Ultra Hold & Spin Slot

This video slot has 3 reels, 3 rows and 5 fixed paylines. To play the game, players are asked to select a bet. A line bet is adjustable within a very broad range from a tiny stake of $0.01 to a serious wager of $50 per line, that is, the total bet varies from $0.05 to $250. This adds a lot of flexibility into the betting strategies adopted by players and, among other things, makes the slot machine interesting for all categories of casino-goers from South Africa. This 3×3 slot machine employs a lot of symbols and this is a hint pointing at the complexity of gameplay and diversity of bonus features. The provider has squeezed all possibilities and opportunities from 3 reels and 5 paylines and made the game very grasping and really exciting. So, there are 9 regular icons, a wild symbol and 3 bonus symbols. Typical of 3-reel slots, the game pays when 3 matching regular icons hit any payline. These are X’s, Cherries, Oranges, Plums, Stars, Strawberries, Watermelons, Single Bars and Lucky Sevens, pointing at the close and tight link between this video slot and retro fruit machines found in brick-and-mortar venues. It is rather interesting to note that the online casino slot in fact pays from left to right or from right to left as soon as it pays when a line is full, that is, when all the three positions are taken by three identical icons. Non-feature icons pay between x20 and x250 the line bet. This means that the best win may reach as much as $12,500 at the max bet in the base game. Having played a bit, players may notice that regular symbols often come stacked and sometimes they take the whole 3×3 field. This is the best possible situation in the base play as it makes all 5 lines pay a respective award. Based on a symbol occupying all positions on reels, the payout may vary from x100 to x1,250 the line bet. Moneywise, it may amount to $5,000 to $62,500 at max. It looks like a perfect gift for spending some happy time in an online casino. To make the probability of this magnificent situation higher, the slot uses a wild symbol. It substitutes for any regular icon but never for any bonus symbols. When it hits the screen and takes part in a winning combination it expands and takes an entire reel. As soon as regular icons tend to come stacked, this little trick may produce extra combinations and bigger wins. Wilds may land on any reel in the base game but they do not appear during the bonus feature. There are 3 bonus or money symbols, silver, golden and diamond. Silver and golden symbols appear on the middle reel only. Although they come with some attractive random values on them (between x1 and x20 the total bet), they do not award any prize during the base game. Instead, they activate the Hold and Respin bonus feature. A diamond money symbol pops up on reels 1 and 3 during the bonus feature only.

Although this feature resembles the Hold and Win model integrated in many other video slots by Pragmatic Play, it has a striking difference manifested in how the slot machine calculates the total award. To play the feature, it is required to land 3 silver or golden money symbols on the middle reel. The feature starts and makes 3 triggering money symbols stuck so they keep their position along with their values till the end of the feature. These values are added and shown on a special display above the reels. This is a seed award of the feature, so to speak. Two other reels are cleared of icons. The feature awards 4 respins of the leftmost and rightmost reels (respins are symbolized by 4 red hearts on a display under the reels). When a new money symbol hits a reel, it resets the counter of respins back to 4; as soon as new money symbols are not sticky and disappear in the next respin the feature may run for quite a long time. When a new money symbol appears, a player gets to understand how generous this bonus is. The online casino game adds a value shown on a new money symbol to the value already on the display and then adds values shown on 3 triggering symbols again. It keeps doing this every time a new money symbol lands so the three initial money symbols add their combined values every time new money symbols emerge on the screen. During the feature, diamond money symbols land on reels 1 and 3 and when they do so, each awards a prize between x100 and x500 the total bet. In money terms this little shining crystal awards $25,000 and $50,000 at a $50 line bet. Naturally, this wonderful scale of winning materializes into hard cash only when the game is played for real money.

Ultra Hold & Win by Pragmatic Play is a 3-reel 5-line mobile-friendly slot machine accepting line bets between $0.01 and $50 and giving a chance to win between x20 and x250 the line bet in the base game and collect multiple cash prizes ranging from x1 to x500 the total bet in the course of a bonus feature.