Glitter Gems Pokie
Ainsworth Gamings’ Glitter Gems video pokie has been entertaining the punters at land based casinos for a few years and now it has made its debut at online sites where software from this popular Australian developer are featured. Sparkly jewels, blingy dice, bonus wild symbols and the classic playing card icons spin up across the 5 reels and 30 paylines of this game, while landing the right combinations will trigger a high-value free spins round or even the jackpot of 3000x the line bet when a shiny blue diamond lands across the game.
Glitter Gems is a mix of traditional fruit machine symbols and more modern graphics and bonuses, so players who like either type of game will most likely want to give these reels a spin. It’s something that can be done for a minimum of 0.30 and there’s a high limit stake of 300.00 a go, with base wins created by 3, 4 or 4 of the same symbol type stopping on a payline running on adjacent reels from the left side.
Free Glitter Gems video pokies are offered for anyone who likes to test a game out and they can play it on mobile devices as well as the desktop versions of many casino sites.
Glitter Gems
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Playing Glitter Gems
Soft blue patterns sit behind the reels and there’s a kind of Art Deco surrounding to them, while twinkling spots of light bring an extra sparkle to proceedings just in case anyone has missed the point that this game is all about shiny objects. Those objects include the playing card symbols from the low-value 9 to the top-paying A, but there’s several unique picture symbols that award even more real cash payouts when they appear.
Many of these will be recognisable to players who enjoy fruit machines, and starting from the lowest value picture symbol we see an oval jewel that pays up to 150 coins when it fills a payline, while moving up, there’s a couple of red dice where diamonds mark out the numbers and these pay up to 200 coins. A $ symbol that looks like it belongs around the neck of Eminem is worth the same, while a couple of jewel-encrusted 7’s pay some of the medium-value prizes.
Right at the top of this pile however, is the blue diamond which is worth 60, 300 or 3000x the amount staked per line when it stops on 3, 4 or 5 reels at once. It’s also a scatter symbol so it doesn’t actually matter where on the reels it lands, which makes it a bit easier to get a decent reward. The other bonus symbol is the game logo which turns up covered in diamonds to complete winning combinations when it acts as any other (apart from the scatter diamond). It’s not actually able to make up a line on its own, as this symbol will only land on reels 2, 3 and 4 but when it’s in the right places it will fill in the gaps of a payline or extend a run of 3 matching symbols across the fourth reel which is going to be worth a higher reward.
Free Spins Bonus Round
The blue diamond doesn’t just reward players with some of the top payouts when it lands on the reels, as it’s also the trigger for a free spins bonus game which has a couple of extra features added to make the winning potential a little better.
There’s 8 bonus games awarded and during these the glitter gems wild symbol turns up on all reels, not just the middle 3, doubling the base value of any line that it completes. In addition, the blue diamond is able to retrigger the round if it turns up in any 3 or places during a free spin, adding an extra 5 spins on to the end of any still left to play out.
A different set of reels is in use throughout these games, but overall, players should expect to win a similar amount as in the base games and with the chance to get extra free spins on top of the original ones awarded, this can be an especially lucrative bonus feature to trigger.
The Verdict
It may not have a very original theme, or indeed much of a theme at all, but the Glitter Gems video pokie still manages to look great and is designed to appeal to fans of the original land-based version, of which there are many.
New converts to this game will find some flashy images and reliable winning opportunities along the way, as well as a free spins bonus game that seems to get triggered quite frequently, so whether the looks appeal or not, this is a decent, mobile-optimised pokie to try out.