To Peiratiko Multihold

To Peiratiko Multihold Slot Review

Blue-and-white supporter scarves hang over a ship’s timber reel frame, with goalkeeper gloves and a match ball scattered across the deck of a pirate ship moored off a whitewashed Greek island. It’s a football slot wearing a pirate costume, and the claim worth arguing about sits underneath: Pragmatic Play have built a game that holds almost everything back for its bonus round, leaving a plain 20-line base game to carry you there.

It runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, at 96.06% RTP with medium volatility, and stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin. There’s no published maximum win figure.

Sister titles on the pirate side of their catalogue include Pirate Golden Age, Pirate Gold Deluxe and Smugglers Cove, none of which take the football detour this one does.

Base Game & Features

The base game is straightforward line-pay territory: 20 fixed paylines across five reels and four rows, with wins paid left to right. The reel box itself is built from ship’s timber studded with brass bolts and capped with gold corner brackets, while goalkeeper gloves, a whistle, a boot and a football clutter the deck to either side. It’s a dense, glossy cartoon look, heavy on the gold trim.

Symbols follow the pirate crew, with a Captain at the top and a run of crewmates, flags and royals below. The odd one out is the Soccer Ball, which sits mid-table and ties the football theme into the paytable rather than leaving it as artwork. The premium crew symbols hold most of the value, so a win built from the low end is rarely much of a win at all.

The pay values, as multiples of the line stake, are as follows:

• Captain: 2x for three, 5x for four, 25x for five
• Blue Bandana Pirate: 1.5x, 3.75x, 17.5x
• Purple Pirate with eyepatch and hat: 1x, 2.5x, 12.5x
• Bearded Pirate in the purple shirt: 0.75x, 1.5x, 7.5x
• Blue Flag: 0.6x, 1x, 5x
• Soccer Ball: 0.4x, 0.75x, 3.75x
• A and K: 0.25x, 0.5x, 2.5x
• Q, J and 10: 0.1x, 0.25x, 1.25x

Wild Multipliers

The Wild is a ship symbol, and it appears only on reels 2, 3 and 4. It substitutes for everything except the BONUS symbol.

Every Wild carries a random multiplier of 2x or 3x on each spin, applied to any payline win it’s part of. When more than one Wild lands in the same winning line, the multipliers add together rather than multiply. Two Wilds in a line therefore means a 4x, 5x or 6x boost to that win, depending on what each carries.

Because the Wild is confined to the middle three reels, it can’t form its own winning line. Its whole job is boosting lines that pass through the centre of the grid, so the base game’s better wins always travel through the middle.

Three BONUS symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 pay 2x the total bet and open the free spins round. There’s nothing else happening in the base game, so the pace of it rests entirely on how often the Wild multipliers turn up and connect.

To Peiratiko Multihold Free Spins & Bonus Rounds

Free Spins

Three BONUS symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 award seven free spins. That’s the whole trigger, and it opens a round built around the “Multihold” of the title: the bonus is played on up to four separate 3×5 matrices, unlocked one at a time.

The round starts with only the top left matrix active. Hitting three SCATTER symbols during the feature unlocks the next matrix in a fixed order. The sequence runs:

• Top left: active from the first spin
• Top right: unlocked by the first set of three SCATTERs
• Bottom left: unlocked by the second
• Bottom right: unlocked by the third

SCATTERs only appear on the last unlocked matrix, so progress is forced through each stage in turn. Every unlock awards a random one, two or three extra free spins.

Each matrix pays its winning combinations separately, so four live grids means four sets of line pays per spin. Wilds carry the same 2x or 3x multipliers as in the base game, and the same adding rule applies when more than one sits in a winning line.

Any Wild that lands on the last unlocked matrix stays sticky until the round ends. When a new matrix opens, it starts with the sticky Wilds from the previous matrix already in place. If two matrices unlock on the same spin, the extra free spins are awarded twice, and the Wilds are copied to both.

That copying rule is where the round’s arithmetic gets interesting. Unlock the bottom two grids in a single spin and the sticky collection doubles instantly, with every copied Wild still carrying its multiplier into the lines it joins. A late double unlock can change the shape of the whole round in one go.

Special reels are in play throughout the feature. Three BONUS symbols during the round pay 2x the total bet, matching the base game.

Bonus Buy

The free spins round can be bought directly from the base game for 100x the current total bet. There’s a single tier, no choice of variants, and no discount or enhanced version on offer.

At the minimum stake that’s a 20.00 outlay, rising to 24,000.00 at the top of the betting range. What the buy buys is the standard round, starting from a single matrix, exactly as it would if the BONUS symbols had landed on their own. Nothing about the trigger odds, the unlock order or the sticky Wild rule changes between a bought round and a natural one.

With medium volatility behind it, that flat price sits in the middle of the market: neither one of the cheap entry points around nor one of the punishing ones. A single tier and a single price keep the decision simple.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

Most of a session on this one is waiting, on a deck that’s genuinely lovely to look at. The scarves-and-match-ball pirate theme is odd enough to be memorable, and it’s the reason you’d pick this over a dozen other 20-line games. It’s also, honestly, the only reason to sit through the base game, because the base game itself gives you nothing but Wild multipliers and patience.

The bonus round justifies the wait. Four grids building at once, with sticky Wilds copying forward every time one unlocks, means a late round can turn into something the first seven spins never hinted at. That slow build is also the problem: everything good here is back-loaded, and the round can end on one grid before it gets going at all.

This is a game for players who like a bonus that grows and don’t mind a quiet spell to get there. Anyone wanting action from the first spin should sail past. For the patient ones, there’s treasure here, football and all.

To Peiratiko Multihold FAQs

• How do you trigger the free spins in To Peiratiko Multihold?

  Land three BONUS symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5. That awards seven free spins and pays 2x your total bet.
• How does the Multihold system work?

  The free spins round plays on up to four separate 3×5 matrices. You start with one, and hitting three SCATTER symbols unlocks the next in a fixed order, each time awarding one to three extra spins. SCATTERs only appear on the last unlocked matrix.
• What do the Wild symbols do in To Peiratiko Multihold?

  Wilds appear only on reels 2, 3 and 4 and substitute for all symbols except the BONUS. Each carries a random 2x or 3x multiplier, and when more than one Wild forms part of the same payline win, the multipliers are added together. In free spins, Wilds on the last unlocked matrix stay sticky for the rest of the round.
• Can you buy the bonus on To Peiratiko Multihold?

  Yes. The free spins round can be triggered instantly from the base game for 100x your current total bet, with a single buy tier on offer.
• What happens when two matrices unlock on the same spin?

  You’re awarded the extra free spins twice, and the sticky Wilds from the previous matrix are copied to both newly unlocked matrices, multipliers included.
• What is the RTP of To Peiratiko Multihold?

  96.06%.
• Is To Peiratiko Multihold high volatility?

  No, it’s a medium volatility slot, so swings tend to be gentler than in Pragmatic Play’s high-variance releases.
• Who makes To Peiratiko Multihold and when was it released?

  It’s a Pragmatic Play release. To Peiratiko Multihold’s release date is 21 June 2024.