Hot Potato! Slot Features

Step into the center of a busy city where a 7x7 grid dishes out payouts whenever at least 5 matching symbols form a cluster by being orthogonally adjacent. Winning combinations will disappear from the view, triggering a cascade of remaining icons, after which new instances will drop from above to complete the board. Prizes achieved from regular symbols range from 0.1 to 1 time the bet for the smallest sets of 5 and from 10 to 100 times for clusters comprising 25 or more elements.

Exploding Wild & Multiplier Grid

The hot potato is quite an unpredictable being capable of appearing in any winning position or anywhere else on the grid at random. When it does, it explodes, removing all icons in a 3x3 area and marking the affected cells with an x2 multiplier. Consecutive explosions within the same spin in the same positions result in an increasing multiplier, up to a maximum of x128. All clusters landing within the highlighted areas will benefit from all multipliers underlying the winning symbols.

Hot Potato! Bonus Game

Landing at least 3 Scatters in the base game activates the bonus with 10 free spins. Any active multipliers during the triggering spin will be reset, although, throughout the round, the newly marked positions will remain persistent until the end. It's also possible to fully retrigger the game with an identical combination of Scatters.

Final Thoughts

For slots enthusiasts who closely follow premium suppliers, mechanics used in Hot Potato! may feel somewhat familiar. Marking the grid with underlying multipliers has become a bit of a trademark for games produced by Pragmatic Play. Some of the prominent examples include a hit release Sugar Rush, or the recently reviewed Sugar Supreme Powernudge. However, functionalities inspired by the competition's products are nothing unusual in iGaming and, frankly speaking, not even frowned upon too much anymore. Also, Thunderkick ensured that a unique way of generating the multipliers broadens the gap between their and rival's creation. It all blends nicely together, too, with a Wild being spawned after every win and the spectacular explosions marking up to 9 cells at once. The former helping in continuing the sequence with more consecutive wins often results in extended chain reactions that keep engagement on a high level. Gameplay during the bonus round is easily predictable, with multipliers becoming persistent, yet carries a massive dose of anticipation that only grows further with each successive win. Seeing those double-digit figures under the symbols genuinely tantalizes the senses and makes your heart beat faster while you try to spot a winning cluster (rhyme not intended).

The game's visual side offers a clean and tasty theme overflowing with calory-packed fast food. There's also a lonely cucumber thrown at the bottom of the paytable, perhaps playfully and subtly informing that it's not a desired element in this particular setting. Everything about the scene is easy on the eye, clearly represented, and emphasized by dynamic animations whenever features come into play. The potato itself perfectly carries the core functionality with its comical design, culminating in a flashy explosion.