Theme & Design

Superb Production With Bold Colors and Upbeat Soundtrack

Mexican Day of the Dead is a common slots theme. It’s bright colors and festival vibe mean developers can really go to town on the graphics and soundtracks and ReelPlay have certainly done that here. The backdrop to the reels is a Mexican street at night, filled with lots of lights and bunting. Painted skulls can be seen on the walls and in the background a classic Mariachi theme tune plays. If you like games like Thunderkick’s Esqueleto Explosivo then you’ll love this one too. There is a really nice final touch here too as the reel set moves from left to right as you play, swaying to the music!

RTP and Variance

Money Mariachi Infinity Reels has an RTP of 96.19%. That is about average for an online slot so no complaints there. As you might expect, this is a high variance game so it will be volatile and can be a tight play for long periods but also deliver some very big wins as we shall see.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Money Mariachi is a massive 50,000x. That is very enticing and makes it one of the highest paying Infinity Reels slots there is. If you like games with high payouts be sure to check our list of slots with the highest maximum wins.

Symbols and Paytable

The set up for Infinity Reels games is always the same. There are 3 reels, each showing 4 rows of symbols on the first spin. This is a win ways game so to score a win you just need to land 3 or more identical symbols on the reels from left to right, starting with the left most reel, regardless of their row position.

There are 10 pay symbols in the paytable. The lower paying ones are the fluorescent objects including flowers, hats, maracas, gravestones and candles. These are valued at from 3x for 3 flowers up to 6x for 3 candles.

The premium symbols are the ghoulish mariachi band members including the guitar player, trumpet player, violinist and the female singer. These are valued at from 9x for 3 of the guitarist up to 15x for 3 of the female singer.

There is also a Guitar Wild which substitutes for any other pay symbol to complete win ways but has no pay value of its own.

Features and Gameplay

The headline feature in this game is the Level Up Re-Spins, but before we get to that, a word on how the infinity reels and accompanying progressive multiplier works.

Infinity Reels and Progressive Multiplier

The Infinity Reels mechanic is simple. After every win that includes a symbol on the right most reel, another reel is added to the right hand side. If an existing win is extended, then the process repeats, and so on. There is no limit to how many reels can be added.

At the same time, there is a progressive multiplier that starts at 1x and grows by 1x each time a new reel is added.

When adding an extra reel to the right does NOT extend an existing win, then the payout is calculated and the multiplier is applied to it.

Infinity Bonus of 888x

As a special bonus, as with ALL Infinity Reels games, if you add 12 reels to the reel set in one sequence, then a special 888x bonus is paid out. This can occur at any time, whether in the main game or bonus round.

I’ve never seen this happen, so don’t expect it to be a common event!

Level Up Re-Spins With FOUR Modifiers 

Onto the main event, the Level-Up Re-Spins.

This will trigger if you land 3 or more Shrine Scatters on one spin. It gets you 3 re-spins where the Shrine Scatters are held in place on the reels. If more Shrines land, then the re-spins re-set to 3. And if you can fill a reel with 4 Shrines, then an extra reel is added to the right side.

Shrine Scatters start with a value of between 1x and 10x. Each spin adds a ‘skull’ to each shrine, and after 6 skulls are added, your Shrine levels-up and grows in value.

The exciting part is, when a Shrine levels-up then it also has the chance to transform into one of FOUR special symbols:

Grower – These level-up on EVERY spin (no skulls involved) growing in value as they do. Growers can also get hearts from Charmer symbols, which also level up the Grower.

Freezer – These freeze the respins for 2 respins then turn back into a shrine symbol.

Booster – Theses boost all adjacent shrines by 1x to 10x every time they levels up

Charmer – For all adjacent Shrines these reduce the number of skulls needed to level up by 1 as well as adding a heart symbol to all adjacent Grower symbols each time they level up themselves.

At the end of the round – when re-spins reach zero – all Shrine symbols pay out their respective values. But there are NO payouts from standard pay symbols in this feature and there is NO progressive multiplier.

The Final Verdict

Money Mariachi delivers on every level. ReelPlay have a done a great job of invoking the sights and sounds of a lively festival. The base game gameplay is simple and hitting a sequence of 3, 4 or more consecutive wins happens regularly enough to keep things interesting. But where this game will really deliver is in the re-spins feature which is a crazy, action-packed event which is both entertaining and potentially highly rewarding. The only caveat to our recommendation to give this game a try is that high volatility which can make it a tight play. So choose your stake accordingly.