Winter Champions (Relax Gaming) Slot Demo & Review

While I’m about as keen on winter as a snake is on a ski slope, I know there will be many of you cannot wait for the cold season to grip us, particularly because of the expected deluge of Christmas-themed slots coming our way. We’ve already seen a few start trickling in, with Relax Gaming, one of the developers, recently releasing its first festive slot of the year. That title is Money Sleigh, a Christmas-style Money Cart with a 10,000x the stake maximum win and an exciting re-spin bonus game. I’m pretty sure you won’t have to wait for the other studios to start delivering their presents early regarding Xmas slots, too, so keep coming back to check our latest reviews.

Now, the paytable on Winter Champions. And it is the Snow Leopard that proudly sits at the top, with a 3x the stake return for five across successive reels. He is followed by the Polar Bear, which pays up to 1.4x; the Seal, which has a maximum win of 1.2x; and the Penguin, which rewards up to 1x. The Ace and King both return up to 0.40x, and the Queen, Jack, and Ten share a 0.30x top payout. 

The betting range on Winter Champions starts at €0.10, and the maximum wager supported is €150.00, with 40 stakes in total to choose from. 

The base game of Winter Champions takes place on a 5×4 playfield with 1,024 ways to win. Each time three or more matching symbols land on consecutive reels, starting from the first reel on the left, a winning combination is formed, and you’re paid out. 

Rolling Respins

After every winning combination forms, the Rolling Re-Spins feature kicks into action. All reels roll down by one position, giving the chance to improve the current win or create another. The Rolls continue until no new combinations occur. 

When three or more wild symbols appear on the reels, you trigger a choice of three bonus games. These are as follows:

Ski Jumping Bonus

This bonus game gives you 6 initial Rolling Re-Spin lives, with a life lost for every re-spin that does not produce a new winning combination. 

Each new re-spin increases a position on a 29-step prize ladder by one, and should you hit certain milestones, you’ll win an instant prize as a multiplier of the stake. 

As standard, the prizes for those milestones are 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, and 1,000x. However, each time a wild symbol lands, those prizes are increased, with their maximum values being 25x, 50x, 125x, 250x, 500x, and 5,000x, respectively.

Ice Hockey Bonus

As for the Ice Hockey Bonus, this again awards 6 Rolling Re-Spins. However, during this bonus, instant prize wins of between 1x and 500x the stake can appear attached to regular symbols. These are collected when Collector symbols land on the same spin. Those Collectors can hold multiplier values of 2x, 3x, 5x, and 10x that apply to the instant prizes they collect. 

Curling Bonus

Again, you start with 6 Rolling Re-Spins, but this time, only Blocker and Coin symbols can appear on the reels. Your spins decrease by one each time a Re-Spin does not reveal a new Coin symbol.

Each Colomun has a 5x win multiplier attached, while the rows have multipliers in ascending order from 2x, 8x, 40x, and 150x. Should those reels/columns get completely filled with Coin symbols, those respective values will apply.

Once the re-spins have been used, you will receive the payouts of all coin symbols in view and the column/row multipliers, if applicable.

Bonus Buy

You can purchase any of the above bonus games for 50x the stake via the Winter Champions buy bonus feature.