Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO Slot Review
Gold light through a forest canopy, reels lashed together from log posts like an outlaw’s treehouse, and three chests waiting to be opened. Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO from All For One Studios hides most of its value in a place most players won’t reach: individually, its three bonus rounds are modest, and the game only really pays when two or more of them arrive on the same spin.
It runs at 96.40% RTP with high volatility, on a 5×4 grid with 40 paylines, stakes from 0.20 to 20.00 per spin, and a ceiling of 10,000x the bet on a single spin. The format is shared with 3 Powers of Zeus: POWER COMBO and 3 Shamrock Pots: POWER COMBO. Whether the gold in these chests is worth digging for depends on which colours land together.
Base Game & Features
This is a five-reel, four-row slot with 40 fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right from the first reel, and where more than one winning combination lands on a line, only the highest counts. Paylines can’t be adjusted, so every spin costs the full total bet.
Wilds land on reels two, three and four only, substituting for everything except the Scatters and the Coin symbol, and they carry no payout of their own. That restriction matters more than it sounds, because the Coin only appears in the green round and the Scatters are the whole engine of the game.
The paytable is thin. Symbol values are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, and they don’t run deep:
- Man (dark-haired): 0.1x for two, 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 5x for five
- Woman (red-haired): 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 2.5x for five
- Man (bearded, scarred): 0.25x for three, 0.5x for four, 2.5x for five
Five-of-a-kind on the top symbol returns five times the total bet, which tells you most of what the base game is: a place to wait. The wins that matter come from the scatters.
There are three of them, coloured red, green and blue, and none pays directly. Each colour triggers its own Free Spins round, and different colours landing on the same spin can trigger combined rounds instead. The game also shows scatters collecting on screen, which is decoration only, with no effect on triggering anything.
Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO Free Spins & POWER COMBO Rounds
Nudging Wilds Free Spins (Red Scatter)
The red scatter awards 5 free spins and changes the board: five reels, six rows, and 100 paylines. Wilds arrive in stacks of at least six symbols, and whenever one lands on a reel, that reel nudges to fill completely with Wilds before any line wins are paid. A full wild reel across a hundred lines does the heavy lifting here.
Landing another red scatter during the round adds one or two spins. If a green or blue scatter lands instead, the round converts on the spot to a combined feature, covered below.
Line Win Multiplier Free Spins (Blue Scatter)
The blue scatter also awards 5 free spins, on the standard 40 lines. Every spin carries a random payline win multiplier of 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x, applied to whatever that spin’s line wins pay. Like the red round, it retriggers with one or two spins on another blue scatter, and converts if a red or green scatter lands.
Jackpot Collection Free Spins (Green Scatter)
The green scatter awards 10 free spins and works differently. Coin symbols land on the reels and reveal either a letter or a cash award worth 1x or 10x the total bet. Collect the right letters and the corresponding jackpot drops:
- GRAND, gold letters: 10000x total bet
- MAJOR, silver letters: 500x total bet
- MINOR, bronze letters: 50x total bet
- MINI, grey letters: 25x total bet
This round is the odd one out. It can’t be retriggered, it can’t convert into a combined feature, and when the spins finish, every collected letter is dismissed. 10 spins to spell the word, with nothing carried over, is a closed door in a game built on doors opening into each other.
Combined Features & POWER COMBO
Mixing scatters is where the game pays its rent. Different colours landing together in the base game, or dropping in during an active round, trigger combined free spins. When that happens mid-round, the spins reset immediately to whatever the combined feature awards, so an upgrade costs you nothing:
- Red + Blue: 5 spins with Nudging Wilds and Line Win Multiplier
- Red + Green: 10 spins with Nudging Wilds and Jackpot Collection
- Blue + Green: 10 spins with Line Win Multiplier and Jackpot Collection
- Red + Blue + Green: 10 spins of POWER COMBO, all three features active
The full trio is the only realistic route to the 10,000x single-spin ceiling, and it’s the reason to keep the reels moving. Wins during any free spins round are added to base game wins, and all rounds play at the bet that triggered them.
Bonus Buy
Each feature, and each combination, can be bought straight from the base game at a fixed multiple of the current bet. The full POWER COMBO buy runs at 96.40%, the same as the base game:
- Nudging Wilds: 20x bet
- Line Win Multiplier: 20x bet
- Jackpot Collection: 45x bet
- Nudging Wilds + Line Win Multiplier: 55x bet
- Nudging Wilds + Jackpot Collection: 65x bet
- Line Win Multiplier + Jackpot Collection: 65x bet
- POWER COMBO, all three: 110x bet
The buy isn’t offered above a certain bet threshold, and it plays at the current bet. At 110x for the full trio, it’s priced for players who already know what they’re chasing.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Sitting down at Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO is sitting in a quiet forest hoping two colours land together, and that’s genuinely the point. Any spin can upgrade you on the spot, and the round you’re in gets longer rather than cut short. The full three-colour combo is the one reason to be here, and it’s a good one.
The strength is the upgrade system itself: combinations never cost you anything, and red with blue under a 10x multiplier is as good as this format gets. The weakness is everything around it. The base game pays almost nothing while you wait, and the green round, which can’t retrigger, can’t combine and wipes its own letters, feels like a slower game gatecrashing the party.
This is one for players who enjoy bonuses that fuse into something bigger and don’t mind thin pickings in between. Anyone who wants the reels themselves to pay for the wait will find this forest quiet. For patient outlaws, the buried gold is real, it’s just deep.
Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO FAQs
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What is the RTP of Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO?
The RTP is 96.40%, and the Bonus Buy runs at the same figure. -
What is the maximum win on Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO?
You can win over 10,000x your bet on a single spin. The Grand Jackpot in the green scatter round also pays 10,000x the total bet. -
How do you trigger free spins in Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO?
There are three coloured scatter symbols. The red one triggers Nudging Wilds free spins, the blue one triggers Line Win Multiplier free spins, and the green one triggers Jackpot Collection free spins. Different colours landing on the same spin trigger combined rounds. -
What does the POWER COMBO feature do?
When the red, blue and green scatters land together, you get 10 free spins with all three features active at once: Nudging Wilds, Jackpot Collection and the Line Win Multiplier. -
Can the free spins retrigger in Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO?
The red and blue rounds can, awarding one or two extra spins when their scatter lands again. The green Jackpot Collection round can’t be retriggered, and it can’t convert into a combined feature either. -
How many paylines does Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO have?
There are 40 paylines in the base game, rising to 100 paylines during the red scatter’s Nudging Wilds free spins. -
What are the betting limits on Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 20.00 per spin, with the paylines fixed and always in play. -
When is Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO released?
Chests of Gold: POWER COMBO’s release date is 28 March 2023.
