Reel Gems

The welcome screen for Reel Gems, the video slot from Microgaming, features a box overflowing with jewels. And that's how you will feel as you play this game and the gems come cascading down and turning into wins in your account – especially with a solid 96.52% return to player ratio and a 120,000-coin maximum win.

The game has five reels and three rows set against a black grid to make those gems really pop. There are 243 ways to win, and all wins are paid left to right, except the scatter, which pays any. Way wins are multiplied by coins bet; with the scatter, wins are paid based on the total bet. The minimum bet is .01 credits, and the maximum bet is 125 credits per spin.

The standard Microgaming royal card symbols are the low paying symbols here, and include the full gamut – ace, king, queen, jack, ten and nine. The titular gems include a yellow quartz, a blue sapphire, a green emerald, a red ruby, and a brilliantly white diamond.

The Reel Gems icon is wild. It can substitute for any icon you need to make a win, except for the scatter. It will only appear on the second and fourth reels.

A beautiful diamond ring is the scatter, and you need at least three to trigger 15 free spins. All wins during free spins will be tripled. This gives you a maximum potential win of 120,000 coins.

There is also a re-spin feature built into the game. At the end of any spin you can pay to re-spin just one of the reels as many times as you'd like (paying each time). This is great if you are just one icon away from three, four or five of a kind.