Gold O Plenty Slot Review
A rainbow arcs over a sunlit Irish meadow, clover crowding the edges of the reels, toadstools and wildflowers at the foot of the screen. The interesting argument in Gold O Plenty is that the meadow barely matters: nearly everything this game can pay lives above the reels, in five spaces the base spin never touches. That’s a bold way to build a 20-line game, and it works only as long as the reel-top features keep coming.
High 5 Games built this one, and it sits alongside Rainbow Trinkets and the drum-beating 88 Drums in a catalogue that runs to Fugitive Gold and beyond. The game itself runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, 96.0% RTP and high volatility.
The Meadow and the Paytable
The base game is a straightforward line-payer. Wins need matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left, across one of the 20 fixed lines, and only the highest combination on each line is paid. Line wins multiply by the bet per line. It’s a familiar structure, and the symbols don’t stretch it.
The leprechaun leads the regular pays, with the wild actually out-ranking him at the top end. The values per symbol:
- Wild – 20 for three, 40 for four, 200 for five
- Leprechaun – 15 for three, 30 for four, 100 for five
- Green Hat – 10 for three, 20 for four, 50 for five
- Harp – 10 for three, 20 for four, 50 for five
- A, K, Q and J – 2 for three, 5 for four, 10 for five
Those are credit values, shown without any bet modifiers applied. The wild substitutes for everything except the cloud, chest, pot, bag and bonus symbols, and there’s a second wild-type cloud that stands in for all but the same shortlist.
What that paytable amounts to is a game where the five-of-a-kind money lives almost entirely in the top two symbols. Five royals returns ten credits, which isn’t a win you’ll feel. Five wilds at 200 is the richest line the grid can produce on its own, and everything beyond that has to come from above the reels.
What Sits Above the Reels
Five spaces sit above the reels, one per reel, and each holds a special feature ready to fire. When you first bet at a given stake, all five spaces fill with chest symbols worth twice the total bet each, and any feature progress you earn applies only at that stake level. Change your stake and you’re building a fresh set.
A cloud is what sets them off, and the reel-top symbols break down like this:
- Rainbow cloud – lands anywhere on the reels and fires the feature above that reel
- Pot-style wild – turns every position on the reel directly below it wild
- Numbered wild – converts between three and 20 random positions across the grid to wild
- Multiplier bag – multiplies all credits won on the current bet by x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10
- Pink coin – awards the Free Games Bonus
- Clover – awards the Pick Bonus
Clouds can multiply, too. If at least one lands, there’s a random chance that one or two extra clouds get added to other reels before the features award, capped at one cloud per reel. A single cloud can therefore become three, firing the features above three different reels on one spin.
Wild Transforms
Two of the reel-top symbols convert the grid below them. The pot-style wild transforms every position on the reel directly beneath it into a wild. The second, a numbered wild symbol carrying a value between three and 20, converts that many random positions across all five reels.
Wins aren’t counted until every transformed wild has been placed, so a single transform can turn a dead spin into a full line of leprechauns. Both wild types stand in for all the paying symbols. Where the two differ is coverage: the pot is guaranteed a full reel, while the numbered wild trades certainty of position for reach across the whole grid.
Credit Multiplier Bags
The bag symbol carries one of five multiplier values and applies it to every credit won on the current bet. Land more than one and their values sum before applying, so a x2 and a x10 together pay x12 on everything. Better still, anything won during the Free Games Bonus and Pick Bonus gets multiplied too, once those rounds finish.
That timing detail matters more than it first appears. A bag collected during a bonus round doesn’t touch the spins as they play out; it waits, then lands on the total once the round closes. A strong free games session with a x10 waiting above the reels is effectively two results stacked on top of each other.
Free Games Bonus
Pink coin symbols open the Free Games Bonus, and the coin’s face value is the number of spins you get. When more than one coin lands, the amounts sum, so three coins showing five, ten and five would start the round on twenty games. It’s a refreshing change from the usual three-scatter ritual, because the coin values decide how long the round runs.
There’s a second route in as well. During the base game, coins appearing in the spaces above any cloud start the bonus directly, again awarding the sum of all the amounts shown. The free games themselves run with the same reel-top features active, which is where the multiplier bag’s after-bonus multiplication starts to matter.
Pick Bonus
The clover symbol opens the Pick Bonus, and the amount shown on the clover sets the number of lives you take into it. Land more than one clover and each Pick Bonus plays out in sequence, one after another. It’s the simplest route into the game’s extras, and the only one that doesn’t route through the reel-top spaces.
Lives are the whole structure of the round: every pick carries on until the lives run out, so a clover showing a high amount buys a longer run at whatever the picking field holds. Two clovers on the same spin simply means playing that sequence twice with separate life counts.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing this is really a game of two halves: a meadow that pays modestly and a strip of sky above it that decides whether the session amounts to anything. The reason to sit down at it at all is that sky, watching clouds chain into wilds and multipliers while the countryside below mostly idles. It’s an unusual split, and an appealing one while it’s paying.
The multiplier bag is the strongest idea here. Because it lands on the total after a bonus closes rather than during it, a good free games run gets doubled, trebled or better without you doing anything, and that single piece of timing gives the rounds a second bite. Against that, the base paytable is genuinely lean: royals pay two credits for three, and high volatility means the gaps between cloud drops can run long.
For players who like a board that builds and rewards patience, this meadow is worth the wander. Those who want their wins from the reels themselves, spin after spin, will find the grass greener elsewhere.
Gold O Plenty FAQs
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How do you trigger the Free Games Bonus in Gold O Plenty?
Pink coin symbols award the Free Games Bonus, with the number of free games equal to the amount shown on the coin. If more than one coin lands, the amounts are added together. Coins appearing above a cloud symbol during the base game also start the bonus. -
What does the rainbow cloud symbol do?
A cloud fires the special feature sitting above the reel it lands on, from any position. There’s also a random chance that one or two extra clouds get added to other reels first, capped at one per reel. -
How does the multiplier bag work?
The bag carries a multiplier of x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10 and boosts every credit won on the current bet. Multiple bags sum their values, and wins from the Free Games Bonus and Pick Bonus are boosted after those rounds finish. -
What does the clover symbol award?
The clover symbol awards the Pick Bonus, and the number of pick bonus lives equals the amount shown on that symbol. If more than one is awarded, each Pick Bonus is played in sequence. -
What is the RTP of Gold O Plenty?
The theoretical return to player is 96.0%. -
Is Gold O Plenty high volatility?
Yes, Gold O Plenty is a high volatility game, so wins can be infrequent relative to lower volatility slots. -
How many paylines does Gold O Plenty have?
Gold O Plenty has 20 paylines, with wins requiring matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel. Only the highest win on each line is paid. -
Who makes Gold O Plenty?
Gold O Plenty is made by High 5 Games, and you’ll find it wherever their titles are stocked.
