Spinomenal’s Hold & Hit 3×3 Series Turns Spooky for Halloween

Spooky season has reached Spinomenal’s reels. The studio has put a Halloween spin on its long-running Hold & Hit 3×3 series with a new title called Spooky Halloween – Hold & Hit 3×3, swapping the series’ usual gold-and-jungle dressing for a seasonal theme while keeping the mechanics that have made the format one of the studio’s most repeated formulas.

What’s been released

1xBet is offering a pre-release of Spinomenal’s Spooky Halloween – Hold & Hit 3×3, a Halloween slot with a 5,000x max win and fixed jackpots.
It is the latest in a series that has already run through desert, jungle, steam-train and mythological settings over the past year, each built on the same compact 3×3 reel structure.

Spinomenal itself is no stranger to UK screens.
Spinomenal has secured an entry into the UK market through a new B2B license granted to the company by the UK Gambling Commission, which will effectively enable it to pursue partnership opportunities in the highly lucrative market.
That approval has since translated into real distribution:
Spinomenal has strengthened its UK presence through a content partnership with Lottomart, giving players access to a portfolio of its slot titles
, one of several UK-licensed operators already carrying the studio’s catalogue. With its UKGC approval still active, a new Hold & Hit 3×3 release of this kind would typically be expected to follow the studio’s existing titles onto UK-facing sites in the usual run of licensing and certification.

How it plays

The Hold & Hit 3×3 format Spinomenal has used for Spooky Halloween follows a consistent template across the series. Based on recent entries such as Wild Dragon Express, the games run on a 3×3 grid where a themed Wild substitutes for every symbol bar two special Bonus icons.
The Bonus symbol drops on reels one and three only, while the Bonus Collect symbol is restricted to reel two.
When those symbols line up without triggering the main feature,
an Instant Win Feature pays out on the spot, sweeping up those values, jackpot symbols included, and sending them straight to the player’s balance.

Landing the full combination launches the main bonus round.
The Bonus Game springs to life with the triggering symbols locked in place as the feature loads with three spins, and from that point only Bonus and Bonus Collect symbols can land, with every empty position carrying a prize of x1, x2, x5, x7, x10, x15, or a jackpot multiplier calculated on the total bet.
Each fresh Bonus symbol keeps the round alive:
every Bonus symbol that lands is gathered by the Bonus Collect symbols on screen and banked, while any new symbol sends the spin counter back to three.
Jackpot coins can surface throughout the feature, and in sister titles the tiers have paid
the Mini at x25, the Minor at x50, the Major at x150 and the Grand at x1,000 the total bet
, with the round closing once three spins pass without a new symbol or the collected total hits the series’ usual 5,000x ceiling.

Where it fits

This is very much business as usual for Spinomenal’s content pipeline, which has pushed out a steady run of Hold & Hit 3×3 variants this year on buffalo, dragon, steam-train and genie themes, each reusing the same reel structure with a fresh skin and soundtrack. Dressing the format for Halloween slots neatly into that cadence, giving operators a timely seasonal addition without the studio having to build a new mechanic from scratch. For UK players, the more relevant point is Spinomenal’s growing footprint in the market: its UKGC licence and deals with operators such as Lottomart mean its back catalogue, and likely its newer seasonal releases, keep finding their way onto UK-licensed sites alongside bigger-name suppliers already pushing Halloween content this month, from Pragmatic Play’s Big Bass line to Light & Wonder’s haunted-mansion take on its Three Pigs series.

Sources

• RG.org – Stake NBA 2026-27 Specials (1xBet Gives Early Access To Spinomenal’s Spooky Halloween – Hold & Hit 3×3)
• iGaming Future – Spinomenal Hits the Tracks with Wild Dragon Express – Hold & Hit 3×3
• GamblingNews – Spinomenal Enters UK Market with B2B License
• Casinos.com – Spinomenal Expands in the UK with Lottomart Deal