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The Pumpkin Smash™ 3D instant slot from Yggdrasil software takes on the theme of the Mexican holiday of the dead. This is a very important holiday that takes place over two days, the first and 02 November just after Halloween. It is a very family-oriented festival, a very festive ritual visit with offerings, bombs, sugar skulls. Mexicans go to the cemeteries, eat on the graves, dance and sing. It is not a sad day for them!
Everyone is confronted with death at some point... Many culture-specific rituals have been developed to enable the living to accept death, as well as to help the deceased to reach their new metaphysical state. The 3500 year old festival of the dead stems from many traditions, and in the Yggdrasil Pumpkin Smash™ game it conveys this perfectly.
During the time of Moctezuma (the last Aztec emperor), the people of Mexico used to come to the graves of the dead several times a year. The family of the dead would dance, sing and leave offerings to allow the deceased to enter the afterlife. In reality, the Aztecs had two major festivals, one for children (Miccaihuitontli) and one for adults (Hueymiccalhuitl), the smaller festival being celebrated twenty days before the larger one.
The Spaniards used to come to the cemeteries to place bread, wine and flowers, and they believed that the souls travelled the Earth and floated around them. They all feared that they would fall upon them, so they prepared altars with wine and bread to appease them. Candles guided them to the altar.
The Aztec ritual was not diminished by the Spaniards when they converted them to Catholicism. The date was just set to coincide with the day of all saints on the first and second of November instead of two separate festivals.
Nowadays, another holiday is added: the arrival of the children's soul on 31 October, which coincides with Halloween. That's why you see children in the streets dressed as Dracula, mummies and other undead holding a pumpkin (the queen of our Pumpkin Smash™ 3D instant slot), they don't say trick or treat but calaveras according to the tradition in order to collect sweets or coins.
On this Day of the Dead, families go to visit the graves of their deceased loved ones, clean them, decorate them, and put flowers and candles on them. Offerings are also made in each house on altars located in the rooms of the deceased. There are lucky flowers, lighted candles, photos, sugar or chocolate skulls, fruit, death loaves and a long series of etc... Everything that the deceased enjoyed.
Catrinas are the decorated or edible skulls (the lowest paying symbols in Pumpkin Smash™) bearing the names of the deceased are most representative of this day of the dead. To guide the souls, a path of flower petals goes from the street to the altar... The Mexican is not afraid of death, he mocks it, plays with it and even cohabits with it... Death is treated as a quasi-human character!
Pumpkin Smash™ is a 3D video slot with 5 reels and 20 paylines that run from left to right. The game has eight regular symbols that win if 3 or more are lined up in a pay sequence starting with the leftmost reel. The highest paying symbols are represented by sugar skulls and the lowest paying symbols are the hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds card symbols. There are also three bonus symbols which are represented by pumpkins with scattered payouts and a wild symbol which substitutes all symbols except the bonus.
The Pumpkin Smash Bonus Game (main game) is triggered when 2-5 bonus symbols land in the main 3D video slot game, and are rewarded with a corresponding number of pumpkins, which must be blown up and automatically receive 2-20 prizes for each pumpkin.
Total rewards can include from 7 to 32 free spins (if the player hits 3 or more bonus symbols a free spin prize is guaranteed and they are played on the same payline and with the same bet as they were activated. There is also a win multiplier that ranges from x2 to x7 (only rewarded if the player has won free spins).
The multiplier is added to all win lines with free spins symbols, and each multiplier symbol can appear only once during each bonus game. Up to 8 different symbols can receive the multiplier but not the wild or bonus.
The Pumpkin Smash Bonus (free spins) is activated when 1 to 5 bonus symbols land in the free spins, rewarding with a game that has a corresponding number of pumpkins. In the bonus game players smash 1 to 5 pumpkins which reward with 2 to 20 potential prizes.
Prizes include from 1 to 16 free spins (if the player lands with 3 or more bonus symbols the free spins are guaranteed and played in the same line and with the same bet level that activated it). An additional symbol from x1 to x6 which is a single multiplier symbol (all symbols start with a x1 multiplier).
The multiplier is adjusted to all winning lines with this symbol during the Pumpkin Smash™ free spins game. The multiplier can be added to other multipliers won in other bonus games during the free spins. Wilds and bonuses cannot be chosen as they are random.
