Extra Chilli is Big Time Gaming’s second Megaways slot from 2018: six reels plus a horizontal Extra Reel for up to 117,649 ways, cascading wins and free spins with a multiplier that climbs with no cap. A Free Spins Gamble can stretch the round to 24 spins, and Feature Drop is a bonus buy that gets cheaper. The free demo below is a similar Megaways chilli pokie, no download.
Extra Chilli runs on six reels that each show between two and seven symbols per spin, plus an Extra Reel under reels 2 to 5 that adds one more symbol to each. Ways change every spin, up to 117,649. Stakes at most casinos run from 20 cents to $40 a spin. Big Time Gaming publishes the return as a range: 96.15% to 96.41% with Feature Drop off and 96.26% to 96.82% with it on, so the lobby figure depends on whether the bonus buy is enabled. Volatility is very high on Big Time Gaming’s own scale, high by most review sites. Hit frequency is 37.88% by one published figure. The max win is contested: 20,000x the total bet is the long-standing published cap, newer data sheets quote 43,440x and one review site says 16,877x.
Extra Chilli Pokies Characteristics
Each spin deals between two and seven symbols to each of the six main reels, and the Extra Reel beneath reels 2 to 5 adds one more to each of those four. Multiplying the counts gives the ways, up to 117,649. A win needs three matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left; only the Purple Chilli pays from two. After a win the winning symbols are removed, the rest drop, new ones fall in from the top and the Extra Reel slides left, and these reactions repeat until nothing new wins.
The wild is a fireworks symbol that appears only on the Extra Reel, never on the main reels, and substitutes for every paying symbol but not for scatters. The scatters are gold letters spelling H, O and T and can land anywhere. Two more gold symbols matter: a +4 scatter that adds four spins to a trigger, and a Feature Drop coin that cuts the bonus buy price on the meter left of the reels. There is no jackpot of any kind.
Figures below are multiples of the total bet for three, four, five and six of a kind; only the Purple Chilli pays for two.
No scatter pay is listed; the letters only start the free spins. Six purple chillies at 50x is the best single line, small next to a 20,000x cap until you remember that one combination can hit hundreds of ways at once and the multiplier does the rest. The table is from a single published source, so check the in-game paytable.
Three H, O and T scatters anywhere award eight free spins, and each +4 symbol on the same spin adds four more, so four scatters pay 12, five pay 16 and six pay 20. Once the feature starts, a win multiplier begins at 1x and rises by one after every winning reaction, with no cap and no reset for the rest of the feature. Two review sites claim it resets when a cascade ends, but Big Time Gaming calls the multiplier unlimited and one of those sites saw no reset in its own test.
A retrigger symbol, described variously as a chilli bowl and a fireworks pot, appears only during the feature and only on the Extra Reel. Three add four spins and four add eight.
Before the free spins begin, the game offers to gamble them on a wheel: win and four spins are added, up to a total of 24; lose and the whole feature is forfeited. Big Time Gaming states the odds: the first gamble is 50/50, every gamble after that is 60/40 in the player’s favour, and free spins are locked in on the penultimate gamble. The later gambles have the maths on their side; the first is a coin toss for the entire round.
Feature Drop is Big Time Gaming’s name for its bonus buy. The default price is 50x the total bet, $2,000 at the $40 maximum and $10 at the 20 cent minimum, for the standard eight spins with the Gamble offered as usual. The twist is the meter: gold Feature Drop coins landing in the base game reduce the price, and if it reaches zero the feature triggers for free. It is not offered to UK players and is hidden in other restricted jurisdictions, so whether you see it depends on the operator.
At 96.41%, the top of the standard range, the game keeps about 3.6 cents of every dollar bet; at 96.15% it keeps just under 3.9 cents and at the 96.82% ceiling about 3.2 cents. Very high volatility means the base game pays on roughly 38% of spins while the money sits in the free spins, where the multiplier decides whether a round returns a handful of bets or a few thousand.
At 20 cents a spin, $20 buys 100 spins, enough to watch the reactions and the coin meter move but perhaps not the feature; at $1 a spin it lasts 20 spins, and Feature Drop at that stake costs $50 before coin discounts. The 20,000x cap is $800,000 at the $40 maximum.
Extra Chilli is a reskin of Bonanza, Big Time Gaming’s 2017 original, and shares its engine; what it adds is the Free Spins Gamble, Feature Drop, the two-of-a-kind pay on the top symbol and a slightly higher RTP range. Extra Chilli Epic Spins, launched by Evolution in April 2023, is a live game show rather than a slot: a host runs shared rounds of five spins on the same reels, with crates, piñatas and physical gamble wheels adding multipliers and spins, a much lower paytable, a 96.74% return and no demo mode.
Extra Chilli More Chilli is the direct slot sequel: one listing gives a 23 September 2026 release, 96.39% RTP, very high volatility, a 30,000x cap, a Chilli Bonus Respin, Power Play at 5x the bet, 10 free spins and a 100x bonus buy, all from a single source, so treat it as provisional. It is not Aristocrat’s More Chilli, the unrelated land-based pokie in Australian clubs and pubs.
The setting is a Mexican street market at fiesta time: strings of garlic, coloured awnings and bunting, a distant church bell and crowd chatter in the base game, and a mariachi-style soundtrack once the free spins start. Big Time Gaming’s backstory follows José Cavadoré, a former miner turned jeweller hunting the rare Purple Conquistador chilli, which is why the four chillies are cut gemstones and the top one is purple. It is the Bonanza layout in warmer colours, in HTML5 on desktop and mobile with a portrait mode on phones.
Extra Chilli has never been a land-based game. Big Time Gaming is headquartered in Australia but is an online-only studio, and the chilli pokie on club and pub floors is Aristocrat’s unrelated More Chilli. Online, a market scan places it in 73 of 109 markets checked, but no Australia-specific listing came back and availability to Australian players varies by operator, so the lobby search is the way to check. Big Time Gaming does not host a playable demo on its own site; free-play versions are carried by third-party review sites.
Extra Chilli is Bonanza with more decisions in it: the same reactions and unlimited multiplier, plus a bonus buy that gets cheaper as you play and a wheel that can turn eight spins into 24 or into nothing. It suits players comfortable with very high variance who want a real shot at five-figure multiples; it does not suit anyone who needs the base game to pay their way. The one thing to check is the RTP in the information screen: the published range runs from 96.15% to 96.82% and the lobby decides where in it you sit.
Big Time Gaming publishes a range: 96.15% to 96.41% with Feature Drop off and 96.26% to 96.82% with it on. The in-game information screen shows which applies.
Land the gold letters H, O and T anywhere for eight free spins. Each +4 symbol on the same spin adds four, and the Gamble wheel can take the total to 24.
20,000x the total bet is the long-standing published cap, $800,000 at the $40 maximum. Newer data sheets quote 43,440x and one review site says 16,877x.
No. It starts at 1x, rises by one after every winning reaction and carries on for the whole feature with no cap.
Only online, and availability to Australian players varies by operator, so search the lobby first. Aristocrat’s More Chilli in Australian venues is a different game.
No. Epic Spins is Evolution’s 2023 live game show on the Extra Chilli reels, with a host, shared five-spin rounds and physical gamble wheels, and no demo mode.
