3 Lucky Rainbows Slot Review
Three fat pots of gold sit perched above the reels in a hazy Irish glade, each with a rainbow pouring into its mouth from off the top of the screen, and they matter more than the reels do. That’s the honest way to describe 3 Lucky Rainbows: SpinPlay Games have built a slot where almost nothing of consequence happens in the spinning itself, and everything rides on the coins that drift up into those pots.
The same three pots anchor Action Boost 3 Lucky Rainbows, our earlier look at this family; here they work without the Action Boost trimmings, and the glade in between is the game. The numbers are tidy: 96.47% RTP, medium volatility, a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, stakes from 0.20 to 50.00 a spin, and a hit rate of roughly one spin in three.
Base Game & Features
This is a five-reel, four-row slot on a fixed 20 paylines. Wins run left to right from the first reel, only the highest combination counts on each line, and the total payout is the sum of every line win on the spin. Straightforward stuff, and the game never complicates it.
The wild is the pot of gold itself, stacked on all reels, substituting for everything except the coins, and paying for its own combinations. Stacked wilds on a four-row grid means full wild reels turn up often enough to matter in the base game, and they’re the main reason a plain spin can pay anything worth counting.
All paytable values are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, which flatters them slightly at a glance:
- Pot of Gold (Wild): 1x, 2x and 10x for 3, 4 or 5 of a kind
- Clover: 0.5x, 1x and 5x
- Beer Mug and Green Shoe: 0.25x, 0.5x and 2.5x
- Harp and Violin: 0.25x, 0.5x and 2x
It’s a modest board, and the reels alone are never going to carry a session. The real targets sit above them, where a ladder of four jackpots is displayed alongside the pots:
- MINI: 10x the stake
- MINOR: 50x the stake
- MAJOR: 500x the stake
- MEGA: 5,000x the stake
The 5,000x MEGA pot is the game’s ceiling, and it’s the number everything else points towards. Nothing on the reels comes close to it on its own. Only the bonus rounds give a spin a route to the top of the ladder.
3 Lucky Rainbows Pot of Gold Free Spins
How the Pots Fill
Whenever one or more Lucky Coins appear on a spin, there’s a chance the feature triggers. Each coin collects into the pot of the same colour above the reels: green to green, red to red, purple to purple. The animation doesn’t influence anything; the collection does.
The combination of coins collected at the moment of triggering decides which Pot of Gold Upgrades the free spins run with. More than one colour can fire at once, and the bet multiplier carries over from the triggering spin. The coins themselves pay nothing, so every landing is purely a step towards the feature.
Green Pot of Gold Upgrade
The green round awards five free spins and expands the game to 40 paylines, with every reel growing to a height of six symbol positions. Its trick is the nudge: any reel showing a wild gets pushed until every position on that reel is wild, and all wins pay out after the nudges land.
A stacked-wild reel set on a taller grid is where this round’s money lives. Doubling the payline count matters too, because those nudged wild reels can complete combinations across lines the base game doesn’t have.
Red Pot of Gold Upgrade
Red coins open the jackpot round, and it’s the most involved of the three. Ten free spins are awarded, and every Gold Lucky Coin that lands during them pays out a letter or a bonus credit prize equal to the current bet. The letters spell out the jackpots, colour-coded by tier:
- Red M, E, G, A for the MEGA jackpot
- Purple M, A, J, O, R for the MAJOR jackpot
- Blue M, I, N, O, R for the MINOR jackpot
- Green M, I, N, I for the MINI jackpot
Collect every letter of a word and that jackpot pays, then the letters for it reset. A long round can take more than one shot at the same prize, which is the sharpest detail in the whole feature set: a single good set of spins can land the MEGA pot and then start spelling it again.
Purple Pot of Gold Upgrade
The purple round is the straightforward money one. Five free spins play out with a random multiplier of 2, 3 or 5 applied to each, and line wins and credit prizes both pick up the multiplier. Every spin gets its own draw, so the boost changes from spin to spin rather than locking in for the round.
Gold Lucky Coins landing during the round each award one free spin, two free spins or a bonus credit prize equal to the current bet, so the round can grow well past its starting count of five.
Multiple Upgrades
Upgrades triggered on the same base spin all play together in one free-spins round. If a Red upgrade is among them, ten free spins are awarded; otherwise it’s five. The purple multiplier applies to line wins and credit prizes across the whole round, but never to jackpots.
Stacking all three is the rare outcome, and it’s the best spin this game produces: nudged wild reels and multiplier-boosted line wins running alongside a shot at every letter on the ladder.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing this is long stretches of watching clover and sunlight while three pots slowly fill, and that patience is rewarded, eventually, with a round that behaves nothing like the game underneath it. Choose it for the pots. The red round is the best thing here: a completed word resets instead of closing, so one good stretch of spins can pay the same jackpot twice.
What lets it down is the spinning itself. The paytable tops out at a fraction of the stake per line, so the reels never become interesting; the pots do all the work and the MEGA ladder is the only number in the game worth chasing.
If you enjoy watching a system build towards something, and jackpot hunting is your thing, the glade is a pleasant place to wait. If you want each spin to carry its own weight, the reels here will feel quiet and the pots slow to fill, and the rainbow won’t change your mind.
3 Lucky Rainbows FAQs
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How do you trigger the Pot of Gold Free Spins in 3 Lucky Rainbows?
Lucky Coins landing on a spin each collect into the pot of the matching colour above the reels, and there’s a chance the feature fires off the back of that. Whichever coins have collected when it does decides which Pot of Gold Upgrades the free spins run with. -
What does the Green Pot of Gold Upgrade do?
It awards five free spins on 40 paylines, with all reels growing to six symbol positions high. Any reel showing a wild is nudged until the entire reel is wild, and wins pay after the nudges. -
What does the Red Pot of Gold Upgrade award?
Ten free spins, during which every Gold Lucky Coin awards a letter or a bonus credit prize equal to the current bet. Letters spell out MEGA, MAJOR, MINOR or MINI; collect a full word and that jackpot pays, then the letters reset. -
What does the Purple Pot of Gold Upgrade award?
The purple pot gives five free spins, and every one of them carries a random 2x, 3x or 5x boost to line wins and credit prizes. Gold Lucky Coins landing in the round add one or two extra spins, or pay a credit prize worth the current bet. -
What is the RTP of 3 Lucky Rainbows?
96.47%. That’s the total expected return including the jackpot contribution. -
Is 3 Lucky Rainbows high volatility?
No, it’s a medium volatility game. The hit rate is 33.71%, so roughly one spin in three returns something. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on 3 Lucky Rainbows?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin. -
When is 3 Lucky Rainbows released?
3 Lucky Rainbows’ release date is 25 October 2022.
