Narcos Mexico Slot – Free Demo

Three jackpot meters over a 5x3 grid

If you've only watched Narcos Mexico on television, it might not immediately come across as the perfect source content for an internet slot tie-in, but the shift from TV programme to internet casino game started many years ago and has been a huge success ever since. Among the studios in this licensing effort is Red Tiger Gaming, and contributing to the lineup is a slot named Narcos Mexico. The slot is linked to three networked jackpots, Daily Cash Booster, Daily Jackpot and Hourly Jackpot, and three or more jackpot symbols, or a game feature, spin a wheel that decides which one is won. It not only carries the programme to the reels. It also employs a 243 Ways to Win layout to propel the action along with a bonus phase recognised as Cartel Spins.

Propel it does, and Narcos Mexico is a quick-moving game. I put 268 spins through it at 5.00, the maximum stake, starting from a balance of 1,000.00. It's basically a 243 Ways slot. When a spin wins on several ways the wins are added together, and if one way carries more than one win only the largest is paid. A heap of added extras are tossed in to supply a pile of diversity, and it unfolds on a play matrix which begins in a 5x3 format, but becomes a 10x10 matrix during Cartel Spins. Two of them fire at random in the base game: Supply Drop, where an airplane passes over the reels and drops packages that become Wilds, and Double Cash, which doubles the amount of a winning spin after the ways are evaluated.

Arriving with an RTP figure of 92.70%, set against a very volatile numerical framework, Narcos Mexico is on the low side of the norm. The game's own rules give approximately 92.7%, and that figure includes the jackpot contribution as well as the base game. Playing Narcos Mexico entails choosing a stake of 0.10 to 5 credits per spin. According to the rules, the chance of winning one of the linked jackpots rises with the stake played.

Where the 72.00 came from

Being a 243 Ways slot means punters earn a win when at least three identical symbols land on neighbouring reels from the far-left reel. In my session 41 of the 268 spins paid, 21 of them less than the 5.00 stake, and the longest run without a win lasted 30 spins, ending on spin 106. The 10-A royals are valued 0.4-1x the stake for five of a kind, climbing to 2-5x the stake for five of the four figure symbols, and, for now, one last symbol is the wild landing on reels 2, 3 and 4 to replace any standard paying symbol. My biggest win came on spin 214, when a Supply Drop put Wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4 and the spin paid 72.00, or 14.4x the stake.

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Minty Slots Verdict: Base-game play gave me back 25.5% over 268 spins at 5.00, and the best of it was a single 14.4x airplane drop. The 92.7% on the rules page already counts what goes into the three jackpot meters, and the 10,486x ceiling sits in a round the wheel only sells to a win of 30x or more.

Two doors into Cartel Spins

On paper, Narcos Mexico adopts a familiar framework. That is landing scatters to activate free spins. However, in reality, Red Tiger departs from the usual manner of handling matters with the aid of a few tweaks. One of those tweaks is Win Exchange, which offers to gamble a win of 30x to 100x the stake on a wheel for a chance at Cartel Spins, or to trade 100x of a bigger win for the round while collecting the rest.

When 3 Cartel Spins scatters land on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the base game, 3 Cartel Spins are awarded, and they employ a 10x10 matrix with four Cartel Leaders locked in the corners. None of my 268 spins landed those three scatters. The highest overall multiplier is up to 10,500x. Mystery Territory symbols landing next to a Leader stick with 1x-5x multipliers. Any Mystery Territory symbol that locks resets the spins to 3. No win in the session reached the 30x that opens Win Exchange either, so neither route into the round opened.

1,000.00 in, 2.00 out

But the Narcos theme does give Narcos Mexico a name people know, and employing figures to demonstrate this, I find win potential of up to 10,486x the stake. My 268 spins returned 25.5% of what I wagered, taking the balance from 1,000.00 to 2.00 without it ever climbing above where it started. The overall multiplier in Cartel Spins is maxed at 10,500x.