The Mexicans are a people that love eating and drinking and music and dancing. This vibrant culture has been the theme of some excellent slot games. The most popular of these has been Jackpot Pinatas, which also offers a progressive jackpot. Recently there have been two new additions that have renewed interest and added freshness to Mexican themed online slots.

Intensely thematic three-reel slots are rare, but Realtime Gaming has launched one such online casino game titled Jumping Beans. Beans are a staple component of Mexican cuisine and this slot game presents beans as comically crafted human characters. Bandido Bean plays the villain to Mr. Bean, the wild symbol, and Mrs. Bean. Jumping Beans has a novel Auto Nudge feature. Any reels with Mr. Bean or Mrs. Bean appearing above or below them will automatically nudge and display these characters. This would usually result in additional payouts. Mrs. Bean awards 10 free spins. Every time Mr. Bean, Mrs. Bean or Bandido Bean appears on the reels during the free spins the Bonus Beans tally is enhanced. The player is finally awarded a bonus depending on the final value of the Bonus Beans tally. The free spins feature can retrigger only once. 5 additional free spins are awarded and the accumulation of the beans continues. There are several other symbols that create the Mexican theme. These include cabana, sun, maracas, guitar, rose and cactus. The taco is a special Mexican dish. It represents the conventional bar symbol of three-reel slots by appearing as single, double and triple tacos. Some of the symbols start awarding line payouts when two of them appear from left to right on active paylines. Despite being a three-reel slit game, Jumping Beans offers the two Realtime Gaming trademark randomly triggered progressive jackpots. Jumping Beans can be played at online casinos like Bodog Casino, Club World Casino and Slots Jungle Casino.

When InterCasino launched its new platform last month, it offered a number of new online slot games. One of them was Chilli Gold, a Mexican themed slot machine denoting the use of chillies in the spicy Mexican cuisine. Chilli Gold is a 40 paylines slot game with four rows of symbols across the reels. The reels are set in a typical Mexican desert background with cacti. The thematic symbols on the reels are Mexican hombre in a sombrero, burro, maracas, guitar and parrot. All symbols get animated during win combinations. The hombre holds a red chilli that turns into gold. The red and gold chilli symbols play a greater role as well in this slot game. The red chilli is the wild and bonus symbol. Though it will appear only on reels 2, 3 and 4, it can appear stacked in the main game. Free spins are awarded if there are six or more red chilli symbols. Six red chilli symbols award 3 free spins and the number keeps on increasing till 12 red chilli symbols award 21 free spins. In the free spins the gold chilli symbol is added to the reels. It functions as an additional wild symbol, continues to be stacked and can also appear on reel 5. The free spins can be retriggered. Even the minimum three spins usually will result in bumper payouts.