Spi?ata Pi?ata

Spi?ata Pi?ata: Slot Overview

Casino game designer Stakelogic is giving players a chance to sample elements of Central/South American culture via the online slot Spi?ata Pi?ata. A pi?ata, as you most probably know if you've played your fair share of slots or seen them on the telly, is a container often made of paper-maché that is bashed open to release whatever is housed inside. In movies or TV shows, they are popular at birthday parties where kids smash them open to rain down candy. In Spi?ata Pi?ata, the pi?atas appear on wild symbols, which may be collected, added to the reels, and unleash win multipliers. Pi?atas also appear on the scatter, which is needed for triggering Spi?ata Pi?ata's free spins bonus round. Sticks at the ready?

Spi?ata Pi?ata resides in a colourfully quaint cobblestone street, maybe Mexico? One of those towns where bright pennants hang from strings adorning the buildings, which are ubiquitous in these sorts of slots. A fairly laid-back game, Spi?ata Pi?ata never really piled on the fireworks, no matter what was happening on the reels, i.e. there was no furiously strumming Mariachi band or pistols firing into the air or anything like that. A jolly old tune accompanies the visuals, though, combining to create a cute, modest atmosphere.

Bet selection is a tad confusing. Not picking the base bet, that's easy, where the options go from 20 p/c to $/€100 per spin. The head-scratching part is the Super Stake, which, when activated, doubles the bet, and all the pay table info has to say about it is that it gives 'extra chances of hitting insanely valuable winning combinations.' Just how so isn't made clear. Beneath the scenes, a medium-high volatile math model drives the show, producing a default RTP of 96.2%. On the front end, a 6-reel, 4-row gaming panel is where the action occurs, and 40 fixed paylines cross the grid for evaluating wins.

Spi?ata Pi?ata is capable of landing winning combinations of 3 to 6-of-a-kind, and there are 11 regular paying symbols. These are 9 through A card ranks as the lows, and a cocktail, maracas, a guitar, an accordion, and a lady as the high pays. Hitting a 6 OAK low pay combo awards 1.25 to 2 times the bet while hitting a 6 OAK high pay combo is worth 3 to 10 times the bet. The first pi?ata to note appears on the wild symbol. Wilds substitute for all symbols except the scatter, and they are collected in the base game by the Pi?ata Spins collector when they land.

Spi?ata Pi?ata: Slot Features

Further features in Spi?ata Pi?ata include mystery symbols, Pi?ata Spins collection, the Pi?ata Spin feature, free spins, and the bonus buy.

Mystery Symbols

Mystery symbols have a question mark imprinted on them, and when they hit, all mystery symbols are replaced with a matching symbol.

Pi?ata Spins Collection

When the Pi?ata Spins collection reaches 12 or more wilds, the Pi?ata Spin feature is triggered. Once activated, 2 reels become highlighted and synched, landing identical symbols. Up to 10 wilds are added to the reels, reducing the collection by the respective amount. Wild symbols that land on the highlighted reels are duplicated to the adjacent reel. When wilds are added to the highlighted reel, they increase the multiplier ladder, which is applied to the total win for the spin.

Free Spins

In the base game, landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatters awards 5, 7, 10, or 15 free spins, respectively. Each free spin is a Pi?ata Spin, meaning highlighted reels and up to 10 added wilds symbols, plus the multiplier ladder as described above. The multiplier ladder resets between free spins. Wild symbols are not collected in free spins, but the Pi?ata Spins collection is full for the duration of the round. When free spins end (they cannot be retriggered), the Pi?ata Spins collection returns to the amount collected before free spins were activated.

Buy Bonus Feature

When buying the bonus feature, 3 or more scatter symbols land to award the respective amount of free spins.

Spi?ata Pi?ata: Slot Verdict

If you like to party, like really party hard, leaving it all on the table without giving two thoughts to the fact the sun will inevitably rise at some point in the future to send reality crashing back in, then Spi?ata Pi?ata probably isn't quite off the hook enough to satisfy those desires. It's much more laid back, held in a chilled part of town, playing chilled tunes and delivering interesting gameplay but in a respectably restrained manner.

Spi?ata Pi?ata is good for a bit of collecting, though. Twelve wilds aren't a colossal amount to collect, either, though it did tend to take time to accrue the requisite amount to trigger a Pi?ata spin. Pi?ata spins might be handy; they do come with a win multiplier, after all, and were useful for clawing some of the balance deficit back after trudging through a significant number of low/dead spins while the wild collection process ticked along. Duplicating wilds on adjacent reels is a nice touch, and nice was an overriding word that came to mind for describing Spi?ata Pi?ata once the test session was done. Not a rager, not terrible, just nice and dandy.

Vague is another word that sprang to mind as well. Vague is one way of describing the Super Stake feature. When doubling the stake, some clearer benefits of why a gambler would want to do so would be appreciated. Perhaps this info will be added to the live version at a later date. There was no mention of max win either at the time of writing, so your guess is as good as ours, making it harder to form an absolutely definitive opinion on Spi?ata Pi?ata. Let's bring it back to the former word then and say Spi?ata Pi?ata provided a nice playthrough, but nothing so gripping as to have us rushing back to have another crack at busting the virtual pi?ata open in an attempt to disgorge its goodies.