Calavera Cascades Slot by Genii

The cascade multiplier ladder skips two rungs. It runs x1, x2, x4, x6, no x3, no x5, so the third successful cascade in a chain doubles your payout from the second, and the fourth bumps it by another 50% on top. Genii put the ladder above the reels in glowing pink lettering, and the highest value paid sticks until the chain breaks. Once nothing connects, the meter drops back to x1 and you start over.

The Wild detonates instead of just substituting. When one lands it explodes outward, clearing 3 to 8 neighbouring positions depending on where it sits, a center placement wipes the most, a corner placement clears the fewest. What's unusual is what survives the blast: scatters AND high-pay symbols both stay on the grid. Most cascade slots only spare the scatter, so seeing the top three sugar-skull values shielded from the explosion changes how you read the board. The lower-pay skulls go up in smoke, the premium ones get protected, and any cluster of high-pays already on screen tends to consolidate into a paying line as the gaps refill.

Six paying skulls is the entire base paytable, which is on the slim side for Genii, their usual count sits at eight or nine. Each skull is rendered as a calavera in saturated pinks, oranges, purples, and turquoise, with floral crowns on the higher tiers and simpler eye patterns on the lower ones. Behind the wooden reel frame sits a cobblestone street at dusk, paper lanterns strung overhead, marigolds piled at the foot of the grid, and a cathedral spire and town silhouette glowing in the warm orange backdrop. Festival decoration spills across the bottom edge of the screen.

Three Free Falls scatters award 8 spins, four give 12, five push it to 16. Inside the bonus a second scatter type called Extra Falls handles retriggers, and the scaling is generous: 2 scatters add 2 spins, 3 add 5, 4 add 10, and 5 add a full 15. The themed Free Falls Skull counter at the top of the screen holds those new spins through the rest of the active cascade chain rather than dropping them in mid-tumble, so the count only updates once the cascade resolves. The cascade multiplier carries through the bonus the same way it does in the base game, which means a long chain that hits x6 keeps paying at x6 until the symbols stop falling. No buy bonus, no jackpot ladder, and the 430x ceiling is a relatively grounded number for a Day of the Dead cascade, the volatility ceiling sits in modest territory rather than chasing a five-figure multiplier.