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Is Hacksaw’s New “Alice” Slot Worth Your Money? (An Honest Review)
Hacksaw Gaming is back with 3 Adventures of Alice Hold & Win. If it feels like we were just here, we were – this is their fourth medium-volatility hold-and-win game in the last six months.
They’ve set the max win at a modest 2,500x your bet, but for the high rollers, they’ve cranked the max bet all the way up to $400 (the highest in their current lineup). But before you dive in, you need to know how this game actually plays.
The Base Game: A Slow Drain
Honestly, the standard 5×3 base game is on a very tight leash. Even if you land five wilds or five of the best picture symbols, the most you’re getting is a measly 10x your bet. The lower symbols pay literal pennies.
You’re going to see a lot of action on the screen – the game has a hit rate of about 42% – but mostly, it’s just visual noise to keep you clicking. The base game is essentially a polished waiting room that slowly drains your balance while you pray to trigger the bonus.
The Tea Party Bonus: It’s All About the Pots
Here’s the good news: you don’t need to hunt for three scatters to get into the bonus. Just one teacup scatter is enough to trigger the “Tea Party” free spins.
It uses the classic 3-lives system where your spins reset every time you land a coin, a teacup, or a jackpot symbol. But the real game-changers are the three teapots sitting above the reels. The bonus is entirely defined by which of these pots are active:
- 🔵 The Blue Pot: Rewards survival. Every time your lives reset, it doubles the value of a random coin on the board.
- 🌸 The Pink Pot: At the very end of the round, this drops a 2x to 10x multiplier onto a 3×3 section of the board. Sounds great, right? The catch is that it cannot multiply the jackpot symbols (which range from 25x to 2,500x). If you want a jackpot, you have to land it naturally.
- 🟢 The Green Pot: This is the absolute MVP. When you run out of lives, the green pot sweeps up all the cash on the screen, completely clears the board, and resets your lives. It gives you a second (or third) act on an empty grid. Without the green pot, your board just fills up, runs out of space, and the bonus abruptly ends.
Paying to Skip the Line (Bonus Buys)
If you’re somewhere you can buy bonuses, the game gives you three options.
- BonusHunt (5x your bet): Gives you a 10x higher chance of triggering the bonus naturally. Just remember, your payouts are still calculated on your base bet, not the inflated 5x cost.
- Mini Tea Party (100x your bet): Guarantees you start with 1 to 3 teacups.
- Mega Tea Party (200x your bet): Guarantees 2 to 3 teacups.
Why pay double for the Mega? Because you are basically paying a premium to guarantee you get that Green Pot. I’ve seen bonuses with the green sweep last for 20 to 30 spins, racking up massive totals. If you buy the 100x option and the green pot doesn’t light up, your board fills up incredibly fast and your round is over before you can even blink. (For the math nerds: the RTP averages out to 96.26%, but bumps up a tiny bit to 96.34% on that expensive 200x buy).
The Verdict
Look, this game is a one-trick pony, and that trick is the Green Pot.
The base game is an unrewarding grind that exists solely to pass teacups up to the shelf. Once you’re in the bonus, your financial fate relies 100% on whether you can clear the board and reset. The pink multiplier adds a fun bit of mystery, but its inability to multiply jackpots really caps the excitement.
If you have the bankroll, dropping the 200x for the Mega buy is realistically the only way to get a satisfying, long-lasting run. Otherwise, you’re just staring at a board, waiting to run out of space.
