Winter Trophy Hold and Win Slot by BGaming

Olympic Theme, Hold & Win Core

Winter Trophy is BGaming's winter sports entry in the Hold & Win format: a 5×3, 25-payline slot set in a mountain stadium where fox, tiger, and penguin athletes compete for medals. The presentation leans into the Olympic theme through the base symbols - bronze, silver, and gold trophies alongside card royals - and a snowy stadium backdrop. The Trophy itself is the Wild. But the real game is the Medal Respin.

Medal Respin: Six Respins and a Jackpot Path

Land 6 or more Medal symbols in a single base game spin and the Medal Respin activates. You start with 6 respins. Every new Medal that lands locks in position and resets the counter to 6. The bonus runs until respins expire or all 15 cells are filled.

Medal values come in 13 tiers: ×1, ×2, ×3, ×4, ×5, ×6, ×7, ×8, ×10, ×14, ×16, ×18, ×20 of your total bet. Two special symbols appear only during the respin: Collect sums the current total of all medals on screen without removing them - so if you hold nine medals worth ×90 combined and a Collect lands, those ×90 get added to your win while the medals stay. Plus Spin adds extra respins; multiple Plus Spin symbols combine.

Fill all 15 positions with Medals and the Mega Jackpot triggers: 5,000× your bet, paid on top of whatever medal total you accumulated. That jackpot is the ceiling at 5,624× total, BGaming's certified max for this game.

Free Spins and the Chain Into Medal Respin

Three Scatter symbols on reels 1, 3, and 5 trigger 10 Free Spins. The reel set switches to high-paying symbols only - card royals disappear. Landing 3 more Scatters during the feature awards 10 additional spins.

The connection worth noting: Medal Respin can activate within Free Spins if 6+ Medals appear during the bonus. This creates a possible chain - base spin triggers Free Spins, Free Spins triggers Medal Respin, Medal Respin fills the grid for the jackpot. That three-stage path is what makes the math model work at very high volatility.

Buy Options

Both bonus modes are purchasable. Free Spins costs 50× your current bet. Medal Respin costs 40×. At the €45 maximum, that's €2,250 for Free Spins or €1,800 to buy straight into the Medal Respin. High stakes for a jackpot worth up to €225,000 at that bet level - the RNG math applies regardless.

Math and Volatility

RTP is 96.14%. Volatility is very high, which is consistent with a jackpot game where most of the expected value sits in rare extreme outcomes. Hit rate is about 42% (roughly 1 winning spin per 2.4 spins), meaning frequent small base game returns, but the long stretches without bonus triggers define the session experience.

Theme Execution

The Olympic framing is consistent throughout. Animal athlete characters - fox, tiger, penguin - compete across winter disciplines, rendered clearly against the mountain stadium setting. BGaming's visual quality is reliable at this point. The Hold & Win format has been done many times across providers, including in BGaming's own catalog. What Winter Trophy adds - the Collect and Plus Spin symbols, 6 starting respins instead of the typical 3, and the Free Spins-to-Respin chain - are genuine mechanical contributions rather than cosmetic differences.