Charms And Treasures Slot Review
A grinning leprechaun leans on his cauldron at the edge of a sunny meadow, a rainbow arcing over his shoulder and a cobblestone path winding towards an ornate gold reel frame. Charms And Treasures wears the most familiar picture in Irish slots without a single new brushstroke, and it doesn’t apologise for that.
The bet here is that one well-built round beats a menu of thin ones: everything the game has to offer lives in a free spins mode that rebuilds the middle of the grid into something much bigger than the base game suggests. It comes from Betsoft, a studio whose catalogue stretches from 3 Pots of Venice to The Aristocrats and the heist caper Midnight Bandits.
Charms And Treasures runs on a 5×3 grid with 50 fixed paylines, high volatility and an RTP of 95.8%. Whether the meadow is worth the walk is what follows.
Base Game and Symbols
The base game pays left to right across those 50 lines, with only the highest combination on each line counting and wins on different lines added together. Payouts scale with the selected bet. It’s a conventional setup, and the reels sit inside an ornate gold frame trimmed with vines and clover leaves that keeps the storybook look going while you wait for the scatters to land.
Scatters appear on reels two, three and four only, which narrows the trigger zone to the middle of the grid. The wild substitutes for everything except the scatter, lands on any reel and can arrive stacked. It’s also the joint-richest symbol on the grid, matching the Pot of Gold line for line, so a wild win pays the same as the best symbol in the game.
Symbol values are multiples of the total bet, and they run as follows:
- Pot of Gold: five pays 20x, four pays 4x, three pays 1x, two pays 0.4x
- Four Leaf Clover: five pays 8x, four pays 2x, three pays 0.4x, two pays 0.2x
- Star, 7 and Moon: five pays 2x, four pays 0.4x, three pays 0.2x
- Heart and Balloon: five pays 0.6x, four pays 0.28x, three pays 0.12x
- Horseshoe and Cherries: five pays 0.4x, four pays 0.2x, three pays 0.08x
That’s a compressed ladder. The step from a five-of-a-kind top symbol down to the next tier is steep, and the lower half of the table pays fractions of your stake, so base game wins are mostly small change between feature triggers. Only the two premium symbols pay anything at all for a pair, and even then it’s less than half your stake back.
The mid-tier tells its own story. Star, 7 and Moon all share one row, as do Heart and Balloon, so six of the game’s paying symbols occupy just two tiers. Line fills from that crowd keep the reels ticking over without ever threatening a meaningful balance swing.
Stacked wilds are the one wrinkle worth watching. A full stack of them on a middle reel can line up several of the 50 paylines at once, which is where the bigger base game wins come from. Between that and the narrowed scatter zone, the middle three reels do most of the work in this game long before the bonus arrives.
Free Spins with Colossal Symbols
Three scatters trigger eight free spins, and the round is played at the bet of the triggering spin. That’s the whole entry requirement. Everything the round does flows from four rules:
- Reels two, three and four combine into a single large centre reel
- The large reel spins up Colossal Symbols, which always land as whole symbols, never split across the join
- The game pays both left to right and right to left, including five-of-a-kind wins
- While the round is active, the scatter appears on the large centre reel only, and each Colossal Scatter awards three additional free spins
Once inside, the character of the game changes. The merged reel dominates the screen, and oversized symbols landing whole on it cover what would normally be three separate reel positions. The wild can arrive colossal, and so can the scatter, so a single oversized icon can carry a lot of weight.
Two-way pays do the real mechanical work. A colossal symbol sitting in the middle of the grid can complete wins reading left to right and right to left on the same spin, which effectively doubles the directions a connection can run.
The retrigger is the round’s engine. Each Colossal Scatter that lands on the large reel adds three spins on the spot, and there’s no cap on how many times that can happen. A run of colossal scatters can keep the round alive well past its starting eight.
Because the scatter only appears on the merged reel during the feature, every retrigger is a big, visible event rather than a small symbol slipping past. Free spins play out at the triggering bet throughout, so any spins added by a Colossal Scatter are worth exactly the same as the original eight. There’s no bet escalation and no separate bonus mode to choose; the round you enter on spin one is the round you stay in until the counter runs dry.
Buy Feature
If waiting on three scatters doesn’t appeal, the buy feature skips the queue. It costs 92.50 and buys exactly what the natural trigger awards: eight free spins with the colossal centre reel in play from the first spin. There’s no enhanced version and no tiered menu, one price and one product.
What you’re buying is the round the whole game is built around, at the same settings a natural trigger would give you. High volatility sits behind every spin either way; the buy simply decides when the colossal reel starts turning.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing Charms And Treasures is mostly sitting in a very pretty meadow, waiting for the leprechaun to hand over the key. The reason to choose it is that when he does, the round you get is better built than the one the scenery promised: the colossal centre reel with two-way pays and a retrigger that adds three spins at a time gives it genuine staying power, and a colossal wild filling the middle while wins count from both directions is the best moment this format produces.
The weakness is everything around that round. The symbol ladder is flat, the mid-tiers share rows, and there’s nothing happening between triggers but small change. Eight spins is also a modest starting hand for a game this volatile; without an early colossal scatter, the round can be over almost as soon as it starts.
This is one for players who’d rather have a single bonus round done properly than a scatter of half-hearted extras, and who don’t mind a quiet, patient road to reach it. If that sounds like your kind of meadow, the treasure at the end of it is real enough.
Charms And Treasures FAQs
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What is the RTP of Charms And Treasures?
Charms And Treasures runs at an RTP of 95.8%, which sits around the middle of the range for a high volatility slot. -
Is Charms And Treasures high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility game, so wins tend to be less frequent and the free spins round carries most of the potential. -
How many paylines does Charms And Treasures have?
The game has 50 fixed paylines on a 5×3 grid. In the base game it pays left to right only; during free spins it pays both ways. -
How do you trigger free spins in Charms And Treasures?
Three scatter symbols on reels two, three and four trigger eight free spins. During the round, each Colossal Scatter symbol that lands on the large centre reel awards three additional spins. -
What do Colossal Symbols do in Charms And Treasures?
During free spins, reels two, three and four merge into one large centre reel that spins up oversized Colossal Symbols. These always land as whole symbols, and the wild can appear colossal too. Because the game pays both left to right and right to left in this mode, a single colossal symbol can complete wins in both directions. -
Can you buy the bonus on Charms And Treasures?
Yes. The Buy Feature costs 92.50 and awards eight free spins, the same round the natural three-scatter trigger gives you. -
Can free spins be retriggered in Charms And Treasures?
Yes. While free spins are active, the scatter appears on the large centre reel only, and each Colossal Scatter symbol that lands awards three additional free spins. The round can keep retriggering with no limit. -
Who makes Charms And Treasures?
Charms And Treasures is made by Betsoft.
