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Giovanni’s Gems is a game that Betsoft released in August 2017, and a slot machine where they decided to implement a different kind of layout, one which has 7x7 reels that will spin. The theme is the one you might imagine, based on the idea of gemstones, and it has as the main character a wide-eyed redhead explorer called Giovanni. If we look at the things that can be accomplished in this slot, there is a top prize that could get you up to $15,000, but there are also features like Giovanni’s Diamonds, free spins, or the way the combinations are formed as clusters, resulting in explosions.
As it happens in all games that don’t have regular lines, the bets are still going to pretend to use them, as a fixed number. They’ve gone with 30 active lines for this particular game, with the bet level going from 1 to 5 and deciding the number of coins that are going to be used. The coin is also selected by the player, with a maximum denomination of $1 allowed. You may spend at most $5 for a single line and up to $150 for all of them. The minimum bet can be set to $0.30.
The feature called Giovanni’s Diamonds is responsible for the slot’s biggest payout being awarded. Up to $15,000 can be won at this point, though you will need more than half of the game’s symbols to be Diamonds, during the free spins.
The Cluster Wins are a major feature in Giovanni’s Gems. With the game’s layout having a total of 49 symbols, arranged in a 7x7 layout, the combinations that you form are not required to appear on certain reels as ways to win, or on pre-determined active lines. Instead, all you need is to have at least 5 contiguous symbols which are of the same type. As long as these symbols touch, vertical or horizontal, you’re good to go.
Furthermore, any winning clusters that are formed will explode once they get you paid, and so the ones above them get a chance at forming their own wins since they will drop and occupy new positions. The process will continue until there are no more new wins.
Between 7 and 50 free spins can be triggered by the presence of 5 to 25+ scatter symbols that have Giovanni’s face on them. Cash rewards that range from 15x to 1,500x are also offered.
Giovanni’s Diamonds is the feature that offers the best rewards though. These symbols start off as coals on the base game reels, and they’re transformed into diamonds if they are adjacent to wins. The free spins mode gets the Diamonds directly. No matter how you get these diamonds, they will pay you if you have them on the reels, the biggest rewards are offered if at least 25 are in place and forming a cluster.
It’s a gemstone-themed game, so it’s limited in what it can achieve. There are a lot of slots that use this theme, and I’d say that Giovanni’s Gems is one of the better such games available. The symbols are mostly inspired by gemstones, showing diamonds, sapphires, amethyst, citrine, coal, sacks, torches, rubies, emeralds, and pickaxes.
As most slot machines from Betsoft are, this one is also impressed because of the quality of the graphics that are offered. I would’ve preferred a more imaginative theme for it though.
