Winter Trophy Hold and Win Slot Review
A bobsleigh track curves past the reel frame, a grandstand blurs out behind the grid, and laurel branches wrap the cabinet like a medal ribbon. The scenery is doing more work than the reels: strip the winter games away and Winter Trophy Hold and Win is two bonus rounds with a corridor between them, and it’s the corridor that got the polish.
It’s a BGaming title that plays the format its subtitle promises, and the medal imagery feeds the whole idea: a MEGA JACKPOT of 5,000x sits at the top of the board, the gold at the end of the run. The game runs on a 5×4 grid with win lines, at 96.14% RTP and high volatility. Sister titles like Chicken Rush 2 and Fruit Million show the range BGaming work across; this one sits squarely in the coin-collecting school, and the winter sports are the freshest thing about it.
How the Base Game Pays
Wins pay across the game’s win lines, with the bet set through the total bet field. Higher bets raise the total win proportionally, so the paytable reads cleanly as multiples of the total stake. That matters here, because the symbol values are quoted against the total bet rather than a line bet.
The symbols are a winter-sports cast. A blue skier leads the pays, followed by a fox, a bunny snowboarder and a penguin mid-curling-stone delivery. The royals fill out the lower rungs.
- Skier (blue): 12.5x for three, 50x for four, 250x for five
- Fox: 7.5x, 25x, 100x
- Snowboarder (bunny): 5x, 20x, 75x
- Penguin (curling): 5x, 15x, 62.5x
- A, K, Q, J: 2.5x, 5x, 25x
The polar bear wild substitutes for any symbol except the Scatter and the Coin, and it’s a paying symbol in its own right, matching the skier’s 250x for five. That makes it the joint-richest symbol on the grid. The torch Scatter pays just 1x for three, but landing Scatters on reels one, three and five is what opens the free spins.
There’s a fair drop from the top of the cast to the bottom. Five royals return 25x, a tenth of the skier’s top pay, and three royals pay just 2.5x, so the base game’s smaller wins come mostly from the letter symbols while the character symbols carry the real weight.
Autospins are on hand for longer sessions: pick a number of rounds, confirm, and the reels run themselves until the count is done or you cancel back to manual mode. The autospin settings are adjustable before you commit, and the confirmation pop-up shows the total cost, which is the spin count multiplied by your bet.
Free Spins
Three Scatters on reels 1-3-5 trigger 10 free spins. The twist is in the symbol set: only the high symbols take part. That strips the royals out of the round entirely, so every spin is skiers, foxes, snowboarders, penguins and wilds.
With the J, Q, K and A removed, the weakest symbol on the reels during the round is the penguin at 5x for three, and the wild’s 250x five-of-a-kind is very much in play. It’s a simple filter but an effective one, and it means the free spins play nothing like the base game that precedes them.
The round retriggers, too. Scatters still appear during the free spins, and three more of them award another 10 spins on top. There’s no stated limit on how many times that can happen, so the same hit that opened the round can keep extending it, and a lucky run of Scatters compounds spin after spin.
Coin Respin and the 5,000x Jackpot
Six or more Coin symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the Coin Respin, the game’s headline round. It’s a bonus game played with three symbol types only: Coins, Collects and +1 Spins. Coins pay nothing in the base game, which is what makes landing six of them feel like a gear change rather than a win.
Each Coin carries a value from a fixed ladder of possible prizes:
- 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 10x, 14x, 16x, 18x or 20x the bet
The ladder has gaps worth noticing. Values run densely from 1x up to 8x, then jump: there’s no 9x, nothing between 10x and 14x, and the top rungs of 16x, 18x and 20x are spaced well apart. The small coins are the common currency of the round; the coins above 10x are what turn a decent Collect into a big one.
Two helper symbols work the round. The Collect symbol sums up the values of every Coin on the reels and pays them out in one hit, and the +1 Spin symbol adds an extra respin, with multiple drops summing their respins together. That combination, coins banking value, collects sweeping the board and extra respins extending the run, is the whole engine of the round.
Above it all sits the MEGA JACKPOT of 5,000x the bet, displayed permanently in the top corner of the screen. That jackpot is the game’s ceiling, and on a high-volatility hold and win it’s the figure the whole structure points towards. Individual coins top out at 20x, so the jackpot is the only route to the biggest prize the game offers.
Bonus Buys
Both features can be bought from the base game, and the respin is the cheaper door into the game’s bigger prize:
- Buy Free Spins: 50x the bet
- Buy Respins: 40x the bet
The two buys suit different aims. The Free Spins buy at 50x buys the round with the royal-free reels and its retrigger potential; the Respins buy at 40x is the direct route to the coin ladder, the Collect sweeps and the 5,000x jackpot itself.
The buy RTP differs slightly from the standard game: the Free Spins buy runs at 96.01% against the game’s 96.14%. It’s a small shave on the premium.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing this one means watching for coins that pay nothing yet, waiting for the games to actually start. That’s the honest shape of a session here, and the winter wrapping makes the waiting easier than it should be: the free spins round is the reason to pick it, because a reel set with no royals in it can’t pay you in small change.
That royal-free round is also the smartest thing BGaming did here. The weakness is the respin: swap the artwork for any other studio’s and nothing would change, and with coins capped at 20x, everything short of the jackpot stays modest.
If you like the hold and win format, this is a well-made run at it with a fair RTP and one genuinely good idea in the free spins. Anyone after a new mechanic won’t find one under the snow. It came for a medal in an event it’s competed in before, and it skis a clean line.
Winter Trophy Hold and Win FAQs
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What is the RTP of Winter Trophy Hold and Win?
The RTP is 96.14%. Buying the Free Spins round instead runs at a slightly lower 96.01%. -
Is Winter Trophy Hold and Win high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility slot, so wins tend to be spaced out with the bigger prizes concentrated in the bonus rounds. -
How do you trigger free spins in Winter Trophy Hold and Win?
Land three Scatter symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 and you’ll be awarded 10 free spins. Only the high symbols take part in the round, so the royal symbols don’t appear at all. -
How does the Coin Respin work?
Six or more Coin symbols anywhere on the reels start the round. Coins carry values from 1x up to 20x the bet, the Collect symbol sums every Coin on the reels, and +1 Spin symbols add extra respins. The round also carries the 5,000x mega jackpot. -
Can free spins retrigger in Winter Trophy Hold and Win?
Yes. If three Scatters appear during the free spins round, another 10 free spins are added to your total, and there’s no stated limit on retriggers. -
What does the Collect symbol do?
The Collect symbol appears only in the Coin Respin, where it sums up the values of all Coin symbols present on the reels and pays them out together. -
Can you buy the bonus on Winter Trophy Hold and Win?
Yes. Free Spins can be bought for 50x the bet and the Coin Respin for 40x the bet, making the respin round the cheaper of the two buys. -
Who makes Winter Trophy Hold and Win?
BGaming. It’s part of their line-up alongside titles like Chicken Rush 2 and Fruit Million.
