Larry the Leprechaun Slot – Free Demo

Sixteen positions that each spin alone

Taking up the Irish end of the catalogue arrives Larry the Leprechaun from Wazdan, and the game is drenched in shamrock green, on the surface at least. Wazdan put it out in July 2019. Simmering away out of sight is a collection-driven math engine. The session logged here ran 410 spins at a stake of 200.00, from a starting balance of 100,000.00. It can sit quiet or cut loose. Across those spins the balance peaked at 103,640.00 on spin 56 and bottomed out at 82,600.00. It might seem smaller and modest when eyed next to the big-name launches, but Larry the Leprechaun is nevertheless a slot which shouldn't be taken casually.

The arrangement is the strange part here, and there are no reels in the ordinary sense and no paylines at all: 16 positions, arranged as a 4x4 grid, each one spinning on its own. Larry himself is the Wild. He fills in for everything except the sack. That exception matters, because the sack is the symbol that feeds the Magic Sack Bonus. Between spins you can lock symbols on the grid and attempt to finish a better cluster on the next one. That lends the whole thing a puzzle feel rather than a reel feel.

Eight matching symbols and a lock button

Wazdan games have a reputation for being volatile beasts; that trait is dialled right down in Larry, which the studio labels Low-Medium and which lets the player choose a volatility level of their own. The same selectable Volatility Levels turn up in other Wazdan titles, Choco Reels among them. Respectable wins are there for the taking during the base game, largely due to the sheer count of positions, but it's still all about completing a matrix, which over 410 spins proved far from being a stroll. Of those 410 spins, 153 paid something, and 95 of those paid back less than the stake.

There are no left-to-right combinations to pursue, and in its most basic form, a win requires at least 8 matching symbols anywhere on the 16 positions. Eight of the 16 positions is the floor, so the smallest paying cluster already covers half the grid. With the lock feature in play, a near-miss cluster can be carried over and completed on the following spin; it might sound like a fantasy at first. The longest gap without a win in this session ran to 9 spins and ended on spin 145.

Larry the Leprechaun's paytable is composed of 9 pay symbols, a wild and a sack, and first up are the J-A royals, which pay up to 20x for the J through to 50x for the A. The K sits at up to 40x and the Q at up to 30x. Four themed symbols come next. The pipe is at up to 60x, the beer at 80x, the hat at 100x, and the gold and silver coins at 200x apiece. Those two coin symbols are also the ones feeding the collection matrices. These are 'up to' numbers only, as the cluster-size tiers go unlisted, and one way to boost them up is via Larry, who substitutes any pay symbol on any position.

Three matrices filling at once

They are not overly notable in small amounts. Central to unlocking the game is the three collection matrices. Coins and sacks are counted as they land, with no cluster required for them to register. They run in parallel, and silver coins, gold coins and sacks each drop in their own matrix and remain there. One frame from this capture shows the base game in that state, a spin paying 800.00 at a stake of 200.00 with the coin matrices partly filled. So every spin is feeding one of three bonuses at once. In this session two of the three never came in.

The first feature is triggered by the silver coins - fill the matrix with 16 of them, then land 5 more in a single spin, and the Free Spins Bonus grants 16 free spins. The silver matrix never filled across the 410 spins, so that bonus did not start. The gold coins operate the same way. 16 in the matrix and 5 more in one spin launch Leprechaun's Spins, again 16 spins, during which all Wilds remain locked on the grid and the win is paid out for the number of Wilds collected. Leprechaun's Spins stayed out of reach here too, the gold matrix having gone the same way as the silver. The sack matrix is the brief one. It requires 8 sacks and then 1 more to trigger the Magic Sack Bonus, which lasts 8 spins with 5 random symbols turned into Wilds, and nothing retriggers. That was the one feature this session saw.

Final Minty Score: Three matrices were filling at once and one of them finished, on spin 2, which left 408 spins of collection with nothing at the end of them. The Magic Sack Bonus paid 2,000.00, three per cent of the 66,240.00 the run won back. A cap of 350x sits above all of it, and the largest single hit here reached 76x.

The sack was the only one that came in

If you've played Wazdan's collection games, then you'll have a decent idea of what to expect from Larry the Leprechaun, and the base game might seem quiet. 20 Coins is another Wazdan title. The max win here is a humble 350x the stake, so there is no mega multiplier waiting at the end of it. Getting anywhere near it means clusters well beyond the 8-symbol minimum, since the best-paying symbols top out at 200x. My 410 spins only ever finished the sack one - it landed on spin 2, paid 2,000 credits from a 200-credit stake for 10x, and never came back. It ran its 8 spins with 5 random symbols turned into Wilds and moved the balance from 100,360.00 to 102,160.00.

In some ways, Larry the Leprechaun is precisely the slot that is required from Wazdan at this point. That 2,000.00 was 3% of the 66,240.00 won across the run. It's not over the top and not disappointing either. In total 82,000.00 was wagered against that 66,240.00.

My own session closed at 80.8% of what went in, with 153 of 410 spins paying something. The balance finished at 84,240.00 from the 100,000.00 it started with. A top single hit of 15,200 credits, or 76x, was on spin 235. Second best was 7,000 credits on spin 56, at 35x. Overall, it's a sturdy option, even if it doesn't do a lot that the studio hadn't already dished up.