Leprechaun's Luck: Cash Collect: Megaways Slot by Playtech

Rolling green hills, a double rainbow arcing over the reels, Celtic knotwork in gold running down the sides. It's the standard Irish set dressing, and the grinning red-bearded leprechaun on the first reel, the frothing beer mug and the purple diamond all serve as high symbols, with a clover-and-rainbow Wild covering for them. What keeps the board moving is the Megaways engine. Each reel carries a different height, so the ways to win swing from a few thousand up past 200,000 from one spin to the next. Winning symbols clear away and new ones tumble in to fill the gaps, stretching a single paid spin for as long as fresh combinations keep dropping.

Sitting over that is the coin layer. Gold coins land stamped with cash values, small 2.50 discs up to 75.00 and beyond, and they do nothing on their own. A Cash Collect symbol is what pays them, sweeping every coin value on screen into one total the moment it shows up. Blue orbs marked +3, +4, +5 and +7 add straight onto that total before it lands, so a crowded board gathered under two or three orbs is where the coin side actually earns its place.

The same collection feeds four jackpots. Mini pays 20x, Minor 50x, Major 200x, and the Grand sits at the top at 500x, all won by piling up coin value rather than through a wheel or a pick round. There's no buy button to fast-track any of it. The one lever you get is an optional Extra Bet that raises your stake for more frequent feature hits.

Free spins are where this pulls away from the rest of the Cash Collect line. Scatters trigger a round with a Moving Cash Collect, where instead of waiting for a collector to turn up, one walks across the reels by itself each spin, hoovering up coins as it travels. It's a neat answer to the usual frustration with these games, the spins where a board packed with coins pays nothing because no collector ever landed.