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taco brothers derailed SLOT THEME, STAKES, PAYS & SYMBOLS

So aside from our Taco fanatic brothers, what else have we got going on here in terms of the theme? Honestly, I’m at something of a loss. There’s a safe full of gold bars, something that resembles a lantern, an animal skull, a whistle, a pair of maracas… could this collection of objects be any more random? I’m sure these are all essential tools of the trade for those who stop trains to steal tacos, but not being part of that specialist demographic, I’m struggling to work out how to McGuyver these objects into a viable plan. I’d ask the Taco Brothers for a little helping hand if I could, but one of them looks far too happy whilst holding a bomb for my liking… please do drop me an e-mail if you work out the answer, the best suggestion wins a bumper box of Tacos. Probably.

The original Taco Brothers slot featured five reels, whilst Taco Brothers Derailed boosts this to six. As such, you are going to need to line up six of the red Taco Brother on one of those “connecting paylines” to score the biggest win on the paytable of 50x your stake, whilst the blue Taco Brother returns just 10x your stake and the green brother pays only 5x for all six – it’s clear who was mummies favourite, I guess. The payouts for all the symbols feel a little bit disappointing to me, but on the plus side, at least all of the symbols are stacked on the reels so you can win a whole bunch of these payouts from a single paid spin if you are lucky.

Hitting the coin symbol in the bottom-left corner will take you to a separate screen where you can select your stake. The minimum bet is a reasonable €0.20 per spin whilst the maximum is five hundred times higher at a monstrous €100.00 per spin. This isn’t unusual in the world of online slots these days, but there are only twelve possible options in between the two ends of the spectrum, which doesn’t feel like nearly enough to me.

base game & modifiers

Taco Brothers Derailed online slot utilizes a 6x3 playfield, which looks fairly standard at first glance, but there are a couple of important things to note. One minor issue I feel should be mentioned is the implementation of responsive design that ELK Studios continues to use in their games – whilst other slot developers reflow their user interface to suit different display sizes and resolutions, ELK opts to simply resize the game to fit whatever viewport is available. This results in a very ugly appearance when playing the game on some devices, and in some cases, causes the game to be completely unplayable.

The so-called “connecting paylines” payout mechanic works similarly to pay ways, however, each symbol that forms part of a winning combination must be on an adjacent line to both the previous and next matching symbol. 

For example, say you have matching symbols on reels one, two, and three, but the symbol on the second reel is on the third row whilst the symbol on reels one and three are on the top row, this would not count as a winning line. If the symbol on the second reel was instead located on the second row, that WOULD create a winning line. 

The easiest way to think about this is that symbols must be connected either horizontally or diagonally from left to right in order to create a winning pay line, and this results in a total of 466 possible ways to score a winning combination. 

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walking wild Modifier

taco brothers derailed slot free spins feature

The bonus scatter symbols only appear on reels two through five in Taco Brothers Derailed, and you will need to hit at least three of them simultaneously to trigger the Taco Train Heist bonus game. 

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taco train heist bonus game

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taco Smash n'grab bonus game

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x-citer bonus buy feature

taco brothers derailed SLOT REVIEW FINAL THOUGHTS

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