Samba Stars: Hold The Spin Slot by Gamzix

How many Scatters you land for the trigger changes what kind of free spins you actually get. Three drums across the reels give 10 spins with x2 Wild Multipliers. Four drums bump those Wilds to x3. Five drums - x5 on every Wild that appears during the round. It's the same 10 spins regardless, but the multiplier ceiling shifts dramatically depending on that initial trigger. Scatters keep working during the round too: two or three on reels 1, 3, and 5 retrigger 3 or 10 extra spins, keeping the current multiplier tier. Both buy options skip straight into the feature, though the game doesn't surface which multiplier tier you'll get before purchase.

The Hold The Spin bonus fires when six or more star-shaped Bonus symbols land in a single spin. Each star carries a coin value between 1x and 16x your bet. Three respins, reset on any new symbol, standard Gamzix rules. But this version adds two wrinkles. Collect stars sweep every coin value currently on the grid into a single payout, then disappear. Double stars stick around for the entire bonus and multiply all other Bonus symbol payouts by 2x - including jackpot hits. Four fixed jackpots sit inside the round: Mini at 20x, Minor at 50x, Major at 150x, and the Grand at 5,000x for filling all 15 positions. A Heap of Stars feature in the base game randomly dumps enough Bonus symbols to force-trigger the round.

Pastel colonial buildings line a sun-drenched street behind the gold-bordered reels, with flowering trees and a pale blue sky above. Four samba dancers in feathered headdresses and carnival costumes make up the high-pays - bold pinks, greens, and golds against a dark teal reel background. The Wild is a pink-and-green feathered carnival mask. Card royals from J through A fill out the lows in chunky blue and green lettering, sitting heavy against that same teal.