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Hot Chilliways Review

Last Update: 03.08.2022. Author: SlotCatalog.

If you’ve played online slots for a while, you’ll probably agree that the Mexico-themed releases really makes you wanna visit the country. The colorful buildings, as well as the sunny bright and festive mood, never fails to be a mood booster, and Hurricane Games’ Hot Chilliways is no exception. The pace is snappy with the turbo switched on, and the dynamic grid mechanic is an original twist.

The 6x3 default grid is placed in the middle of a typical street in the land of chilli and fiestas, and reels expand in different ways each time you land a green or red chilli wild. The red wild also increases the global win multiplier, and even more so in the bonus round. We wouldn’t call this a revolutionary release exactly, but it’s well worth checking out. Not least due to the 30,000x potential.

Hot Chilliways Slot - Reels Screen

Hot Chilliways Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 1.5 and 10 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins, and 3+ matching symbols on adjacent reels from the uttermost left to the right is a winner. Winning symbols are removed via the Cascading mechanic, and replaced by new and/or existing symbols dropping from above. This process repeats as long as you keep winning.

The Super Stake ante bet doubles your regular bet size, but it also doubles your bonus round chances. What steals the show in this game however, is the Wild Chilli symbols:

The Green Flaming Chilli splits all the symbols on the reel it lands on, including itself. This increases the number of symbols to 6 for the affected reel or reels, which again increases the number of win ways. The green chilli then acts as a wild, which means it steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins. Everything resets on the next spin.

The Red Flaming Chilli does something similar to the green chilli, but it creates 7 positions on its reel instead of 6. The 3 positions that were there from before drop to the bottom, and 4 new positions are created on top. The red chilli then acts as a wild, while adding +2 to the global win multiplier for that spin. Everything resets on the next spin.

The Bonus Round triggers when you land 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters in view, and this awards 12, 16, 20 or 24 free spins, respectively. You can choose to gamble for more free spins up front if you wish, and this happens on a green and red segmented wheel. You risk losing the whole feature if you do, so be careful.

The big difference in the bonus round is that the red chilli will award a global win multiplier between x2 and x100 (it still resets between spins though). Non-UK players, and anyone living in an eligible jurisdiction, can buy the bonus round for 100x the stake. This guarantees at least 3 scatters on the spin that follows.

The 200 Spins Hot Chilliways Slot Experience

You get to see some base game wins and reel transformations, before we purchase and trigger the bonus round at 1:22 into the 4-minute highlights video. We lost the gamble attempt though, so we had to buy it a second time. The feature starts at the 2:11-mark. Check it all out for yourself by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The Mexicana presentation is nothing too extraordinary perhaps, but it comes with a charming soundtrack and colorful visuals. The pace of the game is pleasant with the turbo switched on, and the 2 reel-expanding chilli wild features is a somewhat innovative touch. You can get up to 117,649 win ways at best, which is the usual number for Megaways games, and it helps keep the base game more varied and interesting.

The multiplier is somewhat limited in the base game though, as red chilli wilds only add +2 per wild. It’s rare to see more than one chilli wild at the same time also, but decent payouts are still possible due to the large number of default and possible win ways. Larger wins are still most likely from a larger red chilli multiplier in the bonus round though, and we certainly have no complaints about the 30,000x potential.

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Chilli Picante Megaways - is a fiesta-themed dynamic reels release from Blueprint, and you can play with up to 117,649 ways to win. Instant prizes up to 1,000x can be landed, and the upgradeable cash collect bonus round comes with a solid 50,000x potential.

Chilli Heat Megaways - is a Mexicana dynamic grid installment from Pragmatic Play, and you can play with up to 200,704 ways to win. Tumble wins and wilds is all you get in the base game, but you get 7 unique modifiers in the Money Respins bonus round. The max win is 5,000x your stake.

Taco Brothers Derailed - is ELK Studios’ follow-up to their iconic original, and it comes with a 6x4 grid, 466 ways to win and walking wild multiplier respins. You get more of the same in the bonus round, which comes in two tiers, and this can lead to payouts up to 10,000x your stake.