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Bald eagles in Uncle Sam hats. A Statue of Liberty scatter. Gold bars stacked beside a NASA rocket, the Capitol dome glowing on the horizon at golden hour. Land of Fortunes packs in every American icon it can find and scores the lot with a feel-good trumpet-and-drum march. The spinning itself plays things safe, though. Most of what makes this slot tick is locked inside a Hold & Win bonus that Microgaming has built out further than almost anything else on screen, right down to a four-price buy menu. In free play you can wait for that bonus or buy straight into it, and judge whether it’s worth either.
Almost every special symbol here is a golden Uncle Sam top hat wearing a different badge, and learning to read them is the whole game. They feed a Hold & Win bonus with far more moving parts than the spinning screen lets on.
On any spin a symbol can turn into a Power Stack, filling tall blocks of matching icons across all five reels at once. In normal play, everything can stack apart from the Wild and the Scatter, and that’s where most of the larger line wins come from across the 40 fixed paylines. The behaviour flips during free spins, where only Wilds and Coins can stack.
Land six or more Coin symbols and the Hold & Win kicks in with three respins. Every triggering Coin locks in place while the remaining positions keep spinning, and each fresh Coin that drops resets the counter back to three. The round closes when the respins run out, the grid fills completely, or the win cap is reached. It can fire during standard spins or during free spins, always at the stake that triggered it.
Landing four or five Coins instead of six won’t trigger the bonus outright. It tops up a meter, and once that meter fills, you reach one of three upgraded versions.
The expanding grid is the part worth watching, since normal play runs on four rows and these modes all start taller.
Beyond plain cash values, several hats carry a job. A Cash Collect hat sweeps every Cash Coin on the screen, along with any other Cash Collect hats, into a running total, and its persistent version repeats that sweep on every subsequent spin. A 2x Multiplier hat doubles up to four Cash Coins, again with a persistent variant that keeps doubling each spin. Unlock hats open one extra row apiece, up to three, while Extra Chance hats hand back a respin each to stretch the round out longer.
Two kinds of Coins settle up once the bonus ends.
There’s a second route to those same four jackpots. Land a Coin of Fortune on the fifth reel during normal play to grow the Collection Pot, with a chance to launch a feature wheel that spins for the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand prize. It runs separately from the Hold & Win while paying into the same jackpot ladder.
Three or more Statue of Liberty scatters award ten free spins at the triggering stake. Power Stacks stay in play throughout, but since only Wilds and Coins can stack, the round tilts toward triggering another Hold & Win rather than chasing line wins.
For anyone who’d rather not wait, the bonus can be bought outright, and this is where Microgaming gets unusually specific. The standard Hold & Win costs 40x your bet. Max Mode runs at 80x, Multiplier Mode at 110x, and Collect Mode at 165x.
Four prices for a single feature is rare, and the gaps between them map straight onto the three upgraded modes above. Buys may be limited or disabled once the stake exceeds a set amount.
Land of Fortunes runs on five reels with four rows in normal play, and that row count climbs the moment a Hold & Win mode begins, reaching as many as seven once Unlock hats get involved. Payouts run across 40 fixed lines, each one read from reel one along neighbouring positions, and a line counts only its top combination. The number of lines never changes, so there’s nothing to set up there before you spin. Stakes are adjusted using the controls beneath the reels, and the demo lets you test every level in free play without spending a thing.
Volatility sits at the higher end, which the prize structure makes plain enough. With most of the payoff concentrated in the Hold & Win and a Grand worth 5,000x, expect long runs of small line wins between bonuses. A few free-play rounds will show how readily the Coins actually cluster.
Symbol values below are shown at a 1.00 total bet, with the eagle Wild leading the standard payouts.
| Symbol | 5 of a kind | 4 of a kind | 3 of a kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild (Eagle) | 10.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 |
| Scatter (Statue of Liberty) | 100.00 | 10.00 | 1.00 |
| Gold Bars | 8.00 | 2.00 | 1.20 |
| Rocket | 6.00 | 1.80 | 1.00 |
| Hollywood Star | 4.00 | 1.60 | 0.90 |
| Party Bear | 3.00 | 1.50 | 0.80 |
| Camera | 2.50 | 1.20 | 0.70 |
| A | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 |
| K | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 |
| Q | 1.80 | 0.80 | 0.40 |
| J | 1.80 | 0.80 | 0.40 |
The Prize Coins in the bonus and the Collection Pot wheel both pay on the same four-tier ladder, expressed as a multiple of your total bet.
| Tier | Prize |
|---|---|
| Grand | 5,000x |
| Major | 500x |
| Minor | 50x |
| Mini | 15x |
If you’d rather trigger the bonus directly, each version carries its own price.
| Mode | Cost (x bet) |
|---|---|
| Standard Hold & Win | 40x |
| Max Mode | 80x |
| Multiplier Mode | 110x |
| Collect Mode | 165x |
For all the patriotic noise up top, the game itself is quiet and everything worth playing for sits inside the Hold & Win. A few free-play rounds are best spent learning the three modes, because that’s where Land of Fortunes actually lives.
