Red Hot Tamales Slot – Free Demo

Twenty-seven lines from reel one

In numerous respects, Red Hot Tamales is a traditional IGT slot with traits characteristic of the studio. It has no free spins and no bonus round, so the base game carries the whole return. That signifies anyone who's ever tried their slots will feel quite at ease. I played 500 spins at a 0.27 stake from a 200.00 balance, and 173 of them paid, 108 of those for less than the stake.

This 3-reel, 3-row slot is operated with 27 fixed paylines. All lines are always in play, and a win needs 3 matching symbols on a line from left to right, starting on reel 1. It takes wagers between 0.27 and 540. That works out at 0.01 to 20 per line.

Bars, sevens and one flaming wild

The regular symbols are 6 in total. They are depicted by 3 low-paying bars of assorted colour and 3 high-paying 7s in green, yellow and red. Three Red Bars pay 0.59 times the stake, three Blue Bars 0.74 times and three Yellow Bars 0.89 times. The Red 7 is of greatest worth out of all regular symbols, and if you hit 3 of it you'll win 3.70 times your stake. The Yellow 7 pays 2.22 times the stake and the Green 7 1.11 times, while mixed lines of any 7s or any bars return 0.37 and 0.22 times the stake. The symbols can land stacked on the reels. That signifies that there's a 185.18 times the stake Blackout Win for a complete screen of Red 7s in the base game. Nine Yellow 7s covering the screen bring a smaller Blackout Win of 37.03 times the stake.

The game also ships with one special symbol. It is a blazing wild, and it substitutes for all symbols. Three Wilds on a payline pay 7.41 times the stake, the best line prize in the game.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: 500 spins at 0.27 returned 68.36 on 135.00 wagered, 50.6%, and the best of them was 29.0 times the stake; the 185.18x Red 7 Blackout Win never showed up to fix that.

What 500 spins at 0.27 bought

So this is not an inventive slot. Nor was it intended to be, and what you receive here is traditional IGT. Over my session I wagered 135.00 and won 68.36, a 50.6% return, and my balance went from 200.00 to 133.36 after peaking at 201.16 on spin 4.

Although this was never reached in the 500 spins of my session, theoretically it's got a max win of 285 times the stake should you hit a complete-screen of Red 7s. No Blackout Win of any kind landed in the session, Yellow 7s included. My session finished with a top win of 29.0 times the stake, not near to the theoretical max win. That came on spin 259, a 7.84 win from several 7 and Wild lines at once, and the next best was 3.30 on spin 52, where a Red 7 line completed by a Wild paid 1.00 on its own. But I'll accept it.