Paylines
25 Fixed Paylines (left to right)
Picture a desert village at dusk. Sombreros and papel-picado bunting hang over the reels, adobe houses fade into a smoky sunset, and a blue-eyed skeleton mariachi grins back at you. That's the setting Chili Quest drops you into – GameArt's Mexican Day-of-the-Dead fiesta from October 2019, built on five reels and three rows with 25 fixed paylines running left to right.
The base game is the warm-up. Festive card royals (A, K, Q, J) fill the bottom of the paytable, while the donkey, the pinata and the tequila glasses pay more. The skeleton mariachi works as the Wild, and a chili-pepper mariachi acts as the Scatter. None of that is the real draw, though. What you're chasing are the flaming chili coins.
Land enough Spicy Peppers and the hold-and-win round kicks off. Every pepper coin locks in place, the rest of the grid respins, and a fresh coin resets your respin count. Each locked coin shows a cash value or one of three fixed jackpots: MINI, MAJOR or MEGA. Fill the whole screen and the MEGA pays a flat 1,000x. The overall game caps a touch higher, at 1,386x your bet.
RTP sits at 96.15% with medium volatility, so swings stay reasonable. Impatient? You can buy the Spicy Pepper Bonus outright, and any spin win can be pushed through the GameArt card gamble for a double-or-nothing flip. One small gripe – the jackpots are fixed, not progressive, so the MEGA never climbs past that set 1,000x. Still, for a coin collector this themed and this colourful, that's a fair trade.