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diamond cascade slot theme, stakes, pays & symbols

I’ve already talked about a lot of irrelevant stuff in this review, so rather than talking about how glad I am that I don’t have to work in a diamond mine, let’s look at some other slots with a diamond-based theme! Blueprint Gaming seems to love the theme for some reason, with multiple franchises, such as the Diamond Mine series proving hugely popular with players. Pragmatic Play has a bunch of existing diamond-themed games too – Diamonds of Egypt is one of their most recent examples, and Relax has gotten in on the action too, with their Dream Drop Diamonds progressive jackpot machine. In short, if diamonds truly are your best friend, then you’ll be in good company with the slots that are available to play online!

Of course, it doesn’t really matter if your game features diamonds on its reels if they don’t pay anything worthwhile! This is a fifty-line machine, so the payouts will always be a little smaller than those offered by games with fewer paylines. The highest-paying red gem only returns 20x the total bet for a full line of five of a kind, whilst the other high-paying gems quickly fall in value with returns of 12.5x, 8x, 6x, 4x, or 3x the total bet for the cyan, magenta, green, purple, and yellow stones respectively. Pragmatic Play has come up with a rather unique and clever way of representing the low-paying symbols as well – instead of using boring old royals, the developer has used lumps of unrefined ore! There are four colours available here – the pink and green varieties are worth 1x the current stake for all five symbols, whilst the purple and yellow rocks will only get you 0.6x your bet back for a five-of-a-kind combination.

Pragmatic Play slots always offer a good range of bets, and I’m pleased to report that this game is no exception. With the ante bet disabled, the minimum/maximum permitted wagers are €0.20 and €100.00, respectively, whilst enabling the bonus bet adds 25% to these figures resulting in new limits of €0.25 and €125.00.

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Pragmatic Play has given this machine a five out of five ranking on their variance scale, indicating that this is one of their most volatile games. High volatility slots produce larger wins but much less frequently than low volatility slots, where you win little but often. 

The choice to include fifty paylines was probably a good one considering that Diamond Cascade utilises a 5x5 reel set. There are 3,125 possible routes from left to right on a grid of this size, so even 50 paylines don’t cover even a fraction of the possibilities. I did notice that the game seemed to deliver quite a lot of dead spins, which is probably a direct consequence of this imbalance.

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diamond cascade slot bonus features

You’ll need to land at least three scatter symbols during a single game round to activate the free spins feature available in Diamond Cascade. I was a little disappointed to discover that there doesn’t seem to be any benefit to hitting four or five scatters rather than the minimum of three – you always get 15 free spins, and there are no cash prizes attached to any of these combinations.

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