Irish Frenzy Slot Review
Irish Frenzy is a jackpot game that tells you its prizes before you’ve won them. Every pot of gold on the reels carries its cash value printed on its face, from 2x up to 20x the bet, and in a market where most slots bury their payouts in a paytable screen, that transparency is the whole personality of the thing.
Blueprint Gaming have built a bright, glossy cartoon storybook of a slot on a 5×4 grid, running at 96.12% RTP as a jackpot game, and the pots of gold carrying cash values do more work here than any leprechaun mascot could. It sits in familiar company alongside Wish Upon a Leprechaun Megaways and Ted in the Blueprint Gaming catalogue.
Base Game & Features
The reels are set in a frame stamped with four-leaf clovers, with the meadow’s big tree spilling its canopy over the top corner. Below the game, a solid green band carries row after row of clovers. It’s cheerful rather than subtle, and every corner of the artwork commits to it.
The 5×4 grid gives Irish Frenzy four rows of symbols to fill. Five reels, four rows, and more clover per square inch than most slots manage in an entire backdrop. The layout is a touch taller than the usual 5×3, which gives the artwork room to breathe and puts more symbols in play on every spin.
When a spin run comes to its end, the game says so plainly: a Game Over message closes the sequence, with no win attached when nothing has landed. It’s a small touch of clarity in a game that’s otherwise all colour, and it means the state of play is never ambiguous.
Pots of Gold
The cash-carrying pots are the game’s signature sight on the reels. Each one shows its value on the pot itself, so the size of a prize is readable at a glance as the reels settle. They’re the clearest sign of where this game’s payouts are concentrated, and the values observed in play, as multiples of the bet, run as follows:
- Pot of gold: 20x
- Pot of gold: 15x
- Pot of gold: 10x
- Pot of gold: 5x
- Pot of gold: 2x
The spread matters more than any single figure. A 20x pot is worth ten times a 2x one, so which pots land is doing as much work as how many. Together with the scatter, they’re the two symbols doing anything out of the ordinary on this board.
Scatter Symbols
The scatter is a pot-and-rainbow icon, and it appears on the reels in its own right. No substitution rule is attached to it, so its job is purely to work as the route into the game’s feature round. That’s the standard arrangement, and Irish Frenzy doesn’t complicate it.
Autoplay
The autoplay system is where the jackpot nature of the game shows itself most clearly. Rather than a bare spin counter, it carries session safeguards:
- Set number of plays before the session starts
- Autoplay session loss limit
- Autoplay session single win limit
- Autoplay disabled on a jackpot win
That last one is the interesting entry. Autoplay switches itself off the moment a jackpot lands rather than carrying on through it, which tells you the game treats the jackpot as an event worth stopping for. The loss and single win limits are guardrails set before the run begins, capping either how much a session can give up or how much a single spin can hand back before everything halts. Between them, an autoplay session is bounded on both sides before a single reel turns.
Irish Frenzy Free Spins Frenzy
The named feature of the game is Free Spins Frenzy, and it’s offered in two ways. The scatter route is the traditional one, with scatter symbols building towards the round during normal play. The other route is a purchase, and it isn’t tucked away in a menu.
Triggering the Round
Land scatters during normal play and the route to Free Spins Frenzy opens through them. Scatters were observed on the first two reels during play, which fits the pattern of a symbol that builds towards something rather than paying on its own. The scatter carries no substitution rule, so it stands apart from everything else on the board.
Buying Free Spins Frenzy
The purchase route is the more direct one. A feature box sits in the base game, marked and priced:
- Free Spins Frenzy: 70x the bet to buy outright
That’s a weighty price for a single purchase, and it’s the one number a buyer needs before pressing anything. Once bought, the round runs as the scatter-triggered version does. The button sits in the base game rather than behind a menu, so it’s always visible rather than hidden.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.9/10
Playing this one is a sunny, unhurried spin through the same meadow Irish slots have been mowing for years, and the reason to choose it is simple: you can see what the pots pay while they’re still turning. Nothing here asks you to work anything out.
That openness is the strength. The weakness is the feature buy at 70x the bet, which is a lot of stake to put behind a round the game is otherwise happy to give away for free through scatters. It’s the one number here that feels like it’s counting on your impatience.
This is a game for players who like the old Irish formula done warmly and without pretence, and for anyone who enjoys watching a jackpot roll around without treating it as a promise. Anyone hunting intricate feature stacks will find the meadow a bit quiet. The rest can settle in under the oak and let the clover do its work.
Irish Frenzy FAQs
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What is the RTP of Irish Frenzy?
The RTP is 96.12%, the game’s expected return over the long run. -
What is the grid size of Irish Frenzy?
Irish Frenzy runs on a 5×4 grid, giving four rows of symbols across five reels. -
Can you buy the bonus on Irish Frenzy?
Yes. The Free Spins Frenzy feature can be bought for 70x the bet via a press-to-buy box in the base game, or reached the traditional way through scatter symbols. -
When is Irish Frenzy released?
Irish Frenzy’s release date is 15 April 2019. -
Who makes Irish Frenzy?
Irish Frenzy is made by Blueprint Gaming, the studio behind titles like Wish Upon a Leprechaun Megaways and Ted. -
What do the scatter symbols do in Irish Frenzy?
The scatter is a pot-and-rainbow icon that acts as the route into the Free Spins Frenzy round. It doesn’t substitute for other symbols, so its only job is triggering the feature. -
Does autoplay stop on a jackpot win in Irish Frenzy?
Yes. Autoplay switches itself off the moment a jackpot win lands, rather than continuing through it. Autoplay sessions can also be limited by a session loss limit and a single win limit. -
What are the pots of gold worth in Irish Frenzy?
The pots of gold carry printed cash values, with amounts ranging from 2x up to 20x the bet observed on the reels. Each pot shows its value on its face, so the prize is readable at a glance.
