Winter Champions (Relax Gaming) – Review & Demo Play

Winter Champions: Slot Overview

Winter Champions drops me on a snowy mountainside with animal athletes front and centre and a clean 5x4 setup running 1,024 ways to win. Wins pay left to right across consecutive reels, and the Rolling Respins mechanic keeps the grid in motion. Stakes run from 10p to £150, volatility sits around medium to medium‑high, and the default RTP is 96.10% (some sites use lower settings). The top payout is 6,000x, with a bonus buy that lets me jump straight into the feature selection.

Winter Champions: Slot Features

Rolling Respins kick in whenever I land a win. All reels roll down by one row and a fresh row drops in at the top, letting the round extend for as long as new wins keep appearing. It’s a tidy way to string hits together in both the base game and bonuses, and it gives those near misses a second look without changing the core pay mechanic.

Three Wild symbols in view trigger the bonus game, and I get to pick between Ski Jumping, Ice Hockey, or Curling. Each mode uses the Rolling Respins counter in its own way, so the pacing feels different across the three. If I do not fancy waiting, the Feature Buy costs 50x the bet and jumps straight to the same pick screen.

Ski Jumping Bonus in Winter Champions

Ski Jumping starts with 6 Rolling Respin chances. Each cascade moves me one step up a 29‑step ladder that carries prize thresholds at 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, 100x, and 1,000x. A non‑winning roll deducts one chance, while winning rolls keep the counter steady and push progress along the trail. It is simple to follow and plays nicely with the nudge‑down rhythm.

Wilds are the difference maker here, upgrading the ladder thresholds by up to five times to 25x, 50x, 125x, 250x, 500x, and 5,000x. When the round ends, I collect the highest threshold I reached alongside any line wins achieved during the sequence. It wraps when the counter hits zero, the top threshold is reached, or the win cap is hit.

Ice Hockey Bonus in Winter Champions

Ice Hockey also gives 6 Rolling Respin chances, but now coin pucks can land attached to pay symbols with values from 1x up to 500x. Collector goal symbols can drop with multipliers from x2 to x10. When a collector lands, it gathers all coin pucks in view and multiplies their combined value by its shown multiplier.

After collecting, the goal turns into a Wild, which fits nicely with the ways layout and Rolling Respins flow. This mode feels punchy, and when puck values climb while a decent multiplier arrives on cue, it is the pick I reach for when I want a crack at the game’s 6,000x ceiling.

Curling Bonus in Winter Champions

Curling is the most stripped back of the three. I get 6 Rolling Respin chances, and only coins (all at 1x) and blockers appear. The round starts with 3 coins already on the grid. Coins roll down one row per respin and begin piling when they reach the bottom, building stacks in columns as the sequence unfolds.

If a respin produces no new coin, one chance is deducted. When the bonus ends, any full column applies a x5 multiplier to all coins in that column. Rows also carry multipliers from bottom to top at x2, x8, x40, and x150. After row and column boosts are applied, the total coin value is paid.

It becomes a pleasing board build where placement matters as much as volume. Filling strategic lanes to line up those row and column multipliers feels rewarding, and the clean symbol set makes outcomes easy to read as the counter ticks down.

Symbols and Paytable in Winter Champions

Low pays are 10 through A in icy blocks, paying 0.3x to 0.4x for five of a kind. Premiums are animal athletes: a penguin, a walrus, a polar bear, and a tiger, paying 1x to 3x for five. The trophy W is the Wild Scatter, substituting for all pays and also driving bonus entry when 3 land at once. Only one Wild can land per row. With 1,024 ways active, wins form by landing 3 to 5 matching symbols on consecutive reels from the left.

Winter Champions Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x3
	4	x1
	3	x0.4
	5	x1.4
	4	x0.6
	3	x0.2
	5	x1.2
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.2
	5	x1
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.3
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Wild

RTP, Stakes and Max Win in Winter Champions

The default RTP sits at 96.10%, though some operators offer 94% or 86% settings, so I always check the info panel. Volatility is listed as medium, edging towards medium‑high in practice, and the hit rate clocks in around 22.39%. Stakes range from 10p to £150 per spin, the win cap is 6,000x the bet, and the Feature Buy option costs 50x to access a chosen bonus instantly.