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Slot Review: Shamrock Isle

We only just missed St. Patrick’s Day with this online slot review, but we’re willing to bet that you will be happily spinning it through the next eleven months until the time for green beer and bad jokes about Irish girls comes around again. We just loved almost everything about Shamrock Isle, from the way it looked to the gameplay! Every player will be feeling like they have the luck o’ the Irish when they take a few spins on this opulent-looking, fun-to-play pokey. And the best part, of course, is that you might win a little bit of gold for your very own without having to chase rainbows or try and steal it from leprechauns! This is definitely a holiday-themed slot, but we’re confident that you will enjoy it through all seasons.

Shamrock Isle is an online slot made by Rival, one of the foremost software providers of great casino software on the World Wide Web! It sports five reels and twenty paylines of online slot action, with more than thirty-two winning combinations to ensure that you have the greatest chance of winning a prize on almost every turn! Coin values start at one cent, and range up to twenty-five cents. That means that you can play this game as a penny slot if you wish, or plunk down the max coin size of two hundred – ten per payline playable – for the maximum per-spin value of fifty dollars. The jackpot is fairly modest at five thousand coins, or twelve hundred fifty dollars. There is a free practice mode for those who like to try out a game before betting on it.

The best thing about Shamrock Isle is now much of an all-encompassing playing experience it gives the person spinning the reels. This is one game that fully carries out the theme in all ways. The graphics are strong, and include animations – check out the wild Leprechaun when you trigger that feature! He’ll expand and dance over the reels! There are also great sound effects. The look, sounds, and gameplay of this Irish-themed pokey will have you shouting “Erin go braugh!”

The background of this slot game is a lush palette of golds and greens depicting the gnarled old tree at the end of a rainbow. The title logo is a similar, sumptuous green and gold, as well as all the buttons. The reels float over the background, which creates a gorgeous look. Poker symbols (letters and numbers) are the primary symbols, as well as thematic symbols like the claddaugh, shamrock, clovers, and unicorn. The leprechaun is both the jackpot symbol and the wild, which means that he can stand in for any other image on the reels in a winning combination with the exception of the scatter symbol. He doubles the payout of any combination he completes, so this is one elusive little man that you’ll definitely want to watch out for. The Celtic harp is the scatter symbol, on top of being an instrument capable of making beautiful music! If you get three or more of these on the screen during any one spin, you will trigger the free spin bonus. Three scatter harps will win you ten free spins, four harps will win you twenty free spins, and those fortunate enough to get five harps at once will win one hundred twenty-five free spins! All wins are tripled during this round! The leprechaun wild symbol is accessible only on reels one, two, and three during the free spin round, which means that it is not possible to win the jackpot during a free spin round.

The gold coin symbol is the bonus icon for this online slot title. There are no less than three different bonus games that you might end up playing during Shamrock Isle. When the bonus round starts, players are asked to pick one of three lucky clovers to select which game they will end up playing. The first possible game is the “road bowl,” during which you throw balls in the direction of a flag. The “coin grab” game will have you dragging coins from all over into your wallet before a leprechaun can snatch them up! These first two games both involve a certain element of skill, and that the player actually focus their attention on the action at hand to win anything. And the third game, “the skittles game,” involves throwing sticks at pins to reveal different prizes. This one doesn’t involve any skills on your part so much as how lucky you are on a particular day, since there isn’t a question of WHETHER you will actually hit anything! Any of these, however, offers great prizes!

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