The Hot Spot occupies the exact centre of the 3x3 grid and provides the route into the main feature. A Regular Coin, Jackpot Coin, Mystery Diamond or Turbo Collector landing there immediately triggers Coin Respins.

I like this because it gives such a small grid a very clear focal point. Once an eligible Coin begins moving towards the middle, you know exactly what's at stake without having to count Scatters or check a collection meter.

It also creates a slightly different sort of anticipation from the usual six Coin Hold and Win trigger. You don't need the whole screen to cooperate. You need one useful symbol to find one very specific square. On a nine position grid, the middle suddenly feels like prime real estate.

Popiplay calls the main feature Coin Respins, which is its version of Hold and Win.

The triggering Coin remains locked and you begin with three Respins. Every additional Coin that lands becomes Sticky and resets the counter to three, with the feature ending after three unsuccessful Respins or when all nine positions have been occupied.

The small grid works surprisingly well here. Hold and Win features spread across 15 or 20 positions can sometimes feel as though they're barely getting started, whereas nine spaces means you can quickly see a realistic route towards filling the board.

That doesn't make the feature particularly deep, but it does make it satisfyingly direct. A few early Coins and suddenly the Grand doesn't look impossibly far away.

Regular Coins are the game's standard Cash Symbols, carrying individual multiplier values that are added to the final Coin Respin result.

They're the basic building blocks of the feature and become considerably more important when a Collector is present. A board containing several decent Regular Coins is useful on its own, but once those values start being collected during the feature, the same positions can contribute considerably more.

There's no complicated explanation required here. The value printed on the Coin is what you're interested in, and on a game this deliberately simple, that feels entirely appropriate.

Jackpot Coins can reveal the game's Mini, Minor or Major fixed jackpots during Coin Respins.

These immediately give the feature something more interesting to uncover than ordinary cash values, particularly because Collector mechanics can interact with the prizes already visible on the board.

I like having the jackpots incorporated directly into the Coin feature rather than disappearing into a separate wheel. Everything important remains on the same little 3x3 grid, which keeps the game focused on what it does best.

Mystery Diamonds remain unresolved during the Respins and reveal themselves when the feature finishes, transforming into either Jackpot Coins or Collector Coins.

This is one of the better touches because it leaves part of the feature undecided even after the Respins have ended. A board containing several Mystery Diamonds can therefore look considerably more promising than its visible Cash values suggest.

There's also a genuine difference between the possible outcomes. Revealing a jackpot gives you an immediate prize, while turning into a Collector can interact with the wider collection you've already built.

For once, finding a mysterious diamond is more interesting than simply being told it's worth 10x.

Collector Coins appear only during Coin Respins and gather the values of the Regular and Jackpot Coins currently visible on the grid.

This gives the feature more life than simply adding together everything at the end. Once several worthwhile Coins have accumulated, another Collector can effectively make the existing board pay again.

The timing therefore matters. A Collector arriving when you've barely got anything locked isn't particularly exciting, whereas one landing after the grid has filled with stronger values can make a substantial difference.

Collectors like a busy board. Apparently they're paid on commission.

The Turbo Collector is the game's strongest Persistent Cash Collector and can also trigger Coin Respins when it lands in the Hot Spot.

Unlike an ordinary Collector, the Turbo version remains Sticky for the entire feature and collects newly revealed Coin values after every subsequent Respin.

This is easily my favourite mechanic in Blazing Coins Deluxe.

Getting a Collector once is useful. Having one permanently sitting on the grid while new Coins continue arriving changes the whole bonus because every successful Respin can now produce value twice: once through the new Coin itself and again through the Turbo Collector.

On such a small board, having one of the nine positions permanently occupied by something this useful feels particularly powerful.

Completely filling all nine positions awards the Grand Jackpot, which applies an additional 5x multiplier to the accumulated feature win.

I prefer this to simply attaching another fixed number to the word Grand. The better the feature has been before you fill the board, the more valuable that 5x becomes.

It also makes those final empty positions genuinely tense. You're not merely trying to squeeze another Cash Coin onto the grid. You're trying to multiply everything you've already collected.

The board may only be 3x3, but that ninth Coin can have a very large job.

The Chance Booster increases the probability of triggering Coin Respins in exchange for a higher stake. One documented implementation doubles the total wager while significantly improving the feature frequency.

It's useful for players who want more exposure to the part of Blazing Coins Deluxe where most of the interesting mechanics live, although it doesn't fundamentally change how the feature itself plays.

Given how quiet the ordinary fruit reels can be, it's easy to understand why somebody might want to turn the heat up a little sooner.

Where permitted, Blazing Coins Deluxe offers direct access to Coin Respins through Bonus Buy options. Published game information lists a 40x standard feature purchase and an 80x version guaranteeing the Turbo Collector setup.

The distinction is useful because the premium option isn't simply charging more for the same feature. Guaranteeing the Turbo Collector materially changes the quality of the starting setup, although the actual Coin Respins rules remain unchanged.