3 Cursed Chests Hold and Win
Hacksaw takes the three-pot mechanic somewhere quieter. Medium stakes and a pirate deck with a ceiling you can actually plan around.

The hit frequency is listed at 47.29%, which is genuinely high for a medium-volatility game. In practice that means most spins return something. Small returns, usually, but it keeps the balance stable for longer than you might expect. I ran through 60 spins at US$ 0.20 without triggering a chest and lost about US$ 4 net. That is slow enough to plan around.

The three-chest design is the core idea. Each chest charges from matching pot symbols landing on the reels. Only one chest can activate per spin. The features do not stack and they do not interfere with each other. That separation is either the game's strength or its limitation, depending on your expectations.

3 Cursed Chests Hold and Win at a glance

One thing worth checking before you play: Hacksaw ships this title with lower RTP variants at 94.37%, 92.30% and 86.29%. The gap between the top and bottom tier is enormous. The 86.29% version charges more than twice the effective edge. Open the game's info panel and verify you are on 96.30% before a single spin. If the number is lower, play at a different operator. The casinos on our casino shortlist are the ones I have personally checked.

How the three chest bonuses work

Each chest sits above the reels and charges when its matching coloured pot symbol lands during play. At the end of the spin, after all base-game wins resolve, a charged chest has a chance to activate. Only one fires per spin, regardless of how many are charged.

Green chest — Cursed Wilds Respin

This one surprised me. During the respin, any standard symbol, wild, or wild multiplier can land. Multipliers run from 2x to 100x. When two multiplier wilds land in the same winning combination, their values add together rather than multiply. A 10x and a 20x make 30x, not 200x. Still useful, but the distinction matters when you are counting on a specific outcome.

In my sessions the green chest was the most consistently satisfying of the three. I hit a 38x multiplier wild during one respin that pushed a modest base win up to a decent return on a US$ 0.20 stake. Nothing life-changing, but the kind of result that makes medium-volatility play feel worthwhile.

Red chest — Cursed Coins Bonus

The hold-and-win feature. Three lives, reset each time a coin lands. Only dead symbols and sticky coins appear during the sequence. Coin values span 0.20x to 1,000x the bet. The 1,000x figure is the Diamond tier, which lands rarely. Most coins I saw in practice came in under 10x, with the occasional silver-tier coin around 30x to 50x.

The honest read: this feature is fairly dry unless a high-value coin arrives early and gives the sequence room to build. A dead spin is a dead spin. Coins come to nothing if they do not materialise before the lives run out. My average red chest activation returned around 12x the stake, which covers a few base spins. Some rounds came back at 3x. That is the nature of the mechanic across every studio that builds it.

Blue chest — Cursed FS Respin

During the respin only dead symbols and free-spin scatter symbols can land. If seven or more FS symbols hit, you enter Treasure Cove. If six or more FS symbols and one upgrade symbol land, you go directly to Ghostly Gallows instead. The upgrade path is worth watching for. I hit it once in roughly 300 spins, and it felt like the grip of the whole session tightened at that point.

Treasure Cove and Ghostly Gallows free spins

Treasure Cove awards 7 to 15 free spins. The third matching pot symbol that lands during the round guarantees a chest activation. It is a more measured version of the full feature. Chests fire, but you need three pots first.

Ghostly Gallows is the upgrade. Any pot symbol that lands activates its chest immediately. Chests fire on single pots, not on the third. The difference is real. In my one Ghostly Gallows round I counted four chest activations against the two I typically saw in Treasure Cove. Both modes run 7–15 spins and carry over your existing spin count if you upgrade mid-feature.

The best bonus I triggered was a Treasure Cove with 12 free spins and a green chest activation mid-run that landed a 15x wild. Final payout: 187x at US$ 0.20 a spin, so US$ 37.40. A good day at this game. Not the ceiling, but closer to what the realistic distribution looks like.

Feature buy: which tier is worth it?

At US$ 0.10 per spin the Ghostly Gallows buy costs US$ 20 and the theoretical best outcome is US$ 250 (2,500x at US$ 0.10). That is a narrow ceiling. At US$ 0.50 a spin the buy costs US$ 100 and the ceiling climbs to US$ 1,250, which changes the risk profile considerably.

The 3x Cursed FeatureSpins buy at US$ 0.10 costs just US$ 0.30 and gives an enhanced respin. It is not a full bonus. I would not buy it more than once or twice as a session opener. The 40x buy at US$ 0.10 costs US$ 4 and guarantees a chest fires, which is reasonable for the certainty it provides. If you fund those buys via USDT, my USDT guide walks through the network costs that quietly eat into margins on small amounts.

I keep my own buying to a hard limit per session. One or two Treasure Cove entries at most, and only on a session balance that can absorb a full loss of that stake. The responsible gambling page has the framework I actually follow.

How does it compare to other Hacksaw titles?

Directly: the xWays titles in the Hacksaw Gaming catalogue are a different animal. This game has a 47% hit rate and a capped max win. Those other titles have lower hit rates, wilder variance and ceilings that start where this one ends. Neither is better in the abstract. They serve different bankrolls and different moods.

Against peers in the hold-and-win genre more broadly, 3 Cursed Chests is better structured than most. The chest separation means each feature feels distinct rather than mashed together.

The green chest in particular does something the standard coin-collect mechanic does not. That alone keeps it from being generic. For comparison, if you want Hacksaw's highest-end experience, the full catalogue is on the provider hub page. For a different kind of medium-volatility session you can also look at what we cover on the winz.io casino page.

Playing from Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana

The game is available at the crypto-facing operators we cover, including BC.Game and Rainbet, both of which I have checked for the 96.30% RTP version. For players in Nigeria funding through OPay or converting naira to USDT via Binance P2P, the TRON network is the cheapest route. My TRC-20 guide covers the exact steps.

In Kenya the path runs through M-Pesa to a peer-to-peer exchange. Our M-Pesa guide has the details. The game itself runs cleanly on mobile, which matters on Tecno and Infinix handsets where the 5x3 grid fits the screen without pinching.

Country-specific note: Nigeria's 5% withholding tax on gaming winnings applies to your cashout, not the operator's groß. Keep a record of what you put in and what you take out. Ghana's 10% tax on winnings was scrapped in April 2025, so every cedis you withdraw is yours. Our Ghana casino guide and Nigeria casino guide have the operator shortlists and deposit paths verified for each market. The Kenya page covers the M-Pesa route in detail.

My verdict: a 7.0 that earns its score honestly

I score this game 7.0 out of 10. It is a considered entry that knows exactly what it is: a hold-and-win title built by a studio known for something far wilder. The 2,500x ceiling is not a failure. It is a specification.

If you sit down expecting the chaos of an xWays session, the game will disappoint from the first dead respin. Set that expectation aside and the structure holds up well. A 47% hit rate keeps sessions alive long enough to see several chest activations.

The red chest is the weakest of the three in my experience. The coin values rarely build to anything meaningful without a Diamond landing early. The green chest is the one I actually look forward to. The Ghostly Gallows upgrade path in the blue chest adds a late-session dimension that stops the game feeling entirely routine.

My practical advice: start at US$ 0.10 or US$ 0.20, let the base game charge the chests naturally, and buy into Treasure Cove once per session if you want to accelerate. Keep a session budget in mind before you press anything. The testing methodology page explains how I set and track those limits, and I follow that discipline here as anywhere.