Chiloco Slot by Playtech

The Suns don't clear when they land, and that one rule shapes the whole game. Any Sun that drops sticks around for the next spin. If that next spin brings no fresh Sun, every Sun already on the board slides down a row instead of leaving, so a decent cluster can hang on and creep toward the bottom over several turns. There are four kinds. Cash Suns hold a fixed value between 0.5x and 7.5x the bet. Multiplier Suns carry anything from x2 up to x10. Bonus Suns crack open a set prize of 10x, 25x, 50x, 250x or a top 1,000x. The Red Sun does nothing by itself except open the free spins.

Land six or more Cash, Multiplier or Bonus Suns together and the Sun Collect Bonus fires, and the sequence is what to watch. Every Multiplier Sun multiplies all the Cash Suns first, then downgrades itself into a plain 0.5x Cash Sun. Bonus Suns reveal their prize but sit outside the multiplication, so an x10 never touches them. The whole board pays at once, then the Suns spin off.

The free spins, called Sun Push, need five Suns plus a Red one, and they hand you just three spins to start. The bottom-row Suns pay before the first spin even turns. After that, each spin shoves every Sun down a row and collects whatever reaches the bottom, with Multiplier Suns boosting the bottom-row Cash Suns and again dropping to 0.5x once they've done it. The catch is the Red Sun. If one reaches the bottom row, your spin counter resets straight back to three, so a well-placed Red can stretch the round out well past its opening three.

No buy button, no ante. What you can do is flick the Extra Bet toggle, which adds a quarter to the stake and doubles the chance of a feature turning up. The setting is a Mexican plaza on a bright afternoon, red and ochre colonial fronts strung with bunting under a flat blue sky, the reels boxed in a green-and-red fiesta border. The lead symbol is a grinning red chili in a sombrero with a curled moustache, and it doubles as the Wild, covering everything except the Suns. Around it sit pinata donkeys, an orange guitar, maracas and a flowering cactus, all over jewelled card royals.