Cooked

Hold Your Hat's launch title Cooked sends a marooned, embittered chef named Jean-Pierre Gratin after a single goal: cooking up a dish so overpowering it could endanger the wider world, while a band of island animals scrambles to stop him first. The tropical setting is rendered through a cluttered makeshift kitchen — pots, spice jars, and cooking gear crowd the frame around a caged, downcast monkey, and the free spins round pushes the heat further with a darker, more intense visual treatment and a soundtrack to match.

Play takes place on a 6x6 grid that can grow to 10 rows as cascades stack up, with wins triggered by five or more matching symbols joined horizontally, vertically or diagonally — a hybrid of ways-style clustering and a traditional cluster pays engine. Six pay symbols cover kitchen gear and ingredients — gloves, a spray bottle, a jar of purple contents, a tinned compass, diced tomatoes, chef's hats and diving masks among them — each carrying five payout tiers. A 20-of-a-kind hit at the bottom tier returns 15x-50x the stake, climbing to 90x-300x at the top tier.

Every win clears Cooked's grid of its symbols, sends any active feature token other than the magnet or multiplier into an inventory row, and lets the remaining icons fall to refill the space — a sequence that keeps repeating for as long as fresh wins keep forming. Seven feature tokens can work through that inventory in total: a heart and a multiplier token pair with five animal icons — chameleon, shark, toucan, magnet and lemur — each one firing off in turn from left to right once a cascade refill lands, and each carrying a limited number of activations before it disappears for good.

The lemur redirects along a row or column, flipping symbols as it travels and lifting coin values along the way, chaining into any toucan, chameleon or shark it crosses before a magnet, heart or scatter brings it to a halt (hitting a second lemur splits the path into two new directions instead). The toucan raises a chosen pay symbol up a payout tier, switching targets once that symbol maxes out; the chameleon converts every copy of one random pay symbol into another it has singled out. The shark slices the board and duplicates rows to expand the grid — once the 10-row ceiling is reached, it upgrades symbols instead. Magnets gather every coin value on screen, stacking further if more than one is present, and a landed heart tops up the remaining activations on whatever feature tokens are currently queued. Multiplier tokens are reserved for the bonus round, where each one raises a shared multiplier that applies across the round.

Cooked's free spins open once three scatters land, awarding 5 spins with every extra scatter adding one more; symbol payout tiers and the current row count both carry into the round, though the inventory resets between individual spins. The multiplier keeps building throughout, and scatters landing mid-bonus can extend the round by up to 8 further spins.

Four feature buys join the standard trigger: a 5x stake purchase raises the odds of hitting the bonus tenfold, a 10x buy seeds each spin with coins and continues supplying them through free spins if triggered, a themed buy adds a five-charge magnet to the inventory alongside a longer-lived magnet on every bonus drop for 25x, and a straight 100x buy goes directly into the round, with 500x buying the super version that adds a coin drop to every spin. The game pays out at a 94% RTP with medium volatility (rated 6/10), a 28.3% hit frequency, stakes from 0.10 to 100, and a ceiling of 10,000x the bet.