Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid Slot Review
Candlelight, maracas and a Catrina grinning out from the reels: the Day of the Dead styling in Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid throws a lively party. It’s a deceptive one. This is a line-payer that barely wants its paylines at all, because nearly all the real money moves through three coin systems running beside them, and the paytable knows it.
It’s a Maxxi Labs build, a studio whose Mad Ducks covered similar coin-collecting ground, and it runs on a 5×4 grid with 40 fixed paylines paying left to right. The line wins are modest. Everything interesting happens around them.
Base Game & Features
The reels are stacked with skeleton revellers and festival props, and the wild substitutes for everything except the scatters, coins and jackpot symbols. Wins form on adjacent reels from the left, and only the highest combination on a line counts. Here’s what each symbol pays, as a multiple of your line stake:
- Red Skeleton (sombrero): 5x for five, 1.8x for four, 1x for three
- Yellow/Gold Skeleton and Green Skeleton: 3x for five, 1.5x for four, 0.8x for three
- Blue Skeleton and Pink Skeleton (Catrina): 2.5x for five, 1.2x for four, 0.6x for three
- Bottle and Maracas: 1.6x for five, 0.8x for four, 0.4x for three
- Flower Skull and Guitar: 0.5x for three
Those are small numbers for a modern release. Five sombrero skeletons, the best line in the game, returns five times the line stake. The paytable clearly isn’t where this game expects to pay you.
Super Stacks
On any spin, symbols can be randomly Super Stacked across all five reels. In the base game, every symbol except scatters, wilds and coins can stack this way. In free spins the options narrow to wilds and coins only, which is the round’s whole engine.
Power Mode
Power Mode can trigger on any base game spin and awards a free Coin symbol to the collect meter. With Power Mode active, landing three or four Coin symbols in the base game grows the Hold&Win meter, feeding the feature modes described below.
It’s a nudge system: small base game events quietly building towards the big one.
The Coin Grid
The Coin Grid is the game’s second collection layer, running in both the base game and free spins. Cash and Jackpot Coins that land populate a grid beside the reels. On a single spin you can complete up to four sets of horizontal, vertical or corner-to-corner diagonal coins to win a cash prize.
Cash values on intersecting coins contribute to each completed set, and only coins that formed part of a winning set are cleared. Landing a Cash Coin in a reel position that already holds one increases its value, through these tiers:
- 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x and 12x of your bet
A growing grid gives every spin a sub-game the paytable doesn’t account for.
Complete a set containing one or more Jackpot Coins and you win the associated jackpot. Up to one of each GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR and MINI jackpot coin can sit on the grid at any one time, so a single completed set can sweep more than one tier if the coins intersect.
Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid Hold & Win and Free Spins
Hold & Win
Land six or more Coin symbols anywhere and the Hold&Win feature starts: three free respins, with the triggering coins held in place and everything else respinning. Every new coin that lands is held and resets the respins to three. The round ends when respins run out or every position fills.
It can trigger in the base game and in free spins, at the same bet as the triggering spin. Each Hold&Win Cash Coin carries a random value from 0.5x to 5x, paying in any position when the feature ends. Jackpot coins count down once per spin while they sit on the reels, building towards their payouts. A range of Booster Coins changes the arithmetic of a round:
- Persistent Cash Collect Booster Coin – collects the sum of all landed Cash Collect Booster Coins and Cash Coins into a total on every spin
- Cash Collect Booster Coin – collects the sum of any landed Persistent Cash Collect Booster Coin and Cash Coins once
- 2x Multiplier Booster Coin – randomly doubles up to four Cash Coins; the persistent version does it on every spin
- Unlock Booster Coin – activates one additional row, up to three
- Extra Chance Booster Coin – awards one free respin, extending the round
Hold & Win Modes
Landing four or five Coin symbols in the base game or free spins grows the Hold&Win meter, and a full meter upgrades the round. Each mode starts with three additional active rows on top of the standard grid:
- Max Mode – three extra rows, nothing else added
- Multiplier Mode – three extra rows plus a guaranteed Persistent 2x Multiplier Booster Coin
- Collect Mode – three extra rows plus a guaranteed Persistent Cash Collect Booster Coin
The upgrades matter more than they look. Extra rows mean more held coins before the round ends, and a persistent booster working every respin compounds fast when the grid is filling.
Free Spins
Three or more scatters award 10 free spins, with wilds or coins Super Stacked on every spin. Bets and lines stay as they were on the triggering spin. Ten spins is a short round, but with coins stacked on every reel, Hold&Win triggers and Coin Grid growth come round quickly.
Buy Feature
The Buy Feature skips the waiting. You can buy straight into the standard Hold&Win feature or any of its three upgraded modes, at the following costs:
- Max Mode Hold&Win – 95x bet
- Multiplier Mode Hold&Win – 120x bet
- Collect Mode Hold&Win – 200x bet
The buys may be limited or locked while your bet exceeds a specified amount, worth checking before you raise stakes expecting to skip ahead. The premium tiers are expensive against the cash coin values on offer, so the mode you pick matters.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid is like tending a barbecue while the party happens somewhere else: the skeleton reels grin and pay out crumbs, while the real action builds slowly on the coin grid beside them. That slow build is the reason to pick it, and it rewards patience more than any line win ever will.
Its best trick is the Coin Grid itself, because values grow in place instead of resetting, so a long quiet spell can pay several sets at once when a line finally lands. Its worst is the split between the two halves of the game: the base paytable is so weak that spins without coin activity feel like filler, and the four jackpot tiers are the only ceiling on offer. Nothing here pads the gaps.
It suits players who enjoy watching a board fill up and cashing in one burst; anyone chasing meaningful line wins should look elsewhere. For the patient type, this fiesta is worth the wait. For everyone else, the candles burn down quickly.
Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid FAQs
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How many paylines does Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid have?
There are 40 fixed paylines. Line wins begin on the leftmost reel and pay left to right only on adjacent reels, and the number of lines wagered is fixed. -
What is the grid size of Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid?
The game plays on a 5×4 grid – five reels and four rows – with 40 fixed paylines. -
Can you buy the bonus on Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid?
Yes. A Buy Feature button sits top-right of the game screen, priced from 50x the bet, and lets you buy into the Hold&Win feature directly. The upgraded modes cost 95x bet for Max Mode, 120x bet for Multiplier Mode and 200x bet for Collect Mode. -
When is Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid released?
Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid’s release date is 30 September 2026. -
Who makes Skulls and Souls Bonanza Coin Grid?
The game is made by Maxxi Labs, the studio also behind Mad Ducks. -
How is the Hold&WIN feature triggered?
Landing six or more Coin symbols anywhere on the reels starts the Hold&Win feature with three free respins. Triggering coins are held in place, any new coin that lands is also held and resets the respins to three, and the round ends when the respins run out or every position fills. -
What does the free spins round award?
Three or more scatter symbols award 10 free spins. On every free spin, wild or coin symbols are Super Stacked, and bets and lines stay the same as on the triggering spin. -
What jackpots does the Coin Grid offer?
The Coin Grid carries four jackpots – GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR and MINI. Up to one of each jackpot coin can sit on the grid at any one time, and completing a set that includes a jackpot coin wins the associated jackpot.
