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Little Gem Review

You get a somewhat strange mix of gemstones and classic fruit machine symbols in Little Gem from Reel Kingdom, and gems and stars are also floating around in the air above the grid. With a classic 3x3 grid and only 5 paylines, you’re in for a pretty barebones base game experience. Wilds that can expand will help you out though, but the overall hit rate is only 1 in 20 spins, so be prepared for a mostly uneventful grind.

The game sort of explodes into a different mood when you finally hit the Hold & Spin bonus round though, as you go from no soundtrack to something that reminded us of the energetic and high-tempo R&B sounds on “Pray” by Tina Cousins. The bonus round plays out in a somewhat unusual way for a hold-and-respin style feature, and you can win up to 2,460x your stake. Not overly exciting perhaps, but an okay shelf-filler if nothing else.

Little Gem Slot - Reels Screen

Little Gem Slot Features

The symbols pay between 4 and 50 x your stake, with the diamond as the top-tier symbol. The Wild pays the same as the diamond, and it also steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins. The wild will also expand vertically to fill the entire reel if that means a winning combo is created.

You can land gold and silver Money Symbols on the middle reel only, and they come with random values of 1x to 20x your stake. You need 3 money symbols on the same spin to trigger the Hold & Spin bonus round, and the triggering symbols then become sticky as the other two reels are cleared.

You start with 4 respins, and now only blanks or money symbols will land on reels 1 and 3. All money symbol values in view are collected each time at least one new money symbol lands, and this includes the triggering sticky symbols. This also resets the respins tally to 4 each time. Special Diamond Money Symbols may appear on reels 1 and 3 also, with higher values of 100x to 500x your stake. The feature ends when you run out of respins, and the total win is then awarded.

The 200 Spins Little Gem Slot Experience

You get to see mostly dead spins, with a decent expanded wild win squeezed in between, before we trigger the Hold & Spin feature at 1:13 into the 2:43-minute highlights video. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

A game like this could really use a turbo spin option, as the base game is tedious and filled with mostly dead spins (1 in 20 hit rate says it all). Being able to plow through hundreds of spins quickly to get to the Hold & Spin bonus round would have made a big difference, although it triggers once every 157 spins on average, which is decent. Still, getting there is a grind to say the least, without even as much as a soundtrack to keep up morale.

Expanding wilds are hardly original, but they will be your lifeline to keep you afloat, and the Hold & Spin feature is admittedly a tad original. The mood is lifted by the upbeat soundtrack that suddenly kicks in, and harvesting all present money symbol values for each new symbol that lands is kind of neat. It’s not quite enough to lift this game out of the swamp of mediocracy though, something the 2,460x potential only underscores.

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