Pinatas and Ponies Slot by Red Tiger 🎰 Free Demo and Review

Pinatas and Ponies Review

Something is clearly going on over at the Red Tiger headquarters, and it seems like whoever is in charge has developed a serious case of the sweet tooth. Pinatas and Ponies is not a pure candy delight perhaps, as festive elements are also involved, and the whole experience reminded us of a childhood birthday party. The visuals are unusual for this developer as well, and thematically it follows in the footsteps of releases like Cake & Ice Cream and Peggy Sweets.

If you like balloons, bonbons, and fireworks all mixed together for a day of festivities, well, you can’t go wrong with what Red Tiger has conjured up in Pinatas and Ponies. The random multiplier system is enough to keep the base game alive, not least when the multipliers accumulate in the same cascading sequence. The multipliers always accumulate via the multiplier trail in the bonus round, but the 2,172x potential is not exactly impressive for this kind of volatility.

Pinatas and Ponies Slot - Reels Screen

Pinatas and Ponies Slot Features

You win by landing 10 to 25+ matching symbols anywhere in view, and the symbols pay between 1.2 and 20 x your stake for a 25+ symbols win. On the lower end, 10-12 matching symbols anywhere in view awards between 0.1 and 1.5 x your stake. Winning symbols are removed via the Cascading mechanic, and you thus get indefinite extra wins as long as you keep winning. There are no wilds, but you get pinata multipliers to compensate.

The Pinatas are sound asleep most of the time, but they come to life at random times in the base game. This gives you a multiplier that boosts the current total cascading win, and the small, big, and super pinata awards multipliers between x2 to x5, x6 to x10, or x11 to x15, respectively. The multiplier resets between base game spins, and it cannot go higher than x30.

You need 3 sweet spins scatters in view to trigger the Sweet Spins Bonus Round, and this gives you 10 free spins. You get +2 additional spins on top of that per extra triggering scatter you land. Landing 3 scatters on the same free spin awards +5 extra spins, and +2 on top of that per additional retriggering scatter above the minimum of 3.

All winning symbols are collected in the progress bar above the grid, and this is how you activate the 3 different level pinatas. You get to whack the pinata you have activated, and this reveals the random multiplier within the given range for that pinata tier. The multiplier never resets in the bonus round, but it’s still capped at x30.

Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of the Feature/Bonus Buy Menu. You can pay 5x, 10x, or 15x your stake to get a guaranteed small, big, or super pinata, respectively, or you can buy the Sweet Spins Bonus Round for 80x the stake. Purchasing the bonus round guarantees at least 3 triggering scatters on the spin that follows, and the top-tier RTP increases to 95.75 %.

The 200 Spins Pinatas and Ponies Slot Experience

You get to see a few smaller wins, including a pinata multiplier win, in the base game, before we purchase the Sweet Spins bonus round close to the 1-minute mark. We got the minimum of 10 free spins, and you can see for yourself what kind of pinata multiplier we managed to rack up by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

Red Tiger has gone through a metamorphosis of some kind lately, adding a bonus buy option to at least some of their releases. They have churned out no less than 3 candy releases in the last few months, and all of them come with a visual style that’s very different from what we’ve become used to from this developer. Nothing wrong with mixing things up, by all means, and Pinatas and Ponies is a cute, mood-lifting installment with plenty of visual bells and whistles.

There isn’t anything revolutionary going on as such, except for the fact that this is a highly unusual release compared to most of Red Tiger’s back catalog. You get random multiplier-boosted base game wins, and the multiplier can accumulate up to x30 more easily in the bonus round. Pinatas and Ponies is a perfect game to play on a celebrative day, like your birthday for example, as it will get you into that state of mind more or less instantly.