Paddys Lucky Forest Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Paddys Lucky Forest Review

Real Time Gaming (better known as RTG) is an industry veteran for sure, but their dated visual style has hardly kept up with what’s on offer in modern video slots these days. Paddy's Lucky Forest might come with a somewhat unusual reel setup, but everything else about this game is ordinary, dull and uninspired.

The math model is unimpressive too, offering highly volatile gameplay with measly potential returns of only 1,440x. Granted, this is the single spin max win, so larger total wins are possible in the bonus round. We also don’t like that landing 3 scatters will only sometimes produce the free spins feature, as you can end up with a smaller cash win up to 50x instead. On the flipside, you will sometimes get an extra pick, which could end up giving you both.

Paddy's Lucky Forest Reel Screen

Paddy's Lucky Forest Features

The shamrock wild steps in for all regular pay symbols, like wilds usually do. However, when it lands on the 3 middle reels, it triggers the Slippery Wild feature. The wild will then move one step down per new spin until it drops off the bottom position.

You trigger the Pick Bonus feature whenever you land 3 pot of gold scatters on the 3 middle reels. You initially get to pick 1 of 3 pots of gold, and this will reveal an instant cash prize up to 50x, or up to 15 free spins.

Sometimes you will be awarded a second pick, but not always.

The Free Spins round can be retriggered with 10 extra spins during the feature, but you will not get a second go at the Pick’em game. During the bonus round, when you trigger the Slippery Wild feature, the spins that follow will not be subtracted from your tally as long as a slippery wild is present on the reels.

Finally, you can win 1 of the 3 progressive jackpots at any time during base game play. In fact, you can win all 3 of them at the same time with maximum luck. However, we are not talking about huge life-changing jackpot prizes in any instance.

The 200 Spins Paddy's Lucky Forest Experience

The Slippery Wild helped us to a smaller base game win initially, but nothing much happened for us in the base game really. We trigger the bonus round at 1:25 into the 3-minute highlights video, and fireflies light up the enchanted night forest.

A double set of slippery wilds helped us out here too, and you can see how we fared by hitting the play button.

Review Summary

The veterans at RTG have created a pretty standard Irish Luck-themed title with Paddy's Lucky Forest, and the most unusual thing about this game is the 3-4-5-4-3 reel setup. Add a couple more reel positions to the middle reel, and it would look like the game is flipping you the finger. That’s pretty much what it’s doing anyway, with a 1,440x potential combined with high volatility.

The RTP is not disclosed as usual from this developer, but rumor has it that all their slots come with a default RTP of 95 % (i.e. a full 1 % below what's considered the video slot norm). The base game is dull, and the slippery wilds are hardly all that helpful. We don’t see any reason players would want to waste their hard-earned time and money on this game, not least since you can pick and choose from hundreds of better alternatives.

Pros

• Slippery Wild feature on 3 middle reels
• Bonus round w/ slippery wild extra spins
• Pick’em game w/ cash prizes up to 50x
• 3 smaller progressive jackpots

Cons

• Unoriginal game and below average RTP
• High volatility combined with 1,440x max win

If you enjoy Paddy's Lucky Forest you should also try:

Wild Wild Riches - is a Pragmatic Play title that also comes with an unorthodox reel setup of 3-3-4-4-4. The 96.77 % RTP is well above average, and you can win up to 4,608x on a single spin. You can look forward to a Money Collect feature with up to 5x multipliers, and you can win 3 fixed jackpots up to 500x your stake.

Rainbow Riches - is the most popular Irish Luck-themed slot ever, and it’s Barcrest’s online version of their highly successful physical slot machine.

The stats are not all that perhaps, but you get 3 iconic bonus games where you can win up to 500x your stake.

9 Pots of Gold - is basically an Irish Luck reskin of the popular 9 Masks of Fire, and the Gameburger title comes with a bonus round with up to 3x multipliers. You can also win up to 2,000x your stake at any time, via the Pot Pays scatter win feature.

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