Winter Star Bonus Buy Slot by Evoplay

This is the Winter Star you already know - same 5x3 grid, same dual-scatter system, same three-tier free spins selection - but with a buy button bolted on. All three free spins modes cost 37x, which is unusual. Normally buy bonus pricing scales with volatility, but here the 8-spin high mode and the 16-spin low mode share an identical entry fee.

The Winter Star scatter occupies reels 2, 3, and 4 exclusively - nine positions total. Three stars on screen pay 1x in the base game. Fill all nine and that jumps to 1,000x. During free spins, the paytable shifts based on your volatility pick: high mode pays 7x for three stars and 5,000x for nine, while low mode mirrors base game values exactly. The gap between three stars and nine stars in high mode is massive - 7x to 5,000x - so partial fills barely register.

Golden Bells on reels 1, 3, and 5 trigger the selection screen naturally, and they keep appearing during the bonus for retriggers at whatever tier you originally chose. Line wins run parallel to star prizes on every spin, though the regular paytable is thin - the best-paying symbol (pear) tops out at 6.5x for five.

Deep blue night sky, snow-capped mountain silhouettes along the bottom edge, and glossy oversized fruit rendered against that cold backdrop. The winter dressing is purely cosmetic over what is essentially a classic fruit grid with a collection bonus layered on top.