How To Win On Blazing Piranhas Slot - Features & Mechanics

Joining the teenagers on their holiday excursion leads to selecting a stake between £/$/€0.20 - £/$/€50 per spin. The main playing area offers a 5x4 setup enclosed in a wooden moss-covered frame, where standard winning combinations must follow any of the 20 pay lines. Qualifying sequences must start from the leftmost reel and contain at least 3 matching images. Blazing Piranhas bears a highly volatile math profile, scoring 4 out of 5 points on the scale, with a default return to player value of 96.01%. Players who manage to escape the deadly fish and get to safety can walk away with a max prize of 5,000x.

The paytable is filled with eight unique symbols split into two distinct categories. The four lesser icons represented by piranhas in various colors and sizes award from 0.2 to 0.4 times the bet for a 3-of-a-kind hit and 1 to 1.4 times for a full line of 5. Premium images appear as portraits of the four characters: a jock, a nerd, a nice girl, and a mean girl, bringing prizes between 1 - 1.4 times the bet for the short sequences and 7 to 25 times for matching 5 instances along a pay line.

Piranha Wild

Wild symbol is represented by a school of piranhas. Every time it lands directly adjacent on the right to one of the high-value character symbols, it will move onto it, while a Wild will also remain in the initial position.

Free Spins

Landing at least 3 Scatters in a single spin activates the bonus. Depending on the number of triggering instances, players will have different selections of free spin rounds available:

• 3 Scatters: 5 - 12 free spins with 3 -6 Random Wilds.
• 4 Scatters: 10 - 24 free spins with 3-6 Random Wilds.
• 5 Scatters: 15 - 36 free spins with 3-6 Random Wilds

During free spins, every round will place a guaranteed amount of Random Wilds in random positions on the grid. Free spins can also be retriggered by landing another combination of Scatters.

LocknWin

The second bonus round is activated by landing at least 6 coins in the same spin. Players are awarded 3 respins, which reset every time there's a hit on the board. Initially, the two top rows of the grid are locked but can be enabled by landing specific symbols in the active area. During the LocknWin bonus, only the following icons can appear on the reels:

• Regular Coin awards a cash prize between 1x - 12x.
• Multiplier Coin multiplies all visible values (except the Star Coin) by up to 5x and awards a cash prize between 1x - 5x.
• Key Coin unlocks the inactive rows and awards a cash prize between 1x - 5x.
• Star Coin triggers the jackpot feature at the end of the bonus.

Jackpot LocknWin

The jackpot round contains five jackpot fields, each with three open slots in which Star Coins can land. Every spin will see a number of coins land in random areas. The first field to fill all three positions will award the corresponding prize:

• Micro: 15 x bet
• Mini: 25 x bet
• Minor: 100 x bet
• Major: 500 x bet
• Mega: 5000 x bet

Jackpot Wheel

In the base game, a special meter sits above the main grid. Every coin landing on the board fills part of the progress. Once the cycle is completed, a jackpot wheel will trigger and award one of the prizes.

Bonus Buy

Players have the option to trigger any bonus from the game for a fixed buy-in. The following items are available for purchase in the Bonus Buy menu:

• Free Spins for 52.05 x bet.
• LocknWin for 30.93 x bet.
• Jackpot LocknWin for 31.7 x bet.
• Jackpot Wheel for 31.25 x bet.

Blazing Piranhas On Mobile

As the current industry standards dictate, the game is available in the latest HTML5 technology on all mobile devices, so you can jump into this carefree holiday setting and witness the uncertain future of college kids on any smartphone or tablet. The landscape variant is a copy of the desktop view, with much of the UI shifted to the right for more convenient access. In the portrait orientation, the playing area occupies the center of the screen, leaving plenty of space for the immersive background. The mobile gameplay is smooth, crispy, and free of lags or interruptions.

Final Thoughts

Pear Fiction Studios seems to be taking a shine to combining horror and humor in yet another vibrant comic setting. Just recently, we had the pleasure of stepping into a comical confrontation in Granny vs Zombies where a feisty older gal decimated armies of undead with her arsenal. Now, the roles have flipped, and it's the group of young tourists facing the quick yet painful demise from the "hands" of terrifying fish. Both games, despite being set in different environments, carry a lot of similarities regarding the design style and overall feel of the scene. Bright, distinct colors naturally set the order of the symbols, plus soft pastel shades in the backdrop dominate all around. Additionally, the entire structure of the main view, including the progress meter, jackpot UI, and all functionalities connected to the LocknWin feature seem to be almost directly ported from the last release, with subtle art changes to match the new theme.

On the technical side of things, Blazing Piranhas borrows much of its charm from the Granny, so if hunting the fixed jackpots up to 5,000x during the LocknWin bonus or by completing the collection seemed like fun, there's a chance to do it again here. The only noticeable difference is the Wild Piranha feature that turns an adjacent high-value symbol into a Wild, both in the base game and free spins. A subtle yet welcome change, although too insignificant to stop comparing the game to the previous title. All in all, Blazing Piranhas is a quality game with plenty of effort put into the audiovisual package, creating a unique and engaging atmosphere. However, it comes across as a tiny step back, not diving too deep into elaborate features alongside the repurposed LocknWin.