Gems Bonanza - What you need to know
Gems Bonanza by Pragmatic Play is a bright, bold and vibrant game with an eye-catching design filled with a plethora of gems. While it exudes a hint of Aztec influence similar to that which you'd find in the popular Aztec Bonanza slot, its overall look is beautifully simplistic and looks a bit like other jewel-themed slots such as Gems Gone Wild.
Played on an 8x8 grid with a cluster pays mechanism, the action goes up a notch with the 5 different base game reel modifiers. This title offers an impressive maximum win of up to 10,000x your stake.
Gems Bonanza Statistics
Grid Size: 8x8
Provider: Pragmatic Play
Number of Winning Lines: Cluster Pays
Slot Theme: Gems
Volatility: High
Main Bonus Round: Modifiers, Gold Fever Free Spins, Tumble Reels
Free Spins?: Yes
Playing Gems Bonanza
How to Set Your Stake
After loading the game, simply click on the "i" button, where you'll find the paytable and bonus features. To adjust your wager, click on the three-line menu in the bottom left-hand corner of the reels.
How to Spin the Reels
After setting your stake, press spin. To win, you'll need to land matching clusters of 5 or more matching symbols.
Bonus Rounds in Gems Bonanza
Tumble Reels
Every time you hit a win, the symbols forming the winning combination vanish from the reels, making way for new ones to fill their positions - potentially creating new winning combinations. This cascading effect goes on until no further winning combinations are formed.
Modifiers
During each base game spin, you'll notice up to 4 differently coloured spots arranged in various patterns on the wall behind the symbols. If a winning combination lands on one or more of these spots, it will trigger the corresponding reel modifiers:
- Blue spot (Nuclear modifier): Clears all symbols and refreshes the grid.
- Pink spot (Wild Gem): Converts all occurrences of a randomly selected symbol into wilds.
- Brown spot (Squares): Adds identical 2x2 mega symbols randomly to the grid.
- Red spot (Colossal Symbols): Places a randomly sized mega symbol (3x3, 4x4, or 5x5) on the grid.
- Green spot (Lucky Wilds): Introduces 5 to 15 wilds randomly onto the grid. You can trigger more than one modifier at once - and if this occurs, they will be activated in the order listed above.
Gold Fever Free Spins
On the right-hand side, you'll find a Gold Fever metre, which fills up with liquid gold from collected symbols after each tumble win. The metre resets after losing spins, but when filled, it triggers the Gold Fever Bonus Round. The free spins feature has 5 levels, starting at level 1 with a 2x multiplier. Each level introduces all 5 reel modifiers in sequence. Levels 2 to 5 offer multiplier values of 4x, 6x, 8x, and 10x, with all 5 modifiers active at each level.
The bonus round comes to an end when all 5 modifiers have been activated, or the required symbols for advancing levels haven't been collected.
21.co.uk Review Of Gems Bonanza
Gems Bonanza certainly delivers when it comes to the theme of gems. The abundance of base game features means there's always lots to potentially trigger.
Then there's the free spins bonus round that rewards all 5 features consecutively. Nevertheless, even at this stage, decent payouts are possible - and if you can climb the ladder, the game's max win of up to 10,000x is a good cap.
If you’re looking for an alternative to this slot, Black Bull and Big Bass Splash are also good options.