Top 5 online slots to celebrate Cinco de Mayo

South African online slots players can get into the fiesta vibe and celebrate a Mexican-flavoured festival with the Online South Africa Casinos pick of the best online and mobile slots for Cinco de Mayo.

Are you ready for FIESTA?

For those that are not up to date with all the thousands of little holidays that Americans celebrate (Ask A Stupid Question Day – it’s a real thing), Cinco de Mayo is a big deal for those looking to celebrate Mexico style! It’s a day when street parades wind through towns, where tacos are the snack of choice, and where tequila flows like the waters of the Rio Grande.

Strangely enough, Cinco de Mayo (which translates to 5^th of May in English) is not actually a major Mexican celebration day – it is far more popular in the United States. A lot of people confuse Cinco de Mayo for Mexico’s Independence Day celebration which is actually on the 16^th of September.

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican army’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Led by General Ignacio Zaragoza, the defeat of the French by the Mexicans was a major moral boost that helped the fledgling Mexican Republic believe that they could take on and overcome the mighty French Empire.

It’s a relatively minor holiday in Mexico, but is widely celebrated in the United States and other parts of the world as a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage.

Cinco de Mayo is primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla in Mexico, but its popularity in the US and its increasing popularity around the world, especially in areas with large Mexican-American populations has seen a growing celebration often marked with parades, music, traditional Mexican food like tacos, and drinks with a distinct tequila influence.

To help all our South African lovers of Mexican heritage, or just of the awesome fiesta vibes in general, OSAC have compiled a list of 5 great online slots games that can get us in the mood for a day of pinatas, sombreros, maracas, and margaritas (no, not the pizzas).

Spinata Grande – NetEnt

Spinata Grande (Spanish for the Big Spin) from NetEnt is a perfect way to start off our Cinco de Mayo celebrations. This online and mobile slot is inspired by Mexican pinatas and features colourful graphics and lively music.

Spinata Grande is played on a 5×4 reel grid with 40 paylines. The symbols on the reels include various pinatas, including a fish, a bird, a bull, and a donkey, as well as the usual royals. There is also a Sugar Skull wild symbol that can substitute for any other symbol except the bonus symbol.

One of the game’s main features is the Colossal Symbols feature. Some of the symbols can appear as a 2×2 or 3×3 block, which can increase the chances of forming winning combos. The game also has a Mini-Slot feature, which is triggered when a Colossal Bonus symbol appears on the reels. This feature gives players the chance to win cash prizes or free spins.

Overall, Spinata Grande is a fun and colourful slot game that offers players the chance to win big while enjoying a festive Mexican-themed atmosphere.

Mucho grande bueno!

Name: Spinata Grande

Provider: NetEnt

Reels and Rows: 5×4

Paylines: 40

RTP: 96.84%

Volatility: Low to Medium

Cinco de Mayo – Booming Games

Booming Games bring some lively fiesta play to our SA shores with Cinco de Mayo, a relatively simple but super fun celebration of Mexican heritage. The game features symbols such as margaritas, tacos, bottles of cerveza guitar players, dancers, Mexican flags, and pinatas.

In terms of gameplay, Cinco de Mayo is a 3-reel, 3-row video slot with 9 paylines. Players can adjust their bet size and the number of paylines they want to play, and the game also features a wild symbol and a scatter symbol that can trigger Free Spins.

Cinco de Mayo aims to capture the festive and colourful spirit of Cinco de Mayo and provide players with an entertaining and potentially lucrative gaming experience. It is quite simple in terms of gameplay and graphics (which makes it perfect for quick mobile slots play), with only one real bonus feature in Free Spins, but the fun vibe and festive music make it a winner for us.

Olé!

Name: Cinco de Mayo

Provider: Booming Games

Reels and Rows: 3×3

Paylines: 9

RTP: N/A

Volatility: N/A

Popinata – RealTime Gaming (RTG)

Popinata is an online and mobile slot game developed by RealTime Gaming (RTG), a well-known software provider for online casinos. As the name suggests, Popinata is inspired by Mexican piñatas and features colourful graphics and lively music.

Popinata is played on a 5×3 reel grid with 10 paylines. Spin the sombrero to fill the reels with gorgeous pinatas that represent some famous Mexican items like cacti, tequila bottles, tacos, sombreros, chillies, guitars, and rockets. The game also features a Wild symbol in the form of a donkey pinata, which can substitute for any other symbol to help form winning combinations.

One of the game’s main features is the Expanding Wild Re-Spin feature. Whenever a Donkey Wild pinata appears on the reels, it will expand to cover the entire reel and trigger a free re-spin. If another Donkey Wild pinata appears during the re-spin, it will also expand and trigger another re-spin.

Popinata is a fun and colourful online slot game that offers ZA players the chance to win big while enjoying a festive Mexican-themed atmosphere.

Sweet treats galore

Name: Popinata

Provider: RealTime Gaming (RTG)

Reels and Rows: 5×3

Paylines: 10

RTP: 96%

Volatility: Low

Paco and the Popping Peppers – Betsoft

Paco and the Popping Peppers from Betsoft is not a Cinco de Mayo online slot in the traditional sense, it’s not even a particularly festive slot when you think about it, but the OSAC team found it to be a particularly fun online and mobile slot that we wanted to include because it has a great mechanic and a Mexican theme.

Paco and the Popping Peppers is an online video slot game developed by Betsoft that is themed around a Mexican village mired in poverty and Paco, the hero who brings salvation and a sense of hope and fun with his popping peppers.

The game has 5 reels, 3 rows, and 30 paylines, and features symbols such as peppers, chillies, onions, pineapples, tomatoes, and a beach style hut.

In Paco and the Popping Peppers, players can trigger a variety of bonus features. The Wild symbol is represented by a donkey pinata and can substitute for any other symbol except for the bonus and scatter symbols. The scatter symbol is represented by a hut and triggers a Free Spins bonus if three or more appear on the reels.

The game also features a “Popping Peppers” cascading symbols feature, where winning combinations cause the symbols to “pop” and be replaced by new symbols, potentially leading to more wins. Each time this happens, a multiplier increases up to a maximum of 10x.

Paco and the Popping Peppers is a fun and vibrant online slot game with a unique popping mechanic and a great Mexican theme. It is a popular game from Betsoft and can be found at many online casinos that welcome South African online slots fans.

Pop in for a spin

Name: Paco and the Popping Peppers

Provider: Betsoft

Reels and Rows: 5×3

Paylines: 30

RTP: 94.29%

Volatility: Medium

Chilli Heat – Pragmatic Play

Chilli Heat is a fun and lively online slot game from Pragmatic Play that is themed around a Mexican street festival. The 5×3, 25 payline game 25 features  a quite modern reimagining of the Mexican fiesta theme with a very new and upbeat mariachi-style soundtrack and symbols that include a chihuahua dog, a hot sauce bottle, a tequila shot with slice of lime, and a colourful and homely background.

In Chilli Heat, players can trigger a variety of bonus features. The wild symbol is represented by a Chilli Heat logo and can substitute for any other symbol except for the Free Spins and Scatter symbols.

The Free Spins symbol is represented by an impressively moustachioed Sun symbol and triggers 8x Free Spins if landed on reels 2, 3, and 4. During Free Spins all lower paying symbols are dropped and only the higher value symbols remain. Landing 3x or more Sun symbols triggers additional re-spins.

There is also a Moneybags Scatter. Land 6x or more Moneybags symbols and trigger the Money Re-spins feature where players can try to collect as many money bags as possible. The values on the bags are added up to give some pretty impressive cash wins.

A great theme, jaunty soundtrack, and impressive features make Chilli Heat a bueno game for SA online slots players to enjoy and put us in the Mexican party vibe!

Turn up the heat

Name: Chilli Heat

Provider: Pragmatic Play

Reels and Rows: 5×3

Paylines: 25

RTP: 96.5%

Volatility: Medium

It’s a fiesta of fun!

Cinco de Mayo is a chance for ZA online casino players to celebrate a different culture and all it has to offer with some really fun and festive online slots that feature great Mexican vibes. The OSAC team are going to be settling in with some tacos and tequilas and we think most of our Mzansi audience will enjoy our recommendations.

Olé and have a festive Cinco de Mayo!