Diggin’ For Diamonds

Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza: Slot Overview

If you just can't get enough tunnelling below ground to blow stuff up, then here's another opportunity to do so with Yggdrasil Gaming partner Jelly. The slot is Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza, and it's also good if you're in the mood for a scatter-paying slot that sprinkles multiplier symbols on the board, stacking their values in free spins. It might sound a little familiar already, but let's keep an open mind, don hard hats, and head down a shaft to see how Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza goes about the mining business.

First though, Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza starts things off above ground, at the entrance to a mine in a rocky part of the planet. A bundle of dynamite sits dangerously to the side of the train tracks, and players are accompanied by a beaded miner (on the wild symbol), the sort that almost always appears in a game like this. Seriously, if slots are anything to go by, if someone wants to break into the mining industry, they can forget about it unless they're packing impressive facial hair. A plinky, plonky banjo Western tune has been provided for your ears, and the whole scene, while pleasant, has a tinge of genericism about it as well.

If not enough to be put off, then gamblers may select a stake of 20 c to $/€80 per spin to get mining. Jelly has classed Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza's volatility as high and has designed several RTP models, maxing at 95.1%. The action takes place on a 6-reel, 5-row gaming panel, which uses a scatter pays system for landing wins.

How it does so is when 8 identical pay symbols are in view, in any position on the reels, a winning scatter is created. Wins can be made out of nine regular paying symbols, including 5 different gems, a drill, a lantern, a cart of gems, and a miner. Hitting an 8-symbol win pays 0.25 to 10 times the bet, while a 12+ sized scatter win awards 2 to 50 times the bet. No wilds appear in Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza, but it has a scatter and a multiplier symbol. The tumble mechanism takes the symbols involved in winning scatters off the board and replaces them by dropping symbols in from above. Tumble win runs come to an end when no new win is created after a tumble.

Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza: Slot Features

It also has a free spins round, modifiers, two bonus buys, and a Gold Bet. Here's how they work.

Multiplier Symbols

Diamonds are multiplier symbols, present on all reels and available in free spins as well as the base game. When multiplier symbols hit, they have a value of x2 to x100. At the end of a tumble sequence, the values of all multiplier symbols are added together and applied to the final win total.

Modifiers

Be on the lookout for the loss-to-win modifier, either awarding a win or the bonus from a losing outcome.

Free Spins

Hitting 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols triggers 12, 15, or 18 free spins, respectively. Whenever a multiplier symbol lands on a free spin, its value is added to the total multiplier for the whole free spins session. This total multiplier is applied to any wins. Hitting 3 or more scatters during the round awards +5 free spins.

Bonus Buy & Golden Bet

At the bonus buy, players can get 12 free spins for 100x the bet or 15 or 18 free spins for 250x the bet. Last but not least, when the Gold Bet is activated, the stake is increased by 25% to have more chances of triggering the bonus.

Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza: Slot Verdict

Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza's tagline is 'Get ready to dig out the diamonds in this epic multiplier based cascading title', except it wasn't that epic, really. One concern was how closely it resembled games like Sweet Bonanza or Gates of Olympus. Sure, Pragmatic Play has found a solid belt of success with those and related slots, so it's going to attract attention, especially in an industry as vampiric as the gambling one where certain studios hover over success like vultures or hyenas, straining for the opportunity to tear some of it off for themselves. Of course, Jelly isn't the only team to potentially be 'inspired' by others' ideas, but they did kind of exacerbate the situation by clothing Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza's mechanics in a trite theme.

A familiar set of proven features is hard to criticise too harshly, though. In Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza, the scatter wins, tumbles, and multiplier symbols triad can go off as much here as they can anywhere else. Jelly lacks the experience Pragmatic Play has in making slots, though, so the win celebrations and general slick-as-they-come presentation are missing from Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza. At least, it's not present to such a high degree as in a Prag slot. To its credit, where Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza differs from the two previously mentioned games is the way the win multiplier in free spins always applies to wins – multiplier symbols do not have to be present for the multiplier to be applied. Nor do wins have to occur for multiplier symbols to add their values to the win multiplier. It is admittedly simpler and less fiddly, in some ways, and you can see how some gamblers would prefer this way of multiplying wins. Okay hits happened in the review, yet the max win of 2,864x doesn't compare favourably with what its competitors have to offer.

In summation, as long as playing something that doesn't feel like last night's dinner reheated is alright, then Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza has the right ingredients for some fun mining flavoured scatter wins with additive multipliers action. Max win could've been higher, but.