Online casino players move from one festival to another. After Valentine’s Day comes the Carnival. This year the Rio Carnival takes place from February 28 to March 4. The festival also takes place in some other cities. There are a number of Carnival themed online slot games that will now start drawing high traffic.

Samba Nights from Cryptologic is a 50 payline slot game and has four rows of symbols on the reels. The Samba Girl is appropriately the wild symbol and it also doubles payouts. When it appears in a stack of four, the Samba Girl expands to fill the entire reel and starts dancing. The famous Rio Beach is the scatter symbol and awards the free spins bonus. Other popular characters from the Carnival parade, such as fire eater, trumpeter and tambourine man, also appear as symbols. InterCasino is a TopCasinos.com recommended Cryptologic online casino.

The software provider Microgaming has two Carnival themed slots in its portfolio. One of them is Carnaval, which had bright and boldly crafted symbols. These include Carnaval Logo, Samba girl, jester, pendant and trumpet. There are wild and scatter symbols. This online slot game does not have bonus features, but creates the Carnival atmosphere through drum and trumpet audio tracks. Mardi Gras is another name for the Carnival. Mardi Gras Fever is the second Microgaming slot game with this theme. The symbols include Samba queen, jester, jazz musicians and dragon. In the bonus game you have to select three windows to win bonus credits. These two slot games can be played at Microgaming online casinos like All Slots, Platinum Play, River Belle and Spin Palace.

The Playtech Carnival themed slot game is titled Samba Brazil. The thematic symbols are the fire eater, maracas and drum. The Samba Brazil logo is the scatter symbol. This symbol awards scatter payouts and also triggers the Samba Music Bonus. Several maracas are displayed on the screen and you have to pick from them to earn cash prizes, free spins or free spins multipliers. There are two Samba girl symbols, the face and the bust. Line payouts are awarded when these symbols appear in like or mixed combinations. In this slot game as well, the Samba girl symbols can appear in stacks and get converted into an expanding wild of a sexy gyrating dancer. Samba Brazil has great background Samba music. Online casinos like Mansion Casino and Omni Casino offer this Playtech slot game.