Lucky Mouse

Lucky Mouse Slot Review

A grinning mouse in a red-and-gold jacket sits on the roof of a pagoda, cradling a gold ingot while blossom drifts through an orchard below. That’s Lucky Mouse’s first impression, and it’s a fitting one, because this is a game that puts all its fortune in one symbol’s paws. Pragmatic Play have built a compact 3×3, ten-payline game at 96.57% RTP with medium volatility, and instead of a bonus round they’ve pushed everything through the wild symbol, which carries multipliers of up to x5 and can flood the screen in numbers. It plays far simpler than 5 Lions Megaways or Chests of Cai Shen, and whether one feature can carry a whole game is the question this one has to answer.

Base Game & Features

Three reels, three rows, ten fixed paylines. Stakes run from 0.10 to 250.00 per spin, and only the highest win on each payline counts. Wins pay left to right, as they do almost everywhere, and there’s nothing unusual about the payline mechanics themselves.

The symbol set sticks to the theme throughout. There are no card royals here at all, which is a nice touch for a game this size. Every paying symbol is drawn from the New Year celebration, and the paytable is short enough to read in one glance:

• Red Gold Ingot – three pays 10x your stake
• Red Pouch – three pays 5x
• Drum – three pays 1x
• Firecrackers – three pays 0.5x
• Orange/Tangerine – three pays 0.3x
• Peanuts – three pays 0.2x

That’s the whole ladder. On a 3×3 grid a three-of-a-kind is the only combination there is, so every symbol carries exactly one value. The gap between the top and the bottom is steep: the drum pays a tenth of what the ingot does, and the peanuts pay a fiftieth.

Because the values are what they are, the base game lives on the ingot and the pouch. A drum line at 1x keeps a session ticking over without moving it anywhere, and the three symbols below it barely register as wins at all. Everything above that needs help from the wild, which is where the game stops being simple.

The wild substitutes for every paying symbol and appears on all reels. Substitution is only half of its job. The other half is the multiplier system, which is what the next section covers.

Lucky Mouse Bonus Features

The wild carries a random multiplier each time it lands, and that multiplier follows the wild into every win it helps form. The full rules are compact enough to list:

• Each wild can carry a random multiplier of x2, x3, x4 or x5
• The multiplier applies to every winning combination that passes through that wild
• If more than one wild forms part of the same win, their multipliers add together
• Wilds can appear on all reels
• At random, on any spin, up to ten wilds can be added to the screen in random positions

The addition rule is the one worth dwelling on. Two wilds in the same line don’t multiply each other, they add: an x3 and an x4 together make x7, and an x5 beside an x5 makes x10. On a ten-line grid, one well-placed wild can also sit in several winning lines at once, boosting all of them.

Then there’s the second layer. At random, on any spin, up to ten wilds can be dropped into random positions. Nine positions make up the whole grid, so ten is enough to cover every spot and then some.

When that trigger fires, the screen fills with multiplied wilds and every payline runs through them. A full board of x2s alone would double every line it completes, and each wild that lands at x5 doubles that again. It’s the one moment in Lucky Mouse where the compact grid works in the game’s favour rather than against it: nine positions is a small enough canvas for ten wilds to genuinely transform it.

That’s the ceiling of the format, and it’s a design choice with consequences. There’s no free spins round, no hold-and-win, no bonus buy to break the rhythm up. The paytable stops at 10x before multipliers, so the random wild dump is the only route to a genuinely large win, and everything in between is small-change line hits.

It’s worth being clear about what that means in practice. A game with one feature has one speed, and the space between wild drops is filled entirely by the base paytable. The drum, firecrackers, orange and peanut lines exist to keep the balance ticking, not to create moments of their own.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7/10

This is a game you spin for one reason: the wilds. Everything else on that festive little grid is scenery between the moments where multiplied wilds stack up and the whole board pays at once, and to its credit the game knows that and doesn’t pad around it.

Its strength is that the one feature really is enough. Adding multipliers instead of multiplying them is a generous piece of design, and on nine positions a cluster of wilds can do things a bigger grid couldn’t. Its weakness is the long stretches in between. Four of the six symbols pay a third of your stake or less, so a session without wilds is a flat one, and there’s no bonus round or buy menu waiting to change the channel.

If you like compact games where a single mechanic carries the weight, Lucky Mouse earns its celebration. Players who want variety in their features will find it repetitive. For everyone else, it’s a cheerful, well-made half hour under the blossom.

Lucky Mouse FAQs

• How do the wild multipliers in Lucky Mouse work?

  Wilds in Lucky Mouse can each carry a random multiplier between x2 and x5. Each one boosts every winning combination it forms part of, and when more than one wild sits in the same win, their multipliers are added together rather than multiplied.
• Can extra wilds be added during a spin in Lucky Mouse?

  Yes. At random, on any spin, up to ten wild symbols can be added to the screen in random positions, which on a 3×3 grid is enough to cover nearly every position.
• Does Lucky Mouse have a free spins bonus round?

  No. Lucky Mouse has no free spins round or separate bonus feature. The wild symbol with its random multipliers and the random wild additions are the game’s only feature.
• Does Lucky Mouse have a bonus buy option?

  No. There’s no bonus buy in Lucky Mouse, because there’s no separate bonus round to buy. The wild multipliers and the random wild additions can’t be purchased; they can only land on their own.
• What is the RTP of Lucky Mouse?

  Lucky Mouse runs at 96.57% RTP, which sits slightly above the typical average for an online slot.
• Is Lucky Mouse high volatility?

  No, Lucky Mouse is a medium volatility slot. Wins should arrive at a steadier rhythm than in a high volatility game, with the multiplied wilds providing the bigger swings.
• How many paylines does Lucky Mouse have?

  Lucky Mouse has ten fixed paylines across its 3×3 grid, with only the highest win on each payline counting.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Lucky Mouse?

  Stakes run from 0.10 to 250.00 per spin, which covers everything from casual play to a serious session on the bigger multiplier screens.