Carnival Cove Slot by Habanero

The whole game wears its theme into the UI. Instead of the left rail that almost every modern Habanero release uses, Buy Feature, Jackpot Race, and Super Bet are stamped along the carousel roof at the top, framed as fairground ticket booths under candy-stripe canvas and bulb lights. A pink-haired beachgoer in cutoffs and a striped tank top stands off to the left while a Ferris wheel and cable cars sit on a sunset pier behind the reels. It's brighter and breezier than most of the studio's recent output.

The 5x3 grid runs on 25 fixed paylines, which is what the math actually reports, even though marketing copy floats a 243-ways figure that doesn't match how the wins are evaluated. Carnival admit-one tickets in four jewel colours sit at the low end of the paytable. A blue dolphin with a seaweed crown shows up in the middle tier. Wilds are constrained to reels 2 and 4 only, which is a deliberate design choice. Hitting a five-symbol combo means the Wilds need to anchor those two specific reels and let regular hits do the work on positions 1, 3, and 5.

The headline is the Carousel Feature, which can trigger at random on any base-game spin. It does two things at once: it slaps a 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x multiplier on the spin's total wins, and it picks one symbol from the regular paytable and converts every copy of it into a Wild for that single round. Which symbol gets the upgrade rotates between spins, hence the carousel name. The Free Games round runs on the same logic, with 8, 15, or 30 spins paid out for 3, 4, or 5 Scatters.

Super Bet sits at 25 coins (a flat 2x ante that boosts trigger frequency). The 625-coin Buy Feature jumps straight into the Free Games and is gated by jurisdiction, so it won't show up everywhere. The catch is the ceiling. 1,166x your bet is genuinely low for a 2024 release that ships with a Buy Feature, which means the rest of the package (Carousel rotations, the Wild-reel constraint, three scatter tiers) ends up doing most of the heavy lifting on shorter sessions rather than the kind of single-spin payout the buy normally chases.