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The paytable makes much of this supposed “feature”, but as far as I understand it, it does not have any real effect on the gameplay. Any symbol apart from the bonus symbol can appear as a large 2x2 symbol or a monster 3x3 symbol, but they do not have any multipliers attached to them or behave in any kind of special way. In fact, I don’t see what the difference between these symbols and just a patch of the same symbol would be?

Just to left of the spin button is an extra control with a strange three chilli label pictured on it. Pressing this allows you to swap out the reel set in use between low, medium, and high volatility options. The low volatility reels will pay lots of smaller wins regularly, whilst the high volatility reels pay much less often, but you have the opportunity of hitting bigger wins. 

It can be tough to get here in this game, from my experience, so you may want to use the feature buy option detailed below if you struggle to gather the necessary bonus symbols the hard way. However you get here though, you will notice that your triggering symbols have been locked in place, in my example here adding up to 15x, and you now have three re-spins to try and hit the Grand Jackpot.

The reels only contain blank spaces and bonus symbols in this feature. If your spin ends without any bonus symbols landing on the screen, your remaining spin counter will be reduced by one. If at least one bonus symbol does land, your remaining spins will be reset back to three.

You will notice that, unlike other games with this “Hold the Jackpot” feature by Wazdan, in Jelly Reels™ the top half of the screen contains large, 2x2 spaces, whilst the bottom half is occupied by regular symbol-sized spots. If you hit a bonus symbol in the large 2x2 slots before you have unlocked them, your remaining spin counter will NOT be reset to three at the end of the spin. 

The question is, how do you unlock the top spots? Ah, you need to collect four bonus symbols in the corresponding squares of the smaller grid below. So, for example, if you fill the bottom-left corner of the screen with four gold coins, you will unlock the large, 2x2 space in the bottom-left corner of the top half of the feature. 

The large spots are the only ones where you can collect jackpot prizes in this variant of the Hold the Jackpot feature, and it is technically possible to complete the feature with several large prizes locked away in the top half of the screen, although I never saw this happen during testing – it seems as if the game is programmed to ensure that you always unlock any prizes you have landed in the top half of the grid.

Whilst the jackpots shown on the right may look like progressives, they are in fact fixed in this game; the Mini always pays 15x your stake, the Minor pays 30x your stake, the Major pays 150x your stake, and finally, the Grand will award you the games maximum prize of 2,500x outright – making everything which happened prior to this during the bonus round completely pointless, if you think about it.

Just to the left of the stake select area is a button with a picture of a shopping cart on it. This can be used to purchase the “Hold the Jackpot” feature immediately. Interestingly, there are three volatility options you can select from when you press this button – it is not clear if these volatility levels match the one you currently have selected for the base game, although that seems as if it would make sense to me.

Buying the “low-volatility” bonus costs 50x your current bet, whilst the regular mode charges 100x your stake and the “high-volatility” option ups the ante all the way to 300x your stake. I tried each option a few times and noticed that the top half of the grid seemed to fill up substantially more in the high-volatility bonus round, but I still find myself struggling to recommend taking a risk on such an expensive feature because it isn’t clear what odds you are receiving on the bet. Instead, I recommend you try our demo slot of Jelly Reels at the top of this page before trying this out for real money.

If it wasn’t for the painfully small artificial win limit of 2,500x your stake, Wazdan would have another hit on their hands here. I feel an alarming sense of Déjà vu saying this about one of their games right now – I believe the company has seen sense and increased the limit to a higher amount in their latest games, but that still leaves far too many older games on the market with this problem in place. It’s a real shame too, as this slot would surely deserve a much better verdict otherwise.

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