Clover Gold

Theme and Design

In Clover Gold Pragmatic Play have successfully created an upbeat and optimistic atmosphere that helps the game to stand out in the crowded market of Irish-themed slots. The backdrop is a cheerful, lush green glade with lots of flowers, trees and floating butterflies. The reels are populated with Irish maidens and a happy leprechaun with green eyes and a bewitching smile. It’s like an ultra-vivid version of pastoral Ireland. It may be a bit overwhelming for some, but I liked the sharpness and of it and the jangling guitar soundtrack just adds to the immersive feel of the game. It’s one you can get lost in quite easily.

RTP and Variance

There are three available RTP setting for Clover Gold slot. These are 96.54%, 95.52% or 94.51%. There is not much difference between them and you might not be able to tell as you were playing, but its always better to give yourself the best chance of winning by picking a slot site that runs at the 96.54% rate. We verified the RTP at 5 of the best slot sites.

• Casumo (independent) – 94.51% RTP
• BacanaPlay (Skill on Net) – 94.51% RTP
• Barz Casino (White Hat Gaming) – 94.51% RTP
• MrQ (Independent) – 96.54% RTP
• Pub Casino (L and L Europe) – 94.51% RTP

In this case only one of our test sites ran Clover Gold at the optimum RTP level. That is MrQ which regularly comes out on top for RTP. We recommend you play there for best value on your spins.

This is also a mid-variance game, rated 3/5 by Pragmatic Play themselves. That puts it on the same level as games like Aztec Gems Deluxe and Jungle Gorilla, and suggests the payout distribution will be more even than some of Pragmatic’s more volatile slots, with more regular wins, if smaller in value.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Clover Gold is 5,000x. That is good for a mid-variance slot and on a par with other Pragmatic Play slots like Fruit Party 2 and Magician’s Secret. If you are looking for better potential then you could try our list of Pragmatic Play’s highest paying slots.

Symbols and Paytable

This is a traditional 5 reel and 3 row slot with 20 fixed paylines. Wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols across a payline from left to right.

The paytable shows some good value but the best wins are reserved for the combinations of Money Symbols and Collector Symbols that are explained in the features part of this review.

There are EIGHT pay symbols in Clover Gold. The A, K, Q and J are the lower-paying symbols, while the girl, wooden beer stein, toadstools, and the leprechaun are the premiums. The lower-paying symbols pay a maximum of 2.5x the original bet. Higher paying icons provide payouts anywhere between 3.75x and 12.5x.

There is also a Wild to help you complete paylines. It lands on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and subs for all other symbols except the special Bonus, Money and Collect ones. Wilds do not have a value in their own right.

And finally, the Bonus Scatters are required to trigger the free spins round – 3 or more on one spins give you 8 spins.

Features and Gameplay

Clover Gold sees Pragmatic Play using a Cash-Collect style feature that is becoming increasingly popular in online slots. At its most sophisticated we sit it in games like Relax Gaming’s Money Train series.

Here, the gameplay is less complex, but the concept remains the same – Money Symbols drop onto reels 1 to 4, with potential prize value, but they do not pay out until activated by a second symbol type, a Collector, that lands on reel 5.

You will recognise the Money Symbols as 4 Leaf Clovers each with a cash value displayed beneath.  The cash value may be 1x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 15x, 18x, 20x, 25x, 50x or 100x. The Collectors are one of 5 types.

• Collect:This is the most basic and collects the values of all Money Symbols visible and pays them out.
• Extra Collect:This adds a value displayed on the Collect symbol to all the prizes shown on the Money Symbols before paying out the total.
• Re-Spins Collect:This re-spins all the positions that do not have Collect or Money Symbols on them to see if more land before the value of all Money Symbols is added together and then paid out.
• Expanding Collect:All visible Money Symbols expand to fill the entire reel with Money Symbols, each of which takes a random value. Then the value of all Money Symbols visible is added together and paid out.
• Multiplier Collect:Applies a multiplier value displayed on the Collect symbol to all prizes indicated on Money Symbols before they are added up and paid out.

Free Spins with Progressive Feature Including Multipliers

The free spins round in Clover Gold gets more interesting. You will need to land 3 Tree Scatters simultaneously on the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th reels to activate this. Then receive eight free spins, which function the same as the base game spins with one difference – collect icons are now accumulated on a TRAIL when they land as well.

Each 4^th COLLECT ICON added on the trail provides 8 ADDITIONAL FREE SPINS and triggers a 2x MULTIPLIER, a 3x MULTIPLIER and a 5x MULTIPLIER for the first, second and third multipliers, respectively.

After the third trigger, the free spins cannot be activated again.