Diamond Bounty Xmas Hold and Win

Diamond Bounty Xmas Hold and Win Overview

Diamond Bounty Xmas Hold and Win is the festive edition of Kalamba Games’ Diamond Bounty series. Under the Christmas lights it is a classic 5x3 slot with 10 fixed paylines, a four-level HyperBet, multiplier wilds, a Hold and Win bonus built on cash-carrying diamonds and four fixed cashpots. Kalamba’s official portfolio gives a launch date of 12 December 2023, a volatility of 10 out of 10, a hit frequency of 19.2% and a maximum coinciding win of 20,000x. SlotCatalog lists the RTP at 96.51% and notes that the game comes in several RTP versions; stakes run from 0.50 to 50.

A Christmas Coat on a Retro Machine

The reels sit in a blue cabinet wrapped in pine garland, fairy lights, candy canes and wrapped presents, with snow on the corners of the control panel. The symbols are pure fruit-machine: blue and purple BARs, red and gold 7s and the pink-and-white diamonds that power the bonus. Four cashpot plaques run along the top of the cabinet.

The Four Cashpots

At a 100 stake the plaques read:

• Mini: 100 – 1x the bet
• Minor: 250 – 2.5x
• Major: 5,000 – 50x
• Maxi: 100,000 – 1,000x

The Maxi is therefore only a twentieth of the 20,000x ceiling. The rest of the headroom comes from the multiplier wilds and the diamond values stacking up inside the bonus.

HyperBet: Four Levels

Below the reels sits the HyperBet bar, a Kalamba trademark. With it switched on, the panel read “Level 4 active! Bet: FUN 100.00”, and four feature icons lit up underneath: a 7, a wild with an x2 badge, a single diamond and a pile of diamonds. Each level switches on more of the game’s extras at a higher stake, so the same machine can be played plain or fully loaded.

The Hold and Win Bonus

Diamonds carry cash values, and enough of them trigger the bonus. The game announces it with a “Congratulations – 3 Cash Spins Awarded” screen and the line “Hold them all and win extra prize!”, with a diamond underneath showing the extra prize on offer – 40.00 in that round. The diamonds lock in place and the other positions respin; our mid-round screenshots show the counter back at three spins while diamonds were still landing.

Our screenshots let us check the maths of one round at the 100 stake. The board ended with 13 diamonds and two empty spots, worth 8.50, 25.00, 10.00, 7.50, 2.00, 6.00, 4.00, 2.00, 10.00, 7.50, 6.00, 3.00 and 25.00. Added up, that is exactly 116.50 – the win the game displayed when the round closed. Because two positions stayed empty, the 100.00 “hold them all” prize shown under the grid that time was not paid.

A Full Board at a 1,000 Stake

Another screenshot shows the whole grid covered in diamonds with three cash spins still left, at a stake of 1,000, and a running win of 561.50. It is the picture the bonus is built around: every position held, which is what unlocks the extra prize.

Gamble After the Bonus

After the 116.50 round the game offered a gamble wheel. The panel showed Collect FUN 116.50 on one side and Gamble to FUN 233.00 on the other – an x2 wheel with a fixed red-and-gold layout. A plus button raises the target, and three diamond markers track how many steps you have taken.

Buy Bonus

The Buy Bonus menu offers two ways straight into the feature, each with 3 Hold and Win spins: a red option that makes it easier to win cashpots (“Win cashpots more often”), priced at 1,000.00, and a standard blue option at 375.00. The same two prices appear in Diamond Bounty 7s Hold and Win at a 100 stake, where they come to 10x and 3.75x the bet.

The Biggest Wins

The game’s own big win tracker on the left of the screen listed three results: x20,061, x20,023 and x20,016. All three sit right at the 20,000x maximum – proof that the ceiling is not just a number on paper.

Xmas Edition vs Diamond Bounty 7s

This is a re-skin of Diamond Bounty 7s Hold and Win, released in August 2023. The two share the 5x3 grid, the ten lines, the cashpots, HyperBet, the Hold and Win rules, the buy prices and the 20,000x cap. The Xmas version swaps the plain casino backdrop for Christmas decorations and uses its own RTP setting (96.51% against 96.01%). For another Kalamba Hold and Win game, see Joker Lanterns Hold and Win.

Who It Is For

Diamond Bounty Xmas Hold and Win suits players who like a straightforward retro machine with one big feature. The ten-line base game is simple, the diamonds do the work, and HyperBet decides how much of the extra machinery you want switched on. With the maximum volatility rating, long quiet stretches are part of the deal. It is a Christmas title, but all six casinos we checked still list it outside the season.

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