Red and Hot Chilli

Red and Hot Chilli is a BGaming slot that went live on October 7, 2026, set at a Mexican fiesta where a chilli pepper stands guard and a chicken marked BONUS keeps drifting onto the reels. The grid is 5×5, BGaming’s page lists 20 paylines, and the RTP is 96.35% with a 5,000x max win. The publisher calls the volatility medium-low, though the demo itself doesn’t show a label.

What the base game pays

The regular symbols are maracas, a hot sauce bottle, a sombrero, a tequila shot and an avocado, with the card ranks from 10 to A underneath. At a 1.00 bet the Wild pays 1.00, 4.00 and 12.50 for 3, 4 and 5 of a kind, and maracas match that top figure at 12.50. A Wild stands in for every paying symbol except Bonus symbols and Lucky Coins. Lucky Coins are the part to watch: BGaming says they can reach 100x in the base game.

Hit the Box

Four Bonus chickens started the round in the demo, and the splash screen states that more scatters mean more Lucky Coins to start with. The bonus is a 5×5 grid of mystery crates. You pick a crate, or press Auto select, and each one shows a coin, a multiplier or a hazard. Orange coins came up at 1x, 2x and higher, silver coins were worth more (an 8x one showed up in the demo), green tiles doubled the total, and the grid also held a gold bag and a couple of chilli bombs. Bag of Gold and Chillies are the two collect symbols that add up what’s on the board.

That run stood at 47.79 mid-round and finished at 118.00 on a 200 buy.

The gamble at the end

After the bonus pays, the game offers a choice: collect 118.00 or take a chance at double, 236.00. BGaming caps the gamble at the 5,000x maximum. Whether to press it is up to you, but the screen makes the all-or-nothing nature clear, and the demo run took the money.

Buy menu

Three options sit in the Buy Bonus menu, and the prices at a 1.00 bet are on screen:

• Chance x2 adds 0.30 to each spin, a 30% surcharge, for better odds of the bonus.
• Coin Hunt costs 80x the bet.
• Chilli Blast costs 200x and starts the bonus with 4 Lucky Coins, one of them guaranteed silver.

The 118.00 result above came from a Chilli Blast buy at 200.00, so that particular bonus paid back well under its price. One demo round is no sample, but it’s a useful reminder that a 200x buy needs a big silver coin to break even.

Where I’d land

The pick-a-crate bonus is the whole game, and the base game mostly exists to deliver Bonus chickens. That makes the buy menu the obvious route, with Chance x2 as the cheaper way to improve natural odds. I couldn’t confirm a bet range from either BGaming or the demo, and no source gave a hit frequency, so neither figure is stated here.