Gold Trio: Football! Slot by Playtech

Three coloured coins do the heavy lifting, and each one has a different job. The blue coin is straight cash, dropping a value into its collector pot. The red coin is a multiplier, doubling the figure printed on every coin currently in view. The green coin is the collector - it sweeps up all the cash prizes on screen and pays the total. Land a red before a green and the whole board's worth of coins gets doubled right before it's gathered.

One, two or all three coloured coins showing in the base game can set off the Gold Trio Respins. Five coins lock the moment it starts, and landing more coins buys extra respins on top. Locked positions stay put while the rest of the reels keep spinning for fresh coins, multipliers and collectors. Fill all fifteen spots and you take the Grand at 1,000x, sitting above the fixed Mini, Minor and Major on a four-tier ladder. The individual cash coins inside the feature top out at 15x each.

There's a Buy Feature for anyone who doesn't want to sit through the base spins, which are mostly dead air until the coins turn up. It drops you straight into the respins with one, two or three coloured coins already in play. The ceiling is the catch: 1,000x is a modest top end for a high-volatility hold-and-win, and this is a football reskin of the same engine behind Sinbad's Riches and the other Gold Trio titles. The coins and the pots are identical, only the dressing changed.

That dressing is a floodlit stadium at night, three trophy pots lined up above the reels, one per coin colour, glinting under the lights. The Wild stands in for everything except the coins. If you've played the rest of the series you already know how this one behaves, it just turns up in a kit.