Gaelic Luck Slot by Playtech

The bonus here hands you the dials instead of drawing them for you. Three or more rainbow-arc Gaelic Luck logos open the Lucky Lasses round, and before a single reel turns you make two picks. First you choose how many free spins to play, up to twenty. Then you choose a multiplier, up to 10x. Whatever you land on sticks for the entire run, boosting every win the free spins produce. So the round is a gamble you set yourself: a fistful of spins at a low multiplier, or a short burst at 10x, with the ceiling landing at 1,000x your stake if the reels cooperate. It's a proper two-stage pick, and how it pays depends as much on your nerve as on the spins.

The base game leans on the golden pot of gold. It's the wild, standing in for the three lasses and the card royals, and it's also the fattest symbol on the paytable in its own right, so a line of pots is the biggest single hit outside the bonus. It pays from just two matching, which most symbols won't, meaning the wild connects far more often than a top symbol usually does. The clover-in-a-horseshoe scatter is the second special, paying from anywhere on the grid and helping start the feature.

The look is cheerful Emerald Isle kitsch. Reels sit on a cream parchment panel over a deep green field dusted with soft shamrock shapes, columns of gemstone four-leaf clovers in red, gold, green and purple running down both edges, and a gold script logo arching over the top. The three Lucky Lasses carry the premium end: a green-dressed redhead in a leprechaun hat, a blue-dressed blonde, a brunette in red, all sitting above shiny green-and-gold A, K, Q, J and 10. Older Playtech, no buy option, no jackpot, just the reels and the pick you make when the rainbows land.