Red and Hot Chilli: Open Boxes, Dodge the Bomb

Red and Hot Chilli is a 20-line BGaming slot released on 7 October 2026, built with Cream Team, the studio BGaming credits with Sweet Samurai. The setting is a Mexican fiesta: a serious-faced chilli character stands beside the reels, a cheeky chicken keeps watch, and the chilli doubles as the Wild.

The game splits into two clear halves. The base game pays on lines and drops Lucky Coins that award instant multipliers. The bonus moves to a Minesweeper-style field of closed boxes, where you keep opening cells to grow a total until the chicken's bomb ends the round. BGaming files it under its #Entertainment label.

BGaming lists the RTP at 96.35% and rates the volatility as Medium-low. The maximum multiplier is published as x5000, with a top win of €250,000, and the FAQ on the provider's game page gives the same ceiling as ×5,000 your bet.

The provider also publishes a hit rate of 3.3 and a line count of 20. The hit rate appears without a unit or definition on the game page, so we quote it exactly as BGaming gives it rather than convert it into a percentage.

There are no jackpots. BGaming says the biggest prizes come from the Bonus game and the Gamble round, so those two features decide how close any round gets to the cap. A Medium-low rating places the slot at the calmer end of BGaming's scale, but the bonus has no fixed length: it lasts until the bomb is revealed.

The chilli Wild stands in for every paying symbol except the Bonus symbol and the Lucky Coin. When it could complete more than one combination on a payline, it counts as the highest-paying symbol available, so a Wild always settles the line at the best value open to it.

Lucky Coins are the base game's instant wins. Land 3 or more and each coin triggers its own random multiplier between ×2 and ×100, applied to the current bet. As an illustration, at a €1 stake a coin that draws ×40 is worth €40, and every other coin on the reels draws a value of its own.

The same coins are worth more once the bonus begins. There they carry values from ×2 to ×250 your bet, and special symbols on the field can raise them further. BGaming places the slot's top prizes in the bonus and the Gamble round, not on the 20 lines.

The chicken is the Bonus symbol, and 3 or 4 of them start the Bonus game. Three Bonus symbols open it with 3 Lucky Coins already on the field.

Four Bonus symbols start it with 4 Lucky Coins, at least one of them silver. BGaming's game page does not explain what a silver Coin does differently from the others, so check the paytable inside the game rather than assume.

The chilli Wild cannot substitute for the chicken, so the trigger relies on Bonus symbols landing by themselves. The same split between three and four starting coins carries over to the Buy Bonus menu, covered further down.

The Bonus game is played on a field of closed mystery boxes the same size as the main reels. You open them one by one or switch on auto-pick, and a box can hold a Lucky Coin, a multiplier, one of two Collect symbols, a Max Win symbol or the bomb.

The Bag of Gold copies. It adds up the values of every active Coin, Chilli and other Bag of Gold and places that total on itself, leaving the originals where they are. A Bag that appears with plenty already active therefore copies more than one that appears early.

The Chilli collects and then clears. It takes the values of active Coins, Bags of Gold and other Chillies, then closes every opened cell except its own. Those cells can be opened again and may now hold new symbols, which turns a crowded field back into fresh boxes. Only one Chilli can be active at a time.

Multiplier symbols raise the values of all active Coins, Multipliers and Chillies when revealed, and several can sit on the field at once. The round keeps going until a box reveals the bomb that the chicken throws onto the reels. BGaming also lists Max Win symbols among the contents, without detailing on its page how they pay.

When the Bonus game ends, players can stake the whole prize in a Gamble round for a chance to double it. Losing the gamble wipes out the entire bonus win, so it is all or nothing on the full amount.

A doubled prize is capped at 5,000× the original bet, the same figure as the published maximum multiplier. As an illustration, a 1,200× bonus win gambled successfully would become 2,400×, while a lost gamble would leave nothing from that bonus.

BGaming describes the gamble as something players can choose to take, so keeping the bonus win as it stands is the other route. Its page pairs the Bonus game and the Gamble round as the two sources of the slot's largest wins.

The Bonus Buy menu has three choices. Chance ×2 doubles the chance of the Bonus game activating. Coin Hunt starts the Bonus game with 3 Lucky Coins, matching a three-symbol trigger. Chilli Blast starts it with 4 Lucky Coins, one guaranteed to be silver, matching the four-symbol trigger.

BGaming's game page does not publish a price for any of the three, so the cost shown in the game's own buy menu is the figure to read before using one. Coin Hunt and Chilli Blast both start the same Bonus game described above, which ends when the bomb is revealed and leads into the Gamble round.

The demo is the place to learn the bonus field without staking anything. Watch how often a Chilli resets the board, since every reset gives closed boxes another chance to hold Coins, and note when Bags of Gold turn up compared with the Coins they copy.

In the base game, keep an eye on how often 3 or more Lucky Coins land and how their ×2 to ×100 draws compare with ordinary line wins. Try both manual picks and auto-pick to see which pace suits you, and look at the Gamble screen to understand exactly what is at stake before choosing.

BGaming says the demo runs on mobile and desktop. Slots are for adults aged 18 and over; set a time and spending limit before any session.

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What is the RTP of Red and Hot Chilli?

BGaming lists the RTP of Red and Hot Chilli at 96.35%, with volatility rated Medium-low and a published hit rate of 3.3 across its 20 lines. RTP is a long-run average calculated over a very large number of spins, so it describes the game's design rather than what any single session will return.

What is the max win in Red and Hot Chilli?

The maximum win is x5000 your bet, which BGaming also shows as €250,000. There are no jackpots. The top prizes come from the Bonus game, where Lucky Coins are worth ×2 to ×250 your bet before boosts, and from the Gamble round, which can double a bonus win but never past 5,000× the original bet.

How do you trigger the bonus in Red and Hot Chilli?

Land 3 or 4 chicken Bonus symbols. Three start the Bonus game with 3 Lucky Coins, and four start it with 4 Lucky Coins, at least one of them silver. The round is a Minesweeper-style field of boxes that you open manually or with auto-pick, and it ends as soon as the bomb is revealed.

Does Red and Hot Chilli have a bonus buy?

Yes, BGaming lists three options. Chance ×2 doubles the chance of the Bonus game activating, Coin Hunt starts the bonus with 3 Lucky Coins, and Chilli Blast starts it with 4 Lucky Coins, including one guaranteed silver Coin. The provider's game page does not publish prices, so check the buy menu inside the game.

Can I play the Red and Hot Chilli demo on mobile?

Yes. BGaming says the Red and Hot Chilli demo is designed for both mobile and desktop, so it runs on phones, tablets and computers. The demo is a practical way to watch the Bag of Gold, the Chilli resets and the Gamble round in action before deciding whether the game suits you.