Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play Slot Review
A leprechaun in a green coat sits above the reels beside a heaped mound of gold, a rainbow arcing over the sunlit meadow behind him. Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play takes the one promise every Irish-luck slot makes and strips it back to a single question: not whether the feature will hit, but which symbol will fill the screen when it does. That’s the whole game, and it’s a more honest design than it first looks.
Blueprint Gaming has built it on a 5×3 grid with ten winlines, and the paytable is quoted against the total bet rather than the line bet, which flatters the top prizes. The ornate gold frame sits in the grass like a propped plaque. It’s close kin to Wish Upon a Leprechaun Megaways, and a long way from the studio’s louder titles like Ted and The Goonies.
Base Game & Features
The reels run five across and three deep, with ten fixed winlines shown on a numbered diagram beside the play area. Wins pay left to right in the ordinary way, and only the highest combination on each line counts. It’s a layout anyone who has played a UK fruit machine from this era will know in seconds.
The symbol set splits into gems and royals. Four of the five gems pay from three of a kind, while the Green Gem starts paying only at four. Every value is a multiple of the total bet rather than the line bet, which matters on a ten-line game: a line-bet paytable would divide each figure by ten, so these numbers are the true multiple of what’s staked when a combination lands. Full values:
- Pot of Gold – 50x, 150x, 250x the total bet for three, four and five
- Red Gem – 30x, 100x, 200x
- Blue Gem – 50x and 150x for four and five
- Green Gem – 20x for four of a kind only
- A / K – 10x, 20x, 100x
- Q / J / 10 – 5x, 10x, 50x
A few things the list makes plain. The Blue Gem skips three-of-a-kind entirely and jumps straight to 50x at four, while the Green Gem pays nothing at all below four. Between them, the two middle gems sit closer to the Pot of Gold at the top of the ladder than to the royals at the bottom.
The royals share their tiers: A and K pay identically, as do Q, J and 10. That leaves three distinct royal payouts where a full set would have five, and puts every five-of-a-kind royal win between 50x and 100x of the total bet.
Reels can arrive showing full columns of a matching symbol – a stack of A’s, a run of red gems – which reads as a warm-up act for the game’s one screen-filling trick. Autoplay is on hand with a visible countdown, and the whole thing runs at the unhurried pace you’d expect of a ten-liner from this period.
Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play Bonus Features
Fortune Play
Fortune Play is the game’s one feature, and it’s a modifier rather than a bonus round. There’s no symbol to land and no meter to fill. Its full terms:
- It plays automatically – there’s no trigger combination and nothing to choose
- When it activates, all positions in view reveal the same symbol
- During the round, all wins pay adjacent rather than on the fixed winlines
Adjacent pays are the interesting half of that. In the base game a five-of-a-kind line win is one winline paying once; during Fortune Play, with every position showing the same symbol, line-based counting goes out the window and the screen pays as one block rather than as ten separate winlines. Whatever symbol fills the grid, every one of the fifteen positions is part of the same result.
Because the whole grid shows one symbol, the outcome is decided by which symbol that is rather than by how it lands. A full screen pays the same whether the reels stop left to right, right to left, or scattered across the frame – the adjacency rule makes position irrelevant, and the symbol choice is everything.
When it lands, the effect is striking: a full grid of red gems or a wall of A’s where the reels used to be. The base game’s matching columns are a smaller taste of the same idea, building towards the moment the whole frame locks into one symbol.
That’s the entire feature catalogue. No free spins, no pick rounds, no second screen – every win in the game either pays on the ten lines or arrives inside Fortune Play. Players coming from Blueprint’s later work will notice the silence more than anyone.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.4/10
This is a sitting-on-the-porch slot. You spin, the meadow glows, the rainbow stays put, and every so often the whole screen turns into one symbol. The reason to choose it over flashier Irish builds is exactly that: nothing to learn, nothing to manage, and one reveal that’s genuinely dramatic when the frame locks.
The best thing here is how cleanly the feature lands. Because the whole grid pays as one block, the reveal isn’t diluted across ten lines – it’s all or nothing, and the Pot of Gold screen is worth the wait. The worst thing is the long middle. Between reveals there’s just a ten-line grinder with shared royal tiers, and the game does nothing to hide it.
It’s for players who enjoy an unhurried spin and don’t need a bonus stack to feel entertained – the leprechaun crowd, happily. Players who want free spins, picks and second screens will find none of that here, and the meadow won’t change their minds.
Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play FAQs
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How many paylines does Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play have?
Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play has 10 fixed winlines, shown on a numbered diagram alongside the reels. Only the highest combination on each line counts. -
What is the grid size of Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play?
The game runs on a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with ten winlines running across them. -
When is Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play released?
The release date for Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play is 30 June 2015. -
Who makes Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play?
Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play is made by Blueprint Gaming. -
What is Fortune Play in Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play?
Fortune Play is the game’s sole feature modifier. It plays automatically, and when it activates, all positions in view reveal the same symbol. -
How do wins pay in Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play?
In the base game, wins pay on the ten fixed winlines, left to right. During Fortune Play, all wins pay adjacent instead, so a full screen of matching symbols pays as one block. -
What is the top paying symbol in Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play?
The Pot of Gold is the top payer, worth 50x, 150x and 250x the total bet for three, four and five of a kind respectively. -
Which symbols in Luck O’ The Irish Fortune Play pay only from four of a kind?
The Blue Gem and the Green Gem. The Blue Gem pays 50x and 150x the total bet for four and five, while the Green Gem pays 20x for four of a kind only.
