El Dioni Feria de Abril Slot – Free Demo

Nine lines split across two decks

This is a two-deck Spanish cabinet sort of slot, and it arrives with a 3-reel, 3-row reel arrangement in the main game and 9 paylines altogether. There is one central prize line downstairs and 8 vertical lines upstairs, with five fixed stakes running from 0.20 up to 15. The max bet is somewhat modest. The five stakes do not return the same: 70% at 0.20, 80% at 1, 90% at 5 and at 10, and 95% at 15.

The best I can portray what I'm looking at is a kind of neon April fair sort of thing. I realise that is lyrical. Downstairs it is the briefcase that matters, and its x3 marker is labelled "winned drawing". Once more it appears stunning visually, with lanterns, bumper cars and carnations strewn across the two decks of the cabinet.

Where the 95% actually applies

MGA is one of the more interesting software studios in the iGaming business at the moment. I gave El Dioni Feria de Abril a 200.00 balance and played it until there was 9.50 left. I'm a little surprised to state that, and I say surprised because for a lengthy stretch the studio appeared to be trapped in a repetitive loop. That took 21 spins, all of them at the 15.00 stake. It was pumping out assembly line sort of dull games.

But that was previously, and the MGA you're observing now is a firm that is prepared to shift, develop, and absorb from the community. The 95.00% carried in the specs is the figure for the top stake alone, not one that holds across the bet range. But I'm beginning to notice very interesting things occur here, with fresh mechanics and heightened potential. Those 21 spins put 315.00 through the machine and returned 124.50.

El Dioni Feria de Abril is far from average. Seven of the 21 spins paid, and five of those seven paid less than the 15.00 stake. It resembles nothing like a conventional slot, not that MGA slots were dreadful to look at previously. The wild is the El Dioni portrait, and it combines with any symbol. I've seen worse, but in my judgement this is a step upward. The longest run I had without a win was four spins, ending on spin 7. Fresh designers recruited? Who can tell.

From "anything" at 20 credits to the blue diamonds

The prize plan stretches from "anything" at 20 credits all the way upward to the blue diamonds at 15000. Bells, cash bundles and mixed sevens are along the route, the wild included. Under the Seven Mixed rule, combinations of different 7s pay a random prize at high bets. The prize plan can seem somewhat puzzling. The fans raise the vertical-lines counter, and three briefcases downstairs open the Houses mini-game. Payouts are computed on the central line solely when the symbols land to shape a win, so for instance the top paying symbol (the blue diamonds) delivers 15000 credits. That is 1000x at the 15.00 stake. The mojito symbols feed a cumulative game that awards an extra winning spin.

Nudges, Holds and the choice after every prize

The reels, by the way, can be nudged. With nudges active, the auto option rotates the reels and always resolves to the best option available to the player. Between 1 and 4 nudges push a reel into a combination, and Holds will retain up to two reels for the next spin, while every prize you do land can then be collected or risked, ascending one tier in the prize plan or shifting into the same sum of bonus. In fact, while running my test the largest thing I hit was a 5x win outside of the upper game. That was spin 12, worth 75.00, and it left the balance at 116.00. The balance never climbed back to where it started. It peaked at the 200.00 I opened with and bottomed out at 9.50.

The four mini-games I did not reach

Mini-games will trigger randomly from time to time on certain paylines. I reached none of them in the 21 spins. They are Houses with its three briefcases downstairs, Lanterns, Bumper Cars and Roulette upstairs. Houses asks you to stop a prize, and Lanterns asks you to stop the draw for the best one. When this occurs you can either finish up with nothing or something can land. Bumper Cars and Roulette both resolve on a press of Play. A mini-game can never pay above the maximum prize of the stake it was played at. At 15.00 that ceiling is the 1000x blue diamonds prize.

The bonus meter is the door upstairs

There are no free spins here, and what you're playing towards instead is the upper game. I never opened it. The route in is the bonus meter. The cash bundle pays 50, 100 or 300 bonus for x1, x2 and x3, and it's bonus and credits jointly that unlock the second deck. Upstairs the fans play 8 vertical lines. The risk is taken portion by portion, each one doubling or shifting into bonus, while three bells flip the whole thing into an up-down. My 315.00 went through the lower deck alone.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: The 95% exists at 15.00 a spin and nowhere else; drop to the 0.20 minimum and the same cabinet publishes 70%, a 25-point spread inside one game. MGA's other single-line cabinets on the site, Chiquito and La Reina Del Nilo, publish 90% and hold it at any stake, so this one beats them on paper at the top of its range and trails them everywhere below.

The return against the claim

MGA is going from strength to strength. My 21 spins came back at 39.5% of what went in, against a published 95% at the stake I played. I'm beginning to anticipate their games with heightened interest, and El Dioni Feria de Abril is an interesting slot with abundant surprise elements and a second deck to aim at.