Golden Crown Hold & Win Slot by Fazi

Flip the green toggle bottom-left and this otherwise ordinary fruit machine grows a coin bonus. That switch is the whole reason to play it. Turn it on and your total stake goes up, but landing 5 or more Coin symbols anywhere now triggers a proper respin round. The triggering coins lock in place, you start with 3 spins, and only Coin symbols can land from then on. Each fresh coin sticks and pushes the counter back to 3. The round dies when a respin brings nothing new, or it keeps going until all 15 cells are coins.

Coins carry their own values, paid out as a lump sum when the round ends. Most sit between 1x and 20x your bet. Then come the named tiers: MINI at 30x, MAJOR at 100x, and the GRAND at 1,000x, which only lands if you fill every position. Don't want to grind the base game waiting for five coins to show up? The BUY BONUS button up top drops you straight into the round.

One thing worth getting straight: the switch raises your stake, but your line wins still pay off the base bet. The extra money only buys the trigger. So a winning payline during a switched-on spin pays exactly what it would have paid with the toggle off.

The base game is plain by comparison. Ten fixed lines, a glossy red 7 as the top symbol at 500x for five (and the only one that pays from two of a kind), then the usual grapes, watermelon, bell and low fruits. A jewelled purple Crown plays Wild for everything except the stars. Two scatters add to line wins separately: the blue one pays from anywhere on screen, the red only counts on reels 1, 3 and 5. Two meter rows stack above the reels, gold fleur-de-lis tiling the crimson and gold backdrop behind them. The top row holds the coin jackpots, the lower one the standard Gold, Diamond and Platinum mystery progressives that drop at random and scale with your bet. Win something and the red-or-black gamble lets you double it up to a 50,000 ceiling. That's a lot of machinery bolted onto a fruit slot, and the coin round is the part that earns its keep.