Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza Slot Review
It is a simple gambling game that does not support pay lines due to the exploitation of Scatter Pays mechanics instead. Also, the slot uses an efficient Tumble feature and offers multipliers up to x100 during both — base and bonus games. Yep, much beloved by many gamblers diversion as Free Spins is presented here. Moreover, you can get up to 20 FS before the bonus game starts, plus there can be extra ones during it. The max win here is x2,864.
That's almost all the advantages of this slot you need to know about. It's a Gold Digger-themed slot, speaking of its plot. We're sure there are a lot of modern treasure diggers among you who would be glad to dive into this slot's gold-bearing mines.
The best part is you don't need to rely on pay lines here. The Scatter Pays mechanics of this slot guarantee wins due to a certain number of identical symbols on the game grid, which ensures frequent and good payouts. Moreover, the Tumble feature makes their use even more enjoyable and rewarding due to the big 5x5 square playfield.
Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza General Characteristics
- Scatter Pays
- 6 reels and 5 rows
- High Volatility
- RTP: 95.1%, 94%, 90.5%, 86%
- Hit frequency: 28.11%, 27.84%, 26.88%, 25.65%
- Bet amount: 0.2 EUR - 80 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x2,864
- Maximum win value: 229,120 EUR
- 9 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Multiplier, Bonus
Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza Bonus Features
There is a lot of stuff here capable of making you big wins during both — base & bonus games. Those include a tumbling function, multipliers, and an FS round. Let's observe these in more detail.
Scatter Pays
Here's involved not that frequently catching Scatter Pays mechanics, making payouts without any provided pay lines. All you need to get a cash prize is just landing a certain amount of identical pictures anywhere in view on the playfield. Their minimum quantity of landed pics of the same kind, guaranteeing you a win, for every paying symbol is the same - 8, whereas the maximum is 12. Moreover, every single win makes that Tumble feature trigger.
Tumble
This more frequently used feature lets you increase the wins' amount due to the winning symbols vanishing. All the set free positions immediately get filled by symbols above, whereas their places, in turn, take those newly landed ones. This process lasts until the moment when there are no more winning combinations on the play grid. The best part is that there are no limits for the Tumble feature triggering quantity that, along with multipliers, potentially promises stunning prizes even during the base game.
Multiplier symbol
Multipliers are special non-paying symbols, falling anywhere on the reels and taking a random value from x2 to x100 during both — base and bonus games. There could land more than just one of them on the playfield. If so, if there are no more wins on the playfield, the multiplier values are summarized, and the resulting sum increases the amount of the currently received win. If there is no win during the base game spin, landed multipliers don't activate.
Bonus symbols
These are also non-paying special symbols capable of starting a bonus game with FS. You need at least 4 of them to trigger an FS round.
Free Spins Round
The amount of landed Bonus symbols strictly correlates with the FS quantity you will get:
To get additional FS, it needs to land 3+ Scatters in view on the play grid within the FS round, which will bring you 4 extra FS.
Global Multiplier
Unlike the base game, there is a global multiplier within the bonus one, which collects values of all the multipliers that appear in view, whether there was the Tumble feature triggering within those free spins. It doesn’t reset while the bonus game is still going on. If there are wins during the current free spin, summarizing landed multipliers with the global one and following the application of the last performs just as in the base game, only when the Tumble feature triggering is finished. That allows you to get a much bigger resulting cash prize.
Buy Free Spins
There are two possible ways of using this bonus function. The first implies making an x100 deposit for a bonus game with 12 FS. The second one costs x250 to the current stake but allows getting 15 or 18 FS. Their accurate number is chosen randomly.
Golden Bet
Also, you can spend a little bit more money (+25%) to increase the FS hit frequency by using the Golden Bet feature. But be aware that, in this case, all the prizes’ sizes will be calculated as if your stake still totaled to the amount without that extra 25%.
Our Experience Playing Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza
It is time to learn whether it is profitable to play this video slot. We have risked €200 with the stake amount per single spin of just €1.
During the first 100 spins, we got no one FS round triggering but 26 regular wins. Their amounts varied from €0.25 to €18.4. Eleven of them were lower than the currently chosen bet amount. The longest gap between wins was just 10 spins. But, if we're talking about average quantity, mostly there were just a few of them between payouts, which made waiting for the next prize not too long. There were also 3 times when the multiplier got used, increasing our regular win. That brought us a total of €77.95. The final balance amount was €229.2.
That sad tradition of total absence of FS triggering was still on even within the second 100 spins. This time, there were 24 base game wins (€0.4 - €26.4), just 4 of which became less than the current bet. Twice, we got our cash prize multiplied, due to which we got €30. The most elongated pause between two consecutive wins consisted of 13 spins. The resulting balance value amounted to €224.15.
We do not want to disappoint you, but we didn’t get a bonus game even during the final 100 spins. Also, there was just once when we got multiplied regular win, which granted us not that much — €1.5. The lengthiest period between wins, this time, was 11 spins. Within the base game, we reaped 28 wins (€0.25 - €7.45), including seven lower than our initial bet. So, the final balance amount upon the 300th spin totaled €178.75. Therefore, we got screwed precisely €21.25.
We want to highlight sufficiently frequent wins, especially taking the slot's High volatility. Although some were under the bet, the Tumble feature, giving up to 6 triggers per spin, often lets you get much more than the amount of the chosen stake. Also, the absence of the bonus game triggering was a little frustrating. Given this frequency of winnings, even just one successful bonus game would give us a chance to make a little money.
Diggin for Diamonds The Big Bonanza Verdict
To conclude, it is a simple video slot with not that hard-to-learn gameplay, which, while it doesn't make a somewhat wow impression by its visual component or sound effects, rewards its players with the funny & cozy ambiance alongside high efficiency in terms of big wins due to the genius duo of Tumble feature and Multipliers. Moreover, the bonus game welcomes gamblers with such a powerfully profitable addition as a progressive global multiplier that doesn't reset until the free spins finally end.
The biggest slot drawback we've noticed here that may disappoint you is a Free Spins hit frequency, which doesn't seem that high, taking our little experiment. On the other hand, that may be just a coincidence, and your playing this slot will be full of bonus games & big wins. Among other drawbacks are RTP value varying and payments lower than the chosen bet. But the quantity of the last ones is not that wide.
Overall, Scatter Pays mechanics are pretty suited to this slot's big 5x5 size play grid and, alongside the available Tumble and Multipliers features that allow you to increase the amount of your wins, creating a highly tempting gameplay that we believe is worth a probe for every avid gambler.
