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coba slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

The theme of COBA is almost certainly intended to represent the look of the ancient South American civilisations such as the Aztecs and Mayans, and the “reel strips” are filled with a mixture of carved stones and jewels. The carved stones are the lower-paying symbols, whilst the gems and jewels make up the more valuable half of the paytable. This theme has been used for dozens of slot machines over the years but exploded in popularity after the release of NetEnt’s hit title Gonzo’s Quest – it could be argued that Elk Studios have taken some inspiration from that game whilst drawing the graphics for their COBA slot game, as the two games undoubtedly share a similar visual style. 

The theme of COBA may be relatively like other existing online slots, but the same cannot be said about the game’s payout mechanic. Grid slots have used a variety of ways to pay the player for hitting winning combinations over the years, and the setup used in COBA feels a little familiar whilst also being unique at the same time. You can potentially hit combinations of between five and fifteen matching symbols organically when they drop in adjacent positions during regular play. However, the “snake meter” we mentioned earlier plays a big part in making the largest of these combinations possible. 

A golden jewel bearing a skull logo is the highest-paying symbol of the bunch, with a return of 500x your stake if fifteen of them happen to line up on adjacent spaces. The same symbol returns just 1x your stake if you only manage to land five of them next to each other on the grid, which gives you an idea of just how large the spread is between the minimum and maximum prizes awarded for each symbol in COBA. A red jewel takes second place on the paytable, and the prize for hitting fifteen of these is just 50x your stake – a tenth of the amount awarded for hitting the same number of the first-place golden jewel. 

The prizes awarded for hitting fifteen of the blue and green jewels are just 20x and 15x your stake, which indicates that it probably isn’t that difficult to land these combinations. What is unlikely is hitting fifteen of any of these symbols at the same time as the game’s biggest multipliers – I saw up to 128x during my testing – and you are going to need a combination of a big multiplier and many matching adjacent symbols to win big from this game.

As far as wagers are concerned, you can bet as little as €0.20 per spin or as much as €100.00, but it didn’t seem to matter how much I bet on each spin whilst I played COBA – I always struggled to get in front of my starting balance. I’m sure I was just unlucky, of course, but I can’t help but feel a little bit troubled by the fact that I purchased several dozen bonus rounds and never came out with a profit even once from them.

base game & MODIFIERS

The base game of COBA online slot has 46 positions, divided between four rows of seven symbols and three rows of six symbols. Winning combinations of five or more matching symbols are immediately removed from the grid, allowing new symbols to drop in and replace them whilst also filling the “snake meter” shown to the right of the game's “reel strips”. 

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snakes

coba slot bonus feature

The snakes described in the previous section are the main bonus feature of COBA online slot, so it seems strange that not every aspect of the way they work is described fully on the game's paytable.

The game does explain that filling the snake meter to each of its four levels will release additional snakes – one snake for level one, two for level two, three for level three, or six for level four. The snakes will stay active from one spin to the next if they can eat another symbol of their same colour or avoid biting themselves. If there is nowhere else for the snake to go, it will die, leaving the remaining snakes to continue moving around the grid until they have eaten all the available symbols.

Unfortunately, it isn’t clear exactly how many symbols must be consumed to get the maximum of six snakes on the screen, so if you cannot use the bonus buy function, you are left to figure things out for yourself. Even if you are allowed to use the bonus buy option in your jurisdiction, deciding if it is worth using is difficult when you can’t establish precisely how difficult each available option is to hit.

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x-iter feature

coba slot review final thoughts

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