Somewhere deep under the ground, there is a treasure - worthy metals, and diamonds, and all of us have thought at least once about them. Love or need, but feelings for beautiful gems are very common, as slots with them are too. “Hot Gems” is the video slot that takes us down there where we can collect some precious shiny things and get some great wins.
There are ten regular and three bonus symbols – WILD substitute for other symbols, HOT GEMS as a scatter, and FREE GAMES that trigger bonus games.
Playtech, a software provider, designed and developed the “Hot Gems”.
Theme and Design
Collecting gems is definitely one of the most common themes between video slot games, but “Hot Gems” deserves our attention. The game is pretty designed and it has many special features that help players to increase their wins. Reels with symbols are placed on the recognizable background – underground mine.
Besides special symbols that can help you with higher wins, there are colorful gems and four well-known mining symbols – miner or gold digger, lantern, pickaxe, and trolley.
Betting Options
There are five reels and three rows in the “Hot Gems” video slot. It has 25 bet lines, and the player can set the bet value per line from 0.01 to 1.00. Win combinations are paid from left to right, except scatter symbols which pay any. Wins in line are multiplied by the line bet.
The lowest paying symbols in this game are colorful gems. Depending on the number of them on the bet line, orange and green gems can pay 2, 5, 15, or 40. Little more is offered for blue and purple gems, 30 for four of them, and 60 for five gems of a kind. The best options for a player are red and yellow diamonds, so red can bring 7, 40, and 80, until yellow ones pay 10, 40, and 80, depending on a number.
There are four more regular symbols in “Hot Gems”. Also depending on their number, higher-paying symbols are trolley, pickaxe, and lantern. The Trolley is paid 30, 100, and 200, the Pickaxe can bring 50, 150, and 300, until 75, 200, and 400 is paid for the Lantern.
The highest paying symbol is the Miner which pays 100, 250, and 5000.
Special Features
There is a WILD symbol which substitutes all other symbols except scattered HOT GEMS and the FREE GAMES symbol. The wild symbol can land on reels 2, 3, and 4.
Scatter symbol HOT GEMS can be paid 1, 4, 20, and 100, depending on a number and they pay both ways on the bet lines.
“Hot Gems” has one more special symbol FREE GAMES that can land only on reels 1, 3, and 5. In the case they appear on all three reels at the same time, 15 bonus games are triggered.
During Bonus games, the Collapsing reels feature is active with the special multiplier. Any spin begins with a multiplier x1, and any win is multiplied by the multiplier.
Whenever the reels explode the multiplier increases for 1, and any resulting winning combinations are multiplied by the new multiplier. The next explosion again raises the multiplier for 1 and it can reach up to x5.
A new spin resets the multiplier to x1, and bonus games can not be retriggered.
The collapsing reels feature is triggered by any win in the main game and in bonus games. Once all wins are counted, any symbol that participates in the win, explodes and symbols from above fall down. This process will repeat until there is no more winning combination on the reels.
Conclusion
Despite the very common theme, “Hot Gems” is a great slot with many advantages like bonus games, collapsing reels, and increasing multiplier. Paying Scatter, and Wild substitutions are also useful options that can attract players. If you enjoy colorful, sparkly diamonds and a great game of searching for them, this slot is what you’re looking for.
The Return to Player for this slot is 96%, but one of its disadvantages is that it can’t be played on mobile devices.
Video Slot game data and features
- 5Reels
- 25Pay lines
- $5,000.00Max cash jackpot
- 96.00Payout Percent
- YesWild Symbol
- YesMultiplier
- $0.25 - $25Betting Range
- 0.01 - 1.0Coin bet range
- 1Coins per line
- NoProgressive
- 5000Max coins jackpot
- 25Max coins
- YesScatter Symbol
- YesFree spins available
- YesBonus Game
- NoBuy feature
- Gems & Jewels , Mining Game theme
