Triple Pot Plinko Hercules

Triple Pot Plinko Hercules: Slot Overview

Triple pot games might be a dime a dozen these days, or even twelve for ten cents, but rarely do they come paired with a Plinko feature. That gap in the market has been plugged by savvy software provider Pragmatic Play, with the release of the mythologically themed online slot Triple Pot Plinko Hercules. Players who like gaming mechanics that start with the letter 'p' best be buckling in for this ancient Greek bonanza where Plinko meets pots.

While the particular feature combo produced a mild gasp of surprise, not much about Triple Pot Plinko Hercules' appearance did. The big man himself accompanies gamblers on their Plinko adventure, which takes place in a cloudy landscape of ancient Greek columned buildings in a celestial setting. Triple Pot Plinko Hercules gave off Gates of Olympus vibes and looks quite divine, if that is the right word, but it seems more emphasis went on choosing diverse features rather than painting a unique picture using visual elements the studio hasn't touched on before.

There are 243 ways to win on Triple Pot Plinko Hercules' 5x3 gaming grid. Winning combinations start from the leftmost grid, and matching symbols must land in adjacent reels from there to form a win. Interestingly, the studio has classified the math model volatility as low and designed the game to produce a max RTP of 96.55%. Base bets range from $/€0.10 to $/€100, and several extra betting options are available, as well.

Pay symbols are made up of J-A playing card royals, grapes, cups, bulls, lions, and columns. Hitting 5 matching royals in a combination pays 0.8x to 1.6x the stake, while a 5 matching premium symbol win awards 2x to 10x the bet. The Hercules symbol is wild, and it lands on reels 2, 3, and 4, substituting for all regular paying symbols.

Triple Pot Plinko Hercules: Slot Features

In the base game, three different scatters can land, and they get collected by their respective pot when they do. When scatters are collected at the end of a spin, there is a chance that the bonus round triggers with up to three modifiers active for it.

• Blue Scatter: Can award the Extra Balls modifier, where 5 to 20 extra balls are added at the beginning of the bonus round.
• Red Scatter: Can award the Multiplier Balls modifier, where random balls can appear with values of x2 to 100 that apply to the buckets they fall into.
• Green Scatter: Can award the Prize Boost modifier, where random buckets have their values upgraded by 2x to 100x.

Plinko Bonus Feature

The bonus round is played on a pyramid of pins where balls drop from the top to the bottom. At the bottom of the grid are buckets with values ranging from blank to 30x the bet. For every modifier that was triggered with the round, 10 balls are awarded.

Special Bet & Feature Buys

When activating the special bet, which costs 10x, players move straight to the Plinko bonus round and a single ball drops. Buckets at the bottom have values of blank to 30x, and balls can randomly have a multiplier of x2 to x100 that applies to the reward of the bucket the ball falls in. The two bonus buys are 100x to buy the feature with at least two active modifiers, or 300x to buy the bonus round with all three modifiers active.

Triple Pot Plinko Hercules: Slot Verdict

Given the skyrocketing popularity of three pot slots, it was somewhat inevitable in hindsight that someone would eventually marry the concept to a Plinko feature. Apologies to any other studio that might have gotten in first, but Pragmatic Play is the first one of these amalgamations we've reviewed which supplies gamblers with this particular mutation of features. All in all, it works quite well for what it is. Triple Pot Plinko Hercules is not as sophisticated as Print Studios' Plinko offerings, Pine of Plinko 2, for example, nor as uniquely themed, but with mass consumption in mind, it's not hard to see this being warmly received by its target audience.

As alluded to, Plinko is no stranger to slots, and Triple Pot Plinko Hercules' gimmick is the way the main ball drop event can be complemented by up to three modifiers, depending on the triggering spin. Each of the modifiers has a desirability to them, though none can really be said to be crazy innovative. One increases bucket values, one multiplies bucket values, more or less doing the same thing, while one gives you extra balls. On the subject of balls, you do not get the ball blizzard found in Print Studio's versions when moving up levels. Ten balls per modifier isn't a huge amount, nor is the one per special bet. However, through the magic of mathematics, this hasn't stopped Triple Pot Plinko Hercules from shipping with a surprisingly large win cap of 10,000x the bet.

And so, the bringing together of Plinko and triple pot gaming is admittedly an original progression, yet wilder ideas in the actual bonus round itself might have given Triple Pot Plinko Hercules more clout. What it does is quite interesting and makes sense from a business perspective, but it feels like Pragmatic Play held back to appeal to the middle ground masses, rather than stand out as a real competitor to the more innovative Plinko slots out there.