Picture a leprechaun guarding both ends of a 5×3 grid while a rainbow tries (and fails) to be subtle. That's Irish Eyes, a 2013 NextGen Gaming release now sitting under the Light & Wonder umbrella, and it still leans hard into the St. Patrick's Day color palette. Twenty-five fixed lines, low volatility, max win pegged at 10,000x. The numbers are modest by 2026 standards, but the math hides a quirk most modern Irish slots don't bother with.
That quirk is the Pick and Win bonus. Land the Leprechaun wild on reel 1 and reel 5 in the same spin, and the game pauses to let you tap one of the two for a coin prize up to 100x your triggering bet. Sometimes a second pick follows. It's a tiny bit of agency, the kind of mini-feature that the eventual sequel, Irish Eyes 2, scrapped entirely. So yes, the older title actually offers one extra feature than the follow-up. Weird flex, but here we are.
The headline mode is still the Free Games round. Three or more Lady scatters reading left-to-right hand you 12 free spins with every prize tripled, and retriggers stack on top. Pick and Win can also fire inside the bonus, though the 3x multiplier doesn't touch those pick prizes (they pay off the triggering bet, plain and simple). Two features running in parallel, kept mathematically separate. Clean design.
And now the honest bit. RTP sits at 95.129%, which is below the modern 96% baseline and noticeably tight for a low-volatility slot where you're meant to win often but small. You'll feel the trim over a long session. The art is also showing its age, all chunky cartoon clovers and bright royals straight out of 2013 Flash-era design. If you came from Pragmatic's recent releases, this will look like a postcard from a decade ago.
Still, there's charm in the simplicity. Bets run from a cent to 125 dollars, the Leprechaun wild also doubles as the top-paying symbol, and the Lady scatter pays from anywhere. Is it cutting-edge? Not even close. But for a casual chase of the rainbow with a real interactive bonus baked in, Irish Eyes holds up better than its sub-96 RTP suggests.