Money frogs sit by the doors of Chinese homes and on shop counters with a coin held in the mouth, turned to face inward so the luck comes in rather than leaks back out onto the street. Triple Hop Pots lines three of them up on a shelf above the reels, one red, one green, one purple. Watch for a few spins and you’ll assume they’re filling towards something.
They aren’t. The rules are blunt about it: the frogs are a graphical representation of the three scatter colours and nothing more, so there’s no collection meter here to chase.
Underneath them sits about as old-school a slot as you’ll find. A 3×3 grid with five fixed paylines, six symbols paying three-of-a-kind from the left, low volatility and a hit frequency of 1 in 4.54. Stakes run from 0.10 to 250 a spin, the top win is 5,000x, and the RTP is 96.50% in its default setting, with reduced 95.50% and 94.50% configurations available to operators.
The modern half is the bonus, and it’s where Pragmatic Play have spent their budget: three colour-coded reel modifiers that stack on top of each other. Helios Triple Sun runs the same idea at greater length, and this is that concept squeezed into a much smaller box. On the classic side of the same catalogue, Jokers Jewels Wild is the nearest match for the stripped-back reels and the three-of-a-kind rhythm.
For the Asian-luck iconography pushed a good deal harder, Lucky Drums 88 is the better stop. So the thing worth sorting out here is whether three frogs really do more than one of them would.
Triple Hop Pots Base Game and Features
Wins pay three-of-a-kind, left to right, on adjacent reels across five fixed lines. The Pearl sits at the top of the paytable, followed by the Gold Fish and the Lotus, with the Blue Heart, Red Jewel and Green Drop filling out the low end. There are no wilds and nothing tumbles.
Stakes cover 0.10 to 250 a spin. Volatility is rated low and the hit frequency of 1 in 4.54 means something lands roughly every fourth or fifth spin, almost always at line-pay size.
The Frogs Above the Reels
Each of the three frogs corresponds to one scatter colour, and each scatter colour has its own dedicated reel. The display is decorative only. Nothing accumulates in the frogs between spins and nothing is awarded for filling them, which the game’s own rules state explicitly.
Colour Scatter Modifiers
Each of the three scatters brings a different set of reel multipliers into the Free Spins round:
- Red Scatter applies x3, x6 and x3 to reels 1, 2 and 3 – the largest multipliers in the game, and the only modifier that touches all three reels
- Green Scatter applies x2 to reels 1 and 2
- Purple Scatter applies x2 to reels 2 and 3
Scatters landing on their dedicated reels can randomly trigger the Free Spins round, and the colours involved decide which modifiers are switched on when it starts. One, two or all three can be active from the first spin.
Free Spins and Bonus Features
The Free Spins round opens with six free spins and whichever modifiers the triggering scatters brought with them. The reel multipliers stay live for the whole round and apply to every win that forms on the reels they cover.
Money Symbols
A Money symbol appears only during Free Spins and lands carrying a value drawn from a fixed set: 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 25x, 50x, 100x or 500x the total bet. Every value collected across the round is banked and paid at the end, after any active reel multipliers have been applied to it.
Retriggers and Stacked Modifiers
Scatters can keep landing once the round is underway. Each retrigger adds three extra free spins and can switch on a further modifier that wasn’t active at the start, so a round that began on Green alone can finish with Red and Purple stacked alongside it.
There’s no bonus buy. Free Spins arrive through normal play only, at whatever pace the scatters decide.
Our Honest Verdict
The base game does what a 3×3 with five lines can do and stops there. Something hits often enough to keep a short sitting ticking over, and the arcade jingle behind it is cheerful, though the standard spin sound had faded into background noise long before we stopped.
Free Spins are where it earns its keep. Six spins on a lone Green or Purple were over before they’d built anything. Two modifiers running together changed the shape of the round completely, and when a retrigger switched on a third, this tiny slot suddenly felt powerful. Money symbols mostly landed in the lower-to-middle band, which makes Red’s x6 on the centre reel the difference between a shrug and a result. At 5,000x the ceiling is modest, and honest for the format.
Simplicity is the whole argument. Classic three-reel players will find it an easy thing to sit with; anyone after depth or a big buy will have seen everything the frogs can do inside a few bonus rounds. The luck charm works, up to a point.
Overall Rating: 6.4/10
Triple Hop Pots FAQs
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What is Triple Hop Pots?
Triple Hop Pots is a low-volatility 3×3 slot from Pragmatic Play with an Asian theme, five fixed paylines and a Free Spins bonus built around three colour-coded scatter modifiers. -
What is the RTP of Triple Hop Pots?
Triple Hop Pots has a default RTP of 96.50%, with reduced variants at 95.50% and 94.50% that operators can select. -
How volatile is Triple Hop Pots?
Triple Hop Pots is low volatility, with a hit frequency of 1 in 4.54 spins, making it comfortable for casual sessions. -
What is the maximum win in Triple Hop Pots?
The maximum win is 5,000x your stake, though the probability of hitting it is extremely low at 1 in 2,427,184. -
How do Free Spins trigger in Triple Hop Pots?
Free Spins are randomly triggered when Green, Red or Purple scatter symbols land, and the round can begin with one, two or all three colour modifiers active. You start with six free spins, and scatters landing during the round retrigger three more. -
What do the colour scatter modifiers do?
The Green scatter applies x2 multipliers to reels 1 and 2. The Red scatter applies x3, x6 and x3 to reels 1, 2 and 3, making it the strongest of the three. The Purple scatter applies x2 to reels 2 and 3. These modifiers stack if more than one colour is active in the same round. -
What are the Money Symbols in Triple Hop Pots?
Money Symbols appear only during Free Spins and carry random values from 0.5x up to 500x your stake. Every value collected during a round is multiplied by any active scatter modifiers and paid out at the end of the round. -
Is there a bonus buy feature in Triple Hop Pots?
No, Triple Hop Pots does not have a bonus buy feature. Free Spins trigger randomly during normal play only.
