Pepper Coins Slot Review & Free Play

Pepper Coins: Spark the Pepper and Collect the Heat from the Grid for Rewards Up to 2000x

In Pepper Coins by OnlyPlay, we once again get to explore one of the hottest, most often-used theme combos in slots out there. There's usually a deeper Mexican wrap on this idea, but I didn't mind this 3x3 grid’s simpler treatment. We get symbols paying up to 30x, a collect bonus game, random multipliers, jackpots up to 1,000x, and a 2,000x max win.

My base game was far from ideal, mostly because wins came only every seven or eight spins on average. On the other hand, the ones that connected stayed in the 2x to 6x my bet range, so I managed to get past the 100th spin without too much drain.

Feature-wise, gold coins land as bonus symbols on reels 1 and 3. Each one carries a value between 1x and 15x your bet, or one of the four jackpot tiers. On their own, they mean nothing in the main game. You need the pepper collector to land in the same spin and materialize their value into one combined payout.

The bonus game is a classic Hold-and-Hit setup. It triggers when bonus symbols pair with the collect pepper in the same spin. That’s when three respins will kick off, and every new bonus symbol that lands resets the counter back to three. 

In a session like mine, you can only hope for the pepper feature and the multiplier. The first fires randomly during a collect and can drop extra coins, jackpots, or multipliers onto the grid. The second pushed a few of my 1x to 2.5x returns, but only doubled them.

All of this on paper, and the highlight of my session came from a Mini jackpot symbol and a simple collect in the base game, for 27x my bet. 

Overall, I was far from pleased with the outcome of my session. The base game struggled, the bonus wouldn't trigger for too long, and nothing actually stood out.