If you are the kind of person who sees the Doritos Roulette flavor as a small challenge and measures life accomplishments on the Scoville scale, this might just be the slot you are looking for.

With Hellapenos, Thunderkick has released a fiery, hot-pepper-infused online slot that features free spins, expanding wilds, multipliers, a Bonus Buy option, and everything related to hot food, such as chili peppers, hot sauce, and overheating gauges.

Hellapenos RTP

Before we delve into the gameplay mechanics and bonus features, we have some other important issue to attend to: the slot’s Return to Player.

Hellapenos has been released in one RTP setting: 96.19%. As is so often the case, CasinoWizard does not rule out that multiple payout versions will be released in the future. If that is the case, we will update this review accordingly and seek out the best high-payout casinos that offer this slot in the best-paying RTP configuration.

Gameplay and features

Hellapenos is played on 3x3x4x4x4 grid, with 100 connecting paylines.

Betting starts at 0.10 and goed up to 100 per spin.

Other features include:

• High variance.
• Premium symbols pay between 1.5 to 5 times the bet for 5OAK.
• Wilds contain an x2 multiplier and only appear on reels 3, 4, and 5.
• The maximum multiplier with normal wilds is x8.
• 1-3 Random Wilds appear when the two leftmost reels display the same set of symbols.
• Up to three Expanding Devils may be triggered when the Devil symbol appears on reel 3, 4, or 5.
• The Devil symbol may turn into an expanding wild (when part of a winning combination) or into an x2 multiplier (when it covers an x2 multiplier wild).
• Devil Symbols may create multipliers of up to x64.
• 7 Free spins are triggered by landing three scatters, again on reels 3, 4, and 5.
• During free spins, Devil symbols award +3 free spins and activate the reels they land on.
• Activated reels place an Expanding Devil symbol on each spin

Hellapenos Bonus Buy

You can buy direct access to the free spins bonus round by paying 70x the bet.

What is the max win on Hellapenos?

It is possible to land wins of up to 5,000x the bet on Hellapenos.

CasinoWizard’s verdict: 4 out of 5 stars

Thunderkick delivers yet another well-polished, high-variance banger of a slot.

It’s fast, colourful, exciting, and fresh: be prepared for a wild ride that can pay off handsomely.

The relatively cheap Buy a Bonus option should also appeal to thrill-seeking players who want to take a shortcut to the real action.

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