Introduction to Winter Trophy Hold and Win
Winter Trophy Hold and Win is a 5x3 slot from BGaming built around a winter sports theme, timed to land alongside the 2026 Winter Olympics. You get 25 paylines, a Coin Respin mechanic, and a Free Spins round that strips out low-pay symbols. Max win sits at 5,624x. Volatility is very high, but the hit frequency of 41.84% keeps the base game ticking over, so sessions do not feel completely dead between features.
I loaded this up expecting a fairly standard Hold and Win game, and if I'm honest with chat, that is mostly what you get. Cute animal athletes doing curling, skiing, snowboarding and ice dancing across a snowy stadium backdrop. RTP is 96.14%, and bets range from 0.1 up to 45. Plays fine on mobile as well.
Symbols and Paytable
Low-pay symbols are the standard J, Q, K and A cards, each paying 2x your bet for a five-of-a-kind line. Premium symbols are the animal athletes: curling penguins, snowboarding rabbits, ice dancing foxes and skiing tigers. Five premiums pay between 5x and 20x. Not massive, but the free spins round compensates by removing those card symbols entirely.
Wild is a polar bear wearing a red beanie. It replaces every regular symbol but leaves Scatter and Coin Symbols alone. Coin Symbols carry values from 1x to 20x and only matter for the respin feature; they do not form standard payline wins.
Symbol Payouts
Bonus Features and Slot Mechanics
Three Scatter Symbols on the grid trigger 10 Free Spins. During this round, all low-paying card symbols are removed from the reels. That alone bumps up the average hit quality noticeably. Land 3 more Scatters and you re-trigger another 10 spins. On average, you will see this feature once every 182 spins, so do not expect it often.
Land 6 or more Coin Symbols anywhere on the grid and you enter the Coin Respin. Coins lock in place and you receive 6 spins. Only blanks, Coins, Collect Symbols and +1 Spin Symbols can appear. When a Collect lands, it gathers the total value of every Coin on the grid. Fill all 15 positions and you hit the 5,000x Mega Jackpot.
Here is my one gripe for chat: the respin counter does not reset when a new Coin lands. Most Hold and Win slots give you a reset to 3 spins on each new symbol, but BGaming calls this a respin feature and treats it differently. Six spins that only count down makes filling the grid much harder, so temper expectations on that Mega Jackpot.
Bonus Buy Options
You can buy free spins by paying 50x your bet.
Feature Cost: x50 BetRTP: 96.01%
You can buy respins by paying 40x your bet.
Feature Cost: x40 BetRTP: 95.91%
Land 6 or more Coin Symbols to trigger the Hold and Win respin round. Coins lock in place and you get 6 spins. Collect Symbols gather all Coin values. Filling all 15 positions awards the 5,000x Mega Jackpot.
RTP, Volatility, and Max Win
RTP is 96.14%, which is decent and above the industry average. Volatility is very high, so long dry stretches between big hits are expected. Max win caps at 5,624x the bet. For a very high volatility slot, that ceiling is a bit modest; plenty of competitors push 10,000x or beyond. Still, the 41.84% hit frequency offsets some of the swings by keeping smaller wins coming through the base game.
