Books and Bulls: Red Hot Firepot Slots
Books and Bulls: Red Hot Firepot is an exciting slot game inspired by the traditional Spanish custom of bullfighting. It’s a controversial sport to say the least, but here are no actual fights or blood-spilling to witness, so you can cheer for the bull or the matador depending on your views. Whichever side you are on, this game has some great features triggered by the combatants. There’s also the book that features in the title, which launches a free spins round – although we’re not sure what this leather-bound item has got to do with bullfighting. With 10 free games with bonus symbols in play throughout, we really don’t think anyone is going to be put off by a somewhat out-of-place symbol.
You could well ask if a Red Hot Firepot might even be related to the sport, and again the answer would be “Not much”. It’s a special feature that’s seen across a number of slots from the Gamomat (formerly Bally Wulff) developer, and it gives you the chance to enter a jackpot side game with each spin. The Books and Bulls: Red Hot Firepot video slot is a five-reel game crossed by just ten paylines. Land matching symbols from the left side across any of these lines to collect a prize, although Torero the Matador is a wild symbol that can act as others and complete extra lines. It’s pretty easy to play, with free Books and Bulls: Red Hot Firepot video slots available to practice on if you need to try the game out first. We’re not talking bull when we say that taken as an average, almost all of your stakes are returned as winnings.
Gamomat is a big name in the online casino slots business. Based in Berlin, the company is also involved in manufacturing gaming cabinets for the local market and even has subsidiaries in the venue management and sports equipment sectors. So, without further ado, let’s charge right into Books and Bulls: Red Hot Firepot to see what this controversial slot has to offer.
A Fair Fight
Traditional high card symbols are featured here, paying out lower-value prizes when at least three of a kind land across a line. The picture symbols bring some Latin passion to the reels, with just two matches needed to claim an award. Castanets pay between 5x and 750x the amount wagered on each line. The red cape and sword will be worth the same, and the top symbol is a beautiful Señorita. She returns prizes of 5x to 1,000x your line bet depending on how many reels she lands across.
The handsome Torero, appearing here in his decorative blue suit, is both the wild symbol and highest-paying icon of the game. Land him on two, three, four, or all five reels of a payline to collect prizes ranging from 10x to 2,500x. As our Spanish friends would say, fantástico!
Double Up Your Winnings
Prizes can be gambled in a choice of two ways. You can play a 50/50 card color game, clicking on red or black buttons as a playing card flashes between the colors. Alternatively, you may choose to climb up and down a prize ladder. In the ladder round, different win values are shown, and clicking the right value at the right time moves you up to a higher prize. Get the timing wrong, and of course, back down the ladder you go. Either gamble feature lets you collect 50% or all of your winnings at any stage.
Extra Games Courtesy of Books and Bulls
Two free spins features can be triggered, either by landing the book in any three or more places at once, or by having the bonus round triggered by the bull. Bally Wulff has chosen to call these Type A and Type B games – which sounds like blood groups to us, but at least it makes the pay table easier to follow.
Type A games start when three, four, or five examples of the book appear. Before they commence, you are paid an initial prize of 20x, 200x, or 2,000x the line bet depending on how many book symbols triggered the round. A random symbol will then be chosen and during these 10 spins, paying out in any positions without having to land across a defined payline. The games can also be retriggered if you land three or more books once again.
Type B games are triggered by the symbol of an angry bull appearing in three or more places. We can’t blame it for being enraged, but this symbol will definitely make players happy when it pays out an initial win of 20x to 2,000x, and then treats you to 20 free spins. During this feature, any wild symbols will stay locked in place for the duration of the round, so you should see the number of wilds build up as the spins progress. You can’t retrigger the Type B feature, though, and once the 20 spins are up, you go back to the base games.
Red-Hot Rewards
The Red Hot Firepot game is a randomly awarded jackpot feature. It’s only available if you have made optional side bets, and the chances of it being triggered will rise with the size of the wager. To start off, three ovens will appear and each will open up to reveal whether they are lit inside. If all three are lit, you go to the second stage, where five numbers are drawn up underneath a thermometer-style win meter.
These numbers are added up and fill the thermometer, with the Iron, Copper, Bronze, Silver, Gold or Jewel jackpots awarded according to how much of it is filled. Although the Iron jackpot is only 750x the line stake, collecting the Jewel prize sees a huge payout of 20,000x.
Betting Options
You can play by wagering between 0.10 and 10.00 per spin, although it costs a little more to play the Red Hot Firepot game. Besides, you can save time and effort by activating the autoplay function, which lets you sit back and watch the action without having to lift a finger. Books and Bulls: Red Hot Firepot is also a mobile-optimized game you can play on Android-powered smartphones or tablets, as well as on iPads, iPhones and Windows devices.
More Matadors
The red reels of Arena de Toros from Worldmatch are filled with matadors, roses, attractive women and a bull with glowing-red eyes. It’s a cartoon-style slot machine which has castanets triggering free spins during which your winnings will be doubled, plus an expanding wild symbol that helps complete combinations. A unique bonus round is triggered by the red lips of the matador’s girlfriend. In an animated sequence, she gives him a kiss – the longer they lock lips for, the higher the end bonus prize will be. Los románticos!
Bullfight by Cayetamo Gaming has similar but more realistic symbols of roses, the girl and the matador over its five reels. The matador is a wild symbol, and when this suave-looking character fills the whole middle reel, any wins he creates will be multiplied by up to five times over. Random bulls can also run across the reels, nudging symbols into high-paying combinations. A random number of free spins can be awarded, with extra stacked wilds helping out for the duration of the feature.
A Bovine Beauty
If bullfighting really isn’t for you, then we suggest that you play the King of the Jungle Red Hot Firepot game, which has similar features with cute gorillas, lions and macaws on the reels instead. If you’re happy with the subject matter, then take these colorful reels for a spin and enjoy the chance to land two free games features – or even collect a huge jackpot.
