Rio Stars Slot

When you first load the game screen, you’ll be met with an explosion of music and an animation of a dozen carnival drums. It slowly fades off your screen to reveal the reels. The designers have created a carnival stage in which the reels are the show. Stage lighting runs across the bottom of the stage. It glistens the whole time you play the game, creating a dynamic effect. The reels have been dressed up in a Rio dancer girl costume, complete with pink and purple feathers and a golden, jewelled crown. It’s flamboyant, colourful, and spectacular.

The soundtrack is exactly what you would expect from a carnival-themed slot. A loud and energetic carnival tune plays on top of crowd noises which creates a very realistic atmosphere. The song features instruments like steel drums, guitars, cowbells and maracas. When you hit spin, you’ll hear the crowd erupt and start to sing. More remarkable noises will come through your speaker as you land special symbols and winning combinations.

Rio Stars symbols

The low paying symbols in the game include the playing card symbols 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. The Ace is worth 90x your stake for five of a kind. The high paying symbols include a fruit bowl, a cocktail, a pair of maracas, and a parrot. The parrot is the most valuable and is worth 300x your stake for five of a kind. Finally, there is a dancer girl wild symbol worth 600x your stake for five of a kind. It can also substitute for any regular symbol.

Carnival drums signal random bonus features

If you see the carnival drums appear at the side of your screen, you are more than likely about to experience one of four bonus features. However, sometimes the game teases you, and the drums will appear without triggering anything. Here are the features that can be randomly triggered:

• Carnival Reels – all low paying symbols will be removed from the reels for the current spin, and you are guaranteed to make a winning combo.
• Mega Wids – a 3×3 wild symbol will land on your screen to help you make giant winning combos.
• Rio Dancers – the dancer girl wild symbols will dance their way onto random reel positions.
• Rio Multiplier – a multiplier of up to 20x will be applied to your next win.

Rio Stars free spins

To trigger the free spins round you will need to land the free spins scatter symbol on reels one, three and five simultaneously. You will be awarded a random number of free spins, and the carnival drums will beat on every spin. This guarantees that you will unlock one of the four random bonus features during the free spins round.