El Jackpotto

El Jackpotto Slot Review

El Jackpotto is that rare comedy slot where the jokes and the payouts were designed by the same person. Most gag slots lean on the theme and leave the maths plain; this one gives its five bonus rounds names like Colossal Fart and Smack That Ass and then hangs a 50,000x ceiling over the lot of them. The setting earns it: a sun-baked Mexican village street of pastel adobe houses, bunting strung overhead and a sombrero resting on the title banner, all drawn in a bright, hand-drawn cartoon style that takes the wrestling seriously even when nothing else is.

Under the costume it’s a conventional build: a 5×3 grid with 20 win lines, an RTP of 96%, and a maximum win of 50,000x the total bet from a single game. It’s a Blueprint Gaming release, cut from the same cloth as Ted, King Kong Cash and The Goonies, and cruder than all three.

Win Lines, Symbols and the Chilli Wild

Wins pay left to right across the 20 fixed lines, and all pay values are multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet, so the numbers below are exactly what they appear to be.

The Chilli Wild substitutes for all symbols except one, and it’s a paying symbol in its own right, sitting at the top of the table alongside the stacked wrestler. Both of them matter more than the rest of the reel put together.

The paytable, in multiples of the total bet:

• El Jackpotto (Super Stacked): 20x for two, 50x for four, 250x for five
• Chilli Wild: 1x for two, 20x for three, 50x for four, 250x for five
• Skull/Sombrero: 10x for three, 40x for four, 150x for five
• Pinata: 5x for three, 30x for four, 100x for five
• A: 4x for three, 30x for four, 50x for five
• Q / J: 3x for three, 5x for four, 25x for five

Two symbols pay for a two-of-a-kind, which is unusual: the El Jackpotto symbol and the Chilli Wild both start at two, where everything else needs three. The gap between the top and bottom of the table is steep. Five Qs or Js returns 25x the total bet, while five El Jackpotto symbols pays 250x and five Chilli Wilds matches that. The royals never get close.

Royals make up the lower rungs and are dressed in the game’s colour scheme, so even the cheap end of the reel stays on theme. The El Jackpotto symbol lands super stacked, which is where the game’s biggest base game wins come from: a full screen of the man himself, wilds included, is the route to the serious money. With stacks in play, near-miss screens that stop one symbol short are part of the deal.

Because the stacks can cover entire reels, a single spin occasionally lines up several win lines at once, and those overlapping combinations are what the 20-line structure is really there for. Lines that the royals fill pay modestly and often enough to keep the balance moving. The A sits a rung above the Q and J and pays 50x for five, which is still a fifth of what the top symbols return.

The El Jackpotto Feature

The named feature can trigger randomly on any spin, without warning and without a symbol to announce it. When it hits, it awards exactly one of the following:

• Tomato Sauce
• Mustard Sauce
• Colossal Fart
• Chilli Sauce
• Super Fart Bonus Reel

The naming tells you the register this game operates in. Sauces and flatulence are the modifiers here, applied to the reels rather than to anything so serious as a multiplier ladder. There’s no choosing between them and no building towards one; the feature fires, you get whichever of the five it gives you, and the reels carry on.

What the modifiers have in common is that they reshuffle or add to what’s already on the grid rather than paying out directly. Any of them can turn a dead spin into a paying one, and that’s the whole function of the feature in the game’s economy.

It’s a random base game lift in the tradition of Blueprint’s comedy slots, and it does the job those modifiers always do: it keeps the base game alive between scatter hunts. For a game whose paytable below the top symbols is modest, an unprompted reel modifier is where the mid-session spikes come from.

The Ultimate Luchador Bonus

Land three or more EJ Bonus scatter symbols and the main event begins. The scatters pay nothing themselves; their entire job is to open the ladder. You then move up it to win one of five bonuses:

• Smack That Ass
• Pound For Pound
• El Jackpotto’s Rocket Wild Free Spins
• Ready To Rumble
• Ultimate Luchador Big Money Bonus

The ladder structure means the bonus you finish with isn’t necessarily the one you started towards, and the Big Money Bonus at the top is the ceiling of the round.

Three is the number that matters.

The order of the five runs from Smack That Ass at the bottom to the Big Money Bonus at the top, so every rung climbed is a better ending. Where you stop decides the shape of the round: the lower rungs are quick hit-and-run mini-games, while reaching the top puts the game’s biggest potential payout in play. That single climb, with its five possible endings, is the reason to keep an eye out for the EJ Bonus symbols at all.

What the ladder adds up to is range. Five distinct end states from one trigger means the bonus round doesn’t settle into a rhythm the way a single free spins mode can, and the Big Money Bonus gives every climb something at the top to aim at. The 50,000x maximum win from a single game sits across everything the ladder can award.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.2/10

Playing El Jackpotto is like watching a lucha libre undercard: loud, silly, and every so often somebody gets launched through the air for real. That’s the reason to choose it. You spin a cheerful Mexican village street, wait for the scatter, and climb a ladder with five genuinely different endings, which is more variety than most slots offer from a single trigger.

Its strength is that the comedy never runs out of mechanics to hide behind. The random modifier keeps the base game moving, the stacked wrestler can fill a screen, and the Big Money Bonus at the top of the ladder gives every climb something worth reaching for. Its weakness is the paytable underneath: below the top two symbols the wins are thin, and the royals fill a lot of quiet spins between features.

It suits players who want to be entertained while they grind, and who find a fart joke funnier than a polished maths model. Anyone chasing refined mechanics or a modern feature set will find this one behind the times. But if a crude cartoon wrestler with five bonus rounds in his tights and a 50,000x ceiling sounds like a good night, that’s exactly what’s on the menu in this village.

El Jackpotto FAQs

• What is the RTP of El Jackpotto?

  El Jackpotto runs at an RTP of 96%, which is around the industry average.
• How many paylines does El Jackpotto have?

  The game has 20 fixed win lines, paying left to right across the reels.
• What is the grid size of El Jackpotto?

  El Jackpotto plays on a standard 5×3 grid of five reels and three rows.
• How does the El Jackpotto Feature trigger?

  The El Jackpotto Feature can trigger randomly on any spin, awarding one of five modifiers: Tomato Sauce, Mustard Sauce, Colossal Fart, Chilli Sauce or the Super Fart Bonus Reel.
• How do you trigger the Ultimate Luchador Bonus?

  Landing three or more EJ Bonus scatter symbols awards The Ultimate Luchador Bonus, where you move up a ladder to win one of five different bonus rounds.
• What does the Chilli Wild do in El Jackpotto?

  The Chilli Wild substitutes for all symbols except one, and it’s also the joint top-paying symbol alongside the super stacked El Jackpotto symbol, paying up to 250x the total bet for five.
• What is the maximum win on El Jackpotto?

  The maximum win from a single game is 50,000x the total bet.
• Can the Ultimate Luchador Bonus be triggered with more than three scatters?

  Yes. Three or more EJ Bonus symbols awards The Ultimate Luchador Bonus, where you move up a ladder to win one of five bonus rounds.
• Who makes El Jackpotto?

  El Jackpotto is made by Blueprint Gaming. Its release date is 14 November 2017.