Lucky’s Wild Pub Slot Review

Lucky's Wild Pub Slot Review - Game Overview

Lucky's Wild Pub from Pragmatic Play drops you into a noisy Irish tavern packed with leprechauns, foaming pints and pots of gold. The slot runs on a 5x3 grid with 25 paylines, and wins land for three to five matching symbols from the leftmost reel. Under the bright pub frontage sits a highly volatile math model, an RTP of 96.5%, and a headline max win of 10,000x your stake.

At its core, Lucky's Wild Pub is a hold and win-style slot wrapped in a cartoon pub skin. The base game is stripped back to simple line wins and wild substitutions, while you collect coloured coins into three pots above the reels. Those pots randomly trigger the Pot Respins feature, where the real action comes from money symbols, fixed jackpots and a set of modifiers that can drag the bonus round either into glory or complete mediocrity.

Lucky's Wild Pub Slot Layout, Theme & Setup

Visually, Lucky's Wild Pub is one of the better Irish-themed efforts Pragmatic Play has pushed out. The whole game takes place inside a rustic tavern full of leprechauns having a grand time, pints in hand and gold scattered lazily around the floor. The colour palette leans heavily on greens and browns, which gives the screen a warm glow, while the mood-lifting soundtrack keeps the whole thing bouncing along nicely.

The layout sticking behind the showmanship is as standard as they come. You have five reels, three rows and 25 fixed paylines, framed by three pots labelled Fortune, Doublin' and Life. These pots grow as you collect matching coins on the reels, and they sit permanently above the grid, teasing that hold and win bonus. Underneath the surface, it is a very straightforward setup, just wearing a slightly flashier pub outfit than usual.

How to Play Lucky's Wild Pub Slot

Getting started with Lucky's Wild Pub is painless, even if you have had a couple of pints yourself. You pick your stake from 0.10 up to 250 per spin, hit the spin button, and hope the leprechauns feel generous. Wins pay when three or more matching symbols land along a payline from left to right, and the quoted hit frequency of around 32% means a base game win roughly every third spin in the long run, though streaks can be grim.

Symbols and Paytable in Lucky's Wild Pub

The reels in Lucky's Wild Pub are crammed with on-theme symbols rather than bland filler. You will see male and female leprechauns with pints, fiddles, pies and foaming beer glasses making up the better-paying icons. At the lower end you get simpler symbols that just keep the line wins ticking. The star utility symbol is the wild, which steps in for regular pay symbols to complete or improve wins, but it does not substitute for coins or money symbols.

On top of the standard pay symbols, Lucky's Wild Pub has money and jackpot icons that come alive in the Pot Respins bonus. Regular money symbols land as gold coins with values between 0.6x and 30x your bet. Jackpot coins carry fixed prizes: Mini pays 10x, Minor pays 20x, and Major pays 150x your stake. Fill every position on the grid during the feature and you pocket the Grand Jackpot, worth a chunky 5,000x your bet.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x2
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.2
	2	x0.1
	5	x2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Bonus
	Wild

Lucky's Wild Pub Slot Bonus Features & Pot Respins

Bonus play in Lucky's Wild Pub revolves around collecting three colours of Bonus Coins into the pots above the reels. Green coins feed the Fortune Pot, red coins go into the Doublin' Pot, and blue coins fill the Life Pot. Each collection grows its pot and slightly improves the odds of triggering the Pot Respins feature, which on paper lands around once every 51 or 52 spins. When it finally triggers, you randomly get between one and three modifiers from those pots.

The Pot Respins round is a classic hold and win setup. You start with three respins on a stripped grid that holds only blank spaces, money symbols and jackpot coins. Every time at least one money or jackpot symbol lands, it locks in place and the spin counter resets to three. Blank spins count down the tally, and when you run out of respins, the feature ends and all visible coin values are summed. Filling the entire grid activates that Grand 5,000x prize.

The three pots each carry a different modifier for the bonus. The green pot randomly boosts the value of up to three money symbols after a spin. The red pot adds a second 5x3 grid, so you play the feature on two windows at once, sharing the same spin counter. The blue pot bumps your respin allowance from three to four. Outside the UK, there are paid options to buy straight into Pot Respins for 50x or 100x your stake, depending on how many modifiers you want guaranteed.

Lucky's Wild Pub Slot RTP, Volatility & Max Win

From a numbers angle, Lucky's Wild Pub is very much a high-risk Irish pint. The headline RTP is an above-average 96.5%, with a hit frequency of 32.15% showing that small base game wins drop fairly often, even if they rarely impress. The Pot Respins feature appears roughly once every 51.66 spins on average, and the theoretical top win is 10,000x your stake, calculated at about one hit in 6.9 million spins. Do with that what you will.

My Experience and Verdict on Lucky's Wild Pub Slot

When I first sat down with Lucky's Wild Pub, I was sold by the lively tavern setup and the promise of chunky hold and win payouts. I set the stake at 2 per spin, fired up a batch of autospins and watched the three pots slowly fatten. Base game wins landed fairly close to the advertised hit rate, but most of them were forgettable, often barely covering half a spin. Wilds helped now and then, yet nothing really sparked before the bonus.

Pot Respins itself can be decent when the modifiers line up, especially if you land the double grid and a few boosts. That said, the fixed jackpots feel a bit on the stingy side unless you chain several together, and many bonuses finish around the cost of the cheaper bonus buy. Overall, Lucky's Wild Pub looks and sounds great, but once the novelty of the leprechaun pub wears off, the gameplay becomes repetitive faster than that cheery fiddle loop in the background.

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