Clover Club

Clover Club: Slot Overview

What's up with leprechaun clubs and pubs at the moment? Not long after reviewing Pragmatic Play's slot Lucky's Wild Pub and Yggdrasil's Lucky Apocalypse, Hacksaw Gaming partner Bullshark Games is having a stab with its own creation. Titled Clover Club, visitors to this joint are entertained by a scatter pays, wild symbol, Global Multiplier combo, the likes of which Bullshark Games has touched on in the past in various ways, while players down virtual pints of Guinness or chase pretend rainbows or bathe in all the other leprechaun slot cliches.

Actually, Clover Club manages to avoid a lot of cliches since the action takes place in a downtown club environment rather than bounding across the green, green grass of Ireland. There is a leprechaun-style chap, though. He's the pimped-out chap next to the grid, flipping a coin while decked out in a furry collared coat, top hat, and gold medallion. There are thematic references in the base game, but it's not till the bonus round is in play that the amplified tune helps kick Clover Club's Celtic spirit into full swing.

Clover Club is a scatter pays slot played on a 6x5 grid. This means when at least 8 identical symbols land on the reels, anywhere is fine; they create a winning combination and trigger the cascade feature. With a score of 4 out of 5, Clover Club is a medium/high volatile slot available in two RTP versions, where 96.41% is the highest return configuration. Several feature buys are available, as is a stake menu offering bets of 10 c to $/€100.

Eight pay symbols land in Clover Club's gaming area. They are clubs, diamonds, spades, hearts, alcohol glasses, hats, chips, and cases of cash. Winning combinations of 8 OAK have a value of 0.1 to 1.5 times the bet, while the biggest scatter wins are 19+ OAK in size, awarding 20 to 200 times the bet. Clover Club actually has wild symbols, and they are a central part of its features.

Clover Club: Slot Features

Clover Club has a cascade wins mechanic that removes and replaces winning symbols as well as a Global Multiplier, multiplier wild symbols, Green Clover Vault free spins, and bonus buys.

Global Multiplier

The Global Multiplier has a default value of x1 and is applied to all wins. It resets with each new spin in the base game but is progressive till the end of free spins.

Multiplier Wild Symbol

When winning symbols are removed, 1 to 3 multiplier wilds appear beneath them. Their possible additive values are 1x to 100x, while multiplicative values are x2 to x10. If another win includes a wild symbol, its multiplier is unlocked and added to the Global Multiplier before the win is calculated. Multiplier wilds only appear after a cascade, and additive values are applied before multiplicative values. If there is more than one multiplicative value, they are added before being applied to the Global Multiplier.

Green Clover Vault Free Spins

The Green Clover Vault bonus is triggered when 3, 4, or 5 scatters land, awarding 8, 10, or 12 free spins, respectively. When triggered by 5 scatters, the minimum value on wild multipliers is x3. During free spins, the Global Multiplier does not reset until the round comes to an end, and landing a scatter symbol awards an extra free spin.

Bonus Buys

Activating BonusHunt FeatureSpins costs 3x the bet to make each spin 5 times more likely to trigger free spins, while Fortune Club FeatureSpins costing 50x the bet guarantee at least 2 multiplier wild symbols are beneath removed symbols on the first win. Buying the bonus round costs 100x for 8-10 free spins or 200x for 12 free spins where the minimum wild multiplier value is x3.

Clover Club: Slot Verdict

Until now, about the only thing linking pickles and leprechauns was the colour green, but thanks to Bullshark Games, the two subjects are now linked in other new ways. At least, they're linked in the online gambling realm since Clover Club shares a good number of similarities with the comedic Western Pickle Bandits (2024). In fact, the two slots do many of the same things, such as landing wild symbols with multiplier values, applying these values to a Global Multiplier, and adding a persistent quality to the Global Multiplier when free spins are active. The main difference, aside from trading pickles for clovers, is that Clover Club is a scatter pays slot, which has chopped the mystery symbol feature right out.

What's left is a scatter pays game that has touches of uniqueness; Bullshark Games has even made an effort to jazz up a commonplace theme with a dash of originality. A mechanical example is that not all of these types of slots have wild symbols, whereas, in Clover Club, wild symbols are an integral piece of the puzzle. Since consecutive wins are how the Global Multiplier is fed, it felt like the game rationed these out, causing the action to come across a bit stop-start a lot of the time, which might get frustrating. Free spins seemed to loosen up and occasionally get better rolls going - having a persistent Global Multiplier is a positive bonus round rule change, too, but no guarantees there, of course.

Where once they might have been viewed as an oddity, now scatter pays slots are as common as, well, a leprechaun slot. Okay, maybe not quite so common yet, but they're getting there. In this competitive segment of the gambling market, Clover Club does pretty well for itself. Its stuttering nature might grate when it struggles to get going, and the dead spin count is something to consider. But, along with a 12,000x the bet win cap, Clover Club is a playable scatter pays option.