Ice Mints Slot Review
A candy shop has washed up on an arctic shoreline, and the reels sit in the middle of it: a lilac tray crusted with snow and icicle drips, three red paper cups heaped with ice in front of the lower reels, soda cans half-buried in the snowbanks. The odd thing about Ice Mints is that those cups matter more than the reels do.
Every serious win in this game is manufactured underneath the grid, which makes it stranger than its sugary Pragmatic Play packaging suggests. The cups collect mint symbols and build multipliers reaching 25x on the last one, around a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines, high volatility, a 96.50% RTP and a 10,000x win cap. It shares its sweet tooth with Sweet Bonanza and Fruit Party, though it plays nothing like either. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240 per spin.
How the Base Game Pays
Wins pay left to right across the 20 fixed paylines, with only the highest combination counting on each line and multiple line wins added together. The wild, a coin marked W, stands in for every symbol except the scatter and the mints. Beyond that it’s a conventional five-reel setup doing conventional work.
The paytable is drinks-led, with a purple smoothie on top and fruit filling out the lower rungs. It’s a steep ladder too, with the top symbol paying sixteen times what the bottom one does for a full line. All values are multiples of the total bet:
- Purple Smoothie: 2x for three, 10x for four, 40x for five
- Cola: 1x, 5x, 20x
- Soda Cup: 0.75x, 3.75x, 15x
- Juice Box: 0.5x, 2.5x, 10x
- Strawberry: 0.25x, 1.25x, 5x
- Blueberry: 0.2x, 1x, 4x
- Kiwi: 0.15x, 0.75x, 3x
- Orange: 0.15x, 0.6x, 2.5x
Line wins alone won’t carry a high-volatility game, though, and the game knows it. Everything above the ladder’s ceiling depends on the cups. A full line of smoothies at 40x is the best the reels can do on their own.
The Mint Cups and Multipliers
A cup sits under each of reels two, three and four. Every spin, random multipliers appear on random cups. The values on reels two and three run from x2 up to x20, and the fourth reel’s cup goes one better, reaching x25. Not every cup carries a multiplier on every spin, and the values reset each time.
When mint symbols land, they drop into the cups and new symbols fall into their place. At random, a cup may then expand wilds across the whole reel above it. When that happens, the cup’s multiplier is applied to every win on the screen, not just the wins on that reel.
The rule that shapes everything is how multiple multipliers combine: they add, they don’t multiply. A x6 and a x9 landing together pay x15 on the round’s wins, never x54. That’s a deliberate cap on the base game’s ceiling.
That additive rule is the detail worth understanding. Three cups can’t compound into some astronomical figure, but a stacked wild reel carrying an added multiplier of x40 or more is where the base game’s real money lives.
Free Spins
The scatter triggers the round, and it can appear on all five reels. Three of them opens the feature with 10 spins, four gives 15 and five gives the full 20. Special reels are in play throughout.
The cups behave differently once you’re in. They start empty, with no random multipliers arriving on them. Instead, every mint symbol that drops into a cup and doesn’t trigger a wild expansion raises that cup’s multiplier by one.
The multipliers persist for the whole round, so the game becomes a slow build: every mint fed into a cup is value banked for later spins. Those grown multipliers pay off when a cup expands wilds above it, exactly as in the base game, with multiple multipliers again adding together.
Scatters landing mid-round retrigger the feature for a further 10, 15 or 20 spins depending on how many appear. There’s no stated limit on how many times that can happen, and a long round with well-fed cups is where the game’s biggest results come from.
One hard boundary applies everywhere in the game: a round’s total win is limited to 10,000x the bet. Reach it and the round ends on the spot, the win is awarded in full and anything still running is forfeited. Retriggers don’t reset the cups either, so an extended round keeps everything it has banked.
Buy Free Spins
The free spins round can be bought from the base game for 80x the current total bet, so 160 at a 2.00 stake. The buy runs at its own RTP of 96.55%, a hair above the standard game’s 96.50%.
What you’re buying is the persistent-multiplier version of the cups, which is the only place the mint-feeding mechanic builds uninterrupted. In that sense it’s the game’s proper mode, if 80x a spin doesn’t sting.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Most of a session on Ice Mints is spent watching cups fill. That’s the whole reason to pick it: it’s one of the few high-volatility slots where the base game and the bonus are the same idea at different speeds, and where a spin in the last minute of a round is genuinely worth more than one in the first.
The banking mechanic is its best thing, because persistence gives every mint a price you can feel. The worst thing is how little there is besides it: the reels themselves are a modest paytable and a wild, and the gaps between expansions can run long enough that the ice-cream scenery starts doing the entertaining on its own.
It’s a good fit for players who like a round that builds towards something and don’t mind waiting in the cold for it. Anyone who wants variety, side features or frequent small hits will find it one-note. The single idea holds, though, and a cup you’ve spent fifteen spins feeding finally paying out on a full wild reel is the moment this game was built to sell.
Ice Mints FAQs
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What is the RTP of Ice Mints?
Ice Mints runs at 96.50% RTP in its standard configuration. If you buy the free spins round instead, the RTP is 96.55%. -
How do you trigger free spins in Ice Mints?
Scatters trigger the round, and they can land on any of the five reels. Three starts 10 spins, four gives 15 and five gives 20, with the same combination landing mid-round retriggering the feature. -
How does the mint cup feature work?
A cup sits under each of reels two, three and four, and random multipliers appear on them every spin. Mint symbols drop into the cups, and when a cup expands wilds across the reel above it, its multiplier applies to all wins on screen. Multiple multipliers add together. -
What do the mint cups do differently in free spins?
The cups start empty and receive no random multipliers. Instead, each mint symbol that drops into a cup without triggering a wild expansion raises that cup’s multiplier by one, and the multipliers persist for the whole round. -
Can you buy the bonus on Ice Mints?
Yes. The free spins round can be bought from the base game for 80x your current total bet, and the buy runs at an RTP of 96.55%. -
What is the maximum win on Ice Mints?
The maximum win is capped at 10,000x your bet. If a round’s total win reaches that figure, the round ends immediately, the win is awarded and any remaining features are forfeited. -
What does the wild symbol substitute for in Ice Mints?
The wild stands in for every symbol except the scatter and the mints. It can also appear expanded across a full reel when a cup triggers a wild expansion. -
How do retriggers work during Ice Mints free spins?
Scatters landing mid-round retrigger the feature, awarding a further 10, 15 or 20 spins for three, four or five scatters respectively. The cup multipliers you have already built carry over into the additional spins.
