Just for the Win is releasing slots at the rate of knots and as long as they keep providing fun entertainment and win potential, nobody's going to complain. Today, we take a trip down into a gold mine where Gems, Bombs & Gold offers up a 10,000x max win among a plethora of features and modifiers.
Full review continued below ↓What do you do when symbols simply refuse to land a win? Chuck a bomb at them, of course! That's exactly what you can expect to happen in this game as symbols are removed and matching ones take their place. Multiplier wilds and other modifications can also improve the outcome of your spins.
Just for the Win often gives us plenty to talk about when they release their latest slots and they've done the same here. Your first few spins may appear to be non-eventful but you soon start to realise that there are various features and special symbols available.
Regular wins are formed when you create a cluster of at least five matching symbols, and these need to touch horizontally or vertically. The royal symbols can get you up to 8x for a group of 15 or more. Picture symbols are a little better and these show various coloured gems. The maximum group size with these high-paying pictures can fetch you up to 50x.
Wild symbols are available and they have a little extra value in this game. They are, in fact, multiplier wilds that appear anywhere on the grid. They can land at any point and when they do, they'll substitute for other regular symbols and their multiplier value will boost the payout for each cluster. The multiplier values are worth between 2x and 10x and it's worth pointing out that multiple multiplier wilds can multiply their multipliers!
Bomb symbols are quite simple in that they explode and remove other symbols and as a result, they act as a mystery symbol at the same time. All of the symbols that are removed will be turned into a matching one. Wins can also be formed by landing clusters of money symbols and each one has a value worth between 0.2x and 250x.
Making your way out of the base game and entering the bonus feature requires at least three bonus symbols. One of those symbols may be a super symbol and in that case, you play the super version.
The idea is quite self-explanatory – you get 10 bonus spins and you can pick up extras when you land more bonus symbols in the feature round. Multiplier wild symbols land and become sticky, so you'll see them hanging around longer than you did in the base game.
Clusters of money symbols will leave behind one of the coins to help create another win. The difference between the regular version and the super version is that you get a mixture of multiplier wilds and sticky money symbols added to the reels.
Outside the UK, players can go straight to the bonus game for 100x or the super bonus for 400x. The rest of us can make do with the bonus hunt version, which costs an extra 0.50x and makes each spin three times more likely to trigger the bonus game. A 5x price tag is applied to special spins where multiplier wilds and bomb symbols are guaranteed to land.
You can see the bomb symbols at any time during the base game, regular bonus or super bonus. They remove symbols from that point and adjacent places only to replace them with a matching symbol. Hopefully, this can help create or extend a win.
You may be used to games that require a collector symbol to pick up big-value cash coins, but not in this game. These coins have values worth up to 250x and all you need to do to pick up these prizes is hope for the coins to land in exactly the same way as regular symbols. That means, they need to form a cluster to make their way to your balance.
You need three bonus symbols to trigger the bonus round and if one of those is a super bonus symbol, then you can expect to see the super version of the feature. You get 10 free spins and multiplier wilds are now sticky and will stay until the end of the bonus game. Clusters that are formed of money symbols will leave one money symbol behind and in the super version, multiplier wilds and sticky money symbols are added to the reels.
The volatility in this game is extremely high, so don't be surprised to see a fairly long run of boring spins while you wait for something valuable and interesting to happen. Fortunately, the hit rate is over 30% and that means that some kind of action is going to take place once every three spins, more or less.
During the base game, I saw clusters of coin symbols that produced wins of over 12x and a few smaller regular symbol clusters as well. The bonus game is where the major fun is to be had as you start seeing larger clusters form and sticky coin symbols staying where they are. Within four spins of the bonus, I'd already seen wins totalling over 65x. If you can improve on those results and get yourself into the bonus game regularly, then you could be on for a 10,000x max win.
Gems, Bombs & Gold leaves you in no doubt as to what you can expect from the visuals. A gold mine is the setting where bombs are used to release the valuable stones as you play. We've seen this view many times before and there's nothing to get excited about here. Don't get me wrong, it still looks decent enough, but it isn't trying to impress in any way. The soundtrack focuses more on the worrying sound of a tunnel potentially collapsing and all of this is available on a range of handheld devices, including mobile phones.
Valuable coin symbols aren't usually available for collection without some kind of sequence taking place or a bonus being triggered. Having them here ready to pay out for simply forming a cluster is a big deal! For me, it helps improve the win potential for the base game and when these coins become sticky in the bonus game, they are able to perform some magic. It's a simple set of features and a self-explanatory bonus game that might just hand out a few big wins every once in a while.
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