Hat-Trick Spin Slot Review
Under the floodlights of a packed night stadium, a moody footballer in an orange-and-black kit watches the reels from the shadows while a flaming football burns its way out of the logo. Hat-Trick Spin keeps nearly all of its money off the pitch. From Mancala Gaming, it runs a 5×4 grid with 40 paylines whose small, royal-heavy pays exist almost entirely to keep you spinning until six symbols arrive and the real round begins.
That’s a bold way to build a football slot, because the theme does no work at all between bonuses. What you’re buying into is one jackpot round with respin resets and a symbol-clearing Collector, and whether that single round justifies the long quiet stretch in front of it is the whole question here.
Base Game & Features
Hat-Trick Spin runs on a 5×4 grid with 40 fixed paylines, and only the highest combination on each line counts. It’s a conventional setup, and the game doesn’t dress it up. Wins pay left to right, and there’s nothing unusual about how lines are formed.
The symbols divide cleanly into two squads. Four kicking players, colour-coded red, purple, blue and green, carry the meaningful pays, with the green goalkeeper the only one not mid-strike. Below them sit A, K, Q and J, doing the steady work of small wins. The reels also carry special and Jackpot symbols, which don’t pay in the ordinary way at all: they exist to set up the bonus round.
The wild appears in stacks of four and substitutes for all regular symbols. That’s its whole job, and it’s the only base-game trick the slot knows. When a full stack lands across a reel it can carry several lines at once, which is where the modest top-end pays earn their keep. It won’t stand in for a special or Jackpot symbol, so the wild builds cash wins but never brings the bonus round any closer.
The paytable spreads wide between the top symbol and the bottom. The values below are multiples of your line stake:
- Red Player: 10x for three, 25x for four, 50x for five
- Purple Player: 5x, 10x, 25x
- Blue Player: 4x, 7.5x, 12.5x
- Green Player (goalkeeper): 3x, 4x, 5x
- A: 2.5x, 3x, 4x
- K: 2x, 2.5x, 3x
- Q: 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x
- J: 1x, 1.5x, 2x
That’s a wide spread. Five Red Players pays fifty times the line stake, while five Js pays twice, so the base game lives on small royal wins and the occasional stacked line. The players themselves drop away fast too: the purple kicker pays half the red one at every count, and the blue and green symbols fall off further from there.
Look at the mid-table and the shape of the game becomes clear. Three red players is already worth more than five of any royal, and even the goalkeeper pays three times the line stake for a treble, matching five As. Between the goalkeepers and the royals there’s barely any daylight: the gap from the green symbol down to J is a multiple of three, while the gap from J up to the red player is a multiple of ten. The base game is built for grinding, not for headlines.
No RTP figure is given for this one, so there’s nothing to set the returns against. The game’s structure does the talking instead: modest line pays up front, everything meaningful parked in the jackpot round behind them.
Hat-Trick Spin Jackpot Game & Bonus Features
The Jackpot Game
The Jackpot Game is the reason this slot exists. It triggers on a combination of six special and/or Jackpot symbols, and it starts with three respins. Every special and Jackpot symbol that lands sticks to the reels, and each new symbol resets the respin count back to three.
Only special and Jackpot symbols pay during the round. It ends when the respins run out or the reels fill completely. Special symbols carry their own multipliers, and they range widely:
- 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x
- 10x, 25x, 50x, 75x, 100x
A round plays out in a simple rhythm. The triggering symbols lock in place, the respins begin, and each spin either lands something or burns one of the three chances. A symbol lands, the count snaps back to three, and the grid carries on filling. Miss three times in a row and it’s over. Fill all twenty cells and it’s over too, this time with the board fully paid.
The play in the round is entirely about occupancy. Every cell a special symbol fills is a cell that can’t pay again, and every respin reset is a fresh chance to land something bigger in the spaces that remain. A 100x symbol landing late, when the grid is half full, is worth more than three small ones early. There’s a jump in the ladder worth noticing, too: nothing sits between 5x and 10x, or between 10x and 25x, so a single step up the multiplier list can multiply what a symbol pays several times over.
Collecting Jackpot symbols awards one of four jackpots: Grand, Major, Minor and Mini, tied to landing five, four, three, or two Jackpot symbols respectively. The respin reset means a single round can keep building long after it looked finished.
The Collector symbol is the round’s real wildcard. In the base game it collects all winnings from special symbols, and in the Jackpot Game it removes those symbols from the grid, freeing space for new ones to land. A well-timed Collector can turn a stalled round into a second run at the reels. The removal works both ways, though: a low-value special symbol that’s wiped was still a paying symbol, so what you gain is room and what you give up is a certain small win.
Buy Bonus
If waiting for six symbols isn’t your game, the Buy Bonus skips the queue. It costs 80x your stake and drops you straight into the Jackpot Game with the usual three respins. That’s a mid-priced buy for a hold-and-collect round, and the jackpot ladder caps what it can return.
What the buy buys is certainty of entry, nothing more. The round it grants behaves exactly like the triggered one: same three respins, same symbol set, same multipliers, same Collector. There’s no enhanced version or boosted starting grid waiting behind the price tag, so the calculation is purely whether 80x is better spent than spun. The saving isn’t just patience, either. Six special symbols have to land together organically, and on a 5×4 grid that’s a tall order, so the price is also buying your way past a wait with no guaranteed end.
There’s no maximum win figure for this one. The practical ceiling is a screen full of 100x special symbols plus the Grand jackpot, which is a big number but an untaken one.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Most of a session on Hat-Trick Spin is spent waiting for the floodlights to come on. The football dressing sits quietly over a base game of royal wins and the odd stacked line, and the single reason to pick it up is the round at the end, where sticky symbols and a Collector that clears the grid give one spin the feel of a second half that keeps getting extended.
At its best, that round is genuinely moreish. The respin reset drags tension out of every empty cell, and the Collector’s board-wipe is a piece of design most hold-and-collect games don’t attempt. Against that, the prize ladder’s size isn’t specified, and 80x for the buy is steep next to it.
It’s for players who enjoy the build as much as the payout, and who like a bonus round that plays properly rather than one that simply pays. Anyone wanting action between features will find the stadium quiet. Those who stay to the final whistle get a well-built round in a shirt that doesn’t flatter it.
Hat-Trick Spin FAQs
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How many paylines does Hat-Trick Spin have?
Hat-Trick Spin has 40 fixed paylines on its 5×4 grid. Only the highest winning combination on each line counts. -
What is the grid size of Hat-Trick Spin?
The game plays on a 5×4 grid: five reels and four rows, with 40 paylines running across them. -
Who makes Hat-Trick Spin?
Hat-Trick Spin is made by Mancala Gaming. -
Can you buy the bonus on Hat-Trick Spin?
Yes. The Buy Bonus option costs 80x your stake and starts the Jackpot Game immediately with three respins. -
How does the Jackpot Game trigger?
The Jackpot Game triggers on a combination of six special and/or Jackpot symbols appearing on the reels. -
How do the respins in the Jackpot Game work?
You begin with three respins. Landing any special or Jackpot symbol locks it in place and restores the count to three; when three respins pass without a new symbol, or the reels fill, the round is over. -
What jackpots can you win on Hat-Trick Spin?
Four tiers sit on the ladder: Grand, Major, Minor and Mini, triggered by landing five, four, three or two Jackpot symbols respectively during the round. -
What does the Collector symbol do in Hat-Trick Spin?
In the base game it collects all winnings from special symbols. In the Jackpot Game it removes special symbols from the grid, opening space for new ones to land.
