Isabella wants to win the Best Samba Dancer title at the Rio carnival, and she is the wild in PG Soft's November 2024 slot. Three of her in one reel merge into a single tall dancer who doubles the whole spin. The board is a 3x3 grid with five lines, and the feature that can lift it is a respin that does not stop until something pays, multiplied by x5 to x20. I played 100 spins at 18.00; 29 paid, and the best one returned 216.00.
United States
Rio Fantasia available at Cafe Casino
Same game, real money
Cafe Casino runs the same Rio Fantasia with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays freeThree reels, three rows, five lines
Lines run across the three rows and along the two diagonals, and a line pays for three of the same symbol from the left. Only the best win per line counts. The cast is carnival gear: a red jewelled mask, purple and blue feathered badges, a green triangle ornament, a guitar, a drum and maracas. Three months earlier PG Soft used a similar small frame for Wings of Iguazu, adding a fourth row to the middle reel and ten lines.
Isabella replaces every symbol. On the opening screen she already stands as a stacked wild across the middle reel, the picture the game uses to sell its main idea.
Three wilds become one, and the spin pays x2
When three single wilds land in one reel, they turn into the Stacked Wild. In the base game, any spin with at least one Stacked Wild on the board has all of its wins doubled before they are paid.
On my 41st spin the third reel filled with Isabella and an x2 badge appeared above the board. A purple badge on reel one and a single wild on reel two lined up with her on the top row.
Over five lines, size 0.90 and level 4 gave 18.00 a spin, and each paytable point came to 3.60. Three purple badges pay 25 points, 90.00, and the Stacked Wild doubled it to 180.00, ten times the stake from a single line.
Single wilds work too: 216.00
A wild does not have to stack to matter. The best spin of the session had single wilds in the top two rows of reels one and three, and two lines ran through them.
The top row read wild, red mask, wild: three masks at 50 points, 180.00. The middle row read wild, green triangle, wild: 10 points, 36.00. With no Stacked Wild on the board there was no x2, and the two lines made 216.00, twelve stakes.
The plain version of the top line came on the 64th spin, two masks around a single wild on the top row, again 180.00.
Respin Until Win: x5 to x20
The feature starts at random while the reels spin. Isabella appears as a full Stacked Wild on reel two, and the outer reels respin until at least one line wins. That win is then multiplied by a value from x5 to x20.
The feature guarantees a win, not a large one: two drums around the wild are 3 points, and even x20 makes that 60 points, 216.00 at my bet. I never saw it in 100 spins; the description comes from the help screen. The same respin-until-win idea drives Fortune Ox, where a full screen brings x10 instead of a random multiplier.
Mask to maracas
Five lines make a spin, so each value below, divided by five, is what a single line returns relative to the bet.
Even the maracas return 40% of the stake on a line, a generous floor that matches a 3x3 board where lines are hard to complete:
| Symbol | Three on a line | One line vs stake |
|---|---|---|
| Isabella (wild) | 100 | 20x |
| Red mask | 50 | 10x |
| Purple badge | 25 | 5x |
| Blue badge | 15 | 3x |
| Green triangle | 10 | 2x |
| Guitar | 5 | 1x |
| Drum | 3 | 0.6x |
| Maracas | 2 | 0.4x |
Where the 2,000x comes from
The rules cap a spin at 2,000x and end it there. The figure falls straight out of the table: five lines of Isabella are 100x the stake, and the top respin multiplier of x20 turns that into 2,000x. PG Soft lists the RTP at 96.75%. Like every game in the free PG Soft demo collection here, it runs in the browser.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | November 2024 |
| Reels / rows | 3 x 3 |
| Lines | 5 fixed |
| Stacked Wild | Three wilds in a reel merge; x2 on all wins in the base game |
| Respin Until Win | Random; Stacked Wild on reel 2, respins until a win, x5 to x20 |
| RTP | 96.75% |
| Max win | 2,000x, the spin ends there |
| Bet in the demo | 0.15 to 45.00 per spin |
The demo opens at 3.00, bet size 0.30 at level 2 on five lines. Raising the size to 0.90 dropped the level back to 1, and I moved it up to 4 for 18.00 a spin.
Verdict
Rio Fantasia plays like a carnival costume over a familiar frame: a 3x3 board, five lines and a wild that does most of the work. The Stacked Wild's x2 is common enough to see in a short session, and lines through single wilds produced my best result. Wins came on almost a third of my spins, which suits a board this small, while the 2,000x depends on the x20 respin. Futebol Fever, PG Soft's other Brazilian 3x3, takes a different route with paid reel respins.