THE BONUS DAY: Betsoft's 243-Ways Hold & Win Slot

THE BONUS DAY is the fifth release in Betsoft Gaming's THE Series, the studio's line of premium slots. It runs on five reels and three rows with 243 ways to win, and it is live from June 4, 2026 with Betsoft's network partners. The theme is payday: the game is pitched as the day every worker looks forward to.

The listed RTP is 96.11% and volatility is Very High. Betsoft gives the hit rate as 28.84%.

Hold & Win and the expanding screen

The Hold & Win feature gives you 3 respins to collect BONUS symbols. Each one helps unlock closed areas of the screen. There are 3 unlockable areas, and the prizes run from MINI up to GRAND. As rewards build up, the grid grows from its base 5×3 layout to as much as 10×6, so the playing area changes during the round.

Players who don't want to wait for a trigger can use the Buy Bonus button, which goes straight into Hold & Win.

ATM Bonus, Pick Bonus and the wilds

The ATM Bonus sits above the reels. Whenever a BONUS symbol lands in the base game, it is added to the ATM. The ATM can then trigger either the Hold & Win feature or the Pick Bonus, and which one you get is random.

In the Pick Bonus you match three identical symbols to win one of four prizes: MAJOR, MAXI, SUPER or GRAND. So the trigger is down to chance, while the result depends on the matches you make.

WILD symbols can land on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and substitute for every symbol except BONUS. Random Wilds can strike on any base game spin, placing between 3 and 12 WILD symbols across reels 2 to 5. That can change the grid a lot from one spin to the next.

Reel 3 has its own mechanic, the Nudging Wild Multiplier Reel. A partial stack of WILD nudges up or down to fill the whole reel, creating a full WILD reel. Every reel can also carry Stacked Mystery Symbols, which all turn into the same random symbol once the reel stops.

What the studio says

Frederik Hermann, Senior Account Management at Betsoft Gaming, describes the slot as bringing together expanding reels, unlockable areas and several bonus features in one game structure. The maximum win is 10,000 times the maximum bet.