Boilin’ Pots Slot Review
Most expanding-reel slots treat the growth as garnish; Boilin’ Pots makes it the meal. Every spin here can add rows until the reels stand seven symbols high inside that iron cauldron, and the paytable is so flat that the growing grid is the only reason a base-game win ever matters. Get the pot high enough and the game turns into something else entirely.
Yggdrasil have committed to that growth properly: every spin can add rows until the reels stand seven symbols high, and the wins grow with them. It runs at 96% RTP with Super High volatility, up to 16,807 ways to win and a ceiling of 10,114x the bet. The studio has played with shape-shifting reels before in Hades Gigablox and Valley of the Gods 2.
The question with a pot this size is whether what’s inside is worth fishing out.
Base Game & Features
Boilin’ Pots starts life as a 5×3 reel set with a ways engine rather than fixed paylines. Wins land when three or more identical symbols appear on consecutive reels from the left, and if a reel carries several copies of the same symbol, the instances multiply together to boost the win. Ways are summed after the spin.
That multiplication is worth spelling out. If the first reel holds two copies of a symbol, the second three and the third two, the total multiplier is 2x3x2, or 12x the base pay for that combination. Taller reels mean more instances, which is why the growing grid matters so much here.
Where most games give you a static grid, this one breathes. There are ten regular symbols, a wild that substitutes for all of them, an arrow that grows the reels and a bonus symbol that opens the separate bonus game. Wilds and bonus symbols can land on any reel, and the bonus symbols pay scattered rather than on the ways. The base game hits a winning spin roughly 23% of the time.
Symbols and Pays
Pays are multiples of the total bet:
- Purple Book: 2x for three, 4x for four, 10x for five
- Red Heart: 1x / 2x / 4x
- Orange Gem: 0.7x / 1.5x / 3x
- Blue Diamond: 0.5x / 0.7x / 1.5x
- Green Triangle: 0.5x / 0.7x / 1.5x
- Purple Potion: 0.2x / 0.3x / 0.5x
- Red Bat Wing: 0.2x / 0.3x / 0.5x
- Gold Eye: 0.2x / 0.3x / 0.5x
- Blue Hand: 0.2x / 0.3x / 0.5x
- Green Leaf Creature: 0.2x / 0.3x / 0.5x
It’s a modest ladder. Even the top symbol only returns 10x the bet for a full line, so the base game’s job is really to keep the pot stirring until something bigger climbs out.
Expanding Reels
Every arrow symbol that lands grows the reels by one row, up to a maximum height of seven. If an arrow lands on a newly added row, that row adds another one in turn, so a lucky spin can climb several rows at once. The arrows stop appearing once the grid reaches its full 5×7 size, and they don’t appear in the bonus game at all.
The growth is more than decoration. Each new row increases the ways count, and at full height the game opens up to all 16,807 of them. The visuals keep pace, with the pot resizing and the view pulling back to fit the taller reels.
Wild Respins
Land four arrow symbols in a single spin and the reels reach their full 5×7 height, which triggers the Wild Respins. At the start of each respin, stacked wilds are added to the reels, with stacks up to three symbols deep. The respins continue for as long as winning combinations keep landing, and wilds can stack on top of each other as the sequence runs.
It’s the reward the expanding reels have been building towards, and it’s where the base game does its heaviest lifting. A full-height grid carrying stacked wilds across 16,807 ways is a genuinely different game from the one you started spinning. Because the respins only stop on a losing spin, a single trigger can pay out several times over, with fresh wild stacks dropping in each time.
Boilin’ Pots Bonus Game
Landing three or more bonus symbols triggers the Bonus Game, played on a separate board with a single paying line. Every symbol that lands on that line awards a prize. Landing four bonus symbols adds a 10x cash prize on top, and landing all five adds a 100x prize.
Lives and Prizes
The round starts with three lives. Each spin that lands nothing on the payline costs one life; any win resets the count back to three. The game ends when the lives run out, so a lucky streak can keep the round running indefinitely. There’s also a floor: the round can’t finish with less than a 5x win, and it continues until it gets there.
The prizes on the line come in two tiers:
- Cash wins: x1, x2, x3, x5, x10, x25 and x50 the bet
- Big Wins: x100, x200, x500, x1000 and x5000 the bet
A coin win or a jackpot symbol only pays when it lands in the middle row of the board, and jackpots can be won on reels one, three and five. On top of the cash symbols sits the Win Symbol, which pays up to 5,000x the bet when it lands. That’s the biggest single prize on the board and the one the lives system is really there to chase.
Buy Bonus
If waiting for scatters isn’t your style, the Buy Bonus button triggers the Bonus Game directly for 49.5x the bet. That’s a steep price for a round whose bottom tier starts at x1, though the 5x minimum win and the Win Symbol’s ceiling give the purchase a wide spread of outcomes.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing Boilin’ Pots is a patient wait for the pot to boil, and that’s exactly why you’d pick it. Most spins pass quietly on a small grid, but each arrow nudges the brew closer to the top, and reaching it flips the game over into stacked wilds across the full height. That slow climb is the experience; nothing else on the screen pays it off like the pot finally overflowing.
Its best trick is the lives system in the bonus game. Because every win resets the counter to three, one hot run can stretch a single round far past what it cost to reach, and the 5x floor quietly guarantees the round is never a total loss. The worst of it is everything between features: the base paytable tops out at 10x for a full line of the best symbol, so the long stretches of Super High volatility have almost nothing to soften them.
This is one for players who enjoy the long climb and can bankroll the quiet spells that come with it, particularly respin and jackpot chasers. Anyone after steady small wins will find the pot cold more often than not.
Boilin’ Pots FAQs
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What is the RTP of Boilin’ Pots?
The RTP is 96%, which sits right on the industry average. -
Is Boilin’ Pots high volatility?
Very. The game is rated Super High volatility, so wins arrive less often than on most slots but carry real size when they do. -
How do the reels expand in Boilin’ Pots?
Landing an arrow symbol makes the grid one row taller, and a further arrow on a fresh row stacks another row on top. Seven rows is the limit, after which arrows no longer show up, and the bonus game runs without them. -
How do you trigger Wild Respins in Boilin’ Pots?
Four arrows in one spin take the grid to its full 5×7 height and set the respins off. Each respin drops stacked wilds onto the reels, and the sequence runs until a spin comes back empty. -
What do four or five bonus symbols award in Boilin’ Pots?
Three bonus symbols trigger the Bonus Game. Four adds a 10x cash prize on top, and all five adds a 100x cash prize. -
How does the lives system work in the Boilin’ Pots bonus game?
You begin with a counter of three. A spin with nothing on the payline knocks it down by one, and any prize tops it back up, so the round only ends once three winless spins in a row pass. The round also can’t close on less than a 5x total. -
How much does the Buy Bonus cost in Boilin’ Pots?
The Buy Bonus triggers the Bonus Game directly for 49.5x your bet. -
Where can jackpots land in the Boilin’ Pots bonus game?
Only on reels one, three and five, and a coin win or jackpot symbol has to land in the middle row before it pays. The Win Symbol tops out at 5,000x the bet.
