Fiesta Fortune: Slot Overview
Hola, amigo, if you’re keen to ‘Enjoy some tacos and tunes’, then you best be joining us as we throw off the shackles of gloomy cold weather to trip with Pragmatic Play somewhere warm and festive. The slot is Fiesta Fortune, and as well as being a real burrito of Mexican-style references, it’s also a pretty straightforward hold ‘n win Money symbol collection game with a quartet of local jackpot prizes. However, Pragmatic Play has tossed a fairly interesting Skull Money symbol with its own respin feature attached into the mix in an attempt to alter the flavour like a mild jalapeno on pizza.
This is not Pragmatic Play’s first trip south of the Rio Grande (Hot Fiesta, Hot Pepper, for example), and it shows. The studio has learned a thing or two about recreating the sultry side of Latin America, and while much of Fiesta Fortune is, okay, quite cliched, it is also quite festive. The game takes place in one of those quaint little paved streets adorned with pennant strings, copious pot plants, and flowers galore, on top of other theme-related images such as cacti, tacos, and skulls. A high octane guitar driven track completes the scene, so while it is a tad on the stereotypical side, if you like this theme, Fiesta Fortune provides a feast for the ears and eyes.
10 paylines are built into Fiesta Fortune’s 5×3 gaming grid, evaluating winning combinations starting from the leftmost side. The fiesta begins once players have picked a stake of 10 c to $/€250 per spin, where there is a maximum RTP of 96.5% when betting that way or when buying free spins. As the 4.5 lightning bolts out of 5 indicate, Fiesta Fortune is a highly volatile slot.
A colourful group of 10 to A card ranks festooned with things like sombreros and guitars are Fiesta Fortune’s low pay symbols awarding 5x to 7.5x the bet for a 5 OAK winning combination. Following them are tacos, skulled bottles, maracas, and a golden bird, paying 10 to 50 times the bet for a 5 OAK win. Hitting on all reels bar the leftmost reel, hot chilli wilds substitute for anything except scatters, Money symbols, and Skull Money symbols.
Fiesta Fortune: Slot Features
This particular fiesta counts Money symbols, Skull Money symbols, Money Respins, free spins, and a bonus buy as its features.
Money and Skull Money Symbols
Golden Money symbols land bearing values of 1x to 50x the bet, or they display the 10x Mini, 50x Minor, or 250x Major prize. Whenever a Skull Money symbol would pay, it goes through a respin sequence, displaying 8 positions that land blanks or money values. It starts by awarding 3 respins, which reset when new money values hit, ending when there are no respins left or all positions are filled. Then, all money values are combined and applied to that Skull Money symbol. If all positions are filled, an extra 1,000x is added to the total. Randomly, in the base game, when 1 to 5 Skull Money symbols hit, there is a random chance for each that the respin feature triggers, and the game pays the resulting values.
Money Respins
Landing 6 or more Money or Skull Money symbols triggers the Money Respin feature. Regular pay symbols are removed from the reels so only Money, Skulls, or blanks may land – all Money and Skull symbols stick to the reels till the end of the round. Three respins are awarded, and these reset whenever a new non-blank symbol hits. When no spins remain, or all positions are filled, the feature ends and the value of any Skull symbols are determined by their special respin feature. The total of all values in view are then awarded. If all positions are filled with symbols, players win the 5,000x Grand prize instead.
Free Spins
Getting 3, 4, or 5 scatters on the screen in the base game awards 6 free spins and 2x, 10x, or 100x the bet, respectively. During free spins, any landed Money or Skull Money symbols remain on the reels until a respin feature triggers or the round ends. When 6 or more of them are in view, the Money Respin feature activates. At the end of respins, the Money and Skull Money symbols are removed for the remaining free spins. Hitting 3 or more scatters awards an extra +6 free spins.
Feature Buy
It is possible to instantly trigger the free spins round from the base game by buying it for 80 times the bet.
Fiesta Fortune: Slot Verdict
How about we split the game’s title into two and start dissecting it that way? First, on the ‘Fiesta’ side of things, Pragmatic Play has constructed a bubbly, inviting space overflowing with flowers and music that a player looking to spin a spicy Mexican-style slot might want to get involved in. The colours are bright, and the sounds are groovy, combining to make Fiesta Fortune a pretty sweet spot someone might want to try their luck in. As alluded to, it is drenched in cliches, so maybe don’t pick the game if you’re keen on diving beneath the surface to explore subtle, less obvious sides of the culture. But hey, this is an online slot for the masses rather than an off-the-beaten-path travel guide, after all.
On the ‘Fortune’ side, Fiesta Fortune is capable of awarding wins up to a cap of 5,000x the bet, which is the same amount as achieving the Grand prize by filling each position with Money or Skull Money symbols in the Money Respins round. Like the theme use, much of Fiesta Fortune’s gameplay is regular stuff such as hold ‘n win, local jackpot action you can find just about anywhere. A possible exception is the Skull Money symbol and its pistol bullet chamber individual respin feature. It’s not exactly wild enough on its own to give Fiesta Fortune a massive feature kick, but it might be of interest to players who have seen it all in the hold ‘n win space or as a nice icing on-top type feature.
And so, for a spicily presented slot with mostly average gameplay and a mildly interesting Skull Money symbol feature, Fiesta Fortune could be an option. It barely nudges the evolution dial on either Mexican-style games or hold ‘n win jackpot slots, but Fiesta Fortunes looks and sounds alright as it goes about the business of being pleasingly average.
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