Mexico is where you want to go to try out the hottest Chillies that exist on the planet. If you decide to go there, make sure you look for Willy, because he is your guy. Willy’s Hot Chillies is NetEnt’s five-reel video slot that offers 20 fixed paylines. Playable from $0.20 per spin, the 2020 release offers two rewarding additional features. First, there are the Multiplier Wilds that appear in stacks and come with win multipliers. Second, there is the Willy’s Hot Wheel Bonus, where you spin the wheel and pocket coin wins, extras, and additional spins of the Wheel.
When talking about the base game, the rules are quite common and all of you who played classic video slots with 5x3 reel grids will understand how everything functions. The goal is to win payouts, and this can be achieved when you land at least three matching icons on a payline. The NetEnt title pays left to right, beginning from the far-left reel. The control panel is pretty standard and offers all the usual options, including Fast Forward that speeds the reels up a bit, and Autoplay, where players can activate up to 1,000 automatic spins.
The visuals are simple and colourful as if you are watching a cartoon. Our host is Willy, a local hombre from a pueblo that produces the hottest Chillies on this side of Rio Grande. The reels are placed on his ranch, somewhere in the desert. Chillies represent Wilds that come with multipliers. Willy is the Bonus Scatter that triggers the Willy’s Hot Wheel Bonus. As for regular symbols, players will come across Treasure Chests, Pinatas, Tabasco Sauces, Tacos, and card suits, which act as low-paying icons.
Multiplier Wilds are represented by Chillies. They will appear in stacks and will replace all other regular symbols, but that is not all. Wilds can only appear on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5, and all of them come with win multipliers, 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x. If you get more Wilds with different multipliers on the reels at the same time, multipliers will combine. Willy is the Scatter that appears only on reel 1. To trigger the Willy’s Hot Wheel Bonus feature, you need to land Willy on reel 1 and at least one Chilli Wild on one of the other 4 reels.
The Reel where the Wild landed will become a Fire Pointer, and players are taken above the reel grid to spin the Wheel. You can land more Wilds on different reels on the triggering spin, so there is a possibility to have more Fire Pointers during the feature. Gamers will get at least 6 spins of the Wheel and will collect different coin wins, additional spins of the Wheel and extra Fire Pointers. We also have a Chillie Multiplier, which goes up every time a Chillie appears on the field where the Pointer stopped. More Fire Pointers will secure you bigger wins, because they will cover more segments on the Wheel.
Willy’s Hot Chillies may seem like a bit complicated game when talking about additional features, but it will all be very clear after only a couple of spins. The central attraction of the NetEnt title is the Willy’s Hot Wheel Bonus, where you can really win big, especially if you have more Fire Pointers active at the same time. If you play your cards right, you can win up to 3,000 times the bet in a single spin.
