3 Pots Riches Extra: Hold & Win Slot Review
Three fat-bellied cauldrons perch along the top rail of a carved wooden cabinet, brimming with gold coins, while an Irish meadow rolls away behind the reels towards hazy hills. In 3 Pots Riches Extra: Hold & Win, Playson has built a game where the reels themselves are close to irrelevant: the paylines are an afterthought, and every spin’s real work happens above them, in the coins climbing into the pots.
It’s a 5×4 grid with 30 fixed paylines and a 95.76% RTP, while the 5,000x Grand Jackpot lands only when the bonus grid is completely filled. It trims the four pots of 4 Pots Riches, a game we liked in 2026 for its pot-watching build, down to three. It sits alongside Coin Strike Hold and Win and Lucky Pots x1000 in the studio’s hold-and-win catalogue.
Pots, Coins and How the Reels Pay
Wins pay left to right across the 30 fixed lines, and only the highest combination on each line counts. Line wins and scatter wins can land on the same spin, since the scatter pays wherever it sits. The wild is a leprechaun who substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter, Bonus symbols and Clover Coins, and he pays more than any other symbol on the reels by some distance.
Both the wild and the scatter pay as multiples of your total bet rather than the line bet:
- Wild (Leprechaun), five of a kind: 12.50x the total bet
- Wild (Leprechaun), four of a kind: 2.50x the total bet
- Wild (Leprechaun), three of a kind: 0.75x the total bet
- Scatter (Pot of gold with rainbow), three anywhere: 2x the total bet
The scatter lands only on reels two, three and four, and three of them trigger the free spins round as well as paying their 2x. The rest of the symbol cast is standard Irish kit, and the line pays beneath the wild are modest. That 12.50x top award is the ceiling on any single base-game spin, which tells you where this game keeps its money: not on the lines.
The three cauldrons on the top rail aren’t decoration. Each one collects Clover Coins of its own colour as they land, and what the pots have gathered decides what the bonus round becomes.
The whole game is built around that shelf. Coins land, pots drink, and the round at the end of it changes shape depending on what’s been gathered. Nothing else on screen matters as much.
The Bonus Game: Hold and Win
The Pots and the Clover Coins
Clover Coins are the bonus symbols, and they arrive in green, red and blue. Each pot above the reels, named Double, Mystery and Collect, gathers the coins that match its colour. The combination of pots that have activated by the time the bonus triggers is what determines how the round plays out.
It’s a build-and-wait structure, and the pots do the collecting. Each one picks up Clover Coins in its own colour, and any time a coin lands in the base game or free spins there is a chance the bonus round starts, with the pots that set it off deciding the features you get. Landing 6 or more Bonus symbols, with or without coins, triggers it too.
The grid itself holds 20 cells, and each coin that lands shows its cash value as a multiple of your bet. You begin the bonus with 3 re-spins, and every fresh symbol tops them back up to three. The round closes once those re-spins are spent or the grid is full, at which point every value on screen is totalled and paid.
The Collect Feature
When the Collect pot is active in the bonus game, blue Clover Coins take on a second job. Each one that appears gathers all the symbol values currently on the reels and adds them to its own. One blue coin landing in a crowded grid can sweep the board.
That’s the whole feature, and it’s a good one. The collect timing gives a full grid real weight, because every value on screen is a candidate for pickup. A single round can pay several times over if the blue coins keep arriving.
The Jackpot Ladder
Four fixed jackpots sit above the bonus grid, and they step up like this:
- Mini Jackpot: 15x the bet
- Minor Jackpot: 50x the bet
- Major Jackpot: 150x the bet
- Grand Jackpot: 5,000x the bet
The Grand is the only one with a condition attached: you have to fill all 20 cells of the bonus grid to take it. The other three, the Mini, Minor and Major, drop randomly when their matching Bonus symbols appear during the bonus game. The step from Major to Grand is the steepest in the game, a jump from 150x to 5,000x, and the full grid is what you pay for it.
Filling 20 cells with coins is a long task, which is exactly why the top prize is priced the way it is. Even the Major, at 150x, is a round that would rescue most sessions. The ladder below the Grand is where a realistic bonus round actually lands.
Free Spins
Land three scatter symbols anywhere on the middle reels and the game awards eight free spins. The scatter can’t appear on the outer reels, so there’s no chasing a five-scatter payday here. Eight spins is a start: the wild doubles any pay line win it joins, three scatters add 8 more spins, and the bonus game can still trigger mid-round.
The free spins round is the quieter half of the game. The pot-collection structure and the hold-and-win bonus do the heavy lifting, and the scatters are the side door rather than the main event.
Eight spins on a paytable that tops out at 12.50x won’t change many minds on their own. What they do offer is a run of spins where the wild leprechaun is the symbol to watch, since he’s the one paying anything worth counting.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Sitting down at this game means watching the shelf. The meadow does its pleasant work in the background while your eye drifts up to the three cauldrons, because that’s where every spin is actually going, and the slow accumulation of coins into the pots is the reason you’d stay. The Collect feature is the best of it: a blue coin hoovering up every value on the grid gives the bonus round real spikes, and the jackpot ladder underneath rewards a full board properly.
The cost of that is everything below the shelf. With 12.50x the ceiling on the base paytable, the reels between bonuses stay quiet, and while the free spins wild doubles line wins, the eight spins give only a modest lift.
That’s the shape of it, and it’s an honest one. This is a game for players who enjoy the build and don’t need the reels to pay for the waiting; anyone who wants regular line hits or a feature-packed free spins round will find the meadow sparse. The pots are on the rail, the coins keep coming, and the patient are the ones who’ll see them fill.
3 Pots Riches Extra: Hold & Win FAQs
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How do you trigger free spins in 3 Pots Riches Extra: Hold & Win?
Land three scatter symbols, which can appear only on reels two, three and four. That awards eight free spins and pays 2x your total bet. -
How do you win the Grand Jackpot?
You have to fill all 20 cells of the bonus grid with Clover Coins. The Grand Jackpot pays 5,000x your bet. -
What does the Golden Pot feature do?
Each time the Golden Pot appears in the bonus game it becomes a green, red or blue Clover Coin at random. The colour decides which pot feature gets the boost: Double, Mystery or Collect, either activating it or adding to one already running. -
What do the three pots above the reels do?
Each pot, named Double, Mystery and Collect, collects the Clover Coins of its matching colour. The combination of pots that have activated determines the outcome of the bonus game. -
What does the wild symbol do?
The wild is a leprechaun that stands in for every symbol except the Scatter, Bonus symbols and Clover Coins, and in free spins any line win containing it is doubled. It’s also the game’s richest symbol, paying 12.50x your total bet for five of a kind. -
What are the jackpot tiers in 3 Pots Riches Extra: Hold & Win?
There are four: Mini at 15x your bet, Minor at 50x, Major at 150x and the Grand at 5,000x. Only the Grand requires the full 20-cell grid fill to claim it. -
Who makes 3 Pots Riches Extra: Hold & Win?
Playson. It’s part of their hold-and-win family of games, alongside titles like Coin Strike Hold and Win and Lucky Pots x1000. -
Can the scatter land on every reel?
No. The scatter appears only on reels two, three and four, which means a five-scatter combination is impossible. Three is both the minimum and the maximum.
