The Tipsy Tourist: Beach Bonanza - Hold & Win Pokie Review

The Tipsy Tourist is not one of those blokes who loves plenty of action on his vacations. No, what he desires is a peaceful summer holiday where he can sip his drink and sit on the beach all day. That’s why the Betsoft product does not come with loads of features in this beach-themed slot.

You will benefit from the Hold & Win feature, where you can collect instant wins and fixed jackpots. In the base game, you will have help from the Wild, which appears on all reels but the first, and the Stacked Mystery Symbols.

Stacked Mystery Symbols

Stacked Mystery Symbols can only appear in the base game. They can land on all reels. When they appear on the grid, they will be replaced with a randomly chosen regular symbol. This will help you land wins more easily in the base game. Stacked Mystery Symbols helped me in making my biggest base game win of 15x.

Hold & Win

To trigger the feature, you need at least 5 coin Scatters on all the reels but the central one, and at least 1 collect coin on the 3rd reel. This will get you 9 respins. The collect symbol turns into a sticky symbol, which remains in its position until the feature ends.

The collect coin then collects all the values from the triggering coin Scatters, and you start your respins. Each value that lands ends up in the collect coin. You can land up to 3 collect coins on the middle reel. Each collect coin will get the values from all coin Scatters.

Coin values can go from 0.50x to 50x. Also, you can land Mini (10x), Minor (30x), Major (100x), and Grand (500x) prizes. Apart from coins with values, special symbols appear on the grid. Whenever you land a golden palm tree, you get an additional respin. If you land a yacht, you expand the corresponding reel by 1 position and also get an additional respin.

It took me some time to trigger the feature, but I was rewarded for my trouble. My best round included 2 collect coins, which doubled all my wins, a total of 13 respins, and 2 reel expansions. I won 150x in that round.

Cooler Box Bonus

If you do not manage to trigger the Hold & Win feature, there is always the Cooler Box Bonus. Every non-triggering Scatter ends up in the Cooler Box, located above the reels. After a while, the Cooler Box will open and randomly replace existing symbols on the reels by Scatters and collect symbols. This will help you trigger the Hold & Win feature.

Buy Feature

If you do not want to wait that long, you can buy the Hold & Win feature for 46x the bet. You get 9 respins. I tried the option several times and the most I won was 50x. In most cases, I won less than I had invested.