4 Supercharged Clovers Hold and Win: Super Bonus Grid and Session Results

Two Hold and Win features landed on back-to-back spins - numbers 1290 and 1291 in my session. They paid 106x and 27x. Not the numbers that make Hold and Win famous, but as a demonstration of how the Playson jackpot mechanic behaves when it clusters, that pair of triggers told me more about the game's rhythm than any individual big result. I ran 1733 spins in the Playson demo at EUR 1.00 per spin to find out how the five-tier jackpot ladder actually plays out across a real run. The ceiling is 15,000x. My session peaked at 145x. That gap between what the game offers and what a real session delivers is the story.

Grid, Controls, and Base Game

The game runs on a 5x3 grid - five reels, three rows, standard Playson layout. Most sources agree on 5 fixed paylines, though one source I checked reports 20. I could not resolve that conflict without seeing the in-game paytable directly - the Playson in-game paytable was not accessible directly for this session - so treat the 5-payline figure as the working number, consistent with other Playson Hold and Win titles in the same family.

Symbol set is standard fruit fare: Watermelon and Grapes at mid-tier, BAR and Bell as the high-value combos, lower fruit filling out the rest. The Wild covers everything except Clover symbols. The Clovers themselves are not paying symbols - they exist only for Hold and Win, and that distinction matters: a full reel of Clovers with no Feature Clover mixed in is a soft trigger, not a jackpot.

Base game hit rate in my session was roughly 1 in 8 spins producing a fruit or BAR combination. The remaining 7 in 8 were blanks. That is a dry base game experience by most standards. The entertainment in this game is the Hold and Win trigger, not the paylines.

Bet range runs EUR 0.20 to EUR 100.00. The demo ran at EUR 1.00 flat for the full session.

One thing before the mechanics: the clovers are rendered as bioluminescent glowing shapes - more like luminescent ocean plants than the green shamrocks typical of Irish-luck fruit slots. PlayUSA describes the soundtrack as "an electro-synth version of an Irish shanty," which is accurate: it is an upbeat electronic riff that sits above the reel sounds rather than beneath them. When Hold and Win fires, that base track cuts cleanly and the bonus sequence runs with its own distinct audio register. I caught that shift at the first trigger and it held consistent through all 20.

Hold and Win: How the Bonus Works

When Hold and Win fires, the base grid clears and three respins go on the clock. I tracked that sequence across all 20 bonus rounds in my session: any Clover showing when the feature triggers locks in place, new Clovers landing during respins also lock - and reset the counter back to 3. Not once did a reset fail mid-sequence.

What lands on the board determines the result. Regular Clover coins carry multiplier values from x1 to x12 - their face value counts toward the payout when the feature ends. Feature Clovers come in three colors: Pink (Multi) multiplies all coin values on the board; Blue (Collect) takes the running total of all locked coins; Green (Mystery) transforms into another Feature Clover type or drops random Clovers into open cells - that is where the x20-x75 multiplier range lives. The fourth type, the Super Clover, is diamond-shaped and opens a different board entirely. The Extra Clover can become any Feature Clover type.

All three standard Feature Clovers are visually distinct from each other and from regular Clover coins. Through 20 triggers across my session, Pink, Blue, and Green were identifiable on the filling board mid-sequence without confusion.

Super Bonus and the Jackpot Ladder

The Super Clover is the door to the top of this game. When it lands during Hold and Win, the board expands from 5x3 to 5x5 - 25 positions instead of 15 - and the Super Clover seeds it with additional Clover and Feature Clover symbols. It did not land in my session. That is the realistic context for what follows.

The five-tier jackpot structure operates within Hold and Win rounds. At EUR 1.00 per spin, the values are:

• Mini: EUR 15 (15x stake)
• Minor: EUR 30 (30x stake)
• Major: EUR 100 (100x stake)
• Grand: EUR 3,000 (3,000x stake) - requires filling 15 cells
• Super: EUR 10,000 (10,000x stake) - requires filling all 25 cells in Super Bonus

The 15,000x maximum win combines the 10,000x Super Jackpot with multipliers applied to the other coins on the full 25-cell board. The Grand and Super jackpots did not trigger in my 1733-spin session. The Grand requires filling 15 cells in a standard Hold and Win round; the Super requires both a Super Clover landing during Hold and Win AND filling every cell of the expanded 5x5 grid.

The Buy Bonus has two direct entry paths. A 70x bet buys a standard Hold and Win trigger with 1-3 Feature Clovers pre-placed. A 150x bet buys guaranteed Super Clover entry - the direct route into the Super Bonus grid and the only path where filling all 25 cells becomes possible in a single bought round. My session averaged around 65x per Hold and Win trigger. The 70x buy is negative on that average alone.

My 1,733-Spin Session Results

I ran 1733 spins at EUR 1.00 per spin. The demo balance started at EUR 11,000 and finished at EUR 11,096 - EUR 96 ahead at the close. That is a positive result driven by variance, not a prediction of a typical outcome.

Hold and Win triggered 20 times across 1733 spins. In this session, that worked out to roughly one trigger every 87 spins. Single session - that rate will vary.

The balance had a shallow dip in the first third. Around spin 450, I was down about EUR 131 from the start - less than 2%. From spin 500 onward, Hold and Win rounds fired more consistently and the balance climbed steadily. By spin 1290 I was up EUR 240 from start - and that is where the back-to-back triggers happened on spins 1290 and 1291, adding another 133x combined before the session worked back down to the final +96 close.

Session Progression

Base game hit rate in this demo run was roughly 1 in 8 spins producing a small fruit or BAR win. Longest streak without any win at all: 37 consecutive spins. For a game with a 15,000x ceiling, 37 spins is a notably short maximum dry run.

Bonus #5 through Bonus #8 clustered between spins 523 and 739 - four triggers in about 216 spins during the session's recovery phase. That kind of clustering is part of why the balance in this game does not recover slowly: it either finds a run of bonus activity or it does not.

Test limitations: A single demo session of 1733 spins is too small to draw conclusions about long-run trigger frequency or jackpot hit rates. The Grand (3,000x) and Super (10,000x) jackpots did not trigger in this run; neither did the Mystery Feature Clover multipliers in the x20-x75 range. The absence of those outcomes across 1733 spins is consistent with them being genuinely rare - it does not tell how rare.

Pros and Cons

How It Compares

4 Supercharged Clovers vs. the original (2024)

The original is the direct predecessor. Same Hold and Win engine, same clover coin concept, same jackpot-ladder logic. The differences are specific: the original has three Feature Clovers (Pink, Blue, Green) while this version adds the Super Clover as a fourth type, enabling the 5x5 Super Bonus grid expansion. The "4" in the name refers to those four Feature Clover types. Anyone who has played the original will find the mechanics feel identical right up until a Super Clover lands and the grid expands.

4 Supercharged Clovers vs. Diamonds Power: Hold and Win (Playson)

I tested Diamonds Power on the same Playson WL environment. The Hold and Win engine is mechanically the same as here. The difference is one feature layer: Diamonds Power has no Super Clover and no 5x5 grid expansion. That makes it a simpler entry to the Playson Hold and Win format and a lower-ceiling one - 1,057x max vs 15,000x here.

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