Hot Pepper Slots
Hot Pepper is a fun and exciting online slot game offering players an immersion into Mexican culture with its many varied and colourful food elements. It was crafted and released by well known developers Pragmatic Play in December of 2022.
The vibrant colourful gaming grid provides 7 reels and 7 rows sitting within a wooden frame with the background featuring a dramatic desert landscape with wide open skies seen above and some interesting rock formations. The cartoon like graphics are wonderfully detailed and the lively and energetic Mariachi tune provides just the right soundtrack.
A cluster pays mechanic sometimes called an avalanche feature means that winning clusters vanish and the new symbols appear from above to drop down to fill the gaps. More connected symbols will result in bigger wins and payouts. Players will need to have five or more identical icons in a cluster on adjacent horizontal and/or vertical positions on the grid.
The betting range offers a few generous options to make wagers and these start from a minimum of $0.20 per spin and upwards to a maximum of $100.00 per spin. This range effectively accommodates a wide variety of player. A useful Autoplay button allows players to choose up to 1,000 auto spins to game with and Turbo and Quick Spin can also be selected for quicker spin speed. This can be helpful for those who are keen to maintain a particular gaming budget and is also a handy tool for those who dislike manual gameplay.
The RTP (Return to Player Percentage) of Hot Pepper is 96.45% which is a little above the average. This slot plays with high volatility so players can expect smaller wins most of the time with the chance of occasional big wins along gameplay. The maximum win potential sits at 10,000x the bet and the key to big wins sits with the wilds in the base game and the Free Spins feature.
Gaming symbols include the lower paying suited playing cards with green clubs, red hearts, purple spades offering payouts of 10x and 20x the bet along with limes, tacos and bull pinatas offering higher prizes of 20x and 25x the bet. The Mexican man wearing the traditional sombrero is the best paying symbol in the game with 15 or more in a cluster awarding players a 50x bet payout.
The wild is represented by the chilli pepper and they substitute for all the paying symbols except for the bonus sun appearing when a cluster of winning symbols disappears from the grid. There is a Sun Bonus scatter symbol that appears anywhere on the grid. Players with three suns across a single tumble sequence will activate the Free Spins feature and also receive 12 free spins and hitting three bonus icons during this mode across a tumble sequence will re-trigger the round and provide 5 extra free spins. The wilds created in clusters are at level 5 during the free spins and this means multipliers of 16x to 128x. Multiple Chilli Pepper wilds in a winning cluster will see the multipliers added together.
Players have the option to Bonus Buy the free spins which will cost them 100x their total stake enabling them to trigger free spins straightaway and as a result the RTP increases up to 96.79%.
What makes gameplay a bit different is the five wild icons in the shapes of different colours of chilli peppers being green, yellow, red, pink and purple. These count as any primary symbol to help form winning combinations and are generated when a cluster explodes. This event will also trigger a progressive feature for the consecutive tumble sequence. It starts at level 1 and goes up to level 5. With their help, clusters of 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 or 11+ icons create multipliers with values of x1 to x128.
Hot Pepper slot game is fully mobile optimized. Players can enjoy slick and seamless gameplay from either a desktop or a compatible smartphone or tablet device such as iOS Apple, Android or Samsung which makes it perfect to game from anytime and anywhere.