Magic Treasures Gold Enchanted Shamrock Slot Review

If you're a fan of classic Irish leprechaun themes, IGT's Enchanted Shamrock might catch your eye. Just a heads up for regular players, though: it will look familiar. It runs on the same template as the other Magic Treasures Gold games (the title bar still reads Magic Treasures Gold Emperor), and it shares the 5x4 board and left-to-right cash collect of Magic Treasures Gold Rogue.

Here's a breakdown of how it actually plays based on my experience:

One thing to note right away is that there's no "Bonus Buy" option, so you just have to spin and wait for the magic to happen. The bonuses trigger entirely at random when a special symbol lands. Sometimes one symbol is all it takes; other times you can see a bunch of them land over a session and get nothing. (The rules also let the leprechaun award a bonus at random on a spin with no special symbol.)

If you get the Free Spins, you start with 8. The rules say the bonus uses different reels, and in my round of 14 spins I counted more wilds and leprechauns and fewer low royals than in the base game. You can also retrigger +3 spins if a special symbol lands. My free spins ran 14 spins and paid 39.7x my bet.

The one frustrating part is the game's strict cash-collect rule. To win the cash balls on the screen, you must land collect symbols on at least the first three reels, starting from the left. If reel three is blank, it doesn't matter how much cash is sitting on reels four and five, you get nothing. It can be a bit of a tease.

On the brighter side, the Money Balls Bonus is pretty fun. A pot literally drops cash values directly onto the reels. I saw the Money Balls Bonus twice: the trigger spin dropped balls across reels 1 to 4 for about 11x my bet, and spin 6 of the free spins paid 8.3x. Both times the balls covered the first three reels, so the collect paid.

There's also a classic Pick Game where you match three coins to win fixed jackpots. The Grand is 2,000x your bet, and the Mini, Minor and Maxi can each carry a multiplier of up to x9, though the pick game never came up in my session.

If you're familiar with the Magic Treasures Gold family, Enchanted Shamrock is a bit of a mixed bag. Like Rogue, it plays on a 5x4 board and tops its pick game with a 2,000x Grand. Rogue publishes a fairly low RTP (Return to Player) of 92.02%, while this leprechaun version publishes no RTP or max win at all, so there's no telling whether it sits in that same ballpark.

If you want more bang for your buck, Magic Treasures Hold & Win Panther is the better game in the series. It publishes a 2,500x max win and a 95.01% RTP, against Rogue's 2,000x and 92.02%, and its main bonus is a pick between free spins and a hold-and-win round.

Enchanted Shamrock is basically the base-model game wearing a fun green hat. It's not breaking any new ground, and that left-to-right collect rule can be a little annoying when the third reel misses. But if you love a good Irish theme, enjoy random surprise bonuses, and don't mind a simpler, old-school style of play, it's still worth a few spins!