40 Hold Hot Hold and Win

40 Hold Hot: Hold and Win Overview

40 Hold Hot: Hold and Win is a Felix Gaming slot on a five-by-four grid with 40 paylines, four jackpot tiers and a coin round, dressed as a classic fruit machine sitting on a casino table.

Its paytable contains an inversion worth knowing about before playing: the scatter pays twenty times what the wild does, and forty times what the best fruit returns.

Theme and Graphics

The reels float above a green baize table scattered with casino chips, playing cards and a roulette wheel, all photographed in soft focus. The 40 HOLD HOT logo sits top-left in red and gold with HOLD AND WIN on a plate beneath it.

The four jackpot plates run across the top in red, purple, green and blue. The symbols are glossy oversized fruit – purple plums, oranges, lemons, watermelons, cherries – with a red 7, a gold bell, a gold star scatter and a WILD plate in purple and orange.

Winning lines are drawn in thin red traces across the whole grid, which on forty lines makes a busy spin look like a cat’s cradle. All figures below come from demo play at a 10.00 FUN bet.

The Paytable, and the Scatter

Start with the regular symbols. At the 10.00 stake the red 7 leads at 125.00 for five, 40.00 for four and 5.00 for three – that is 12.5x, 4x and 0.5x. The bell follows at 100.00 / 20.00 / 2.50.

The plum and the watermelon share a rung at 50.00 / 10.00 / 2.50, and the orange, lemon and cherries all pay exactly 15.00 for five, 5.00 for four and 2.50 for three – identical across all three levels. Against the bet that is 1.5x, 0.5x and 0.25x.

The wild pays too: 250.00 for five, 100.00 for four and 10.00 for three – 25x, 10x and 1x. Its rules line is precise: Symbol appears on all reels. Substitutes for all symbols, except SCATTER and COIN.

Now the star. The scatter pays 5,000.00 for five, 200.00 for four and 20.00 for three, and its rule reads Scatter pays on any position.

Against the 10.00 bet that top row is 500 times the stake – forty times what five of the cheap fruits return, twenty times what five wilds pay, and forty times the red 7. It is by an enormous margin the most valuable thing the reels can produce, and it needs no payline at all.

What That Means in Practice

An inversion this large changes how a board should be read. On most slots the scatter is a trigger that pays a token amount on the way; here five scatters anywhere on the grid is worth more than any feature round the demo produced.

It also explains the shape of the rest of the table. With 500x sitting on one row, the regular symbols can afford to be modest – and they are. Five of anything except the 7, the bell or a wild returns between 1.5x and 5x the stake.

The demo confirms the ordinary scale: results of 5.00, 62.50, 62.50, 85.00 and 100.00 against the 10.00 bet, or 0.5x, 6.25x, 6.25x, 8.5x and 10x.

The Stacked Wilds

The wild arrives stacked, and the demo shows it repeatedly: two columns of three WILD plates filling reels three and four on one board, three down a single reel on another.

The results are instructive. A board with six wilds across two reels, alongside a column of lemons, paid 100.00 – ten times the stake. A board with three wilds on one reel and a spread of plums paid 62.50.

Six wilds on a forty-line grid returning ten times the bet is a fair measure of how flat the fruit is underneath. The wilds are converting a great many lines; the lines themselves are not worth much.

A MAJOR plate appears among the symbols in one of those captures, sitting on the fifth reel – so the jackpot tiers arrive as symbols during play rather than being awarded separately.

The Hold and Win Round

The feature clears the reels to gold coins carrying cash values, with a RESPINS LEFT counter down the left-hand side.

The demo catches a completed round. The board carries coins reading 10.00, 20.00, 40.00, 100.00 and 150.00 across most of its twenty positions, the respin counter has reached zero, and the total printed beneath the grid is 480.00.

Against the 10.00 stake those coins are worth between 1x and 15x the bet each, and the round as a whole returned 48 times the stake. That is roughly five times the best base-game result in the session, from a board that was close to full.

The Buy Button and the Jackpots

A single buy option is offered, on a card showing a gold coin: HOLD AND WIN – 600.00 FUN, with the bet restated beneath it as 10.00.

That is 60 times the stake, and it is worth holding against the 48x the demo’s completed round produced. One round proves nothing about a distribution, but the two numbers are close enough that the purchase is clearly priced near what an average round is expected to return.

The four plates read Grand 30,000.00, Major 1,500.00, Minor 500.00 and Mini 100.00 – at the 10.00 bet, 3,000x, 150x, 50x and 10x.

The steps are uneven: Mini to Minor multiplies by five, Minor to Major by three, and Major to Grand by twenty. Note also that the Mini at 10x is worth exactly what six stacked wilds paid in the demo, and the Grand at 3,000x covers three fifths of the game’s published ceiling.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The RTP is 96.81%, comfortably above the modern standard and a genuine point in the game’s favour. Volatility is rated Medium-High and the maximum win is 5,000x the bet.

Medium-High fits the structure. Forty lines on twenty positions produce frequent results, and with three identical fruits at the bottom of the table most of them are small – the demo’s 5.00 return on a 10.00 spin is the low end of that.

Everything above sits in three places: the scatter’s 500x row, the coin round, and the Grand at 3,000x. With the Grand covering most of the distance to the ceiling, this is one of the few jackpot slots where landing the top tier genuinely is most of the way to the maximum.

It is a well-built traditional machine with an unusually generous return figure, and the scatter row is the single most important thing on its paytable.

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