Sugar Skulls

Sugar Skulls are extremely popular in lots of areas of the world, and they are the focus of the Sugar Skulls online slot, a game produced by Booming Games. What this game offers in terms of the overall experience is a bright and friendly appearance with gameplay centered around a reasonably high hit-rate, a balanced pay table and an atypical style of free spins.

As a result, this is a video slot that offers a balanced experience as a whole in a way that will appear to a fairly wide range of players.

Format and Layout

One thing we really appreciate is that Booming Games tends to make their slots easy to use in terms of choosing bet sizes. In this game, there are five reels, three rows and 20 paylines, which is the most popular video slot format of all time. Even with that, they've made it simplier than most to just choose how much you want to bet each spin. They do this by having a simple control for the total bet size instead of having you bother with numbers of coins and coin sizes.

Your range of available wagers starts at $0.20 and goes up to the $400 level. With that having been said, casinos do have the ability to limit the maximum bet sizes on games they host, so you may find that the maximum is a bit lower just depending on where you play.

Wild Party Favors Symbol

The wild symbol is designed in the style of colorful party favors. It offers a great way to get extra wins that players would have missed out on had they not shown up, and that's always a good thing. Five of a kind earns 50 times your total wager. Note that all of the wins in this game are multiplied by the total amount that you've bet, and you can multiply them by 20 (to get 1,000x in this case, for example) to see what the line bet equivalent amount would be.

Wins of 10x and 2.5x can also be had for four of a kind or three of a kind, respectively. These wilds work by substituting for the symbol that will give you the single largest payout available on each payline. However, they do not substitute for scatter symbols.

Pinata Symbols

Pinatas work in a way that's pretty cool in this game. When they show up, they simply explode to give you some goodies in the form of instant wins. This adds value to each spin and lowers the volatility, which is something that pretty much all players can get behind since it's essentially randomly-decided instant payouts.

Major Free Spins Mode

The Major Free Spins bonus round is triggered whenever you get three of the free spins scattered bonus symbols anywhere on the reels. When this feature starts, you'll get a set of free turns where the only symbols on the reels are the high-paying ones and wilds. In addition to that, all of the symbols show up stacked, and that makes it much easier to get lots of winning combinations on the same turn. It's clear that getting paid is the name of the game in this bonus feature.

Other Major Wins and Payouts

There are eight regular-paying symbols available in this game. It starts with the four sugar skulls, which are most easily identified by the color that they use as their main motif. With the purple, the win is worth 20x for five of a kind. The red and blue each give you 15x or 10x for five of a kind combinations, and you can earn 7.5x for five of the green one as well.

Card rank symbols decorated in the style of the rest of the game make up the remainder of the pay table. The payouts for the A, K, Q and J symbols range from 4x to 2x, and they are pretty reasonable prizes considering that the wins are multiplied by how much you have wagered in total for that spin.

Our Thoughts

We like that Booming Games went off of the beaten path of the types of themes you typically see to do something exciting and atypical. With Sugar Skulls, there's a fair amount of balance between the visual appeal and the gameplay, and we like how the feature stands out as well. There's quite a bit to be happy about with this title, and it seems to have a wide appeal.