Hot Gems Casino Game Review

BetMGM Jun 27, 2024, 4:15 PM

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Cascading wins on collapsing reels
Slot bonus awards 15 free spins
Increasing multiplier boosts wins up to 5x

Join a grizzled Wild West mining prospector on an underground treasure hunt in the Hot Gems slot game by Playtech, a leading developer of premium online casino games. Hot Gems is a regular bonanza of entertainment and win potential, featuring high-value pay symbols, collapsing reels, and a sizzling free spins slot bonus with an increasing multiplier.

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Hot Gems Game Highlights

Here’s why Hot Gems should be considered one of the best online slots to play:

Top online slot animations and graphics bring the Wild West mining theme to life.
Collapsing reels can result in multiple wins from just one spin.
An increasing multiplier during free spins boosts your total wins by up to 5x, for a maximum win potential of 1,000x the total bet.

Hot Gems Quick Facts and Features

Software Provider	Playtech
RTP	95.99%
Volatility	Undisclosed
Jackpot Type	N/A
Paylines	25
Reels	5
Max Wager	$25
Max Win	1,000x

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It totally does. If you play online slots for real money at BetMGM Casino and win, you’ll be paid out in real money — as long as you’re physically located in one of the four states where BetMGM Casino is exclusively available, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia.

How To Play Hot Gems

This upbeat Playtech slot has five reels with three rows and 25 fixed paylines. To set your stake, simply select a coin size from $0.01–$1, for a total bet of $0.25–$25. If you’d like to consult the paytable and game rules before you make your choice, select Info in the bottom left corner. Then, when you’re ready, press the spin button in the bottom right corner. The autoplay button to the left of it provides pre-selected spin options for automatic, continuous play.

Hot Gems Game Features

Features in this mining-themed slot include a wild, two scatters, and collapsing reels. The wild appears on the middle three reels and performs the time-honored function of substituting for pay symbols. The Hot Gems scatter pays anytime two or more of them appear anywhere on the reels. The Free Games scatter triggers the free spins slot bonus when three or more hit reels 1, 3, and 5 at the same time.

The collapsing reels feature is also known as avalanche reels, tumbling reels, or cascading reels, depending on the developer. In any event, it works like this: Symbols involved in winning combinations disappear from the grid, and the reels “cascade,” meaning new symbols drop into the spaces left behind. If these symbols in turn form winning combinations, a new cascade takes place, and so on, until no new wins form. As a result, it’s possible to get multiple wins from a single paid spin.

Hot Gems Bonuses and Jackpots

The free spins bonus awards a round of 15 unpaid spins with an increasing multiplier. Starting at 1x, the multiplier increases with every win in a cascade, up to a maximum of 5x. It isn’t possible to retrigger the feature, but 15 is a generous number to begin with.

How To Win Hot Gems

Achieving Hot Gems wins requires you to land combinations of identical pay symbols on one of the 25 fixed paylines active in the game. Combinations must run from left to right, beginning with reel 1 on the far left. The premium symbol is the miner, awarding 5,000 coins for five of a kind. Maximum win potential exists during the slot bonus round, where the increasing multiplier can boost your wins by up to 5x.

One of the common things you should know about online gambling is the difference between line bet and total bet. Hot Gems slot game paytable values are expressed as multiples of the line bet, not the total bet. To get that figure, simply divide the line bet payout by the number of paylines. Say a player stakes the maximum ($25) and wins the 5,000x payout. The line bet on a $25 bet is $1, so the player wins $5,000, which is 200x the total bet. Now, imagine this win occurs during free spins with a 5x multiplier. The maximum payout would then be $25,000, or 1000x the total bet.

Hot Gems Graphics and Design

This light-hearted Playtech slot creates a playful atmosphere with cartoon-style graphics featuring a folksy miner and his tools. The action plays out on a 5×3 grid set against a mine shaft underground. Animations of explosions light up the screen as symbols fall with weighty clanks and thuds, often generating win cascades. Base game spins occur in time with upbeat banjo music, and a foot-stomping fiddle joins in for maximum suspense during free spins.

Hot Gems Symbols

In addition to the feature symbols already mentioned, the symbols appearing in Hot Gems include the miner, his lantern, pick, trolley, and six different colored gems. These all pay for combinations of three, four, or five of a kind. The lowest value symbols (orange and green gems) also pay for two of a kind. Here’s what they all award: