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All symbols of the same type as those forming a winning cluster will become charged at the moment the winning cluster is removed from the reels. You can keep an eye on which symbols are currently charged via the “charge bar”, which is displayed above the playfield.

Your charged symbols aren’t particularly useful on their own – what you need is a trigger! That trigger comes in the form of a so-called “Epic Gem”, a 2x2 symbol which can only drop into view as part of the cascade which follows the removal of a winning symbol cluster.

The Epic Gem will wait quietly until all winning clusters have been evaluated to ensure that there are as many charged symbols on the grid as possible. After this, the Epic Gem will activate, causing all charged symbols to transform into the highest-paying red gem symbol.

Better yet, all the charged symbols affected by an Epic Gem will become scatter-pays after their transformation. If you have two or more distinct clusters of winning symbols in opposite corners of the screen, they will all be evaluated as if they were a single standalone group.

The Epic Gem will explode after your winnings have been paid, creating a fresh opportunity for winning combinations to drop in from the top of the screen. They weren’t joking when they said it was epic, were they?

Hacksaw has included two unique bonus rounds in Gronk’s Gems, but they are both free spin-based features under the hood. The bonus buy facility gives us a clue as to which is the most generous of the pair, as the Gronk’s Treasure feature costs close to 50% of the price of the more valuable Gem Hoarder feature.

This feature is a typical free spin bonus round, awarding 10 free spins for hitting three Gronk’s head scatter symbols during the base game. The charged symbol mechanic is still active in this mode, and the Epic Gem will drop much more frequently whilst Gronk’s Treasure is in play.

Here’s the biggie! You’ll need to catch three different gem bag scatter symbols to trigger the Gem Hoarder feature, initially awarding five “refillable” free spins. The refillable part refers to the fact that hitting three more gem bag scatters while the feature is in play will top your remaining spin counter back up to five, similar to how the more common three-spin bonus round works. 

I’m not quite sure how things work here, as I managed to re-trigger this feature at least once every time I reached it while testing this game. A re-trigger is extremely valuable in this feature too, as it also includes an ascending multiplier which is retained between spins for the duration of the feature.

The most interesting part of this bonus round is how you increase that multiplier. For every winning symbol removed from the playfield, your current multiplier is increased by 1x.  This allows you to reach some truly insane multiplier counts, but there is a major caveat, unfortunately, as the multiplier is only applied to winning clusters that intersect with at least one of the special “X-Gem” symbols that only appear in this game mode.

Three options are included as part of the bonus buy facility offered in Gronk’s Gems. The first option costs just 3x the normal price per spin and is effectively a bonus bet which increases your odds of hitting one of the game's two main features by 500%. 

The two main features are also available to purchase at the cost of 110x the bet for Gronk’s Treasure or 200x for Gem Hoarder. I’m pretty weary about stating that the 200x cost of the Gem Hoarder bonus is a “bargain” as I really don’t want bonus buy features to get to the stage where 200x is considered an average or reasonable price to pay. 

At the same time, however, my results whilst testing this game do suggest that the price of 200x is a bargain, but I say that with the all-important reminder to only ever gamble what you can afford to lose.

This is a fantastic grid slot that really shows off just how in-tune the guys at Hacksaw are with the people that they create for. Gronk’s Gems takes the grid slot genre and gives it a major shakeup by combining first-rate presentation with some great wins and a unique feature set. 

The only downside must be the winnings cap of 7,500x your bet, as I can see more than a few players running up against this limit after a lucky session of the Gem Hoarder bonus round. Aside from this one issue, I can’t fault what Hacksaw has produced in Gronk’s Gems.

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