record additional wins on the reels. Land three 7s on a payline to receive 1,000, or 3,000 for two rows of 7s and 6,000 for all three rows filled with 7s.
If you’d like to play something similar to Irish Charms, there are naturally plenty of candidates on a similar theme. Irish Eyes and its imaginatively named sequel, Irish Eyes 2, are certainly viable candidates. Developed by Nextgen, Irish Eyes is 25 payline slot with an RTP of 95% and up to 12 free spins to be won accompanied by a 3x multiplier. Sure, it’s not a retro slot like Irish Charms, but that should come as a relief. Three reels of relentless Irish charm symbols swiftly start to tire as you’ll discover once you give this game a go.
Irish Charms is what it is. That ‘is’ happens to be an ultra-simple retro-themed slot that’s super green and super okay. In other words, this game is nothing special but there’s still money to be made and simple pleasures to be derived from playing it, despite its limitations. If you think you’ve got the luck of the Irish, step right up and game this Pragmatic Play game a go.
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